Show 1 I 0 t I Am Americas Americans Ex Experts P Series sets Baseball Write rte Gossip a W Worlds World's P orld for lor or Us A W L LA LATEST LA A TEST TES T SPORT T To NEWS N NE NE E WS WS J W 1 I Great G Game of 01 Folio Followers Each J Do Dope pe Team Out Oat earn u of f Chances Chances' in In the z Series r t tt t. t Open Signals t a Doom Braves Cant Can't Hide Em From Connie Mack Predicts Joe Tinker Great Fed Manager r r By JOSEPH B. B TINKER The liThe Man Who Ma Made e the Federal 5 There are r two tiro great reasons besides s actual playing tren strength h nn and nna l team generalship gen Jen- that make me bellere hellfire th the Athletics Ath will win the championship of or organized The first I Is the balli emery Tb The tie tc PO on ml Js Is s signals Bill DiU ames a A. great groat pitcher chiefly of oC th the emery hall ban What he be cnn can do o with irith that taken away nt from irom him Is Ie n a big bil question tion edl edly Stallings depended l largely r upon T Tames Tame rne to carT carry cam the Boston Braves e through tho the series The They are arc going to refuse to permit tho the use of the tho emery hall bull In Tn tho Fc Federal ral league after we vre h had nm pin up against it wo we decided that I what was Bras 18 I for the was mis sauce for the tho gander gamier and all the pitchers commenced working for tb the the- emery ball delivery I saw two pitchers who tho were not worth much in their old form suddenly become almo almost t and andI r know WJ-II WJ what t it does I If James Tamos is ia weakened and handicapped handicapped handi handi- capped bv by having his most mOlt effective ball baU taken awn away from him the main matu prop of Stallings Stallings' s' s pitching litchin staff Is b kicked from under him That Tuat is s liable to have havo a aa a. a had bad effect upon the other pitchers and if the itching pitching staff taff cracks there thero isn isn't It much chance for the Braves Draves to pull through The matter of signals is a most important im im one P T happen to know the system of ot signaling used b by the Braver Bra J It t i is wide open and casH easily detected Macks Mack's men are the clet crest cleverest crest i iu lie the business at getting signals signals' of opponents opponents opponents and if the they get ct onto the signals even en for one in inning ing those big biJ batters arc liable to break up the game before anyone finds out what nhat is the matter I Ial al always aYs have c been certain they did that with us when I r was T with the Ule Cubs They always alwa's knew too much about what whal was as being pitched I ITo To continue comparing the two team teams In catchers Chang g is all they say a about him He TIc is good ni in every department Gow Gowdy as was not much of a catcher Vip lp ip to this year and I 1 have havo only seen him work ork in one game gime so o cannot I judge much excepting from what the pl pia players ers tell mo me I am in informed inform orm d he be has bas improved ed and aud that he ho is is one of the r 9 a Y of J l J Rs 1 tae Joe best g catchers in the business Sometimes catchers c develop quickly in in that way wn Wo had an example in in Art Wilson this season cason Re TIo never had a chance to develop de much until ho carne came cameto to us and now note I would do a lot of oC thinking before ho could go even en for The Tho figures make mako it look a as if Boston Bos Dos ton had bad a big percentage percenta o on tho the pitchin pitching pitch pitch- in lug ing end of t tuo o e game nut Hut youve you've got trot gotto gotto to consider the e fact that they hey have hae been pitching against a avery very very weak I bunch of the clubs the worst the National league eague has had hall in runny many years T Tyler ler is IS really a great loft hander bander He lie has been cen for a number of years ears nn and we all havo believed that with a 3 good club and properly handled he would be a 1 wonder T Then Them ere is no doubt douht as to his hU ah ability and the tho fact that GOW Gowdy Y is catching him bim well indicates that t G Gowdy wd- wd really has as improved I 1 think the Chicago club dub made mado a dozen ozen efforts to get Tyler ler while hile I was with it James is a wonder on his performance this season Ho lie has used the tho emery ball effectively according to reports and that sail gait ball the tho one ono that seems to sail bail away a rapidly and his look good oo from the stands stands- probably better than they ther do to the fellow up there battin batting lie He has strength tb s sneed eed and anil a 3 shout shoot and with ith the emery mery all lakon away must rely upon them Rudolph 1 T find find it hard harrl to believe is as great as th they I claim 1 1 know nothing of Davis Dayi ex cx- nr what I read or of tho others other I save C from reports report They have hn told us for years ear that Mack's Macks 8 pitching itching stat stall was gone one This Indian Bender is Ss on one of the toughest pitchers in in the world wor t tu to acorn orR R against even cn when he is being hit bit He has a ahead ahead ahead head the tho nerve ner and ho he knows how to pitch itch They The Themay may hit him hini but it will willbe willoe wille oe be e hard Plank if he is right is one of or the greatest left handers banders that ever pitched itched and just the type that ought to o stop Boston entirely Bush I think will be Mack Mack's fack s 's 5 choice for the third pitcher an and he ho hardly will use uso more than three unless things break wrong from the start Ho lie probably will choose Bush rather than an any of the tho other youngsters Bush has haR been seasoned in a worlds world's series and will not bo be so likel likely to get ct excited If ho he finds that Plan Plank has bas been extremely effective against tho Braves there is a possibility ho will swill use tic Bressler Dressler It l looks to me like liko a three three pitcher pitcher affair on e each ch side and the youngsters s probably will not have havo nave a n chance at it unless s some sonic of the others crack during a game gamo aine J I havo have studied their pitching staffs and 1 find nothing othin in them that equals the till stuff staff of the Chicago Federal league club In fact with Hendrix Brennan Johnson and mv my others I would figure that we wc have havo the lic best pitching corps of three teams Boston has has' been winning by its dash and spirit Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times nerve ller and und dash and brilliancy inspire inspire inspire in in- spire a 3 team until for the time timo being a at l least ast it is a better team than one possessing c sin a lot Jot more strength th Confidence carries ball clubs cubs a long way 3 The Braves were confident after they thor started to climb that they would reach roach the first division When they saw how weak tho the other National league ue clubs were wre they were filled with confidence con can and u nothing thing could stop them because thero there was was as nothing in the tho Iea league e strong enough nough Whether the they thoy will willi carry curry that same samo confidence confidence- into ink the the series for fOT the championship of organ baseball is another question I think however er the A Athletics will Win win How lIow many ninny games will be le needed is iJ hard to tell ten six six I T would guess There is is another element All AU over the National league iu in eight cities the crowds have ha been with tho the Braves Braes The enthusiasm of th the crowds added to the confidence of ot the Braves Bra Opening in iu Philadelphia ludelphia is a bad thing for them But Dut if the crowd down there is friendly and for the Braves they will bo more encouraged than if they were at home and the they ar are arc certain to havo have a bi big percentage percentage per per- of friends in the stands |