Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-10-13
BY ED LYONS.
(Manager City Theatre,)

|, Boston has won her fourth worlds
baseball championship, the second in
succession by the particular team I'M
der the direction of the studiously in
clined manager, Bill Carrigan
Scarcely ever has the class of one
team been more completely demon
| strated than that of Boston over
Brooklyn. One would seem caustie
and perhaps impartial to make the
bold statement that such is the condi-
ton as will be found in the relative
value of the two major leagues. In
| Chicago the White Sox (AmericanJ
| signally defeated the Cubs (Na-
tionaD, the latter team failing to
score single victory. Moving farther
west it is found that st. Louis Browns
(American) almost as decisively de-
feated the st. Louis Cardinals (Na-
tionaD, the latter team emerging
from the conflict with one victory.
In all contests-interieagu con-
tests-the American won so easily
that comparisons become odious.
Strange as it may sound to you under
these circumstances the brand of ball
played by the National League is
more likely to achieve local popular
ity than that of the younger organf-
zation. 1t Is like the swing of the
pendulum that the National League
style of playing the game is now more
popular In the larger eastern cities
than is that of the American League.
Speaking directly, in 1901, when the
johnson organization made its first
new brand of ball, that is to say the
gingery way they ran afleld and sue
ceeded each other at bat was revela-
ton. They worked like an electric
dynamo, even the umpires adding a
little pep" to the proceedings. For
five years this feature was noticeable
and the older organization which
had been afflicted with doldrums be-
gan to get some younger players and
a few years before had possessed
themselves of John Joseph McGraw,
then and now manager Of the New
York Giants the last word In pepper,
tabasco sauce and everything that
goes to make a spirited contest.
This latter condition has existed in
the National League for several years
back, and, the johnson organization,
with stars and managers slowing up
on their pins and in their noodles,
dropped back to the point where the
National League has been. This is
one of the big reasons why Connie
Mack's Athletics of famous history
could not hold the popularity OF the
citizens of William Penn's town and
why the spirit OF the American
League Adu SlOWSu up
1t SO happened this year that one
of the pepperiest clubs In the John
son organization stacked up against
one Of the softest dispositioned clubs
in the National organization. The
same condition appeared a year ago,
when Pat Moran's Quakers lost the
series to these Red Sox, but the orig
inal contention holds that the scrappy
kind Of game played by men Of the
McGraw type is the kind that claims
Its patronage, adds to 1t, and enlists
the popular support. 1t meant the
establishment of the popularity of
baseball when nothing else could have
done 1t. This does not mean "rowdy''
baseball as is practiced by more than
one manager of big league team,
but. it does mean the kind of baseball
that allows of no friendship on the
ball field and spells fight every second
that a game is being contested.
Getting back to the main subject
the series tust ended. the Boston Red
Sox were superior in every department
Sox were superior in every depart