New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-08
THE GIANTS SPLENDID WORK
ro-pAy.s MAY BE THE DECIDING GAME
THE BATTING AVERAGE OF THE NETWORK TEAM
BETTER THAN THAT OF ANY MAN ON

BETTER THAN THAT OF ANY MAN ON
THE BALTIMORE NINE.
What may be the final game in the series for
the Temple Cup will be played at the Polo GROUNDS
to-day between the New-York and Baltimore
teams In case the Giants win. II Will end the
series and give the trophy TO New ORR. ior the
agreement under which the games were 10 dc
played stpulates that four victories out o. seven
games would decide the contests. The Giants have
won three straight so far and they are reasonably
confident that they will be able to win the game
this afternoon and they will certainly do the best
that they 10 win IL.
The series will give people who never see
good In anything. and whose suspicious notions
run away with their better Judgment. an oppor-
tunitv to cast discredi upon baseball the Temple
series and the League as "A whole In Gaze
the Giants defeat the orioles, they VIII proceed
10 try 10 prove that either the Giants old not ny
to play earlier In the or that Some o. the
other teams did not try TO play against baltimore
In case the special series had been close between
New-York and Baltimore. then these same UNI
fortunate unbeieyers would have cried hippo
drorne.' to a man. There are always certain
number OF cynics in every community ana WINE
their presence among sensible people Is undesir-
able and their vaporings are nauscating one Is
compelled TO put up with the nuisance.
The cyniCs have more foundation Tor their
Illogical reasoning than the thief who insists that
every man has his price simply because he him
self has a price. and generally rather cheap
price al that. The same person might contend that
Philadelphia did not try to win the pennant, Tor
the Quaker City club was the only one In the
League to win the series from New-York. The
baltimore team won the pennant through remark
ably steady playing from April 10 right up to oc-
tober l. and the orioles deserve the honors they
have - nobly won Had the Giants played as
steady game from the start as they did during
the last half Of the season the pennant question
would not have been In doubt after september J.
FOR the local team would have finished alone. with
the rest nowhere. =,
The series to date for the Temple Cup shows that
the \ew-lOrk team. IL STANDS to-day IL fu-
peror TO the Baltimore nine. ana a series WIN
any other team in the country would show Just az
we'll in New-York's favor. but the Giants to-day
ard the Giants of last April and May are two
different teams Lack OF practice ana CONDITION
told AGAINST them early in the race. ana sCch CON
Gtions are not likely to prevail next year Tor the
team will In all probability so South late IN Feb
ruarv or early in March for preliminary work
The records Of the teams TO date Illustrate JUST
WHY the Giants have won the three straight games
from the orioles The local men rave outbatted
their opponents two to one. and their baserunnihg
is better Baltimore has excelled only IN heldi.g
Tho team batting average OF the Giants IL better
than that OF any man on the baltimore zine
The record TO date Is as follows: