The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
Cincinnatti Fans
 B ombard Writer
 Who Guessed Wrong
BY JOE WILLIAMS

New York, Oct. 16-At the sug- gestion of our National League ad- mirers we are having our tailor rig us up a snappy, form-fitting sack cloth, literally sprinkled with ash- es and when it is ready we are go- ing to walk up and down Broadway with sign on our back reading: This is the dope who said the American League was stronger" 1" Just as good natured gesture, un- derstand.
 For years we have been saying just that and when the recent World Series rolled around we said it again, though not with our cus- tomary arrogance because we re- alized the Tigers were a patch work ball club with 8 creaky infield and uncertain pitching. We admitted all this is our sparkling epic but added maybe it won't take a great team to beat the Cincinnatis."
 It wasn't until today that we had time to go through the accumulated mail. And how our National League admirers have poured it on. We are classified as everything from a simple dope to subsidized writer dominated by the office of president Will Harridge.
 Most of the more tender express Siops of admiration came, naturally enough from Cincinnati where ap- parently everybody who reads the Post" out there has habit of clipping out articles and saving them for rebuttal purposes. We have enough of these clippings to wall paper Madison Square Garden. The effect would be eye-popping too, because many of them carry fren- zied notations in lurid inks. Comeback
 Here is an example .. "Ha, Ha, Ha. Dopey you. Just close your eyes and pick the American league team to win. Oh, how smart. know you'll alibi yourself out of this one because you can't take it. But take it from me anyway. H. D." This admirer re- fers to our opening day epic in which We preferred to think it took no great amount of vision to dope the series.
 We wrote: "One thing the Ma tional League can't get away from Is the figures. We've been covering these things for twenty years. In that time the American Leaguers have won 13 out of 20 champion ships; They have won seven out of the last 10; they have won five out of the last five. Nobody's going to tell us these figures aren't signifi- cant" Having presented this cold factual testimony we added that 1t was silly to attempt technical ex- animation of the two teams: the thing to do was just pick the Amer ican League team all the time and let it go at that.
 Ihls was one year we were wrong But even so the figures are still all in our favor. Instead of having won seven out of the last ten, the American leaguers have won seven out of the last eleven; instead of having won five out of the last five they have won five out of the last six. Until these figures are narrow ed down to a more even point we are going to stand by our guns that the American league is the strong CT league and should continue to be made the favorite in any world ser- ies.
 Our National league admirers have been saying that 1t was not 6 question of league superiority but oi one team (the Yankees) superior. ity. With becoming m0desty and re- straint lone letter begins "you hia fat head") these gentlemen remind us that the Yankees weren't in thii series. therefore the result was in. evitable. The National league hac 70 win.
 Even Bet
 or course, that's going as fal overheard on the National Leagul ns We have been going on the Amer lean league. Besides the figures re- flute the stand. Let's exclude thl Yankees from confederation and eei what we find. Each league has vol the series il times. Co not count ing the Yankees eight wins % al