Judge — October 6, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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in RALLY cnough when World Series \ time rolls around the sporting pages are full of baseball dope. Some. times there are four solid pages of it. This, of course, gives plenty of oppor- tunity for variety. There is the statis- tical Story (accompanied by a chart) show- ing the attendance figures for every year since the inauguration of the ‘scries. Then the demon statistician reaches the ball players and shows that the losers’ share in'1921 was 17 per cent. more than the winners’ share in 19 that this y which means the winners’ share ought to be about $6,782.09 per man and. the losers’ share $4,103.96, or 39 . percent, more than the aver- y age annual rainfall in north- ern countries, including the Scandinavian, figured on a basis of the long ton of 2,240 pounds. in a_ pre-series yarn, Everybody ad Then there is the story labeled “Heroes of Former World This’ story has carried the same lead for years. It starts: Series. “The world series firmament has known y bright particular stars—Eddie Collins, Hoyt, Duffy Lewis, Buck Herzog, Chief ter, Davey Robertson, Johnny Rawlings and a number of others—but the most. scintil- lant. of ‘em all was Christy Mathewson of the nts whose record of three shut-outs out of starts in the series with the Philadelphia Athletics in) 1905) stands—and always will stand, we prophesy—as the greatest individual erformance recorded in world series play,” ete. is is usually followed by the predic- tions of the opposing managers. Statis- tics show that in all cases “rival managers claim. victory.” This isa custom that is never “OF course, you never can tell in a game like baseball” is the way each statement starts; then there’s a “but; and this is fol- lowed by a declaration tothe effect that “while, of course, T don’t underestimate the strength of my oppo- nents, yet it must. not he overlooked that our ue is stronger than theirs and we had to plow through mueh stiffer opposition. What's 15 more to the THE SPORTING EDITOR PLAYS IT SAFE by Edward Anthony a You never can tell in a game like baseball. Sketches by Oscar Howard in better form than theirs and our reserve strength, both in the inficld and the outfield, is much more dependable. We figure to win but we arc taking nothing for granite he opposition vation of and we expect a We'll be on our toes every minute of the time.” Then, of course, follow point, our pitchers are Continued on page The expert will claim credit for every catch made by the team he picked. comicbooks.com