Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-07
BIG FACTORS IN
 COPING WORLDS SERIES
These Are Pitching and Hitting, Luck and Breaks of the Game, Confidence and Fighting Ability.

Let experts spill their prophetic ink over the pages of the grandoldodope and pick worlds series winners in ad- .Yance if they wish But the average fan knows that baseball games are won. not on sypewriters. but on dia- mcnds. Hence, all the weird dreams may make interesting reading. but they prove not a single substantial satis- factory thing.
 In the worlds battles waged since 1910 the worlds championships were won on four primary bases. They fol- low in order of importance:
 Pitching and hitting
 Luck and the breaks of the game
 Confidence and fighting ability.
 Condition
 Pitching and hitting in each of these series were at least SO per cent of the value to the winner They were the -big asset Of course. these terms are corelative If you have splendid pitch ing. the other fellows have poor hit ing the other fellows have poor hitting. If you have good hitting the other fel- lows are getting poor pitching. In the coming Jousts there seems to be an unanimiry of opinion that Grover Cleveland Alexander is a great pitch ing staff He should be ready to work three games, and the Philly rooters believe these as good as won This leaves the rest of the pitching stan to come through with the additional victory tha. wins the big blue ribbon.
 Now Alexander. the. greatzst pitcher in the game, cannot expect to win un- less you get him run Three runs to an Alexander game ought to mean victory. but one run must be obtained anyway. or the, best pitched game in the world goes for nasght-. Aleck will dlI his part of the programme. but it Is up to the team to get him the runs- Another thing. The finest twirled con- test in the history of baseball won't win if somebody pulls boots at the right time and throws the hurler's efforts into the discard
 The second thing of relative im- 1ortance Tn the October Jousts Is the luck and breaks of the game In the | 1910 and subsequent series these play cd an important part in prolongins the agony of the team that finally succumbed The Boston sBraves achieved uNdying success for estab- fishing a precedent in winning the every winner for years prior to that | time would have won Nin similar fashion were it not for one little break that upset the. dope
 ! Fighting ability. of course. is an as- set But you can take 1t straight. that any teams that win pennant have | fighting spirit There are many kinds of battling spirit There is the quiet kind that wins without lungs, and there is the vociferous brand that wins with the throat The Macl<men were the former brand: the Boston Braves the latter. In a short series. however, the fighting spirit is a great asset If a team wins the first game its spirit is bettered a hundredfold- IL goes into the games that follow with greater confidence and moro faith
 However. the team that can come from behind and win has fighting spirit that feeds on a determination to be victorious no matter what the issue. IL is strange. but true. that the Athletics in 1911 were the only team
 In a worlds series since 1908 that ever
 won the big banner after losing the first game This is one os the reasons
 why managers pin their hopes on get ting the first one across
 Condition. of course. Is a big factor The finest team in the world. crippled is no match for a mediocre team that
 Is trained and conditioned to the pink