Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-24
OMEN FAvORs GIANTS
LOSS OF COIN TOSS SEEMS
TO GIVE EDGE TO M'GRAW
Won Only World Series When Forced
to Open on RoRd-MnnnScrs
Arc COntraKtcd.
By ARTHUR sTRUyNE.

By ARTHUR STRUwE.
NEW YORK. September 23.-With
the baseball season reaching that stage
where it is only a case Of playing
out the schedule" tho talk has now
turned to the question::
who will win the worlds scries?"
Although the New York fans arc dis
appointed because Chicago won the toss
for the games. and will stake contests
on Saturday, a Sunday and holi-
day. closer perusal of records shows
that it is a lucky omen. as far as the
Giants are concerned.
The Giants have figured in four
worlds series previous to the one they
Will combat in this year Three times
they have been beaten. The only one
In which McGraw led his men to the
stellar honors in the baseball world
was in 1905. when the Giants played the
first game OF the series away from
home-in Philadelphia. against the
Athletics. In 1911 they again met the
Athletics. The first game was played
on the Polo Grounds. The Giants lost
the series. The next year they played
the Red Sox. The Giants won the toss.
Again the first game was played in
New York. Again the Giants lost. In
1913 1t was the same. The Giants met
the Athletics. The first game came off
in New York. Connie Mack won.
Local fans arc pointing to tho fact
that McGraw's men have always played
great game away from home; In
fact, a much better game than they do
in their own bailiwick But the local
fans seems to forget that the white
SoH arc also a good road team. And
the White Sox will have ono advantage
that the Giants will not have. They
have been playing on the Polo Grounds
every year since the Yankees took to
playing their home games on that field
they have played eleven games annual
ly with the Yankees. The grounds Will
not be strange to them. On the other
hand. McGraw's men Will go into the
worlds conflict playing on a field they
have never played on before. What
ever advantage may accrue from this
instance will help the White Sox.
The teams in this big conflict will
be led by men with two different tenn
peraments. McGraw. noted for his driv-
Ing power. Is past master In the art
OF getting every ounce out of a player.
Like jockey. he spurs them on with
whip and spur. Sarcastic he eggs on
his players and goada them TO do al
most tho impossible. He Will stand for
no Sinking. A player must make good
or McGraw will relcgate him to the
bench or TO minor league outfit He
is powerful leader has brought five
pennants to New York and connected
in four worlds series. This will be his
fifth
Rowland is tho other extreme. He
handles his men with kid gloves"
None Of the dynamite force of ArcGraw
is visible in this leader. who has been
called "busher" by his critics. With
gentle. even demeanor, he urges his
men on. Unlike McGraw. he does not
call his men down when they make
mistakes. He even smiles at them pats
them on the back and knows that they
are trying their best. And in his ham
ding OF his men. he is ably assisted by
kid" Gleason. And the latter is of the
old Baltimore school, from which Nc
Graw graduated.
The one bright ray OF hope among
the Giants rooters is that word from
Maryland says Charlie" HerzoE. can
ia In Of the Nationa, League winners.
VIII be there" when the big series
starts. Hcrzog. who has been suspend
ed for failing to report, has declared
he Will play. doctors or no doctors. :"
II was HerzoG's illness. due TO a fall
when the Giants played in Philadelphia,
that caused him TO desert" the team
and be disciplined.
In the makeup of the two teams
McGraw will have more men who have
gone through the worlds series than
viii Rowland. The latter will have
only one regular in the feld-Eddie
best player in the game" by no other
IMAM the Giant leader himself Row
land will also have Nun ply. who was a
members of the great Mack machine
when they overcame all opposition But
Murphy Is not expected to be in the
lineup.
II Herzog plays. McGraw vii, have
.nree men in his infeld who have
played In worlds series The other
two will be Fletcher and Zimmerman.
Inc former was with the Giants in
their former combats, the latter with
the Cubs when they were the kings OF
their league. In the outfeld, McGraw
will also have one of the best IL not
the greatest. "sun fielder" in the game.
he Is George Burns. Not only is he a
brilliant outfielder. but at the bat he
is hitting them at over 900. Gibson.
Iesrenu. Demaree and Murray on the
Giants band. also have taken part in
worlds series. Tt is not likely that
McGraw will bank on the two twirlers
however. on account Of their mediocre
work this year. Gibson is only n relief
catcher. and Murray a pinch hitter, SO
they are not likely to figure in the
lineup.
But McGraw. with his great bunch
OF worlds series players, can only
send them to bat once every ninth time
the same as Collins. McGraw will need
Herzor's reD IN make his infeId stand
out like the 100000 bunch" IL has
heen called. He has not been batting
this year up 10 his usual standard but
he knows baseball. Collins is there
moth with the bat and in the field, and
he is as much fixture in making tn.
other players around him play for all
theY are worth as is Hcrzog to his
teammates
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