The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1913, Page 10

| SURPRISE OF LEAGUE RACE, SAYS M'GRAW IN REVIEW GIANTS’ MANAGER DECLARES: Chicago Cubs Look Best of the Lot, but Are Minus Good Pitchers. Pittsburghs a Disappointment So Far, Due to Wagner's Absence. Phillies, Real Pennant Contenders, Have Great Trio of Pitchers Now. Stallings Building Up Nice Team at Hub, as| Shown by Pirate Series. Continuing his weekly baseball reviews In these col umns to-morrow, John J. McGraw takes up the subject of the Giants, or, as he says, his own family. In addition he will discuss the other teams of the Eastern division. | These reviews by the Giants’ manager will continue to be | @ weekly feature of The Evening World's sporting pages + throughout the baseball season. BY JOHN J. M'GRAW. JOHNS. the Western teams look to be Weak, Pittsburgh being a big disappoint- ment to the followers of the Pirates. Before the season opened, Clartte's club ikea upon as of the tor the Ditching =e & it Hi iit FFs bs ie bat if! | z S i e 3 i i | ift iF i tf ey; ili it fi | i ° f i 2 & z H f Fs | ut i in the batde, Now, do not think I am @iemiesing the Pirates fromthe race for the pen- namt, because Iam not, 1 realise that Clark> has a remarkably strong club, to @ bad start and that it will have lot of making up ahead of it if It does not get in motion very soon, The Pirates are to be feared. They form a gr wb and Mkely to swing into th walt before they return home, I hope that they do not hit it before they rive at the Polo Grounds for the im- pending series with the Giants, Despite the fact that Cincinnat! took two games from the Giants last week, the club looks bad, The biggest fault 1 @ould discover in it auring the week was the pitching, Tinker has th g004 twirlers—Johnson, Suggs and Ben tom, with Fromme coming through with & great game every in @ whil Johnson, the Indian, hi en @ sensa~ tional performer so far this season. Both Suggs and Benton went down before the Giants, and they look to be all out of abape. Benton was very wild, The rest ef the club is pretty strong, but ro team in the world can be expected to win games when their opponents, aa *@ rule, are making six and eight runs @@ the pitchers each afternoon. eearinas © GN08 inSRi8 and fair Manager of the Champion Giants. ‘WO things in Big League base- ball have impressed me dur- ing the last week. One is the unexpected strength of the Philadel- phia National League club, and the other fs the weakness of the Western teams of the league as evidenced by their poor showing in the East so far. Chicago looks like the best club of the four Westerners, but the Cubs are very shy of pitchers. The best pitching that the Giants have run into this year we met in Philadelphia during the recent series, and it surprised me and a lot of the New York batters. My club is natur- ally a heavy hitting team, but the boys could not connect consistently with the pitching of Alexander, c &and~ Seaton. Dooin hes a ~ died great twirlers in those men, and the club fs going well bebind the good staff. The Quakers should be a coatender for the pennant. At least, they will make a lot of trouble if inf twirlers hold up as they are travelling now. ment is weak. The Giants slipped a Couple of runs over in the series with the Reds because Clarke did not block Of the plate. “Joe" Tinker is worried by his man- agerial responsibilities. “How do you like the job?” I asked fim, } BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW WEAKNESS OF WESTERNERS Long Hits by Herzog and onan THE EVENING WORLD, ‘MONDAY, MAY 19, . YORK AS M'GRAW VIEWS BASEBALL SITUATION 1913, by The Press .Padiishing Co. (The New York World), Senay To TARO You AWAY FROM VYou™m Jo® WATERING THE | GRASS, SAM: BuS WER Gort Te save A PITCHER ‘TODsT = cand A G08p soe SPRINALING THE LANE ROW FOUNDRY ‘Bo tare ct Ld a & Jon Tamme, Sy aD MANAGERIAL. 5 Resronsi Buines. Cnn [CHANCE MEN SCORE | EARLY WAILE FORD . “shy 4, “Ufo © Tue Gusts cooce aot Connect Cons’ hat : wits “THe errennd OF ALEXANDER, CHALMERS AND Seaton“, x fs Afar tHe Coss FUN INTO “THese Pru RPS Cord Suerte fino Ae ANEQAGES ; “> GHveL UP. STANDING OF THE CLUBS ‘TIONAL LEAGUE. AN LEaGus, Be a. 987 o fore..10°11 puis 18 me OTe Se Peet ee iT Ei RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S ogee All No games mwhedwed. Ti. i. | eee GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY New York, at Brookiya, Boston at Bat Tt ® ue Third Inning on a Wild Throw. in right centre for three bases, On Wh sacrifice Ny to Bates Stengel crossed the plate. Daubert fanned out Emith went out, Tinker to Hobby, ONE RUN. FIFTH INNING—Smith speared Mar gans's ecorching low line fly with his left; |New York, hand. Berghamer walked on four high! Daniels, rf. ones. Grant bounced one to Fisher, who! Wolter, ef. DODGERS FOUGHT HARD FOR CHANCE BATTING ORDER. | Bartzell, 2b, made a stad at Berghamer on his way , Hartzell, Sacmten, He q to second, and on Daubert’s muff of | cheve, “in, 7 sy this timo plied up a dig lead. Merkle 10 LEAD LEAGUE Fisher's throw Grant got to firat and| sreeien’e, Blrettipunin 66: started It with a two-dase slam to the Berghamer reached third, Clarke sin-| Midkiff, 3b. Graney, if. left fleld fence and went to third whon ‘ to right, scoring Berghamer, Grant Stump, O'Nell, Herzog beat out a bunt. Meyers then ancing to second. Johnson singled Ford, p. to right, scoring Grant, and Clarke go-! _ Umpires—M ing to third. Bates singled to right, 2Tee¥s ecoring Clarke with the tleing run and advancing Johnston to second. Becker Gregg, D. slammed a long drive to deep centre for '%. Connolly and Me- three bases, scoring Merkle and Herzog. Matty popped an easy fly to Evers and Burns lifted one almost like it to Goode, but Shafer came through with a long Opportunity Lay in Beating Reds, While Phillies MAKE CUBS LOOK (Spectal to The Breaing World.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 12.—Less foreed Johnson at third, Fisher to Smith. + rt }] single to right and Meyers acored. Had to Lose. Tinker forced Becker at second, Fishor! tan 2,000 greeted Chance's Mighland- Ghafer stole second, but Evers Kicked so to Cutshaw. THREE RUNS, ers in the second game of the series, uver the decision he was put out of the. Fisher went out, Berghamer to Hbovy. | quite a contrast to the 20,000 outpouriny game, Phelan taking his place, Fletcher BATTING ORDER. Miller singled to centre. Rucker bunted [of Sunday. ee grounded out to Bridwel. THREE net ph of @afely and on Berghamer's wild throw FIRST INNING—Daniels doubled to RUNS, ncinnat!. to first Miller got aroupd to third. On! right. Wolter got m base on balls, @ wild pich Miller ecored and Ruoker | Hartzell hit into a double play, Chap- reached second. Moran filed out to|man to Johnston, and Daniels went to Becker. Cutshaw was retired by Tinker | third. Cree filed out to Graney. NO and Hobby. ONE RUN. RUNS, GIXTH INNING—Hobby singled Johnson doudied against FIFTH INNING—Galer grounded out to Merkle, who made a pretty stop, and Goode bounced out to Mathewson. Brid- well popped out to Fletcher. NO RUNS, Meyers Too Much for Pitcher Richie. to the right Doyle doubled down the left field line, | Grant, 3p. left. Marsans fofced Hobby at second, field wall, Chapman filed out to Mid- Murray made @ eaorifice bunt and went| Clarke, ¢. Smith making @ Gne stop and throw, kif. Olson grounded out to MoCon- out, Richie to Sailer. Doyle scored on| Johnson. p. to Cutshaw in time to get the Reds’ big! nell and Johnson went to third on the frat baseman, BATTING ORDER. Merkle's long eacrifice fly to Mitchell,| C™Pres—Risler and Byron. Berghamer was called piay. Jackson walked, Turner fied i | 0 RUNS. “It's @ good one when you're wine 3 ; Herzog lined a home run to the right Out on strikes, Grant was the third) out toiDanlels. ning,” he answered. “We are going to| inn’, Pods eld wall, the ball bouncing off the wall! mapmre FIELD, Brooklyn stay 12.| victim on his erase-eutter, which Fisher] SECOND INNING—Chase singled to Get up in the first division yet.” Evers, 2b. of. and getting away from Goode. Richie} with 9,000 school children alding 4,000| 8% Daubert took care of. NO RUNS, | cen : slid il ‘The Chicago team looks ke @ good | Mitchell, If. tossed out Meyers, TWO RUNS. enthusiastic fans to cheer, Brooklyn = club minus the pitching talent. Right | Zimmerman, 3b. SIXTH INNING—Archer filed out to) incited Joe Tinker'’s “Reda” to-day tn now the Cubs are playing the best bail | Sater, 1b, Shafer, Clymer batted in place of Ricble| the second game of the serien. With of any of the Western teams, and | Goode, rf. and struck out, after fouling about 8] the count 1 to 0 in favor of the Dodgers, “Johnny” Evers has all his men work: | Rrdwell, ee dozen, Miller smashed a single past| Manager Dahlen sent Nap Rucker to ing t and up on thelr toos, whieh Ws Herzog. Doyle tossed out Phelan, NO halves is a ale too, whieh | Richie, p. Matheweon, p. ley the mound. The Georgia cracker warmed @on opened, It was my opinion that there would be considerable dissension tm the club, EVERG’ GREATEST NEED 18 1.—A Monday crowd of 7,000 saw tio se Sean Phelan toased out Sha-| place for the Dodgers. PITOHERS. NOW: mcond Same between the Cube and) SEVENTH INWENG—Flotsher tossed | rete” oti voce tey ea ‘wn Jord tant tei sners r (elle ie Gtants this afternoon. McGraw retained] out Mitchell, Zimmerman drove @ hot | \itnin a tow trot at the femee Pist4 well travelling at a ' great clip and playing some of the beat | {"¢ lineup that he started on Saturday, | *ingle into centre and came all the| rene centre, Becker waited until ball of his career. Saler, Evers, Bridw and/ Zimmerman make @ great combin: tion both for hitting and fielding. The outfiek’ has turned out better than I thought {t would. All of the cutfielders have been the ball hard in the West, but Tave been up against easy pitebing. Wait until the Cubs run into those boys and they Philadelphia will find thelr batting averages beginning ito shrivel up or I am mightily mistaken, ‘What Evere needs right now is pitch- ers, Cheney te @ good man, but he has been nearly every game that the Cubs have played this year, or Giants, There are some clubs that hit him hard, but my team has never been able to. If Richie becomes effective, and Tony turns out to be at all stable, Evers ie lable to give the best of us @ bad battle for the flag, Lavender does not stack up like a world beater this spr! been In the heat of that sensational run last not think he te a great man. He Is one of those fellows who ts a wonder until the shrewd old birds in the league find out what his weaknesses are, Then he is not #0 much of a twirler, CARDINALS LACK NATURAL STRENGTH TO UPSET THINGS, Huggins, with the St. Louis clup, is Going very well in his Mirst Might. He is liable to flop any time, howe: T can- not see that the Cardinals will mace any serious trouble or upset any pros- Pects, because they have not the natural strength. Huggine has plenty of young players and nome of them jook pretty Good. But, like most of the other West. ern clubs, he needs pitchers, ‘Wingo i# a good catcher for St, Louls, put he has not the ability to steady up and work the twirlers that Brevnihan pdsseanen. Sallee and Harmon are xood men if Huggins can keep "Slim" work. ing thie summer. It is a hard thing to do. (Copyrighted by John J, MoGraw, 1013.) | pe A abe | 1d, Pole Grounds, to-day, 3.80 P.M, GIANTS va, CHICAGO.—Ady, | Umpires—Kiem and Orth, up impressively. Manager Tinker's - — Leifield took Richte's place, Zimmer-| choice was Johneon his Indian pitcher, (Bpeqal to The Evening Work.) man made a beautiful atop of Matty’s| 4 victory over the Rede and a defeat POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, May|bounder and he was out. urns popped |or the Phillies by Pittsburgh meant firet when he put Shafer in centre fleld and! WAY home when Shafer let the ball get Fletcher at short. Matty was selected ®W8Y tram him, Saler was tossed out for the pitching Job and was in wonder-| hte pers. Goode died the same way. e atart. Ric! | ta sad opporea| Mitchell got Fletcher's high fly. Doyle FIRST INNING—The Cubs were dis- lifted @ high fly to Miller in deep right | wno tossed him out. Cutshaw was re- posed of quickly, Matty pitching but alx center, Murray filed out to Goode, NO|tirea on his hard hit grounder, which balla, Miller Med out to Shafer, Evers Berghamer and Hobby made « fast was thrown out by Fletcher and Mite| | EIGHTH INNING—Bridwell lined out! ptay of. Stengel hit up the frst dase chell) bounced out to Mathewson. NO|‘® Murray. Archer lined out to Burns. | ting to Hobby, who disposed of him un- ce" Letfield lifted to Burns also, NO RUNS, ted, NO RUNS. The Gants loat a great chance in their} Merkle Mled out to Mitchell. Leifield ND INNING—Hobby lfted a half, Burns opened with a single to ied out Herzog, Meyers filed out tol ign one, which Stenbel grabbed on the left and went to second as Richte threw [NINTH INNING—Dovle NS ved out|'Um: Marsan drove Jumper to Fisher, out Shafer, Fi drove @ short/ Miller, Phelan was safe on Fletcher's| Who threw him out at first. Berghamer single into right, sending Burns to third high throw, Merkle off the base,|>unted, dut Smith by @ quick plokup and took second on # throw to the plate. | Mitchell forced out Phelan, Fletcher to] and throw to Daubert got his man. NO Richle purposely walked Doyle and filled |Doyle. Zimmerman struck out. NO| RUNS. the bases. Murray then hit to Zimmer. | RUNS. man, whose throw to the plate natled Rucker had fatled to locate the plate and strolled to first. Tinker hit into a double play, Cutshaw to Fisher, to Dau- bert. NO RUNS. Moran bounced one to Berghamer, It’s beating the world. In FRAGRANCE, in FRESHNESS, in CONVENIENCE. The reason you get it tor 5 Cents is because it’s in the 1 oz, tin. ———9 Wheat made the first safe hit off In- y Seiya, -eseree dian Johnson, a single through the Burns, Merkle popped a iieh nly to INDICTED IN EXTORTION CASE, | pitcner's nox. Daubert then drove the Bridweli and retired the side, .NO/ —_— fans crasy by smashing a liner to the RUNS, {One Prisoner Confesses and Anz-| score board in deep left for a home run, SECOND INNING—In this inning! other Held in 92,500 scoring Wheat ahead of him. Smith Mathewson beat his record in the finst pasted @ bounder to Grant, and died at round by retiring the side on four) Harty Stern of No. 2% Henry atreet| rat, Fisher kept up the slugging vith pitched balls, Zimmerman and Sater 224 Charles Andrew Smith of No. a drive to left for base, Miller hit both died on rollers to Pletcher and West One Hundred and Fitt ) Tinto a double play, Johnson to Tinker Goode dled on a grounder to Merkle, *thect Were arrested to-day on the com-|to Hobby, TWO RUNS. NO RUNS, After Heraog had fied to centre Mey- ers beat out a slow hit to the infleld. Matty popped out to Evers. Burns! walked and Shafer bounced a hot one,! plaint of David waaceon, an art deal- of No, & West Twenty-sevent t, who charged the mon with attempted to extort #, paln of having pub id an art THIRD INNING—Grant was put out of the by Cutehaw and Daubert. ade a fine running catch of low line fy, Stengel ran in short right centre and grabbed John- Every Man Needs our on Richie's shin, but it went straight) credit, Mr, Enaneson | |on's fly, NO RUNS. ° “ who threw him out. NO. with The World and. det ‘Tinker and Hobby sent Rucker back to B ue T e uit at 20 sent after the men. the bench. Moran singled to centre. THIRD INNI Rridwell ened Smith made a confession to Assistant] Moran was caught napping at fire B with a tw ee eahar Diatriot- Attorney Tao and was locked] Clarke to Hobby to Tinker to Hobby London shrunk, sun and acid proof materials. y Dut to ete up at Police Headquarers, Stern was! Gutsha inaahed a soorehine Ii PROPHET ANE t i ae Fist ne mags arraigned {n the Jefferson Market Court, | Cuuh™ eee ier etee Une They are guaranteed all wool and equal to any A pretty stop of Richtee grounder and Magistrate Cornell held him in tomsed serges ever made into suits so low in price. Your he Woll at third, Matty 42/500 bal INNING—Bates bounded NO RUN, an out, Daubert retiring him unansisted, suit will be made to measure, cut, fitted and Fletcher lined aut to M Doyte | 4 Race at Pimlico. Becker beat out an infield hit, the ball modelled for you. If we make your suit, you will drove # long fy to M Murray | THIRD RACK—Maiden three-yenr-olia | hitting Rucker's hand and bounding have a suit to be proud of. Samples on request. Coat and Trousers, $18 singled over wecond and stole second and upward; one mile—Lohengrin, 10 | away, Becker was caught npaping at bag and was touched ,(Shuttinger), won; Judge Walser, 107] firwt and was called out by Umpire | (Butwell), second; Petelus, 107 (J. Wil-{ Byron, but Umpire Rigler ruled that No RU out. 8. FOURTH INNING--Evers was safe son), third, Time, 1411-6, Bryndown, | Rucker had made a baik and Becker | jon Fletcher's fumble but was doubled Battery, Chad Buford, Top Hat and| was allowed to xo to second. Tinker! Broadway & up with Mitchell when the latter hit an Ballybay also ran, $2 mutuels pald: [was thrown out at first by Fisher. | easy grounder to Doyle. Fletcher toased Lohengrin, 9% straight, $8.70 place, $21)| Becker moving up to third, Hobvy mea’ 9th St. out Zimmerman, NO RUNS, show; Judge W $2. place, $280} out to Moran, NO RUNS, | The Giants cut looae on Richie and show; Petelus, ® Stengel slammed one against the fence! EDITED BY __.. 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