The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-08
Experts Figure Western Clubs
Will Hold Them Level.
M'GRAW'S MEN HUSTLE
Showing of Eigh-
teen Games a Record.
President Hart of Chicago Fig
ures Out Their Defeat.

I
National league pennant race that may
be hard for the other clubs to over
come. Eighteen consecutive games
won by the Gothamites, show the
best winning record of the season in
either big league and one of the best
in the history of the game
Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Boston,
the other members of the eastern di-
vision of the National league, do not
/ appear in the same class with the
Giants, and it is from them that sew
enteen of the eighteen victories have
been won. st. Louis is the only west
| erner that comes in this long string
| of successes for McGraw'S men, the
Cardinals having dropped their last
game on the Polo grounds. That was
the start of New York's great Win
ming streak.
Of the eighteen games thirteen have
been played on the home field of the
/ Giants and five away from home. The
/ Quakers have dropped five at the Polo
grounds, Boston four and four on their
own, Brooklyn three in New York and
one in Brooklyn and ST. Louis one.
While the lead that the Giants are
piling up may look beyond the hope
or reach of the other clubs in the
| league, it is probable that McGraw S
men will have all they can do to hold
/ their own from now on, for they are
about to change the scene of opera
tons and will find themselves up
| against an entirely different kind OF
enemy, for they will be coming west
| in a few days.
The eastern clubs may be outclassed
| by the Giants. but McGraw's team has
always found all it could do, and some
times more than it could accomplish.
| to hold it's own with the four mines
composing the western division, ex-
perts figure out. Figuring on past
performances, the Giants are now in
fnr- Iay ri 10 mn a ion
With the exception of eight games,
the Giants will face the western clubs
in the next fifty-one scheduled con-
tests. This does not count postponed
of these eight will be played before
the New Workers leave for the west
at Philadelphia. Returning from
the western country Brooklyn will
Giants will then cross East river to
Washington park for two more, re-
turning to the Polo grounds for an
other couple with the Phillies.
That finishes for the eastern clubs
with New York for another long spell.
for following these six games the west
invades the east for fifteen games, and
when that tour is ended. the east
more.
With this figuring it will be seen
that New York has to play eight
games with the three eastern clubs
vision. OF this number thirty-two will
be abroad and nineteen at home for
the Giants.
''While the three fasteners have
been easy picking for the Giants. the
western teams have been just the re-
verse;" remarked President Hart of
the local National league club to-
day; land we hope that they will con
like a runaway race for McGraws
team, and this wonderful winning
streak certainly has put them way up
at the top, without a ghost of rival
But if dope can be counted on at all
I believe the Giants will need every
point they have amassed in this sprint
to hold their own in the approaching
battles with the western clubs We
when playing them on their own
grounds, and I believe we can do it
again. The strain on that team, go
ing at it's present gait, must be ter
rife and when it breaks look out
Perhaps McGraw has the men keyed
up and they will be able to sustain it
to the end at fast clip, but the prob
abilities are that when the west gets
at them and they be~1n to lose they
will lose hard and rapidly. Then is
the chance of the west and both my
team and Cincinnati will be ready to
take every advantage, hoping to climb
to the top on the ruins of the Giants
''McGraw must be given great credit
for the team he has built up in New
York, and especially. for the fighting
spirit, as well as the harmony that
he has instilled into them. The
Giants are never defeated until the
last man is out. They may be de-
feated, but they are never conquered
and if the team can maintain the pace
it is now travelling, granting occasional
defeats, of course, but not permitting
them to bother in the onward march.
it will be a remarkable one and Nc
Graw must be given credit for the
work of a gician.
Every one knows that the pitching
corps of the Giants is a wonderful one.
its capacity for work being no less
wonderful than its continued success.
But the other men must come in for
their mead of glory. for no pitcher can
win a game without good support and
good hitting. 1t is in this latter de-
partment that the Giants win so many
of the games, for they are hitting the
ball hard and for keeps. In Devlin
they picked up a top-notcher, both
in fielding and with the stick. The
outfield is a good fielding one and can
wallop the ball. too. It is the even
balance of the team, infield, outfield,
catchers and pitchers, their good hit
ting and their great Unfolding that
has brought the Giants to their pres
ent position, and credit for this per-
lection must be given John ]. Nc
Graw."