New Britain herald., 1915-10-02

Hughey Jennings may not have been any better prophet, but he proved to be a far keener newspaper man than other managers some years ago when he came out and picked the Giants to beat the Athletics. That pick started something. There was color to it. It left the routine seven league behind. Our idea of nothing tc thrill over is the announcement that National league manager picks the Phillies or an American league manager picks the Red Sox to win. At best it is all guess The only man who looked to be too earnest to be guessing was George Stallings a year ago, when he insisted that his Braves would win four straight games. More Dope.
 And just at this stage last season Hank Gowdy was batting .240. He ] wasn't figured within 27 lengths of wally Schang. The comparison was i a pitiful thing-so far as Lank Hank was concerned. But at the end of four days fight 1 ing Gowdy not only outbatted Schang, ; but had smashed the ball for a greater l total of bases than Baker, Collins and McInnis put together. 1 Schang, on the season, was a far 1 better batter than Gowdy. But in that one series Hank hit for IA bases 1 and Schang hit for 3.
 Still More Dope.
 To which one might attach another segment of the Eternal Dope. In pre- vious world series games Jack Barry | had been always rated as one Of the timeliest of Mack's batsmen. Jack was generally good for about .24O in a season and for 1850 in a big series.
 Last fall, against the Braves, Jack weilt to bat IA times and accumulted 1 hit for an average of .067. It's great life-this matter of grovelling around in the dope.
 As Revised by Pat Moran. The heights by Phillies held and kept
 Were not won by great com-
 mander;
 But I, while all my rivals wept
 Kept pitching Grover Alexander.
 If it took the Phillies 32 years to reach the top of the National league, how long will it take the RedG, who started back in 1S71-a mere matter of 41 seasons ago?
 '"The Reds might have won also," cc mments a Cincinnati exchange, if they had Alexander"
 Well, the Reds here and there have owned Mathewson, Crawford, Overall, Donlin, Kelly Buck Ewing, McPhee, Corcoran. Steinfeldt and 8 or 20 others classed as pretty fair ball players In this game one cant al- l ways tell
 Tho Crimson Def. Brickiey's last goal has whirled across
 the bar;
 Hardwick's last run is in forgotten
 days;
 Big Pennock's shadow now has drifted But Haughton Stays.
 Star after star has vanished from the
 fray;
 Star after star has passed on through the gates;
 Like Crimson ghosts they wander far l away
 I
 Crimson, '02.
 "Yost likes Michigan football pep" He ought to. He invented it. Eyelash Stuff.
 When one looks back upon other world series and what happened therein, the assignment of attempting to pick a winner takes on even added Quivers.
 There is that Red Sox-Giant series of 1912. If Duffy Lewis hadn't missed a soft fly lifted directly above his out spread hands, and if Devore hadn't made @ miracle catch over his shoul- Ger the Red Sox would have won in four straight games.
 And after that if Harry Hooper hadn't lurched over a short fence to rake in Doyle's near-home run-an impossible catch-and if Snodgrass hadn't dropped the easiest of chances -an impossible muff-New York would have won in eight games.
 B. liefy, any one of three or four plays of rare variety made a differ ence of four ball games and turned the series upside down. One boot one muff-one lucky blow-and all