The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-02
Giants Have Punch;
White Sox Game
During The Year But Chicago Has
The Percentage.
By Jack Veiock,

q. N. S. Sport Editor
NEW YORK, Oct 1.-The team with |
the strongest punch generally wins
This doesn't apply in every case, but |
quite often enough to be a rule in
the grand old game of baseball.
When the Giants and White Sox
enter the worlds series they will be
primed to go in there with every
ounce of strength available. They will
go in there to put their strongest
punch into every game, and it will be
a battle of brain, Drawn and mechani-
cal ability.
In sizing up the merits of the two
worlds series teams in the matter of
punching power, or the ability to score
runs, the baseball dopster doesn't find
a whole lot in the way of figures that
will give him fair comparisons, for the
teams have fought their way to the
top in different leagues, and the dop-
ing out process is reduced for the
most part to guess work, pure and
simple.
But the figures are interesting
nevertheless, and, regardless of the
fact that no one can say whether the
work of the White Sox on the bases
is better than that of the Giants, or
whether the hitting power of the New
York club is stronger than that of
the Sox, figures are necessary.
The White Sox are the best base
running club if one takes the sea-
sons figures for it and abides by them
alone. But the White SoX have not
tempted the arms of National League
catchers, and the Giants have not
matched their speed against the peg
ging power of American League back
stops, so the point is open to argu-
ment.
The figures accompanying for the
year show that the Giants have out
hit the White Sox, yet the Sox have
scored the most runs, and runs, after
all, are what win ball games. 1t would
seem that the Sox are the fastest club
on the bases, and that they make their
hits count for more, yet many a run is
contributed by the wildness of oppos-
ing pitchers. If the pitchers in the
American League are wilder than
those in the National, then the lead
in runs held by the Sox over the
Giants may be partly attributed to this
fact. But are they?
And then there is the time-worn
argument about the speed and class
T of the two leagues, an argument
! which has always been bone Oh con-
tention, but which is settled in par
by worlds series figures of the pas
few years, showing that American
! League teams have won the mos
worlds championship.
There is a chance that both thu
Sox and Giants will enter the BIZ
series with their full strength, 70
: Weaver and Herzog are very liabl
a to be put into the line ups.
Weaver's batting strength is added t
n the Sox attack their chances will b
= better on the offensive than the
would be with McMullin in the game
And if Buck Herzog takes his oil
" place in the Giant line up when tn
q big series starts, the critics agree tina
v McGraw's team will present a stronge
. attack and a better defense as wei
+ But with Weaver and Herzog out G
" the games the Giants will be hit tn
. hardest, because McMullin is a playe
of longer experience than Smitf
q though the ex-Toronto youth playe
q very good baseball for McGraw dur
~ ing the last few series of the season