The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1913, Page 9

THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1913. It's an Old Trick, and Is Trying to Hit the Ball—Comfortable Lead of the Giants Will Team—Good Race of the distance The Gian were going last two ye AVERS WANTS _ LINKS CHANGED MATTY GAN FOOL WAGNE BY WATCHING SLUGERS FE to Let Down a Bit on. the Stars of the By John J. McGraw. Manager of the Giants. HE Pirates had a chance to nose right up into the pennant race last week. They realised this at the time and so did I. If they had taken four straight games from the Giants they would have been in a position to make the going for the rest including pitchers and fielders and all, well in that series as they have in the Shows Where the Batter Give McGraw a Chance for Second Place. tough for my club. But they didn't, The boys deserve great credit for their showing, because Pittsburgh came into New York after a very | Successful trip, confident of winning and in the best form the club has been in this season. Perhaps by boosting my team, some readers think it is handing myself a backhanded boost. For example, somebody recently told mé a story of a war correspondent in the late bitterness between Russia and Japan. A Jap general was making observations in an exposed posi- tion. He just missed being “beaned” by several shots. “Better come in from there, General,” said the correspondent. “It's dangerous work.” “And you, too, had better come down behind the fortifications yourself and Stop sketching there,” retorted eome of the g' Clarke put ability. Matty fooled him for a third strike on ide arm curve which Mathewson sel- Wagner was looking for a He did not reach far enough er cam ck, naturally pretty sore after fanning out, “Yes, and he watches the whites of your eyes, too,” answered the big Dutohman, managers have not assumed the oh-well- We'll-do-better-next-year attitude taken up by 6o many losers at this stage of ."" Tinker told me when he was w York, | 6 ings. ae KEEPS HIS MEN PLUGGING ALL THE TIM Stallings . From nothing he made a ball club, and, just before he left, he had a| trade framed up which would have made. the American League team in New ‘York. He io dickering to give t! Chicago White through. Stallings had Jack Knight to Se Now AvEL, You 6oT 1S IN “THE GYM WATING ox Hal Chase for ia! Casedy, who has figured it out. 1 Walsh, and the deal would have gone|TAct will be run the last day of the Sar- jaturday, Aug. MATTY KEEPS HIS EVE ON THE play fret base for nim f BATTER'S FEET. diy’ & matter of tact, Mathewsan does 5 esha} fs? | 8 de eF £ 28 ek ii § : gecond journey through the West "Be the criti'al one also for the But the club has been moving yle during the home stay tarting off with a lead the great strain of Dettling off their shoulders. If een forced to start West with of only three or four games, have meant fighting all the with every man on edge. Now the Uttle bit and ease fo ne@eesary later along, which I do not u eaticipete, With our present margin ever the Quakers, there is not the strain @ Yeading the league which would ri $@ the race was tight. oe, although P' = vase © and @nish second, The bave had a bad Eastern trip, and not figure them to beat elther Peiswurgh or Philadelphia. Of course, Wet the Pirates and Cubs are bunched @e etanding now, but Clarke's pitch- @hould carry him elong past Chi- ‘teams have improved recently, “@lthough they are second division Gabe, come attention should be paid to hls improvement, because thelr man- dareely reeponsible for it Cinelanat! Rave been Aght ‘Agi bein, and ten fmt Mah pene Onin Welsh would have made e Ditching staff one of the best in the league. It was ju this time that Stallings lost out 1 The Boston manager has done won- derful things with his club this season. It looked lke @ last place team certainly at the beginning of the season, but he went out after the players and gdt them, He has lifted the club up to the sixth niche, with a good chance of stapping fast as it has teen for the past two Months, Stallings is @ fellow who keeps plugging no matter how badly his t looks, and he gets his players to be- Udve that they have a good ball club, That is half of the battle in being @ ere to have confidence in your judgment. fighting manager and one ands absolute obedience when he takes charge, This is what made {t 20 hard for him when he went to Cincinnati. The Reds had been used to taking it easy and ng largely on their own judgment h time one of them went to the bat. Tinker told me last spring that the team was not accustomed to employing many eigns ‘and the players insisted on running wild on the bases. In big league parlance, it | ‘was a loose team. “Some players on the club," sald Tin-| ker, “I could not stop from stealing a dase. When they wanted to do it they did." Tt has been the necessity of enforcing discipline and the accustoming of the players to the new conditions which caused the Cincinnati club to make euch @ bad showing at the beginning, in my opinion. What Tinker is doing thi year and his methods will surely couut | in the long run. Tinker and @tatlings will have good ball clubs before they get through. I expect both Uinenna’t| and Boston to beat out St. Louts this year, (Copyright, 1918, by Joba J, McGrew.) —_— C. WEBB MURPHY OPENS WAR ON GAMBLERS, CHICAGO, July 28.—President C, W, Murphy of the Chicago Nationals has asked for a special meeting of the Na- tional Commission to consider charges that local gamblers receive inside in- formation on the line-up of the Cubs. He wrote to-day to Pr Herrmann of the Comm! that an immediate invest! be made. “I do not understand how any one connected with the team could be in league with the gamblers, because even I do not know who is going to pitoh until the game is about to start,” said “Dut it seems there is @ leak the race at the top of the second di-! vision tf Brooklyn keeps on fading as; q@uccessful manager; it induces the play-| atoga meet, on | Forty-six colts and cas | the stake. Not more than twenty will Ti Futurity Is Worth $13,700 To the Win This years’ renewal of the classic Fu- turity, the first ince 1910, will be worth (00 to the winner, according to Luke case ONLT Go A BIT FASTER | COULD ters WATCHES A DRop “Hese= ——. parters Feet. | Tacks 1N ERONT “Woodie” Clay started a marvel in Ocean Blue bariter, - |Apeed face the barrier. Belmont has four ell. y Bho is & full elster gibles in Defendum, Filtawi penny | 1. and Stromoboll; J. H. Camden has Im-| #0¥ Perator, a son of Peter Quince ani vfs beret Sparkle; Capt, Cassatt’s most likely her Saturday effort, #0 she gible {8 Scrapper; Alex Smith Cocheane! to her work. will be represented by Early Rose; John | %.| Madden has nd Stripes; the New-| Jockey i in table’ ; Harry Payne Whitney has two lowed up Ocean Blue fillles are { i | Trousers to Order, $2.60 White flannels, gray and fancy striped cheviots and cassimeres, made any style you can suggest. Pick them out from the window, call a salesman, and the price will 9 60 be e This sale is for this week only. Early comers have the better selection. Signed MITCHELL THE TAILOR ‘and was sick in the jockeys’ ‘8 color-bearer will be Any room before he rode Sickle. He fole|the trip to the Spa t NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT © ‘BY VIC|Char OH WELL , IN (Gera A puncture ‘ve supposed on Satur-| chaser that might ‘be expected to giv to O Pp one of the bert race ho: was cr t ran right at 2 o'clock next A good many of the r turn and put up a (Special to The Evening World.) los A Ritchie is he = T EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN ion Willie Ritchie hinks Baldw:n Will Win Bout™ the fact that I made a rule sever wal ° #0 to bragging, 1 would say that I will show him up in his NG , July 2.—Champton | morrow night, ot pinion that the Bald. ways, is that Box win will face Fighter Cros bination that always brings out the best kind of @ battle. Both are aggressive, game, willing, hard punching perfogm- era, eays the champion, and he figures that Matty can take more punishment than can Leach. OLO TRICK OF rose admits that he is facing the “HE fe Ht EXPECT lece of riding on Sickle, He used HARL! judgment in the run through the stretch at finish in Jand. Ocean Blue. Ing only @ neck I George Eno is about the only steeple: scot a race through the field. would be interest: { The Cavanaugh special for Saratoga won't be an idle that I w It is not necessary to go into the store to make a SEE BEFORE a ee YOU BUY My windows and doorway are filled to the brim with the choicest styles of worsteds, cheviots, flannels, crashes and blue serges ant to wind up the season sale with. selection, Out on the sidewalk where you can see and handle, I have placed a range of goods that you can look over, and if anything strikes your fancy, call a sales- man from the interior and he will be glad, to take your order for a suit, at a price of $8.75. If you see anything in my window to strike your fancy, no matter if there is only one suit pattern of it, my salemen are in- marked, structed to give you that par- $ ticular end, and everything is suit to order....... e and toughest fighter ld: “Matty outside of ING (Te the ring ls the nicest sort of @ fellow to meet, but In the e is the rough- Way, 14th At who haven't appeared in public yet—|on Thursday with another gilt edged| By lo KPL Pennan' Pe n and Royal Rose, and an unnamed colt by Vater and! j Harpsichord, and R. T. 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