Evening star., 1925-09-25
FULL SEVEN T|LTS
MAY Be REQUIRED
Psychologists viii Favor
Mats Because of Confidence
Due to Experience.
BY GEORGE CHADWICK.

NJ EW YORK, September 25.-
Y The Washington team will
have experience in its favor
when it faces the Pttsburghs in the
world series early next month, but
the two clubs are much better
matched than some persons seem to
imagine. They are so well matched,
in fact, that the full seven games
may be required to settle the ques-
tlon of supremacy, with a possible
eighth il the early darkness in Pitts
burgh should cause one contest to
result in tie.
There will be a lot Of harping on
psychology when the penuantwinning
teams of the two major leagues come
together, and even before the series is
played the psychists will settle the
debate in favor qf Washington.
The psychic in this case will be
easy enough to analyze. On the one
tide there will be a team with con
ffdence in itself and experience enough
in world series to know that all games
must be played close to the belt, and
on the other side team which mas
had no experience in world series
and a lot of experience in trying 10
win league championships, without
succeSS until this year.
Pirates Slow Beginners.
The Pittsburghs are slow beginners
against a new team-not slow in the
sense that they are thick-witted, out
slow to grasp opportunity. But tnere
is one very important thing IN tneir
favor which must not be overlooked'
and that is the fact that they nave
shown ability this year to come from
behind.
The Pirates were in last place at
the end of the first week or the sea
son. They Jumped to fifth place at
the end of the third week of the sea
son, and then they sank like a loose
Head sinker to last place at the end Oh
the fourth week They did not re-
main there, and they never went BACK
again. Another week found them In
fourth place. They could not hoid
that and dropped back to fifth. The
next week found them in third place.
They hung there through June 3, TO
go into second place the next week
and first place at the end of the week
of July 4.
Since then they always have been
in first place, except the week or Au-
gust l, when they had a slight re-
lapse. They have been in first place
for II weeks. Their climb up the rope
has been Just as tough in some re-
snects as any team during recent
wears to win a pennant, so do not
discount their pugnacity too much.
Experience a Big Factor.
Now what are the odds as to how
far team of one years experience In
world series and an inexperienced
team will go before the championship
thing is settled? That is another fac
tor which will vex the souls Of the
fans most nightly in the days to-
come before October I.
In the 20 series which have been
played it has been won just once IN
four games straight. That was In 1914
when the impudent Boston Braves,
still pert and rambunctious after over
taking the Giants, went to Philadel-
phia and literally talked the Athletics
into a blind rage and defeat.
1t was won four to none in l922,
when the Giants thraShed the YankS,
but there also was a tie game, hence
it cannot be called a straightout four
game series affair. 1t also was won
four to none in 1907, when the FDe-
troits were slammed by the Cubs, but
again there was tie game. So that
IS twice that ties have figured in the
four result.
Four Games to One Leads.
Six times the series has been won
to l with a 7-game schedule. Five
times the series has gone 4 and
with a 7-game schedule. F'our-one
and four-two almost team up. Either
of these possibilities is nearest an
even chance.
Once the series took long run,
games to and tie, when Z games
We're to be played. That was the
tragic 1912 affair between the Giants
and the Boston Americans.
When nine games were scheduled
Cincinnati won the first of that classi-
fication in 1919 with to from the
dubious Chicago SoX. The Giants
defeated the Yanks 5-3 in later years,
and Cleveland slammed Brooklyn
to 2 in 1920 and tore the National
League wide open. The miners hardly
count in odds.
Twice it has been won by games
to 8. Pittsburgh did it to Detroit.
and the Washingtons to the Giants.
There is variety enough in the fore
going finishes, but the Al and the
AZ results are favorites.
Copyright. 1925D