South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-04
SELECTING TEAM
To COP HONORS
IS CHILD'S PLAY
All Dope FavOrS Red SOX, But
PhiIIieS Nay Win f the
Players Prove Superior
in Coming Tests.
RY Ina Y. Pert.

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haven't? O. Dear. You know every
body is doing it, Then it's so simple.
/ You take the battering average Of
! a right-hand hitter against lett
/ hand pitcher. add the velocity of
German bullet, multiply by the horse
power contained in a home run punch,
! deduct the adverse effect OF the
earths rotation, divide by the number
| of blades of grass in the Outheld, then
multiply by one and a half and then
divide by two and you get the bat
ting average Of the men in the COM
/ ing big series.
You do this one team for each man
/ on the two teams then compare the
men who play the same position, the
team having the more men showing
superiority will be the one that IS
going to cop the series.
/ Perhaps as in the beginning your
answer was 40. Well no doubt you
were waiting for our annual diagno-
sis. The writer is an expert on pick
/ ing winners lie admits it, He among
other things points TO the proud
| record Of picking every winner since
Cincinnati quit winning remnants.
In case you are not good at figur-
I ing and want TO have an easier way
| of picking the winner VIII offer
/ you the following.
Read up on Dope.
! Read all the dope you can get on
/ the Phillies and the Red SOX. Learn
what team is the favOrite and then
pick the faVorite-TO LOSE.
In these last few years the Ma
/ tional and American league winners
| have battled for the gate receipts and
! also for the honor to be called the
world champions, rule has almost
been established, namely: the favor
tie never wins.
Take back in that year of 1906
when those White Sox walked home
with the honor by downing the Cubs
four ~ames to a couple. Those White
| SOx were not favorites. Far from
such be il.
But-History says the Sox won and
you dispute recent history when it's
not political.
Detroit is Favoritc.
The next year Detroit mixed with
| the cubs. The Cubs lost the year be
fore and the Tigers had Ty Cobb. But
the Tigers did not win the series They
didn't win a game and the cubs cop
ped four.
In the year 1908 the Cubs and the
Tigers mixed again and the favorite,
the Cubs, actually won out. When the
Pirates won in 1909 the fans expected
the Tigers TO win one series in three
attempts. but they did not, although
they won three games
Philadelphia sprung surprise
when they defeated Chicago in 1910.
The Mackmen in 1911 bested New
York while Boston downed the Giants
in 1912. In 1913 the Philadelphia
team bested New York.
In these games there was really no
favOrite. Each team was considered
to have a chance and the victory was
not so much a chance TO the fans in
general.
LO The Poor Braves.
Last year the Boston Braves did
thought it was shame to put the
two teams behind the same bands, but
again we can't dispute history The
story of that great series can be best
understood by addressing letters to
former members of the Mackmen.
So at the present writing. the Red
SOX are hailed as the greatest team
in the American league. The Phillies
are slated along with Cincinnati. The
Red SoN won because Of their class.
the Phillies won because ii was so or
dained. and because Pat Moran did
the bOssing.
Hence the Red Sox are the favor
ties, but the road over which treadeth
the one selected for glory is often
SlItNn WIFI TulS Tor the auto wheels.
hence again. il would not be surpris-
ing 10 see the Phillies win
Favorites on the teams are af-
hicted the same way II is not the
start OF the season who stars in the
big series. The real star is among
the lesser lights but he comes
through.
There's Always a Hero.
Every series has its hero. its almost
Il unknown. But while CObbs and Ra-
kers and Wagners fail il has been
pretty evident that pitchers seem ia
have tendency 10 live up to their
regulations evein in q big series.
Taking il all in all il looks like the
Phillies. Not because they are a bet
ter team than the SoX but because
the SON are the faVOrite.
This prediction would be idle but
for the fact that the writer won a
cigar on the Willard-Johnson bout
almost bet on Johnson against JEFF
fries. picked the Mackmen against the
Cubs and predicted that the war would
end when the various countries went
broke. grew tired Of fighting or didn't
nave any more men tO wage tho CON