The New York herald., 1922-10-01
Worlds Series Betting Gives
American Leaguers z to 5
Odds Over Nationals.
STRONGER THAN IN 1921
Bush. Shawkey, Mays, Hoyt
and Jones Expected to Hold
McGraw's Men.
BY w. o. McGEEHAN.

FOLLOWING tO-udyS douple neauer
Henery Fabian, landscape gardener
extraordinary, will begin to arrange
the open air set for the melodrama or
the farce which will evolve from the
world series of 1922 starting next
Wednesday. For the second time the
New York Giants and the New York
Yankees, two units of the most ex-
pensive athletes m captivity, will be
the actors in the annual performance
The series which starts wednesday
promises to be the most spectacular
battle of bats, curves. baseball strategy
and certified checks ever staged in the
shadow of Coogan's Bluff.
Whatever else may happen the
series which is about to break right
in the faces of some $4,000 cash GUS
toners cannot be as long drawn as
the one of last year from which the
Giants emerged world champions. To
collect the winners end this year the
athletes will be rquired to win four
games out of seven instead of five out
of nine. With fair weather the series
should be finished by October IL, even
to the counting of the certified checks
and the estimation of how much
should be paid each athlete and each
OF the opposing magnates.
The Giants, with perhaps the poorest
looking pitching staff that McGraw has
carried in years, arrived at the mathe-
matical certainty for the National
League pennant some time ago. The
Yankees, with about the best pitching
staff in either league, arrived at this
objective only yesterday, the iron nat
of Col. Tillinghast L'Hommediou Huston.
vice-president of the club, having cracked
under the strain in the last few games.
The betting-what there is of it
favors the Yankees. The last odds
quoted make them favorites by to b.
These bets have been made on the rcla-
tive strength of the teams under normal
made for temperament, and the fanks
are loaded with temperament.
New Blood for Yanks.
Since they last met the Giants in a
world series the Yanks have become a
!. much stronger team on paper ana IN the
salary roll. Col. Jacob Rupert. with
his ready fountain pen, has added TO the
Yankee pay roll of last year Bullet Joe
Bush. the most successful OF the YANKEE
pitchers; Jumping Joseph Dugan. said 10
be one of the best third basemen In
either league: Whitley Witt. the agile Al
bino, and the best lead off man the
Yankees ever had; Everett Scott, a
faster shortstop than Peckinpaugn, ana
Sad Sam Jones. All of these players
were obtained from Harry III. FraSee' the
most extensive dealer in ivory since the
days when Connie Mack scrapped the
perfect baseball team and bawked IL
through the big league cities.
1t is largely on account of the pitch
ing staff tina gents who calculate the
chances of horses. prizefighteis ana
baseball teams have decided that the
Yanks should win. Bush. S1awkey.
lIoyt, Mays "A d Jones make q combina-
tioa thet should hold safe even sluggers
of the type If the Giants. But while
baseball players are among the most
fragile of athletes, the pitchers are sew
Grad degrees more fragile than the aver
age ball player. In the series Bush and
Shawkey, who we're most consistent in
r,tching the Yanks TO victory, might
break. and Mays and Sad Sam Jones,
who nave been pursued by jinxes
throughout the season, might be stars OF
the series.
Some time ago they dubbed the Yankee
batting order "Murderers' Row." Some
times 20 justifes the nom de guerre.
At other times 1t looks like section
Of the Y. NJ. G. a. in good standing. AT
the start of the season which Is waning
its last wane to-day IL looked as though
the Yanks should bat their way to the
top of the league at the start and re-
main there. But the failure OF the bats
10 connect at critical stages Kept the
knee of Col Tilinghast L'Mommedieu
Huston palpitating violently until yes
tcrday. and constantly drove Col. Jack
puppert to the shade of his weeping
willow tree for gloomy medtations.
Whitley witt Delivered.
Whitley witt, who was picked UP by
the Yanks at bargain at one OF Mr..
Cornelius McGllicuddy's bargain sales
in old ivory. was bought to fill in a gap
during the exile of Babe Ruth. The
agile Albino started to prove that he
was worth the purchase price from the
start While he batted no balls against
the well<n after the fashion Of the Babe.
he hit, and his hitting kept the Yanks
I'm the going. AS n leadoff man he filled
a place that has been practically vacant
on the Yanks for some years.
Looking backward over tho Yanks'
last drive for their pennant Il was
Whitley witt who won IL for them. The
little center fielder. who was knocked
unconscious In the first game of the
actually crucial st. Louis series. came
back in the third game and drove in
che winning score. That blow shattered
the morale of the St Louis Browns and
Knocked all the pennant hopes from un-
der the St Louis customers. II the
Yanksf lhd lost that game Cousin Egbert
Barrov would not at the current writing
be eng eed in the pleasant task of bal
ing checks for the world series Mr.
Phil Ball OF 81. Louis would he counting
the change, and there Is nothing that
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