Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-10

series are two entirely different PROPOSE
tions.
have heard players in our league say:
"Oh. its easy to get a big batting aver
age in the American League. They don't
have the classy pitchers over there that
we have In our league"
That Is open to argument ] think Il
is absurd for National Leaguers, who
never see a game In the American, to
compare the fingers OF the two leagues
Nobody knows what batting figures Dau-
bert would pile up n he had TO so up
against Johnson. Leonard, Scott and
other Fingers in the rival league. Cobb
would not necessarily have higher or
lower average If he had to face Rudolph,
MsmauN and some Of our best hurlers.
Personally | may say quite frankly
that " the Phillies get chance to fight
an American League club for the worlds s
championship I won't care n rap what
city our enemy halls from. II you offered
me my pick right now, | can't say that |
would be able to take advantage of the
offer. | don't know enough about the
teams and their style of play TO select
the one I like to pitch against.
Ty Cobb Is known and recognized as
| the worlds greatest batsman. II I had
to face the Detroit player in world'e
series, am here TO tell you I'd pitch
| mighty careful to him. And | would not
hand Sam Crawford anything that l
| thought he could murder for I am told
| he can hit them a mile when he gets
what he wants. But ] do not say I could
fool this pair. That would remain 20 be
seen. And l do not say that they would
be harder for me than the batsmen OF
the other American League clubs.
II you will go back over the worlds
| series scores, you will find that fire.
| quently batsman who was not believed
to be so very dangerous before the games
| began, turned out to be the man who de-
livered the majority of the timely hits.
Sometimes, the star slugger fell down.
! This may be because the pitchers eX-
pect the men with the 300 averages "a
slam the BAH and give them everything
they've got in shop" Then a supposedly
weak batsman. with a .240 mark, comes
up and gets a ball where he wants it
The result is he gets a base hit.
1t has been a rule of mine never tC
figure a batsman easy because he had
low average or some other finger baf.
fed him consistently. l pitch to every
one according to my own views and put
just about as much stuff" on the bal
for one as another And that is pre-.
cisely the way I would pitch If l got into
a worlds SERIES
| but no matter which teams win the two
pennants, remember that the figure.
won't count for much. Individual aver
ages don't win worlds series It's tn,
man with the punch who can deliver 4
at the proper time who gets away will
the short set of games And the leadins
pltcher In our league might be easy foI
the lowest average batsman in tn,
American.
Today the pitchers on our staff ar,
spending all their spare moments studvins
out ways ana means to keep Daubert
Magee, Zimmerman, Wagner, DOYLE
Groh, Long and some other Nationa
League sluggers from pounding out hit
that will beat us. We haven't had tn,
time nor the inclination to think of tn,
strength or weakness of the batsmen II
the johnson circuit. We haven't won tn,
National League flag.
therefore, | say to you honestly that
never have given the slightest thought tt
whlch team l would prefer to face in
worlds series. Give me a chance I,
pitch for the championship and ri le
you pick the opponents.