Show CUBS AND ATHLETICS PICKED TO PLAY THE WORLDS championship GAMES member of the chicago team says pittsburg Is the club his outfit t will have to beat confident mack will take honors away from hughie jennings in the american league it begins to look as it if the chicago cubs and the philadelphia athletics are the teams that will be fighting for the world worlds s championship the latter part of october said a member of the cub s team a few days ago I 1 in not saying this because I 1 happen to be drawing salary tor for playing with the cubs but it Is my honest belief that we are going to cop the pennant ant in 1 the national league and it Is my opinion that connie mack s bunch la is certain to land the rag in the american league can call we beat the athletics 9 1 im in surprised that you should ask such a question we can beat any team that ever played baseball its it s true the sox trimmed us once but that s a story that chasn t been fully told so not attempt to explain it they couldn coulden t do it again the detroit bunch will be lucky if it finishes in second place this year and that outfit known as the boston speed boys is going to give the ath fetics a run for their coin but I 1 feel sure that connie mack will land in front and the chicago and philadel phia fans v ill III get to see the battle tor for world worlds s championship honors I 1 know the race Is by no means over and we have a lot of games to win but with reulbach overall and brown back in condition we have a twirling staff that is second to none and the rest of the team is as good as any other some of the others have individual batters who lead us but as a team they don t class I 1 in m looking for the giants to blow up pretty soon and I 1 believe it will be the pirates who will be at our heels when the national league race is finished the pittsburg bunch seems to have shahen shaken that slump and they can be expected to come fast from now on some say it was because of the failure of the club management to pay promised bonuses that the pirates dian didn t play up to ladt bat sea sons form but I 1 dont bel believe iee it every team has its bad days and I 1 think it was just a natural fall down that put the pirates down in third place ill tiet bet they beat new york out of second position see if I 1 in not right while im confident the cubs will ft A in irl anyway I 1 id d rather be playing against new york than against fred clarke clarkes s crew hughey jennings remarks that two seasons ago when the tigers started on their first eastern trip they were absolutely in last place they were percentage points behind the athletics they were playing sand lot tot ball it if sandlot sand lot ball was ever played quoting the manager I 1 was almost in despair and I 1 verily be lieve that the only reason I 1 was not driven out of detroit was that the tans tan were charitable enough to give me the credit tor for winning the pennant the year before well sir we started out on the road and when we came back we had wiped out all but 16 ot of those awful percentage points we had played 26 games and had won 20 of them and it wasn gasn t long until we were at the top you know the rest it Is an odd fact that the baseball teams representing leading cities in the united states are seldom called by their proper names when fans are talking baseball they rarely refer to john mcgraw s great team as the new york nationals but affectionate ly cling to the time honored name giants this Is the case practically all over the country and the reasons for or it are interesting with tv two 0 ball teams in a major league city it is easier to distinguish between them by using nicknames than tacking on the name of the league which each depre B bents hence we have the giants representing the metropolis in the national league and the highland ers or yankees doing the same in the american league in the old days say twenty years ago the same practise prevailed b t not exactly for the same reason as two clubs in a single city barring philadelphia could not live the new yorks were first nicknamed the giants in those days because the players were all big men buck ew ing tim keete keefe roger connor B 11 II brown george gore ed crane jim and mike tiernan were six footers looters and powerfully billt in lit the brooklynn Brook lyns were called the bride grooms because a majority of them had lust just been married the ChI cagos under anson were known as the white stockings for the reason that they wore hose of that color and the st louis browns under the lead enship ot of comiskey were similarly named so were ere the old cincinnati reds while all the boston teams were known popularly as the Bean eaters the Clev elands with pat at the helm were dubbed the spi ders as some of the players player were slightly built and had tl in legs rhe fhe old detroit champions were always balled called the wolverines and the pittsburg team bore the name of smoky city and pirates from time I 1 immemorial the were vere balled hailed everywhere as the senators while in quakertown Quaker town the phillies and the athletics were the same old rivals the indianapolis team was nicknamed the hoosiers and the old metropolitans of the american asso elation were known familiarly as the mets abet the Louis Louls villes were the x napoleon cajole colonels and in 1884 there was an such b a team as the st louis maroons in the defunct union association engi engl leered by H V lucas nowadays we hear of the boston red sox of the american league and the boston doves named for their reputed repute downer owner george dovey the brooklynn Brook lyns are staggering under the name trolley dodgers and in chi cago we have the cubs and white sox the Clev elands have been nick named the naps because the great lajoie is their leader while the de are known all over the land as the tigers in st louis the browns and the cardinals are rivals of patronage the have shaken the senators for the nationals but the cincinnatus Cincin natis and arid pittsburgh Pitts burgs stilt still stick to the reds and pirates that is the case with the phillies and the athletics in philadelphia too some of the other nicknames are the baltimore orioles the jersey cit the edwark sailors the providence clam diggers the flour cites of rochester the buffalo the montreal royals the mil waukee walkee brewers the st paul angels the kansas city blues the new or leans pelicans and others too numer ous to mention when the last count was taken na lional league pitchers had struck 0 out ut 1549 batsmen and have given 1555 bases on balls these statistics have I 1 atle co con N with ith the figures of strikeouts eouts and walks in the american league up to the game time there had been 1991 1 of the former and but 1372 passes basing the ultimatum on the old ivy frescoed assumption that figures don t lie ban johnon 4 wheelers excel this season the race tor for that automobile which is to go to the best batter in either of the b g leagues is growing hotter evera ever day napoleon lajoie has the lead in the american league according to the latest figures bit bi t ty cobb Is a close second cajole caole on the naps eastern trip let down some in his hitting and was out batted by three of the boston players in the serie there but did not lose the lead there Is no cleaner hitter in baseball than lajoie and he has gained the lead by smashing them out good and strong he Is not what is known as a clean up hitter like cobb and some of the others but just pegs away day by day getting bis his two three and sometimes four hits regularly manager griffith has purchased laird baseman breen from the van couver club of the northwestern eague he ile Is said to be a fine hitter and a first class fielder and is strong ly recommended by joseph sugden the old catcher who has been doing borne bome scouting for the reds out on the coast breen will not join the team until fall after he gets through agh out there downey is doing so well at third base that he Is not needed lust at present |