The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-29
PICKS WHITE S0X
Yankee Pitcher Thinks They'll
Win Worlds Series.
Schupp and Faber Are Expect.
ed to Star.
BY JACK VEIOCk.

New York, Sept. 29.-Ray Caldwell
the eccentric Yankee pitcher, is one
New York player who thinks the
White SoX will triumph over the
| Giants in the coming worlds series.
Caldwell, always a good student of
baseball despite his many eScapadeS,
has pitched many game against
Clarence Rowland's team, and has had
an opportunity to study the work of
the Giant pitchers. He believes that
Ferdie Schupp is McGraws best bet in
the box, tho he says that Pol Perritt
may surprise every one. But in siz-
ing up Schupps chances the tall
pitcher opineS that Ferdie will be up
against almost as hard a task as Al
exander faced in 1915, and will meet
the same fate.
''Schupp is great pitcher in his
own league" says Caldwell, and
clubs in the American League, But
the White SoX % not fear left-hand-
ers, and the fact that Collins and
jackson don't mind speed and are Ii
able to hit left-handed speed as well
as the other kind at any time makes
it look rather dusky for the Giants.
Schupp Best Bet.
IF Schupp can not stop the White
Sox 1 scarcely believe that Benton
and Sallee can do it, good pitchers
tho they are. Left-handers who try
to get by with Chicago on speed alone
are almost invariably beaten. The
kind of pitching that counts best
against Rowland's team is slow curve
ball pitching in my estimation, and
here's Schupp, Benton and Sallee, all
with a lot of speed and used to ap-
plying it.
Il am looking for Eddie Cicotte and
Urban Faber to make quite an i'm
preston in the big series. Most peo-
pie seem to think that the White Sox
| left-handers will have the call AGAINST
! the New York club, but it's the two
right-handers who look like the best
from Chicago standpoint to me.
/ Both keep the ball down low around
| the batter's knees most of the time
and the Giants are high-ball hitters
for the most part. Some of our boys,
who were sent home ahead of the
team from Detroit, spent several days
agree on this The Giants either can
not or will not hit the low ball
I pitching.
They'll get little else from Cicotte
and Faber, at least, little that they
I will want to hit at for these two birds
are not the kind who chuck up the
easy ones They are always trying
! to make opposing batters hit at bad
balls, and they've both got the con-
/ troll to get away with it.
! "Of course you never can tell what
! pitcher will make the best impression
( in a series of seven games, but these
are my sentiments. and because of
the effectiveness of Cicotte and Faber
! 1 think the SoX have the call by quite
/ a margin, figuring all the while that
/ the Giants left-handers may have a
/ little luck in trying to stop the Sox
attacks with the bats"
! Caldwell's views regarding Chica-
1 COS pitchers are shared by a good
many critics and also some of the
| players Ray Chapman. shortstop of
! the Cleveland Indians, thinks Faber
is the best Chicago has in the box,
and when it is remembered that Chap
+ pie knows all about the work of the
White SoX pitchers, having played
against them all the season, his opin-
/ ion is interesting
| Il don't know who Rowland will
start in the first game" said Chap
man recently, but if had the say so
I'd shoot Orb Faber into the opener
/ 1 know there's a whole lot of talk
about Eddie Cicotte being the boy
who will pitch the first game, but
4 Faber's the boy who looks like the
sweetest pitcher on the Sox staff to
me.
He's the kind of pitcher who can
go in there and pitch three games in
/ the big series and come pretty near
winning them all And with Faber in
there the Giants won't be able to raise
4 the shine ball holler, for Faber doesn't
depend on any trick delivery.
ON the other hand 1. don't think
/ Chicago's batsmen will have a whole
! lot of trouble getting to the Giant
pitchers. Chicago doesn't fear south
paws"