The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-09-30
WHITE SOX ARE
PICKED To WIN
General Strength Of Teams
Final Article Of BASEBALL
Expert on League Champs

After all. the tables and comparisons
IN these articles have shown mat '"'
Chicago White Sox and C:ncirn''' = ~
ars remarka bly, close together the az
ferent dcpartmklts of tn" games Wv
example will srrv" 70 show Us
Chicago has scored thus Sc son IN =
erage OF 4.GS runs per gs- w
games and did this with an 'Ai''"''"''
OF 2.O1 hits per run. c-
cincinnati has scored As runs p,
game in 125 games and h" Use" -'''
hits 70 produce each run. ,-,..
Now on these figures C'raSo h7S'i
much SUPERIORITY to spcaNCA' b"' ~
SIMILARITY OF the Soxs anc Reds IN en'S
matter and other departments OIL t"'
vame 10 more apparent I'm real 'Hs
must remember that u keoS "i''''
,bci- record in tho Natioil League anu
tho White Sox made thTs IN the AM
crican. And you can sc no VIC ~ '"'
the two leagues arc eq''
American league rs insist mo
younrer circuit Is singer -\a'i"i,''
league fans are cquallS'os't1Ve II . '''e
other way around.
In the last ten yrs tno -Na''oliaA
league has wor 10 ~orio
CHAMPIONSHIPS and Il American ie"s ue
has won eight. The 'der ieatu won III
1909 and 1914. Prir 10 zen years AK"
horors were more en- Inc N"''o''''
League champions won thrS' times
rgO5. 1907, 1908 anGce American league
champgCns won tws' I9OS ana lSVo ".'u
in 1904 there was , S''''e o'' 80
National league 'hnant winners re-
fused Ia play the ,S'on hea H'N'
These records tthe wor.u series give
color to the bcH 'hSt 'nr -In'et'C''' !
league really IS perioT 20 inc National
league. ~ $500.
nr,hs, tbiselicf. American league
toans have vi a large majority or
these contests
o,n,,oi cuetoSf picking all star teams.
Most OF thu teams nave ntt'l,u
80 A,eril leagucrs than National
leap,ers in last decade.
S,j1I orn,r test is provided by the
COO. - nIsrs who have been in both
,nos considerable number OF
nInycr. inre last ten years have had
,ri,1,, IN American league and have
hncr ,urr back to IL" u.nors as not
or;to 20 the standard. as lacking
snccd Eating power or some other
,r,,lIFicJn. Many OF these mon.
go , ef scj"urn n the minors have
80 ~ luck IN the National league
and ma good.
Tbe ncinnati team. In Rath, KoNf
.pd R,h. has three conspicuous exam
StS.
Tbseds also have another kind Of
5isca.-the competent or even star
rI,yrrho after years OF service is be-
neveo have passed his days OF high
60, icicncy. Usually waivers ar"
sor. and the player u sent 70 TN"
MD. but occasionally National
1aa, club takes n chance on an Amer
,cavetcran and he makes good. Ray
r,r:r is a good example OF this. Fisher
W traded by the New York Yankees
pete Schneider. II being considered
everybody one Of those nothing for
ping exchanges.
,rhneider was Of no value TO New
rk and was released while Fisher has
far better year than he ever en-
we'd in his ten years service in the
merican League.
These cases Of AmerIcan-to-atsonal
re 90 much more numerous than the
asses OF National-to-A American that Is is
White SSox are a heavier hitting and a
better run-making machine than tn"
Reds. They also force one to think
that the Reds apparent superiority in
defense Is not so real after all when
against Chicago. II must b"
considered that the comparative weak
hard 70 escape the belief that the Am"rl-
can league Is the harder circuit 70 play
in.
Allthese illustrations have q bearing
on the Chicago and Cincinnati records
and on the forthcoming pennant race.
They help 70 confirm the belief that the
ness Of opposing teams in the Eat!cnall
league has something TO do with the
Reds showing Extensively. This APP
plies 70 all departments OF defense
pitching. catching and fielding.
There is evidence to show that there
are six teams in the American league
this season who can show more PEN
nant-winning class than any National
league team except Cincinnati. New
York and Pittsburgh. Tho Cubs ought
10 be the fourth team IN this list but the
oHense collapsed. They have almost
exactly the same qualifications as wash