The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-04
Picking Worlds Series Winner
 Difficult Task
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 bat, crash through the offerings of Carl Mays and Waite Hoyt? Looking at it from this angle abil- ity to make the hits count may have more to do with the decision in favor of the team that gets the fewest hits than stinginess on the part of the slabbers.
 Babe Ruth, naturally enough looms up as the big question mark for the Giant pitchers to solve. Take him out of the Tank lineup and New York fans would make the Giants prime favorites. The big Bam may at any stage. Nobody knows this any better than McGraw, and it goes with out saying that Ruth probably will get a base on balls If. the Giants are and the Tank pitchers have the same prerogatiye
 It may be said in favor of Mo GraW's team that the Giants have a better seasoned and better prined pitching staff today than the Tanks. In Nehf. Toney. Douglass and Barnes McGraw has a mighty capable quar- tete Behind these men are Sallee,
 Manager Higgins has his one big l ace-Carl Mays-a game and brilliant young slabber in Waite Hoyt and a dangerous and willy veteran when he | 1S iuSdIs III oOD oHdWkey. But ShaWk6V is not at his best. Old Jack Quinn. Harry Harper. Piercey and Collins stand behind these twirlers. The l Giants have not looked at a suib- marine delivery such as Mays uses and will undoubtedly find it trouble some. but Artie Nehf, in form, stands an even chance to take Mays meas | ure.
 Giants are superior in fielding and base running. They play a more di- | Verslned game on both attack and defense than the men O. Huggins | once they start getting men on the bases McGraw will send them around for the Giants can run the sacks. The Tanks, on the off-mitt have the ha bit l Of slugg1ng their men around the saSKs. Can they do it in this series?
 Figures for the season show that the Yankees excel in run making They have made but five more hits than the Giants and in a tight series the supposed bulge of the Hugmen at bat may fail to materialize.
 | McGraw as compared with Huggins 1 is a seasoned worlds series campaign CT and seven time pennant winner show himself to be superior to the midget manager in the way he has handled his team this season. Hug gins knows ball players and how to | develop them, but he is untrfed as a worlds series field general.
 The big series. from all indications promises to be a "batterin' affair." .'' Both teams will have their fighting thing between se,0O0 a piece for the | winning players and both are famiI- far with the Polo Grounds, so neither will have an edge in this respect. Also crowds and each will have a world of support.
 McGraw has always been partial to the slugging game. The hit and | l-.1n ich h fc fox oF of+o aI- but he can mix 'em up when the oc- casion arises. The science of slug ging, incidentally, is a second nature with the Tanks and players like Ruth, stumbling blocks for any pitcher to face. Yet you never can judge what | a player will do in a worlds series by what he has done during the reg paratively obscure player turns up as a batting hero. So, no matter which way you turn in sizing up the rival teams, a stone wall of uncertainty In comparing the regular players man for man the teams balance pretty evenly. though the Giants are stronger in the box and behind the bat. | Mt first base with Kelley and Pipp to be considered, it looks like a stand off. Pipp has a shade in fielding and from whos- ashen war club singles, doubles. triples and home runs have bounced consistently all season, is nearly as good a fielder and headier.
 At second base Aaron Ward may be given a slight edgeover John Rawlins but at shortstop Peck and Bancroft offer another standoff. Both are flashy fieIders, good hitters and quick thinkers who have had long expert ence.
 Frank Frisch ranks above Mike McNally as a third baseman. He is | a better hitter and base runner and though he seems to require more effort in fielding hard hit balls toward the hot corner he gets 'em and he has a | wonderful arm.
 In left field Babe Ruth because of his terrific machin, gets the call over Emil Meusel. Meusel is a better fielder of the two, however, and a dangerous hitter at all times.
 George Burns, one of the best field CTS in either major league and a won derfully consistent hitter, outranks Elmer Miller of the Canks in center field Miller fields this particular position as well as Burns but he has not had the experience and he does not come up to George 'as a, swats- l man.
 Right field with Bob Meusel and Ross Young onSpatrol duty offers an other stand off. Both Meusel and right garden. Both can play ball hits | off the high wall accurately and it is a coincidence that the last batch of batting averages showed them hitting
 In the catching department the Giants have the edge. Smith and Snyder, both hitting better than 1920, are good, big marks for the pitchers, heady generals behind the bat and good fielders. Both can cut down run ners at second with deadly regularity and the slow footed Tanks will do we'll not to tempt their arms. Schang, the veteran and young Devormer, are Huggins catching assets. Because of his long experience Schang proba ply will catch every game TOT the Tanks i and thus he stands practically alone against two of the best backstopS in | the National League.