The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-09-19
A Study of the American and
National League Champions
In Twelve Articles
By IRWIN N. HOWE

II will be mighty interesting TO watch
the two first basemcn in the coming
worlds series. They are alike in 50
many things-aoility included that the
fans will delight to see how they per-
form IN the championship games.
Those veterans. Daubcrt and Gandti--
will attract large share OF the atten-
!. tion Of the fan.
A comparison OF these two ct this
time Is doubly interesting because in
addition 10 Weighing them on their &C
accomplishments in their many years in
baseball We can observe what they did
under worlds series FIRE because both
of them have been in games for the
title.
In order to find out what Is Is rcas-
enable to expect Of them in the games
next month, when Gandil faces Ructhcr.
Eller and the other sterling Cincinnati
pitchers and Daubert undertakes TO
solve the mysteries Of Cicotte. Williams
and the rest, g comparison should be
made Of their hitting power
In order to get conditions as nearly
as possible similar to the worlds series
conditions, let US find out what Gandn
has done this season against five select
ed American League pitchers who re-
semble most closely the pitchers Of Pat
Moran and what Daubert has done
AGAINST Ave National league pitchers
selected for the resemblance to Kid
Gleason's slabmen-
Adams, Galore and Barnes (reprc-
senting the varied styles OF Cicotte)
Vaughn representing KERR and Cooper
frepreSenting Williams) are the Nation
a League key pitchers. The key pitch
esB OF the American League are Thor
rnahlen and Leonard representing Rue
thar and sallee) Shawkey representing
Rtnx) Bagby representing Fisher and
Luoue) and Sothoron representing ELL
Daubsrt has been IN four games
against Adams this season, four against
Player Team G. ABB r II
paubert-cincinnati. 125 4S3 10 1s5
Gandil Chicago. SO 37s 30 1l5
paubert has always been first or sec
ond In the batting order in his major
leaxue career, chiefly because OF his
ability to bunt. in his earlier days he
was faster than creased lightning. And
ne Il fast right now. after long serT-
( Ice on the ball field. He is faster than
GandIl today.
IN the worlds series Of 1916, Daubert.
a left handed hitter. faced two right
handlers, Shore and Mays, in the first
game and did not get hit In the Sec
ond game he got no hits off Ruth.
southpaw. He got thre hits off Mays
and Foster in the third game. Merkle
played first in the fourth game ana
Shore let Daubert down without hit
in the fifth. He was at bat II times IN
this series, making three hits for hve
bases. He struck out three times WALK
ed twice. had perfect fielding average
and batted .176.
Gandil is a right handed hitter. In
the frst game Of the worlds series OF
1917 he was at bat 3 times against
Sallee, a southpaw. and got hit. The
next day he got hit off Schupp. anoth-
err southpaw. Benton let him down IN
the third game without hit and three
times at bat He hit Schupp once IN
four times at bat in the fourth game.
on Sallee and Pcrritt in the fifth game
he got q hit and run IN five times at
bat. He got two hits and batted 500
aaginst Benton in the Anal game. In
tie series he vas at bat % times. scored
n run and got hits Zone douole) for
p batting average OF .2T3. He famed