The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-09-02
Totals T240
LESS since originally doped.
2Gaip SlnCe originally dUQcd


Just as it is easier to dope stake
horses than it is to figure selling plat
ers. we find today that doping the Chi
caSo Cubs and the Boston Rt.l SnX -
harder than it has been to dope any
| teams in the last twenty years. If 1t
| is Il stake horse against L selling platter
! the job Is easy, but here We must lIg-
! urc selling pla;crS on each side. trying
| to hold pace with old stake horSGS aud
run us team.
| The figures indicate that the Rex Sox
| have eighty SIX points the better of
| the hitting ability. and eighty six points
! Is small margin. We Ind this offset
TO degree Oy the fact that tho Cubs
have the better fielding team by fifty
eight points.
| The margin is too small to Indicate
i any marked superiority for either team
| great enough " enable either To " III on
straight class.
| 1t figures that the Chicago team Us n
team is better. in that its strength is
| more equally divided, and better scat
| tered through the batting order. We
discover too. that Mitchell has much
the better hitting arrangement OF his
| team. 50 that the Cubs are liable IL
score in amy inning. whereas you may
figure safely that the He'd Sox. when
| they score, must do 50 with the head Of
the batting order up. In other words.
the Boston club is dead three innings
Of each gam" because the attacking
strength is badly broken When AEncw
much less liable TO maintain rally
| than the Cubs.
This doping is funny business. The
fact is that the Red Sox ought to out
ngure the Cubs by a, least go points
on a season, yet So we'll adapted is
Mitchelrs team 10 meet the situation
now at hand that his team looks bet
ter. This is solely because of the left
handed battcrS Ruth. Strunk. McIn-
ncs anV Hooper, while the right handed
| battrrS are weak wallpapers.
This would not be So great I handirar
! under ordinary circumstances but lie.
| fact that Mitchell has two great len
| handed pitchers prIm"d and ready
| hitting power than it really puSs,s s,,s.
! Tho left Handlers. Of course. will ar;;u"
! that they hit left handed pitching. /
| never have known Il left handed batter
| who did not think he could hit left
! haLnders. but the truth is that. with II
few exceptions. have never seen Il left
handed batter whose average against
left handed pitching was rs high as
against right handcrS--and. further
none OF them (excepting Fred Clnrl.)
ever hits against good left handlers, ana
the reports from the Chicago camp are
that Vaughn and Tyler arc good
Tho change from the North Side
Boston considerably. 1 WAS compelled
TO add points to lIonpcrS drr"nsiv"
value because Of the larger grounds; on
which he will play and Ia deduct from
! Ruth'S value rs batter bccam$" Of the
same facts. All along | have been
afraid that Ruth would upset the dupr
and the series by punching three, nr
| four. long flies over the short fence in
Chicn go. Not that it makes Il hit Of
differences. but ono hates a series spoil
ed by hits which ar" ut best iiuky and
! games won by high flies that would hc
caught on fields Of average siZ".
Whether Boston will DO affected by
the schedule which cnInpcls The r.!
Sox to play three games away from
! home or not is doubtful. There rr"
! times when. superStiLionS "F Tint kind
do affect the work Of teams and il H.
! certain that tho RCd SOx HAY" hot been
strong rond team this year and hny.,
been well nigh invinciblc on their own
grounds.
The Cubs arc helped 10y getting away
from their own fields. They never hay"
! liked tho grounds and last year had AN
! idea that they could not WIN on ,h,
North Side lark. They will play all
| their games on their h"m" field which,
whilo IL appears unfair. docs not hurt.
even If it fails 10 help th"rn. After th"
| teams move to EnStOn the Rrd Son will
| have tho advant1S" in "r"ry way ana
! the Cubs will II, handicapped! SOMEWHAT
! 1t would h" Il fair"r Arrangement, to
play on Eravos field. :" that each team
! would ho Oft its own lot. hut even 80 Ia"
/ advantages OF tho field Is mor" imaSin-
AIRY than real.
II would hc well Cor ihr umpir"s to
! look over the Rcd S"N park carefully
| eSreriaIly TO examine the pitchers slab
before tho series starts and lh,:& aruiL
argument
Now that We have studied tn" posi-
] tion values OF each team and hHv" rairrl
/ them MS to figures. ia" r"ai IaSl; Of
! doping comes. We know now JUS, what
: ;c ], h,S .i,,i, 4, -,
position and against he pitching ~"
must face. Tho job row is Ia apply
those values 70 actual play and ns.ur"
| what each man ought tn do in each