The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-23
SPORTING news.
Two Baseball Records Are Like.
~ to Be Broken.
Giants and Senators Have
Chance to Make Changes.
TOUCH PIRATES MARK
Brush's Men to Go Ahead Pitts
bugs IO3 Games Won.
Senators Are Hard After the
Cellar Championship.

Chicago Sept. 23.-Two records are
in a fair way of being broken this
season by major league clubs NC
Graw's Giants have only five more
games to- win to beat the run
of 1OS victories of the champion Pr
rates in 1902, while Donovan's SEN
ators in Washington are pressing the
record of the Pittsburgers, made In
1890. of III games lost The senators
have already lost 102 and thirteen
more defeats will give them the eel
lar championship.
That McGraW's team will surpass
the record of 1O3 games won, made by
the Pirates in 1902 is now almost
assured AS the Giants have fourteen
regularly scheduled games remaining
as well as ainumber OF postponed ones
their chances of making new rec
ord of victories for a season are more
than bright. go
Pittsburg's record, which stands to-
day as the best ever made in a major
league, was made in schedule OF
40 games. Only one was unpIayed
in the season, for the Pirates won
1913 and lost thirty-six. The Giants
will probably equal the present rec
ord inside the same number of games
played and surpasS it on account or
the greater length of the playing sea-
son. The Giants have already pIayeo
134 games. Four more victories would
played, while five straight would make
a new one in as many games as the
Pirates played all that season. AS this
year there are 154 scheduled games
and the Giants have played only 1874,
there should be twenty remaining. Fiji
teen are regularly scheduled, leaving
five postponed. With a leeway' of
twenty games still to be played a. new
record is almost sure to be made by
the Giants.
Pittsburg's performance of winning
103 games in one season is not the
only one on record of more than 100
twice by the Boston Nationals in their
career and once by the Brooklyns.
With Frank Selee in charge, both in
1892 and again in 1898, the Boston
the record of the Pirates. The first
season Hanlon's Brooklyn aggregation
won the National league pennant that
club won 101 games. To win 100
games in a season has not yet been
accomplished by any American league
club.
John T. Brush has promised his
men liberal rewards as soon as they
pass the century mark in games won,
and it is said he has authorized Man
ager MeGrRW TO notify the players
that $20,O00"Will be divided among
them If a news Fecordi is made break
ing that held now by the Pittsburgers.
Brush'S venture in New York with
the Giants has been a huge financial
success. The race McGraw's men have
put up for the pennant has drawn
enormous crowds to the polo grounds
and to the other National league parks
all around the circuit, whenever the
Giants were billed to play. 1t has
been said that Brush made close to
$120,000 before July 4, easily sufficient
to cover all expenses and incfdentals.
Since that time the Giants have proved
better drawing cards than previous to
it and it has been estimated by those
in. position to know that ]. T. Brush
is now fully $3.50, 900 Ito the good
While the Giants are making a great
record in games won the Washington
Senators of the American league are
coming dangerously near to equaling
or beating the record in games lost
This, as that of victories is held by the
Pittsburg club. In 1890, when Guy
Hecker was managing the Pirates, that
team lost ia games and won only
%. The Senators have already lost
102. and an even dozen more defeats
will put them on a par with the Pr
rates of 1890. Even the Philadelphia
Nationals of this year, tailenders of the
National league and regarded by
American leaguers as weaker than
have not done that poor
ly having seven more games to lose
before they reach. the 100 mark.