Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-21 | Page 35 | Looks like Giants on Paper, at Least

LOOKS LIKE GIK I Oi PUPEULT LEAST , The Giants, who have lost tho world's- al series for the pabt two years, after easily Jjjj winning the National league champion- .J fM ship, look to. have tho best chanco this - ' J H season that they have ever had. That, IIM at any rate, appears to be the opinion jjfjjj of a majority of baseball writers. A am series of seven games is never a true :, H? test, and occasionally results in the bettor glfj club being beaten, though this Is not .. ml often the case. ; iraj in the last eight years the Inferior m team has won only twice, namely, in ; Ml 19Q6, when" tho White Sox beat the Cubs, , ijil and last year, when the Boston Amcrl- - 9141 cans boat the Giants, who would cer- JHj tainly have whipped them In a season 3 . mi series of 151 gomes. The defeat of the , lull Cubs In 190G was due to ov'erconfidence, j Ml but last year the Giants dubbed away J itil the. fccrie3 by very poor ballplaylng, re- . i peatedly losing thcli" nerve in the v jiw plnchcb-. while the Bostons had the cour- . ml age to play at their vory top speed all 1 jfn the way and do a little hotter than the . im a-verage of their form dining the play- J 'j7j lng seasons For this reason Boston de- flf sencd tho victory, though very few wll . .15ft deny that tho Giants were a faster and v mi better bull club, aside fropv their pad ; iM habit of falling to rise to tk occasion Wl at the oruclal momonts. . Ml In 1011 the Giants were completely out- . tj,f Classed by the Athletics, who. at that - Mil time, were opq of the greatest ball clubs im ever gotten together, But the Athletics . inf &ro' not so powerful as they were two wil years ago. especially In the box. where . M most series of a short nature aro decided. fihl Coombs is out of It; and Ecdie Plank vrt awrl has not been going so well lately, feeling ml tho weight of years and hard labor. Con- . nlo Mack will hnvo to depend on his vel- i lfiB crau Indian. Chief Bender, and a couple Mill of his youngsters, with Plank possibly Clt 'pitching ono good game In the course of juj lhi series. . Ml I Drown and Mouck have done some good sttHli work for Mac; this year, hut it is a ; M f m question whether the young pitchers of ; Mm one ycav's experience, in fast company Hi! (i wll, tm able to atop the attack- of the mJW On the other hand, McGraw has Ma- " jljji thewson. Marquurd and Demaree, all u ; i ;TC ( good form, and they look as if they had .If IM a. good chance to check tho slugging at- . MUT ; tack of the Athletics. TJid Giant outflold 'u ,M Is stronger than If was last fall, for ilUll Burns has developed into ono of the j iuU gveatcst gardenera In tho country. The , j m U ! Giants have played better ball than they NIM ! did last year, and If they can overcome 1 , ifllif ' thoh nervousness and put up thnh1 m j strongest defense in tho all-Important . , i II I . games, they ought to b returned the ynll Winncra of the big- ovcnL If they play wFllIt 'the erratic dofenoive gama whioh they 'Jr, H I ehowed laat 'year agalnot the Bostona ' nr imi they will havo almost no chance. " "