The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12
HOW STRANGE LUCK FOLLOWS.
THE CINCINNATI BASE BALL
CLUB.
MEN WHO DO BEST AT HOME.
NEW YORK AND BALTIMORE TEAM
ARE BOTH STRONG FIN
ISHERS.
OLD MAN ANsoN AS a KICKER.
Does Salt Air Affect Western Teams
Good Showing of Minor
Leagues.
snecial corresnondence off the Glohe.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10-There is
plenty of room for the students of
base ball form and mystery to spend
a few hours over the recent record
of the Cincinnati team. 1t came East
on its second and last trip and almost
duplicated its disastrous record made
on the final trip East last year. Their
it left home we'll intrenched in second
place and near the leaders, but the
team went to pieces as soon as 1t
struck Boston and lost eleven success
sive times. This losing form was kept
up, with less regularity, however, till
the end of the season, whereby the
Clevelands profted, coming from the
rear and displacing them from the
hoped-for Temple cup series.
This year they left home a good
third with rennant hopes, and had not
been on the Eastern circuit two weeks
when they were hopelessly houndering
in fourth place, all brought by another
remarkable string of straight defeats.
The situation is the more eXtraordina-
ry on account Of the fact that the
team was supposed to have been
greatly strengthened since last sea-
son! The club secured the services OF
Breitenstein at a big outlay of cash,
and also of that superb shortstop and
player, Corcoran, but this did not avail
to prevent the second autumnal disas-
ter.
Looking for the cause of it, one finds
that the Cincinnatis are home winners.
On their own ground, supported by the
most ardent kind of rooters and by
very partisan press, they play strong
game and are hard to beat, but in the
team are a few weakeners who lose
their nerve as soon as they face
crisis on the road among strangers.
Those of the nine who have the cour-
age are baked by their Weak-hearted
comrades, some of whom belong to the
pitching staff, and yet even this hard
ly accounts for the repetition OF last
falls successive defeats. 1t really
seems to be a fatality. In one game
at the Polo grounds, after SIX straight
knockdowns, the New York club won
out in the last inning after two bats
men had been retired by the third
dropping a lucky pop fly between
! fields In the third game at the same
place, with two out, two runs needed
to win, two men on bases and the maj
batsman having two strikes recofueu
against him, the very last ChdHoS VI
swing of the bat resulted in a pase
hit and the ninth successive defeat
of the unfortunate Westerners. Surely
such incidents suggest curse OF Ill
luck in its most aggravating form.
In strong contrast is the annual fait
work of the Baltimore and New YORK
teams. They have earned the repu-
tation Of being strong flnishers. Both
/ have established their claim to the Lltle
l in
! tenber of 1S94-5-6 This year they are
| again carrying everything before them
in the wind up. Neither is ever defeat
ed till the-last man is out in the ninth
inning. The players are all t1ghters,
with faith in their proWess, winch
serves to intimidate their less courag-
eous opponents.