New Britain herald., 1917-10-03
KETTLE OF GIANTS
 YET 2! TO BE TESTED
latent Strength Of Team May Be
 Revealed in Coming Series

worlds series which most critics as
 yell as baseball men appear to have Overlooked in their pre-world's series
 impressions is that no one actually san tell how the Giants will act when lsnard pressed This really is the big question mark of the series. It is @asily the most important psychologi- Bal factor.
 Johnny Evers. smart ball player ghat he is, recognized this when he aaid a few days ago: "The Giants nave never been put to the actual sest I believe they can show even better ability in the worlds series yhan during the regular season. ! There never was a time this sea-
 son that the team was forced to let | itself out to the last notch. Despite
 fhe fact that the Phillies look fairly
 slose to the Giants now in the stand Ing, the 1917 race was one of the rasiest to win in the entire history } of the Natonal League.
 \ 1t need only be pointed out that in ! fhe forty-two National League races pnly one team has ever won a pen
 nant with a percentage under 600.
 syDuring the time when the race should
 Nhave been the closest the Philadelphia 3tclub kept f1oundering along with of $50. It is only since Ehe Giants clinched the flag that the
 Phillies attained a mark above .57O et Threatened Only Once No other team ever threatened the kxSiants with the exception of the Reds k&when they made their midseason EApurt which ended in ten straight de- Heats. But during the time the Reds (daunched their drive they defeated E&he Giants in six out of nine games 1 the Reds always were so EGar back that their drive was never ! |Eaken seriously Ri Clarence Rowland realizes this fact l
 better than any one who has dis 1 |&nussed the subject. Rowland says he l Heels his team will win because he l Esxnows just what they can do when 1 Edhey have to win. In discussing the l aberies he said. We just knew we had 1 Ssto win and did win.'' Il Rowland referred to a time in 1 August when after series of set l nbacks Boston passed the Chicago l tteam. Then the White Sox launched ]! n drive which netted them fifteen out 1 NOf sixteen games and soon left the ] SRed Sox far behind. Rowland also 1 Nealls attention to the fact that practi- 1 Aca1ly every series between Chicago ]
 hnd the Red Sox this season was for l Blood, all advertised as crucial series. |, At a time when Boston was supposed ] &tb start It's great fall drive the White l eksox won four out of five.
 He thinks the White Sox gathered i
 enough impetus during that pennant
 sdrive to carry them through the !
 eeries the same as the Boston Braves
 drive in 1914 enabled the Braves to
 ssweep up the mighty Athletics in l
 -four straight games. aa New Situation Arises. Et The nearest the Giants came to any
 sthing crucial was when they had to ! E0play six games with Philadelphia l 8early in September, with a lead of 1, Height full games. However, Philadel- l
 tphia would have been required to win six straight or five out of six to make 3any impression. and with the present n Philadelphia lineup such task was 3as impossible as things are impossible Kin baseball. By winning four out of h six the Giant ended the faint hopes 4of the Quakers. E But starting an important series 2 eight full games ahead. with less than 2 a month to play, Is nothing like the I test of starting an ali important series on an even keel.
 It is needless to say that no one realizes this better than McGraw. One k of his biggest tasks during the series will be to arouse the Giants to the mental pitch which nothing during i the past season was able to bring out. Giants fin Exhibition. Both the Giants and White Sox are finishing with their brushing up course for the big series. The Giants play another double header with the Phillies today and then will make a quick jump to Chicago. where they \ will play an exhibition game with the l Cubs tomorrow That will wind up their preliminary work
 The White Sox complete their course with an exhibition game with the l Cleveland Indians at Comiskey Park E today.
 The Chicago players will be the guests tonight at banquet to be given
 In their honor by the Woodland Bards, m organization composed of President Comiskey's personal friends. Seats 1 for 1,4O0 have been arranged.