The Topeka state journal., 1922-09-27
YANKS HAVE EDGE
New York Americans Doped To
Win World Series.
Sixty Per Cent of the. Way
Giants Are Beaten.
BY DAVIS J. WALSH.

BY DAVIS J. WALSH
New York. Sept. 27.@Team for
team and man for man, the New York
Yankees outrank the New York Gil
ants and should come home on the
bit in the majority. of games in the
impending worlds series. confined
exclusively to what incurable inmates
Of the place are pleased to call "the
big town., for the second successive
year
1T isn't what you used to be, it's
what you are today is the refrain of
once popular song. That applies to
the teams in question.
The Giants were the better ball
club last year and won. They are
nothing OF the kind this year and
should lose, perhaps before the limit
of seven games is reached.
They suffer by comparison in five
OF the nine positions, but that hardly
tells the story. In pitching alone.
counted as only one position, but in
reality more than so per cent of the
game, the Giants are beaten to an
inaudible whisper.
Even their so-called million dollar
infield is topped in three positions. In
brief, the Yanks have been improved
from season to season by trades, pur-
chases and. in isolated instances by in
diyidual effort. The Giants, mean
time, have retrograded, particularly in
pitching.
Offensively, they are a much more
polished and consistent club than the
Yankees. They are better hitters,
faster on the bases and more versa
tile all around, but the margin OF the
nounced that it oYercomes everything.
Pitchers will always win a short
series, and the Yanks have them.
Following is a comparison OF posi-
tions:
Catchers.
Wally Schang, who will handle all
the games for the Yankees, is a better
catcher than either Frank Snyder or
Earl Smith. the Giant first stringers.
Mechanically, he is no better than
Snyder and doesn't think any quicker
or more clearly. but he can get much
more out of a ball club by his hustle
and fight.
There is such a thing as a catcher
keeping a team keyed up. for he han
dies the ball more than any other
player and can inspire his mates by
the fire and energy he puts into his
work. Schang can do this; Snyder
cannot.
Smith doesn't figure. He is moth
ing but a mechanical catcher, equally
dangerous with Schang and Snyder as
a hitter, but not the best man in the
world in a big series. Too irrespon-
sible.
AS a second string proposition he
tops Hoffman, and De Vormer, of the
Yanks, but neither of these latter will
show, unless Schang is injured.
Wally is just as consistent hitter
as Snyder and will hit them just as
far wnen needed. He gets our vote.
Pitchers.
Nothing to it but the Yankees. They
can muster Joe Bush, one of the
leagues leading pitchers;- Bob Shaw
key, who won more than twenty
games; Carl Mays and Waite Hoyt,
stars of the 1921 series and cominS
back to form after an Indifferent sea
son, and Sam Jones, likewise. i'm
proved, against Nehf, J. Barnes, Nc
Ouillen, Scott and Ryan. 1t should be
more than enough.
Travelling at their present speed,
Bush should win two games and
Shawkey at least one. That would
leave a single victory to be divided
among Mays, Hoyt and Jones.
The Giants pitchers are not what
they were in 1921. Art Nehf seems
TO have caved under the strain of
carrying the club all season; Toney
and Douglass are gone. McQuillen is
consistent loser, and Ryan and Scott
are uncertain propositions.
Only Jess Barnes, who beat the
Yanks twice last year, is a possibility
to upset calculations. Jess has en-
but it takes a curve ball pitcher to
stop the Yanks. and Jess is all of that.
. For this reason young Jonnard, who
has won six out of seven on the season,
may not get by. He has nothing but
a good fast ball.
If Barnes can repeat his 1921 per-
formances and Nehf comes back to
his best.-the Giants stock would boom
accordingly. These are if prem
ises, however.
R&-yA
Extensively the Giants carry the
verdict by some considerable mar.
gin: defensively, the Yanks enjoy q
slight edge. Taking both departments
together the Giants are the pick.
At first base Pipp holds Kelly ever
in hitting and. judged on his present
form, is a better fielder At one time
neither could go to his left for q
batted ball, but Pipp has learned the
secret somehow. Kelly has the bet
use of it may never arise.
Ward is not as good as Frisch as
second baseman, cannot hit within
forty points of him, IS a clubfoot OF
the bases by comparison and alto
gether loses caste when mentioned il
the same breath.
At shortstop Scott is the best de
fensive man in the game. Bancroft
having fiopped a bit On his seasons
work Banny will outhit his riva
fifty points on the season, but will
get no more hits in the pinches thai
Scott. And a worlds series Is Just on,
pinch after another. Score this on
for Scott.
Dugan was a good third basemai
before he came to the Yanks H
is the best in baseball now bar none