The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-07
"NATTY HANDS
OUT SOME DOPE
ON THE REDSON
WHERE THEY'RE WEAK
AND WHERE STRONG5
Big Six Gives Inside Stuff on.
Pitchers and Ability Of 5
Team in General.
BY cHRlsTY MATHEWsoN.

Former Star Of the New York Giants,
and Manager Of the Cincinnati Reds. !
This article will be devoted to dis:
cussing the style, makeup and general:
condition Of the Boston Red Sox, ~ i
know them, which will be . mark OF;
Difference due the men who wear
Worlds Champions" on their Shirts
or can if they want to. but really don't;
They should be considered first. Their
position demands it a
Carrigan has q good ball club, but!
don't rate it a great one. It Is vul.,
nerable In. spots. The strongest asset
is the pitching staff and its ganeneSS.s;
But would not class the Red Sox OF
to-day with teams OF the type OF the
old Cubs, the old Athletics, or even
the Giants Of 1904 and 1905 IN point
of mechanical perfection.
The Red Sox are what would Call
money club" sterling asset They
have demonstrated this several times:
in the last two years when they had
to come through in short series, or
be practically defeated for the dag.
Those are the real tests Of the merits
of a ball club. Both the. White Sox3
and the Tigers have felt Carrigan's
iron heel, as well as Dutch Leonard's
fast ball several times. believe tho:
Boston Americans Of to-day are bet
ter team in a short series than the
club which beat the Giants in 1912.
| don't consider StahPs team, which:
won the worlds championship from u.s.
a tor notch money club" After hav..
ing the series practically sewn mp.
against us, with the standing three
games to one, they let us come back.
to a tie, and should have lost. tho
worlds championship II we hAd played
ball at all. They were panicky enoTgh;
under this strain, only the Giants we're
more panicky in that last inning of;
the final battle at Boston. Carrtgsnn1
club last year did not show any indi:5
cation of fiightiness In the big games.t
It is q good money club, and win 49,
simulate q lot of beating without be-
ing licked. They came right back at.
ter dropping. the first game OF the se.
ries to the Phillies and Alexander last
fall They always seem to return A..
ter bad start =.
Did All the Guessing. .s:ss
OF course, it has been my private
opinion that Alexander would have
been better of in the gameS--tn1
last series II EKinifer2 had been
toned behind the bat instead OF Burn
Killifer's injuries kept him out OF the,
battles, and Burns, a younEsters
jumped in and worked hard. His show.
| ing was very good, and he deserves;
great credit for his nerve; but pitch.i
er naturally lacks cosfence IN q young.
ster and Alexander realized he had;
to do all the thinking for tn ebattery..
That was a strain in itself. J. Know,
from experience. s
Then again, during the 1912 series,
the Red Sox hat little OF what ]:
would call dome tic trouble when
there was a dispute as to- which
pitcher should be worked in the nth;
battle in New York, and Joe Wood
got into the club house Jam. TR0;
Boston trainer told the Giants trainer,
about it. That's how collected the,
In and in news. There Is no risk OF
anything of that sort this time since
Carrigan is a great manager for bar.
mony and keeping his club running on
a perfectly smooth basis. He Is really
great leader. ;:
Where the Red Sox have the big
bulge on their opponents is In tho
box. Carrigan does not have to lookf
to any one man to carry the burden.
Of the pitching job, but he haS-..4fo
FINGERS who are all stars. It U 81
case Of digging up the pitcher who. -
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