New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-26
ANOTHER CRITICAL WEEK.
THE LEAGUE LEADERS TO MEET.
nosroN TO PLAY THREE GAMES WITH THE

Rosroy TO PLAY THREE GAMES WITH THE
GIANTS AND THREE WITH THE oUAKERs.
The race for the League baseball pennant is still
an exciting one with the element OF uncertainty as
nrom,nent as IL was a month ago. Many games have
vet IN be played, and almost anything may happen
hs,oro tho season closes on October s. One thing can
be officially announced and that 10, that the Cleveland
team Is virtually out OF the race. The hghtwaisted
| " Infants have found the pace too hot, and have
retired 10 the rear, where The Tribune always pre-
dcted the team must eventually drop. The Uevelands
tumble is severe blow to the admirers OF Assocl-
alton ball. Outside of good management and the
best OF luck early in tho season, the ohioans are
ad,v lacking in the other requisites which toward
mahno a pennant- winner in the League. The Cleve-
land men made plucky fight, however and deserve
mncb prase for making the race they did with the
material at hand.
In considering the outcome OF the League race 1t
would now seem foolharly TO predict the ha struggle
as having in It more than three teams The West
in mast seasons has always had team well up in
front but the Western teams will have TO content
themselves with minor positions this year Chicago
might win the pennant but the Boston, New-York and
Philadelphia teams would have 10 stampede before
Anson's men could do II. The final struggle to all
Appearances ought TO be between the New-York and
Boston teams but the Philadelphia team Is stu an
element I'm the race and cannot be counted out yet.
rbs Quaker CITY men lost considerable ground last
week by being beaten in four out OF five games by
New-York They have a chance TO redeem them
selves however, this week, In the series with Boston
at Philadelphia. The Philadelphia men assert that
they still have an excellent chance for the pennant
and hone at least 10 get second place They say
that there will be a break in the lines of either
NewYork or Boston before long, and when that
break occurs they prepared to step forward.
with one good pitcher Philadelphia's chances would
look doubly bright.
last week looked like a crisis in the League race,
but this week looks doubly so. The Boston team
esnecialy ought 10 have a hard time of it Dame
Fort,ne however has been exceedingly kind to the
$40 900 bealGcs this year, and may not desert them
IN this their hour OF trial. The Boston team will
NAV three games at Philadelphia thlSweek, and three
more az New-York. To unbiased onlooker 1t
would seem as II the New Englanders would do good
worl. to win four of those six games. The Giants
are confident that they viii win two OF the three
Games at the Polo Grounds. The Philadelphians say
tbev will win two of their three games with Boston,
and possibly all three.
The Giants are only two victories and three
defeats behind Bostons record, and they 90 their
dutv this week the team ought 10 be very near The
lead NV Saturday The Washington team is, of
ourse nlavJbg in greatly improved form, but still
tbe improyement is not marked enough to excuse
the Giants for not winning two or possibly oil 'hoo' Vi
the games from tho Senators.
On Thursday Friday and Saturday the leaders
meet at the Polo Grounds and the biggest crowds VI
the season will witness those games This series
ought 10 do much to solve the League propiem.
should the recent record at Boston be repeated theh
the Giants might as well say good-by to the pennant
The New-Y Workers have but sixteen more scnouuio.
Games 10 play at home grounds, before they start
s va thoir final tour of the season. which ends at
Cleveland on October .. The League record Is d.
follows: