Show CLOSE SERIES PREDICTED IN TITLE CLASSIC Yankees Offer Sluggers Pirates Ira Have Colorful Baseball Machine By GEORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of The Standa Stands rd Copyright 1927 7 Consolidated Press Frees I Association cl NEW TEW YORK yom Oct I. I In I.-In In the Amer Amner- American L lean ican league there is La 1 no rio other I I team of the thc typo of those rollicking I sluggers the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Yankees Nor NorIs NorS S S Is there in the jb one I National league This Io als should o be bep given ghen en a thought by i those who r ho digest I j baseball box scores 4 dilly dally particularly S I I when a world se 1 se- se seA A 1 S rica rles is only a few days da s in the offing e 5 5 Likewise it lt lif s it- it 1 should out that be e the t pointed I Na Na- National club clubS league S fi with the tM most in individuality In- In InI I a. a Lt is the I Jiabo Pirates i It is riot such a marked Individuality as that of the Yankees however It is almost Im Im- Impossible Impossible I possible to make direct comparison I between the Yankees and any club I of the National league The are in a class by themselves DIFFERENCE CE HERE Both Doth the thc Yankees and the I Iare are known for their hitting power But they are arc not alike In irs their slug slug- ging It is slash cut and run with the Pirates and biff bang and gal gal- gallop gallop gallop lop with the Yanks The difference between the two teams the actual playing difference between them could be represented by bya a hairline An error by any anyone one player can damage a game so that it will 1 be completely scrambled A Abase Abase Abase base hit by one player at the right time will probably be the difference between the world series checks of the winners and those of the losers This Yankee team Is one without a tingle single bad ball player on Its lu role This Includes the substitutes as well as the regulars There are players on the team who are nearing the end of their baseball activities but they are not bad players even as 3 they find lInd themselves tightening up with age A remarkable this to their nat nat- natural natural ural urai Inborn physical skill their skill their base base- baseball baseball ball art The Yanks have two men who have run each other a race for home run honors all season and who for much of the time were tied tied not not a tie at atten atten ten home runs or fifteen home runs but at more than 40 If U at the open open- openIng opening Ing of the season someone had d pre pee predicted tse h ms i t that such a slugging race would develop there would have been people laugh at such au au- nu- nu But the inconceivable did happen This is not to say that Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig will go on mak mak- making makIng making ing home runs in the world series s ries but it does help in showing that the Yan- Yan kess are arc unlike anything in baseball FIVE PITCHERS Of the Yankee pitchers three or four of or the timers old-timers are high up in inthe Inthe Inthe the averages for the season It Is argued by some fome that the pi were assisted by the good work of the batters They were but the pitch pitch- pitchers ers had to have something above the ordinary or they would not have been able to ta hold their own as they have batters or no batters The Yanks also have hare a pitching phenomenon who came out of minor league obscurity and created a sen sen- sensation sensation senSation in his first year ear in the ma ma- majors majors jors jon He Is Wilsey Moore a gentle gentle- gentlemanly gentlemanly manly farmer of Oklahoma Moore has hu been a big bolt between the Yanks ranks and success and the bolt has never chocked checked when the old piston rod ro was going its smartest This Oklahoma v teller may mey duplicate in inthe Inthe the world series what hat he has achieved during the regular re ular season The Yankees had substitutes this season who took up where the older boys left heft off of when Injuries hit the team and team and its pennant drive never neer faltered an nn instant That is another of the thc unusual l attributes of the team Now what gives the Pittsburg Pi Pirates PI- PI PIrates rates their Chiefly the combination of the Corsican brothers in the outfield the two V Pol Polson Polson son and Little Poison Polson as Pitts- Pitts Pittsburg burg folks affectionately call them are arc no two like them in irs base base- baseball baseball baseball ball The are two most artistic brothers who have been in baseball in years cars perhaps in all time That is why they give gle Pittsburg Pitts burg individuality Yet they are not a bit like the team tean of Ruth and Gehrig The Yank pair swing the world over oser when wilen they try to hit The do not swing They spank the ball with the forearm the the most highly developed type of batting there is or ever will I III be Paul Waner will lead head the National league in batting this year as the writer predicted some Bome months ago Rogers Hornsby has permitted him- him himself self lf to be quoted as saying that neith neith- neither er cc Paul nor Lloyd Waner will wilt be with with- within in 25 points of the Hornsby batting percentage in 1928 That didn't be become be- be become become come Hornsby He has little tact at any time but this was shier sher fool fool- foolhardiness foolhardiness hardiness for it makes it appear as though Hornsby were a little jealous of the They have knocked him out of the batting leadership even though he tried hard to get back to the top The principal thing to be consid consid- considered considered ered in the world series is that the Yankees are wholly unlike anything that has been produced in baseball before They are endowed with a certain superabundance of strength an excess of punch that does not go goto goto goto to the head end and a D. more satisfactory confidence in their own skill than they the have ever had before Such a combination can wreck the hopes of many a a. rival team The Yanks Yanks' sec second eec eec- ec- ec ond punch may be just a little too strong for lor the Pirates Pirates Just Just as the theone two one one two of ot Gene Tunney was too much for far Jack Dempsey |