San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
YANK DEFENSE
MUST IMPROVE
: TO WIN SERIES
Team Kicked Away Five
Of Eight Games in Last
Two Years.
ABOUT GIANT PITCHERS
McCraw's Staff, on Analy-
a, sis, Not So Terribly
Outclassed.
ABOUT GIANT PITCHERS
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

Copyright. by The San Antonio Light.
New York, Oct. eff the Yankees
pull through and win the 1923 world
series, starting next Wednesday, it
will be because they are tighter team
in the field than they were in 1921
and 1922 and not because they have
better pitching than the Giants. They
kicked away their chances last year
and the year before.
, Almost everybody will tell you that
theeYankees' pitching staff is superior
to that of the Giants. By what test is
itsso much stronger? Where is the
positive difference? Is there team in
the American League, except the
Yanks, that is as strong, presum-
ably, as Cincinnati and Pittsburg.
If the Giants staff was good enough
to come through for another cham
pionship against such stout opposition,
perhaps it will be good enough to hold
the Yankees again. ia
First of all, can Nehf be overcome
by the Yanks this year? He won the
decisive game against them in l32l
and again in 1922. Is he likely to be
less effective in 1928? If he has lost
his cunning then it may be said that
the Yanks have gained one point IN
their attack.
Can the Yankees hit Scott with any
greater power than they did last year !
They were little children in front of
him then. If they can knock him out
of the box they will have gained an
other point. -,
Has Ryan the skill to pitch a world
series game from the first inning to
the last? He has drop ball of the
kind that is not relished by the Yanks.
McQuillan pitched a rough and
crude game against the Yanks in 1922
and won. Can McQuillan be rough
and crude this year and win? He is
a better pitcher than he was then al
though he is wobbly largely because
of his own personal faults.
Can the Yanks do anything against
Watson? They were never much of u
team to tahe hold of a new pitcher
and shake him up.
Bentley Another New One.
=. Can they solve Bentley, another
pitcher new to them? Bentley is noto-
riously soft against some teams ami
a hard nut to crack for others. VIII
the Yanks find him soft?
Will the Yanks be able TO hit JON
nard, a pitcher who has speed enough
to keep any team busy while his speed
lasts?
1t is not such jug-handled thing,
this pitching proposition between
these teams, even though some scott
SO openly at the "class" of the Giants
pitchers.
And then there are the Yankees
pitchers against the Giants.
Hoyt stood the Giants on their
heads more perpendicularly in 1921
than they had been elevated for years.
But he was not so good in 1922. He
was older and larger above the ears.
Now he is older and more domesti
Gated.
Shawkey never will be certain
pitcher against the Giants and he ha9
faced them many times.
Bush completely lost his temper, his
grip on the game and about every
thing else in 1922. Can he come back
against the Giants after that?
Jones is a great pitcher. He never
has had real test aginst the Giants.
If he is going right in the world Sc
ries he should give the National
League entry a battle.
PennOck Ozark Horse"
Pennock is the type of lefthander
that the Giants would rather have
with them than against them. If he
starts well he will finish well and if
he does not he will die quickly and
easily.
Now how much have the Yankees
that is so different than what they
had in 1921 and 1922 that everyone
sould say this is a world series in
which the Giants' pitchers are sub
merged even before the tidal wave has
stnrted?
There was not so much difference
in the pitching in those years. but the
Giants won because their fielding was
n great deal better than the Yankees
showed. Mays stands for two games
lost in the two previous series be-
cause he slipped and floundered while
fielding the ball. There were other
costly boobies that lost three more
games for the Yankees.
That is about five games all told
lthat the Yankees lost through poot
fielding out of the eight that the,
Giants won. So lit will be seen that
the American leaguers will need more
than pitching to beat their rivals this
year-they will need good fielding,