The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-27
Realize White Sox viii Be Fa-
voriteS in Series, But Point
Back to the Big Upset Of the
Athletics,

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-When the
great series for the worlds baseball
Championship between the Cincinnati
Reds, of the National league, and the
chicago White Six, Of the American
league begins on oct. 2, the veteran ag-
gregation representing the Windy CITY
ana the American circuit, will. to bor-
fayorite,
There is no denying that even here
IN Manhattan and Brooklyn, Natilnal
league eenters though they are, that
the public fancy Is with the White SOx.
II IS SO in Vore marked degree in the
country at large Only in Ohio do you
tind the Red sentiment preponderating,
and there, OF course, II Is q matter Of
local pride. Why II should be SO in a
short series, with luck cutting such
pig figure In baseball as II does, Is not
credit Is given the Reds for their game
ness, pluck and high-class play in TAX
ing the National flag, but the feeling is
almost. general that the Sox are the
class Of the two teams-that they
have an edge" as the saying goes.
Sox Look the Best.
Despite the fact that the frightening
OF the coming series from seven to nine
games, requiring the winner to capture
fve before taking the championship,
which viii admittedly give the Cincin-
natl clubs larger pitching staff better
ohanee to show its worth and will put a
greater strain on the only two'box stars
that the White Sox can boast, the gem
eral feeling Is that experiences, steadi.
ness and better hitting ability will pull
the Chicago representatives through
And 1t is just this confidence in
veteran team and a lack of confidence
IN an untried one that brings to mind
nd a-Ira ri
conclusion.
Just as was Cincinnati this year, the
Boston Braves of 1914 were hardly given
q thought by the baseball critics in
doping" the National league race. But
in July OF that season, spurred by a
ity that an admittedly second class
team possessed into play, the despised
"Beaneaters" started drive that en-
abled them to overhaul the leading
Giants early in September This year
the Reds career was slightly different;
they were always we'll up and did not
make any meteoric rush, but toward
the close Of the race their stories are
similar. They caught the Giants just
after the midseason, fought off two
savage challenges later and clinched the
hennant late In September, just as the
Braves did. .
Remember the Athletics.
In 1914 the Athletes were the yeter-
ans. They had trlumphed over Chicago
In 1910, over the Giants In 1s13-the
last time in hollow fashion. They were
the last word In baseball precision when
they won the American league cham
plonship In 1914. They had Bender and
pisnk, two really great stars, They
llad lost Coombs, hero OF 1910, just as
the White Sox have lost Faber, hero Of
lsl7. But they had McInnis and Col
Inns and Barry and Baker, a wonderful
outfield and a fine eatcher-Schang.
The Braves had Rudolph, Tyler and
James--not the James who win play
with the White Sox this year, but an
who has done little or nothing since.
They had Schmidt, a portly slugger, on
first; John Evers, In his prime the best
second baseman the National league
ever saw; Maranville, budding star, at
short. and Deal, rrakeshift, at third
g 1.e. clubs regular third baseman. Red
the series opened, They had patched
up double deck outheld, the only
ones playing big league ball today being
Leslie Mann and George Whitfield. They
had Hank Gowdy behind the bat.
They Couldn't Lose.
The public made the Athletics over
loseg' was tho question Of the Phila-
delphia sympathiaers, as they joyous!y
snapped UP the little money the friends
L Of the Braves produced, The hackers
OF the Mackmen gave ODDS as high as
to ! In some cases, Only In Boston
was there even hope that the Braves
could keep up their. meteoric play
against three thine champions.
And then the dope" was shattered.
Rudolph and Tyler and James held the
great Athletic hitters poweress. Maran-
Vile and Eyers felded like strealxs, and
Hank Gowdy proved the hitting sensa-
tlon of the year. The despised Braves
won, and they did what no other worlds
champions had ever done--won In four
had a chance and Connie Mack was so
dlsgusted that he broke up his great
combination the next year
why cant Cincinnati, younger team,
hustling team, one with as good pitch +.
ers as Rudolph and James and Tyler,
with catcher as good as Gowdy, with
really good outfield and lacking only
an Evers. do what the Braves dld2 the
Red fan asks, He points out that CT
| cote and Williams are no better than
| Plank and Bender were in 1914, that the
| Chicago infield of today Is the inferior
Of the great 100000 machine OF which
| Philadelphia boosted. that the Sox out.
| field and hitting ability Is no better
than the Machines who lost to the
Braves,
Why haven't we chance when The
Braves could trim the Athletics2 Is the
| question of the Buckeyes. Looking at
il would seem that they have, and q
very god one. AT least 1t is worth re-
Numbering until the 1919 classic passe;
into history.