New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-27
GOOD WISHES FOR BOSTON.
THE CLOSING BASEBALL FIGHT.
PEOPLE DO NOT SEEM TO REJOICE WITH ANsoS


GIANTS WHOSE STRENGTH is GONE
The present week will close the championship sea
son OF 1901 the final 1mes being played next satur
day. Chicago has far the best OF the race al peo'
cut the Bostons stu have bare chance OF Winning
the trophy IL is singular thing how general IS inc
desire for the championship TO remain In the EaSv
probably outside Of Chicago nearly every othef CITY Ia
the country would like 10 see Boston get the cipo
shin Everybody admires Ansons pluck and energy
his great ability as a manager hut for some reso" 0h0
popular choice for the championship Is bos'on'
Chicagos wholesale hocgng by the Giants may ! tnNe
somethnr No do with the case. The ChlcaSO teilIi
has certainly shown Itself TO be lieriQr 10 tbe tco
nne OF the twenty Simes p o to We're ties, and
thirteen resulted in rather easy victories LOT inc
Yols On paper tn Boston team ann IS The champonship
It Is now assured that the Giants haV, no chance
whatever in fact They viii be fortunate they are ao'e
70 retain third placc A great many people blame
the local team for not winning the championship ana
charge bad management carelessness ana diSsenslon
among the players rs being the real cause lor tho
Giants, failure Admitting that there has been some
mismanagcment that is not the real cause Tor u'lc
teams defeat Unbiased Observers as Uiey iooN
back at the race without prejudice can say without
much OF an effort, why the team did not WIN. INC
4tcr coIlapse of Ewing Keefe and WEIGH. the severe
iniury to Sharrott which compelled that young man
10 rtre for the season. occasional injuries to Buckley
And Glasscocks absence from the team are the real
reasons why the Giants dh not win. For nearly nVe
months Of championship season the Giants Kept
up among the leaders In spite Of the woefuN cTppieu
condition Of the nine. The men played desperately
and earnestly battling against great odds hoping LOT
something which never came. People who saw the
Giants kcepng up with the leaders in their crippled con
dltion naturally expected that relief would soon come
TO the crippled players and that in the end the New
Workers would win easily, but that relief never came
The injured players grow worse, other men were GRIP
Piled and instead Of The men who were expecten 10
come TO the front and help at the end OF the season
thew STAYED in the background and In the hosno- me
Giants did not break badly until they saw that nep
could not reach them. and that their chanceS Mcre
gone then they naturally became Discourage ana went
an 10 pieces ANY other body Of men would nave zone
exactly the same thing. II Ewing had been able 10
20 nm behind the bat In the latter part OF Au-
INST and had Sharrot'S condition nabled him 10 re-
ioin tho team. there T. question that NOW iOrR
yOuld have won the championship. Other people
blame the team for the lack Of batting among the havy
htterS 4 glance at the records AZ the end or thc
season will show that they again wrong In tnlS
resuect The records NJ tho Giants heavy htters VIII
rourare favorably with the heavy hitters OF other
teams The trouble WITH the AVERAGE New-Y1rk en-
fhnsiqst is that time no Common. OROqrBe,
Tiernsn and Gore cone to the bat he expects those
men to make q homeru