Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 29

“FULL SEVEN TILTS + MAY BE REQURED Psychologists Wil ‘Favor Nats Becaase of Cenfidence Due to Experience. BY GEORGE CHADWICK. ¥ EW YORK, September l\q The Washington team will have experience in its favor when it faces the Pittsburghs in the ‘world series early next month, but the two much Dbetter clubs are matched than some persons seem to | They are so well matched, seven games | imagine. i fact, that the full may be required to tion of supremacy, w cighth if the carly dar! burgh should cause.one contest to | result in a tie. will be a f harping on nant-winning of the two major leagui together, and even before the played the psychists will settle Gebate in favor g# Washington. The psychic in this case will be casy enough to analyze. On the one ide there will be a team with con- iidence in ftself and experience enough in world series tq know that all games must be played close to the belt, and on the other side a team which has had no experience in a world series 1d a lot, of experience in trying to in leazue championships, without succesy until this year. Pirates Slow Beginners. The Pittsburghs are slow beginners Against new team—not slow in th sense that they are thick-witted, bu slow to grasp opportunity. But there 45 one very important thing in their favor which must not be overlooked, and that is the fact that they have shown ability this year to come from behind. The Pirates were in last place at the end of the fl son. They jumped to fifth place at the end of the third week of the sea- gon, and then they sank like a loose Yead sinker to last place at the end of the fourth week. They did not re- the week of the sea- | | | | hington—Left to « . | Middle row: McNeely, Kelley, Peck, Tate, Russell, Bluege, Goslin, Altrock, Adams. Top row: Ballou, Veach, Jeanes, Ogden, Myer, SPOR ....4',“ T and right Johnson, rberry, 7 ary, Kuether, Scott, J. Harris, Marti 'WAR BLUE POLOISTS TO PLAY 3D CAVALRY ; War Department Blue pol i TS 'NO 0DDS EXPECTED - ONTITE CLASHES JfLarge Share of Credit Due ] Coveleskie for Success ofr!! ! Griffs This Year. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, September 2 When the Washington Amer- N icans—winners of their league championship, by virtue of yester | day’s results—clash with the Pitts burgh Nationals in the world series in October will be no odds either way except those based upon | bettors’ individual admiration of one team or the other. If all the players are Intact and without broken Lones, bets are even The strong suit of Washington has been batting. It is the same with Pittsburgh. On the whole about the Nation ere there are points s’ pitching that has excelled the twirling of the Pirates, but Pittsburgh has shown faster work in base running Washington had to fight from be hind to win the league pennant. So | dia Pittsburgh Who won Washington? The team, of course, but if you set tle down and balance the books and ider the conditions before the race n, you must give Coveleskie much al credit 0 games won by the former nd pi if taken away from Washington’s I or added to the record of would have the champlonship for pitchers of the Washingtons skie, Ruether and Johnson. 58 victories out of all the team won has put it all over men he was signing an r . because he old men, too ncerned at thelr ers were y, while have found ter toward the r the fre | ners over the War White four y {day, 10 to 9, are booked to encounter | the 3d Cavalry quartet | afternoon the Potomac in the first halt of a double while the Whites will go against t 16th Field Artillery riders in the fins main there, and they never went back | again. Another week found them in | fourth place. They could not hold | that and dropped back to fifth. The | next week found them in third place. | They hung there through June 6, to| zo into second place the next week | and first place at the end of the week | world series contend pennant in one day by s itself and having a next to it yesterday nd a ton of tomorrow Park field ened grou of July 4. Since then they always have been in first place, except the week of Au- gust 1, when they had a slight re- Japse. They have been in first place for 11 weeks. Their climb up the rope has been just as tough in some re- spects as any team during recent vears to win a pennant, discount their pugnacity too much. Experience a Big Factor. Now what are the odds as to how far a team of one year's 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 mightily in the days to’] come before October 7. 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 Glants, went to Philadel- phia and literally talked the Athletics into a blind rage and defeat. It was won four to none in 1922, when the Giants thrashed the Yanks, but there also was a tle game, hence 1t cannot be called a straightout four- game series affalr. It also was won | four to none in 1907, when the*De- | troits were slammed by the Cubs, but | again there was a tie game. So that s twice that ties have figured in the four-none result. (" Four Games to One Leads. Six times the series has been won 4 10 1 with a 7-zame schedule. Five times the series has -gone 4 and 2 with a 7-game schedule. Four-one and four-two almost team up. Either of these possibilities is nearest an even chance. . Once the series took a long run, 4 games to 3 and a tle, when 7 games were to be played. That was the tragic 1 fair between the Giants and the Boston Americans. When nine games were scheduled Cincinnati won the first of that classi- fication in 1919 with 5 to 3 from the dubious Chicago S The Giants defeated the Yan and Cleveland slammed Bro to 2 in 1920 and tore the National League wide open. The niners hardly count in odds. Twice it has been won by 4 games sburgh did it to Detroit. hingtons to the Giants. going finishes, but the 4-1 and the 4-2 results are favorites (Copyright, 1925.) — POLO GAMES ARE CLOSE. PHILADELPHIA, September 25 (P)—By their victories yesterday the Midwick polo team of California and the Meadowbrook quartet of Long Island entered the semi-final round in the tournament for the 12 goals cham pionship of the United ates. Midwick defeated Bryn Mawr 9 goals to 8, while Meadowbrook elimi- nated the Philadelphia Country Club, 12 to 8. WESTBURY, N. Y., 5 (#).—Orange County he right to oppose the Meadow Brooks for the American open polo championship by defeating the Prince- meres, 13 goals to 6, vesterday in the last semi-final match. September four_ earned NEWMAN STOPS MARTIN. BARBERT! September_ 25 ). —Nick . Taylorville, heavywelght, ighting Bob™ Martin, A. E mplon, in the fourth last night. X Havre de Grace SEVEN R.ACF.S DAILY 0. traln of 1 es Unlon Station 12 Parlor and Dining Car Penna. R. R. train of leaves Union “Station 1 to course — ety fiesion——Grandstand _and _Pad- dock, $1.65. including Government '*X pIBST RACE AT 2:30 P.M. €0 do mnot | : |calm about the place. riety enough in the fore- | | | | Meadows. Pittsburgh—Front row, left to righ Middle row: Oldham, Smith, Traynor, McInnis, Care, I Top row: Fraser, coach; Hinchman, coach; Onslow, coach; Barnhart, Aldridge, Watters, secret: P Moore, Culloton, Sheeha: McKechnie, m B By FarEsEn , Bill McKechnie, J nager. scot; Ens (back of m: Clarke, assistant manager; Bigbe Barney Dreyfuss, president; Sam Dreyfuss, treasurer; Rawlings, Yde, ‘Wright, Cuyler, Kremey, , Thompson, Spencer, Grantham, — Gooch. Asten, trainer. Adams, Morrison, ASHINGTON fans apparen W terday after the second victory over was ended and the Nationals 1925 ch. Browns' score that indicated the fin gle had not been concluded a few mi: Nor did the players seem unduly xcited, *All was quiet in the Na- tionals’ dressing room as the men pre- pared to get to their homes. Indeed, there has often been more enthusiasm about the clubhouse after a particular- ly hard-earned midseason victory than pervaded its atmosphere yesterday A few personal friends of Manager Bucky Harris strolled in to congratu- late him and his club upon their suc- cess, and Tris Speaker, boss of the I |aians, and his players called to pa unusually Nothing like the great outburst of enthusiasm that followed the decisive victory in Boston last year. Clark Griffith has invited President Coolidge to attend the first world se- ries game scheduled here for October 9 and formally open the affair by toss- ing a base ball to the National pitcher who will start that day. The Presi- dent has promised to give the invit tion his fullest consideration. their respects. But it W After the first game yesterday Sher- rod Smith, who used to be a teammate with Dutch Ruether in Brooklyn, went to the National dugout and | hands with the winning pitcher, con | gre ting him upon his fine per- | nce. | That first game set an American | League record so far as is known for a 10-inning game in the junior circu It was completed in 1 hour and 18 minutes. Spencer Adams, subbing for the The easiest way to multiply your money is to save it. You savewhen you bu: thp best, esp y in ARIS - GARTERS NO METAL CAN TOUCH YoU 25c to $1 Time for a fresh pair? s shook | Harris at_second base, | FANS ARE NOT ENTHUSED AS GRIFFS BAG PENNANT tly so lonz had been confident that their team would annex the American League pennmant again that there was little demonstration in Clarke Griffith Stadium yes- the Indians that meant the flag race ampions. There was some noise, but really not as much of a cheer as greeted the posting of the Athletics- ish of the fight might ve near. The fans made no effort to crowd around the National dugout to congratulate the players, instead casually stroling off the field as though a.stirring strug- nutes before. gave a_good account of himself in the double-header. In the first game, he cleanly handled his five chances, several of them of more than average difficulty, and made two hits in four times at bat. In the second, he took care of four chances and got three bingles In four efforts Had Spurgeon not made a spectac- ular catch of Dutch Ruether’s liner, that first game would have ended in the ninth inning, Nationals were on first and third bases with two out when Dutch rifled a low liner toward right fleld. But Spurgeon jumped toward the first sack and made a one- hand grab of the sphere. George Burns did a deal of batting for the Tribe in the first clash, getting two doubles and as many singles in four times up. Spurgeon was the most dangerous hitter for the Tribe |in that game, though. His two | singles knocked in three runs. PIRATES SIGN BROTHERS. Ky.. September Riffe, brothers, and seniors at have Pirates outfielder and . 24, is a south- John, aged 21, is an heavy hitter, and Je | paw twirler. B BIG SERIES T0SS UP, [TYPO NINE PUTS DAIRY TEAM OUT OF TITLE RACE IS W'GRAW’S OPINION| By the Associated Press W YORK, September from being downhearted over the defeat of his club in the National League race for the first time in 5 years, John McGraw, aired manager of the New Y ts, regards the triumph of the Pittsburgh club as a *“good tonic” for base ball. “Of course, I was eager to set a record of five straight pennants another crack at the McGraw today, * having got over the shock of hav- ing that ambition blocked I am ready to admit that base ball— perhaps even the New York fans —were tired of the continuance of Giant supremacy. “I_confess that the victory of the Pirates should be a good tonic for Natio League base ball. Barn Dreyfuss’ outfit certainly knocked at the door long enough and at last we had to let them i McGraw views the outcome of the world series as a toss-up. He pointed out that Pittsburgh will enter the annual classic under the handicap of facing a new experi- ence, but that the club’s hitting strength and excellent pitching should offset thi ‘Washington, he added, also has formidable twirling and the all- important factor of steadines: “Steadiness won the pennant for Bucky Harris,” said MeGraw, “‘and Johnson and Coveleskie, the elub’s star righthanders, may decide the series in their favor. I don't fancy Ruether and Zachary against Pitts- burgh. The Pirates murder south- paw pitching.” ‘Wright, shortstop, and Cuyler, outfielder, are the main cogs of Pittsburgh’s attack and defense in McGraw’s opinion. 25. With extra suit. 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