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RED SOX HAVE CLINCHED PENNANT
The Red Sox have clinched the American league pennant. All possi
bility of the team being overtaken was disposed of when Philadelphia lost
to Chicago yesterday the first game of a double-header.
To relieve the tension among members of his team and to assure final
ly the possession of the pennant for Boston, President McAleer, of the
Red Sox, has notified the management of the New York Highlanders that
Boston would not play off a postponed game scheduled for New York.
Boston now can lose all its remaining fifteen games and win the pen
nant, even though Washington, which went into second place yesterday,
should win all its remaining thirteen games and Philadelphia should win
all its remaining fourteen games. Should this possibility develop, the
final standing would be:
CLUB. W L. PC.
BOSTON 97 56 .634
PHILADELPHIA 97 57 .630
WASHINGTON 97 57 .630
The league schedule calls for 154 games, but under the American
league rules Boston can refuse to play its postponed game with New
York, its series in New York with that club being closed.
GIANTS’ HURLERS
WILL GIVE SOI
HOUGH TIME
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By W. S. Farnsworth.
BOSTON admirers are backing
the Red Sox in the world’s
series chiefly because they
believe the pitching staff, composed
of Wood. Collins, O’Brien. Bedient
and Hail, will prove too much for
Mathewson, Marquard and Tos
reau. But will it?
In a seven-game series three
pitchers, if they are in condition
can easily carry the burden. So
let us size up. from a Giant view
point, just how New York’s Big
Three may accomplish all that will
be necessary to bring a world s title '
back to the National league
• • •
Mathewson has new failed
to deliver in the pinches. True
he was beaten by the Boston club
In the inter-city series in 1908. But
he was far from being right then.
He had been 111 in all the late sea
son games and he played In trial
series against the Red Sox purely
on his nerve.
That series gave Matty a liu<
on the Boston hitters. He knows
■ some of the weaknesses of th:it
club and It will not be like work- .
ing against absolute strangi r
The big fellow's am Is said to be
<i. K now. and McGraw has or
dered him under no conditions to
let out at top speed until the
world's series, no matter if he
loses all the games he hurls until
the National league season winds
up.
Just take it from me, Mathew
son will give the Boston sluggers
an awful run for their money.
With him working it Is then that
the Giants will be the best bet
• • •
THE fact that Tesreau has been
beating the Cubs with regu
larity of late before capacity houses
proves that this young man doesn't
"go vlth -'age fright. Crowds
of 3().0i)0 hav tiled to shake him
twice this fall
Speaker and Gardner are the only
left-hand hitters on the Boston
team. Now, Tesreau has a swell
fast ball, besides his spitter. and he
is likely to keep his “smoker" so
close to the ears of the Hubbites
that they will have an awful time
connecting For Speaker and Gard
ner he will have to rely more on
his spitter.
« * •
Il 'ST because Marquard is not
holding down the opposition of
late to a handful of scattering hits
like he did early in the summer
does not mean anything. Reports
from New York have it that Mc-
Graw is holding him back so as to
have him prime October 8. The
Giants' manager has yelled his
very head off at times of late when
the Rube started to turn ’em loose.
It is against Speaker and Gard
ner that Marquard is likely to show
his best brand of hurling. Speaker
claims he can hit a southpaw as
easily as a right-hander, but 1
watched him closely last season
and know that he can not. And
Gardner has always been pie for
portside slants
* • •
IN a long series Boston would
have much the best of the
pitching argument, but in a series
where the best four out of seven
will win the championship. I don't
see whore the Giants' staff will be
forced to take off their hats
PERSONALLY 1 think that Bos-
n ton is a better balanced, faster
all-around machine than New York,
and all things being equal should
be the legitimate heir of the Ath
letics' proud title
In only one essential do I con
cede New York better equipped
leadership.
It is impossible for the most de
vout foliowets of Jake Stahl to
■ ompare him as a tactician with
Muggsy McGraw.
• • •
'THE fact that the Red Sox ran
first to the Athletics in this
'ear's race with considerable ease
am: that the elan of Connie Mack
est their well known scars upon the
toants in the last championship
'millet has had much to do with
tri' making of Boston a favorite
according to my way of thinking
TO JAKE STAHL
GOES WIT Os
WINNER
By Bill Bailey.
J AKE STAHL today a com
manding figure in ba-ebal), for
the reason that lie is—Jake
Stahl.
You may say that tin Red Sox
will teprrsent the American league
in the world's championship series
because they were lucky. Os <ourse,
they were lucky. No team ever
wins a pennant that doesn't get the
breaks in luck. But it was Jake
Stahl and the personality of Jake
Stahl that put the Boston Red Sox
where luck would return them pen
nant wdnners.
Let's make the case one of Jake
Stahl vs. luck.
Well start in by pointing oui
what luck did. The biggest piece
of luck was the fact that they went
through the American league sched
ule with scarcely an injury and
with but mighty few men out of
the line-up. Heine Wagner was
i my'i'd tor a short time and was
i. of the game. That's luck. It's
ritted.
Stahl Back of Whole Works.
But where else did the Red Sox
have luck?
In the pitching of Joe Wood, sly
you'.’- Remember that Joe Wood
did not come to the Red Sox tuts
year He has been with that Bos
ton bum h ever since 1908..
In the great playing of Tris
Speaker? Tris Speaket has been
with the Red Sox for Io these many
years. I refuse to believe that the
showing of Tris Speaker and of Joe
Wood can be traced to luck. I
would trace their great play to
Jake Stahl.
Here is what Stahl did:
Jake Stahl took charge of the
Red Sox at the right moment.
There had been too much John I.
Taylor. Now, the fellow who was
formerly the sole owner of the Bos
ton team may be one of the grand
est fellows that ever lived, but he
dldn'' know how to manage a ball
club.
He had a ball club that possessed
wonderful capabilities. But John 1.
Taylor didn't know how to realize
on those possibilities.
Taylor Not the Right Sort of Boss.
Jake Stahl did.
Here is a concrete example. If
John 1. Taylor had continued to
boss the Red Sox they would have
had a new shortstop. Heine Wag
ner didn't make a hit with Taylor.
There was a time when he could
have been traded for and the Bos
ton club would not have demanded
a star of the first realm either.
That was before .Tahl Stahl took
charge. The moment he did Wag
ner was taken from the market.
He couldn't be secured by trade.
And Wagner has shown that
Stahl had the right hunch. Now,
baseball men will tell you that a
team minus a star in the neigh
borhood of second and short has
no chance for ths pennant You
can accept or reject the theory.
But tile fact remains that Wagner
has played wonderful baseball un
der Stahl, and if the latter became
confidential he probably would in
form you that he couldn't have
landed that pennant with a new
man at the shortstop position.
Credit that to Stahl.
Stahl Fills Vacancy.
Then Stahl personally filled one
of the largest vacancies on the Red
Sox line-up. If there was one thing
that the Boston lads of last ye: 1
needed it was a first baseman
Stahl right at the outset con
vinced the players that he was the
manager. John I. Taylor might own
considerable stock in the team, but
Jake Stahl was the manager. James
McAleer veteran managi r and now
president of the team, might sit
back and tell what he had done,
but Stahl was the man who was
giving th3 orders these days. So
the players camo- to realize that
Stahl was not only the manager,
but he also was the boss, and that
the fellow who pleased Stahl was
the fellow who was going to get
the credit.
From that moment the Red Sox
began to get results, it was as if a
new spirit had entered the team.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
How Red Sox and Giants Compare
AB. R. BH. TB. 28. 38. HR. AV. PO. A. E. AV. SH. SB.
Red Sox. .4500 670 1248 1710 237 75 ' 25 .278 3551 1685 234 .957 173 163
Giants ... 4527 765 1265 1770 211 81 44 .279 3626 1694 277 .950 116 263
Joe Wood and Rube Marquard, the Two Great
Hurling Rivals; Their Famous Twirling Hands
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JOE WOOD. WOOD S PITCHING HAND. RUBE MARQUARD.
that the Giants anti Ived Sox are sure to meet in
£\| the world's series,” said Robe Marquard the other
day, 1 may have the pleasure of hooking up with
an old friend of my minor league days—‘Smoky Joe' Wood.
“When I was with Indianapolis, in the American Asso
ciation, Joe was with the Kansas City Blues in the same
Southpaw Collins Is a Past Master of Left Hand Pitching Control
Boston Red Sox’s Only Port Sider Will Stand Off Rube Marquard
AY COLLINS hasn't a
thing, yet he is one of
the best pitchers in the
American league—one of the two
or three best left-handed pitchers
in the business,” said Clark Grif
fith, manager of the Washington
team, the other day.
This was an accurate, and, when
you come to think of it, a remark
able tribute to the man who will
probably be Joe Wood’s right-hand
—or. better, left-handed —twirler
in the coming series for the world's
championship.
The fact is that Collins, who is
second best of the Sox pitchers,
"has nothing” that pitchers are
usually gauged by—that is. he has
no sharp or intricate and puzzling
curve ball, no great speed, no re
markable change of pace and no
particularly bothersome slow ball.
Yet, next to Wood, Collins is the
most successful pitcher in the Red
Sox camp.
What Is the answer?
Control.
Has Remarkable Control.
Collins is a better master of
where his delivery goes than any
other man on the Red Sox staff--
better than most other pitchers on
any team, and he has better con
trol than any other left-hander in
the game.
He has won 16 of 22 games he has
been credited with pitching this
year, and has taken 15 of the last
18 games he has pitched. He had a
poor start, owing to an abscess on
a knee, but after he had worked
into form, following the first game
Ray Collins Will Pitch Second Game
Although Joe Wood is considered the Boston Red Sox’s
best Inirler. Ray Collins, the great southpaw, rims him a close
second. And it would not be surprising if the left-hander did
everv bit as well as "Sniokv Joe in the world's series against
the Giants. It is the plan of Manager Jake Stahl to pitch Col
lins in the second game of the title series. Wood, of course, be
ing slated to hurl the opening performance.
of the first Red Sox aeries of the
season at Chicago, he became near
ly invincible. Lately he has pitched
shut-out, or nearly shut-out, ball
to most of his opponents.
If he holds to his present form,
he is expected to alternate with Joe
Wood in the series with the Giants.
How He Does It.
"Without anything"—as Clark
Griffith, the "Old Fox." put it—Col
lins has been fooling the best bats
men of the American league right
along for weeks. Experts like
Christy Mathewson say he is one
of the most successful left-handers
in baseball.
Going back to this matter of con
trol, Collins has issued less bases
on balls per batsman than any
other left-handed pitcher this year
—in fact, less titan most right
handers. He went through three
straight games without passing a
man or hitting one.
He seems able to place the ball
wherever he pleases, measuring the
league, and many a time we had a royal battle. Joe always
had a wonderful lot of speed, and I had a bit of the same
thing then. We'd just cut loose with plain smoke and would
wind up every game we fought with ten or twelve strikeouts
apiece.
“1 don’t believe Joe ever beat me.”
spot to a hair's breadth, and since
he knows the opposing batsmen of
the American league he has fooled
them all.
Collins uses a long, accurately
measured curve most of the time,
but frequently employs a straight,
fast one, which i s not nearly so
speedy as Joe Wood's, but which
seems to be successful, considering
the number of strike-outs. Math
ewson thinks that he'has the bats
men batting "with his arm." In
other words, they follow Collins'
motion before delivery, and thus
lose the ability to hit the ball or to
place their hits when they do lo
cate the sphere.
Plays a Cautious Game.
Collins began to reach his best
form late last summer. It is told of
him that while he was pitching
rather ordinary baseball for a big
leaguer, in 1911, he complained that
he was not permitted to work as he
pleased. John 1. Taylor, then pres
ident and owner of the Red Sox,
called in Collins on July 4, 1911,
and talked that over xvith him.
After he heard what Collins had to
say. he remarked:
"Well, 1 have the utmost confi-
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Written by Experts
dence in you, Collins. I think that
you have the 'stuff' and that you
have the brains. Go ahead and
pitch your own way, and I’m with
you."
Collins followed the advice. He
"made good" immediately. He was
so good, in fact, that President Mc-
Aleer and Jake Stahl kept him this
year as the team’s only' left-hander,
and without any expressed doubt
that he would “deliver the goods.”
After he had thoroughly’ recovered
front his illness and regained his
strength, Collins became extraordi
narily successful, whereby he be
came the Sox’s second pitcher. In
the opinion of the Red Sox he
should more than stand off "Rube"
Marquard, the Giants’ remarkable
left-hander.
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GIANTS’ ROOTERS
FEAR BOSTON'S
OUTFIELD
H ERE ? a ? tOry by a Bo ”o*
scr.be who has traveled w ,th
the Boston team all seasnn
but who is now with the New York
G.ants for the remainder o f Z
season to get a line on the M?
Graw clan. In this story, a Z'
having -watched the Giants' out"
field in action, he states that th.
New York trio does not comp, ’
with the Hub outfit coni P’r«
By Paul H. Shannon
VTEW YORK, Sept. - 19 .._ wi ;, 1e
New Yor k fans are raving
over the work of Giant Jeff
’’esreau, and banking mightilv
the ability of Doyle and Chief M 4”
ers to see the Giants through,
enthusiasm dies quickly away wh '
they come to consider the outfield
that McGraw will be forcpd ™
pend upon in the coming contest for
a world s championship.
Even the prejudiced Polo groun .
contingent-a following which can
see no pitcher but “Mattv"-n 0
eader but McGraw and no team
but the National league champion,
—are forced to admit that as f ar
as the outfields are concerned the
Red Sox are unquestionably the
stronger.
As far as fielding goes, compari
sons are odious, for New Yorkers.
The strongest factor in the Giants'
outer garden is "Red" Murray who
bears the unenviable reputation of
failing to make a single safe hit in
the world's series last tall.
Murray is far and awa\ th., best
outfielder that the Giants ■ an glton
But can any one think of compar
ing him with Speaker?
What Figures Show.
Murray is hitting the ball fairlv
well just now. His average is just
.270 for 124 games. In 134 games
Speaker’s average is .392. only a
difference of 120 points. Murray has
made 132 base hits, with a total
of 199. Speaker has hit safely 203
times, with a total of 293 bases.
Comparison along this line is pa
thetic, therefore. Murray is sec
ond in the list of Giant base run- j
nera He has stolen 30. Speaker
has pilfered no less than 43. quite
a decided difference, and scored
118 runs to Murray's 75.
But if Speaker is so far Murray's
superior as a hilter. what chance (
has the New 'yrker in the field'.'
Speaker is considered by most crit
ics to be the greatest outfielder in
the country, an unerring judge of a
fly ball—a fielder without a single
weakness. While Murray also cov
ers lots of ground and is fast on
his feet, he lacks the Texan's won
derful ability to time a long drive.
Besides, Murray has one fata!
weakness.
Next to Murray in point of a l
around strength ranks Fred Snod
grass, at present covering center
field, although he may ultimately
be shifted to left, while Becker is
brought into the line-up and placed
at center.
The logical man to compare with
him in the Boston line-up would
be Duffy Lewis, and here again the
Giants sadly suffer by the contrast.
As far as speed is concerned.
Snodgrass has it all over Lewi'
He is one of the fastest men oi
the New York team, while Lewis
could be a whole lot speedier with
out being rated as a flier. Snod
grass has scored 89 runs for ti ,
Giants and pilfered 33 bases. Lew
is has registered but 70 runs and
has stolen but five sacks.
Snodgrass Better Batter,
The superiority of the New York
man rests right here, however
Lewis has a batting average
.278, or 12 points more than it
Giant. Besides, he hits in
clean-up position for the Red Sox.
and it goes without saying that
has hit in a very appreciable num
ber more runs. And in the 11
field well, Snodgrass shines oi
when coming in for a fly ball
is very fast and his speed i'
one department apparently f
nishes his sole excuse for being a
big leagfuer outfielder.
And as for Hooper —well, he “
so far ahead of either Devon
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to make a comparison.
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