The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-09-25
SOME POINTS FAVOR GIANTS
AND OTHERS LEAN TO
THE WHITE SOX
Hard to Figure From
Past Achievements
International News Service Ex-
pert Gives Some Tips on Big
Men in Coming Battle for the
Championship.
Bv lack Veiock.


international News Sport Editorl
NEW YORK, Sept pa compari
son of the White Sox and Giant in
fielders, whose work in the coming
worlds series will be highly impor-
tant reveals that there is little to
choose one way or the other if fig
ures are to be taken as a basis for
sizing them up
Figures never, lie. we are told yet
no set of figures ever compiled has
shown how ball players compare in
anything else but mechanical ability
on the field OF play. For instance,
the batting, fielding and base-running |
! figures do not show that Eddie Col !
/ Inns is a lightning thinker or that
! Charley HerzOg is one of the smart |
est ball players in the game Neither
do they show that Artie Fletcher, |
Buck Weaver or Heinie Zimmerman
are players who have an abnormal
abundance of fighting spirit
So all that can be gotten from the |
average covering the greater part of
| the present season is a line on the
mechanical ability of the rival in
fielder who will clash in the world S
series this fall, and because up-to-
the-minute fielding figures are una
valuable. and batting averages do not
indicate what the players may do in
seven game series, mucn must De
taken from observations of the work
races.
At first base it appears to the
writer that Holke may be counted on
to stand off Chick Gandil. Holke is
the poorer fielder of the two, but
during the present season he has
learned much about playing the bag
: that he never knew before, and, al
though he may waver at times he
: does not lose his head Holke is
! Gandil's superior at the bat for he
has been hitting around 300 of late.
| while Gandi turks around the .270
mark. Gandil's long experience is
point in his favor, but all in all it
2 looks like fifty fifty.
At second base the White Sox must
= be given the edge. Eddie Collins is
an all-around better player than Buck
= Herzog, and, though both men are
: quick thinkers, who know baseball
inside out, Collins is a split-second
the fastest in the use of gray matter.
= Collins is also a better hitter. He has
been outhitting Herzog by more than
fifty points, and because of Herzogs
e spinal injury, which may eventually
force him to retire from the game as
regular, his fielding effectiveness
cannot be compared to that of the
lightning-fast, sure-footed Collins.
} The Giants will even up the count
at shortstop, however. Artie Fletch-
er has it over Swede Risberg in hit
L ting by some fifty points and is prac-
q tically as sure a fielder, though step
+ slower, than the Chicago youth. Both
= players are peppery performers. Both
lend courage to their mates on the in
h field, because they are sure fielders
and because they fight till the last
4 man is out; but Fletchers long exper-
fence and his hitting, not to mention
i his ability to take throws to the key
stone sack and put the ball on the
!, runners, gives him the call.
n And now comes the closest compari-
son of all-that between Heinie zim-
norman and George Weaver, who, it
= is expected, will be fit as a fiddle and
a as full of fight and ginger as ever
a by the time the big series starts. Here
are two players whose work around
third base is both brilliant and con-
= sistent. There are many critics who
will say that Weaver is the better
fielder, yet Zimmerman has performed
better this year as a fielder than ever
before, and makes some wonderfully
flashy stops. The only point against
Zim is his temperament, for he is a
player who is liable to go up in the
air under fire from the opposing
bench, because he is prone to lose his
temper Weaver is a fighter, too but
much more level-headed than the
Great Tim.
AS a batsman Zimmerman has
shown himself to be some twenty-five
points better than Weaver on the sea-
son, but the Chicagoan is always g
dangerous man with the bludgeon
and both players have taught the
pitchers of posing clubs to respect
them in the pinches. OF the two Tin
hits the ball hardest and farthest
when he gets a toe-hold.
In base-running the White Sox in
fielders are superior, but the Giants
as a whole, are perhaps better rough
and-ready hitters, and they lack moth
ing in the line of ginger. If Weaver
does not play in the big series The
Giants will have an edge, for McMul
len is not TO be compared with Tim
| norman. Otherwise there seems t
! be but little to choose, and mos
likely Old Dame Fortune will pla,
her part in settling the question o
which infield showed to better ad
vantage when the series is over.
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