Evening star., 1933-06-10
N M'GRAW AND MACK
RESUME OLD FEUD
Series Of 1905 Recalled as
Veterans Take Charge
of AII-Star Teams.
BY IOHN R. FOSTER.

n IEW YORK, June 9-Connie
NJ Mack has been chosen to
/ Y pilot the destinies of the
American ague team
that will meet the National League
stars in the Worlds Fair game
to be played at Chicago on July
6. John J. McGraw was selected
by the National League to guide
the leading players of that
organization.
Mack and McGraw have had longer
managerial service in the big leagues
than any other base ball man now liv-
ing They had some battles in the
American League, but their real rivalry
began in the first world series that
was played under the Brush rules, in
1905. At that time McGraw was man
ager of the New York Giants, with
which club he was always most promi-
nently identified. He made his repu-
tation as ball player with the Balti-
more club Later he joined the Ameri-
can League for a brief interval, SO
that he is no stranger to Connie Mack
or to any of his base ball methods.
Connie has been with the American
League for more than 80 years.
McGRAW and the Giants met Mack
lv1 and the Athletics in 1905 under
conditions that seemed to favor
the American League manager. The
AS came to New York from Philadel-
phia proud of the skill they had shown
in their own circuit and absolutely Ger
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York in the world series. They brought
along special trainload of Philadel-
phlanS to see them play and to be
in at the finish, expecting to depart
from New York amid great hilarity.
The Athletics had already lost the
first game at Philadelphia, to 0, with
Christy Mathewson pitching for the
Giants, but felt particularly jubilant
because they won the second game, at
New York, by the same score. In the
third game Mathewson again shut
them out, pitching against Coakley, 9
to O. That took about all the wind out
of the Quakers' sails, and when on the
following day McGinnity shut them out
in New York, Mack saw the beginning
of the end, especially when it was
agreed to play the next contest in New
York. MatheWson won this game and
with 1t the championship for New York.
COME days later the Giants were in
~ vited to Philadelphia to help the
Athletics celebrate the winning of
the American League pennant They
went there with great glee and were the
guests at good old-fashioned base ball
reception. 1t was at that gathering
that John T. Brush. owner of the
Giants, publicly shook Connie Mack by
the hand, so the reconciliation between
the rival leagues might have been said
to be complete.
New York again had 1t hot and
heavy with Philadelphia in the world
series of 1911 and was defeated, four
games to two. In 1914 Philadelphia
again defeated New York in the world
series. four games to one. 1t would
have been just as well if this series
had not been played by New York,
which was so crippled and weakened by
the loss of players that it went into it
with but half of its strength.
That ended the McGraw-Mack ri
valry, although McCraw always ex-
pressed wish to have one more chance
to even up matters with the American
Leaguers.
Now such an opportunity will be af-
forded him in this match game at Chi
cago between the stars of the two
leagues-but the American Leaguers
will go into it, at the present outlook,
slight favorites.