The evening world., 1917-10-09
IS ROOFING
FOR GIANTS TO WIN
WITH SLIM SALLEt
To-N0row's Game on Polo
Grounds May Give Home
Team Slight Advantage. 4
BV Chrisiv Msfherson.

80 NNNHNM ~ - @HaN@N
n HAVE hears n arEued ~ NstiohAA
/ LsaFus players tha, Hsrrv ssilss
snouid b. Ncw Yofks best pitchsF
in the worlds series The boys ooun,
ON oId saI 10 one rsspect--hs doesu't
get raitrd.
A Hfooklyn player made an obssF-
walton on saIiss which ! thlhk n
worth repeating.
"sal places hlmss.f right n
front % a bell when be pitches
with mat old cross. fire delivery"
said the man. "uni often batter
does not see "a, bail well untl
70 - right up on him. rhen
again Do pitches from his ankle,
knee aud shoulder In suct .
puzzIlng manner that a batter
cannot follow HE hand or see the
ball when IL starts toward him.
Sal has something on any team
that ISN'T familiar with his style.
The phlllics used TO murder him.
but no other National League
team ever found h.m soft IA q
seasons run Of games. lie throws
from different angles, and can
lay half dozen curve balls In
succession over the plato when no
10 IEnL"
You don't hear much about Rube
Benton these uays, because ne SUE
f,rcd "A sort Of stump th.s ran afteI
the best season uC ever had. Don't
FORGET that Benton, when he was wln-
ming game after game. was virtually
pitcniug shut-out Ddll. They say Joe
jackson can murder "A low curve 30
RUDE Will doubtless have a care Wnen
serving to Joseph.
ON the Polo Grounds McGraw
should nave a slight advantage In the
selection OF pitchers. as Rowland Will
h, obliged to name his pitcher first.
In the nrst two Or three games there
wasn't mucn joCkeying, but II the
series comes to the sixth or seventh
game MuGraw's wits may give him
an advantage.
New Workers will remember the
series between the Giants and the
Yankees In 1910. II memory serves
me correctly, the Giants won three OF
the first hve games, and the sixth
was played ca the Polo GIounds. Hal
Chase, who then managed the Yanks.
was in a quandrary. IL he used his
best pitcher and achieved a tic, he
would then be up against II In the
deciding game.
McGraw knew this. so he told me 20
go out back OF the grand stand and
warm up. Another pitcher warmed
up In front or the stands. Chase fis-
ured that he could save Russell Ford
and prepare another man. When he
gave his lineup to the umpires Nc
Graw announced that / would pitch
and ! walked out all steamed up and
ready to work. believe that Ford
did work In this game. but he didn't
start II. | mention this just to show
how tricky McGraw Is in matters. and
the value he places on disappearing
moves.
am for the Giants more than ever
because they helped my Reds TO nm
ish in the first division, I can't crow
much over the fact that we wound
up with the Giants by taking q dou.
ble-header from team OF rockies
sTiCed with a few regulars, but, a.
McGraw used practically the sam'
| lineup in some OF the 81. Louis games
feel that we were entitled to oul
share of the plckings.
I greatly regret that ] missed th,
| first OF the worlds series, but per
| hans we can clean up the CLEVELAND
| Indians in time for me to see tho I'M
ish. I have missed only n few world'i
championship events In the last ter
years and would dearly love to b,
at Comiskev pa-k next Saturday root
| lnp fo- tho Giants
lCowHght, 1917. by No B"lI Syndicate IncJ