The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-02
ALL EYES ARE NOW CENTRED LIN
 TWO TEAMS

NEW YORK, Oct 2. - While the winning of a pennant and the result ant participation in the world series is based upon the number of games won during the entire season of league play, it is as a rule the final weeks of the schedule in which the cham pionships are clinched At this period of the play the leading teams of each league are putting forth their great est efforts in an attempt to capture first place, and each days struggle is fought out to the l.nish. For this reason 1t has frequently been said that the true speed of a team in a worlds series can be gauged from the power of its play near the point where the pennant was mathematical ly won.
 Based upon this assumption an ana lysis of the work of the Chicago Am e.iccns and the New York Nationals in the closing weeks of the present season should afford a somewhat gen eral outline of the form which may be expected of these two clubs when they meet in the worlds series of 1917. On the first day of September the Chicago White Sox were leading in the American league by 1-2 games over the Boston Red Sox, while the New York Nationals led the Phillies in the senior league by games.
 In neither case was the lead so great that the runner-up club did not have a chance to overtake and pass the pace setters. Under the circum- stances the New York and Chicago teams were forced to play their best game and despite an occasional de- feat, the records show that they tray eled at high speed up to the very mo ment that the flag was won beyond peradventure.
 During the first twenty days Of Sep tember the New York Nationals played twenty-three games, of which they won sixteen and lost seven, show ing a winning average of .696 for that period. In the same number of days the Chicago White Sox played fifteen games, of which they won all but three for an average of 800. In these fifteen games the Chicago players accumulated a total of eighty-two runs to their opponents fifty-four, or an average of close to five and a half runs per game. The Giants aggre- gated eighty runs in twenty-three games for an average of three and a half runs per content. while their op- ponents collected fifty-six. If the op- posing strength were equal in all games, which was not the case, how ever it might be assumed that the White Sox attack was stronger than that of the Giants, while the 1atter's defense was harder to break through. The fact that these clubs did not of 2ourse, face the same opponents must lot be overlooked
 Much stress has been laid upon the respective ability of the pitchers of the two clubs and the part that these twirlers will play in the winning of the world series. For this reason comparison of their box records dur ing the period under consideration may be helpful to the followers of the game. The Giants have used Sale, Perritt, Schupp, Te sreau and Benton for an average of 34 3-5 innings each in the twenty day period, while De- maree and Anderson have worked an average of IT 1-2 each.
 For the White Sox Cicotte, Williams and Faber have borne the brunt of the pitching, having averaged forty in nings. Danforth and Russell between them pitched twenty innings, an aver age of 10 innings.