Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27
TIM MURNANE'S CHAT


Special Correspondence CT The Star.
BOSTON. August %. 1853
Six more weeks of the regular season ana
then for the worlds championship.
II now looks very much like New YORK
and Philadelphia for the sport. with the
clever McGraw and Mack as the generals
to lead the forces. and they are two OF TIE
clevercst men AT the game. no better In the
business with strong ball teams at their
backs
I look for the Giants to be first choice in
the betting. If they are stacked up against
the Quakers. Had either Boston or Cleve-
land won out the Giants would have been
second choice. a. the men from Boston and
Cleveland would have been considered the
stronger for series of games The Quakcrs
have played consistent ball, but will they
rise to the occasion? Nothing they have
shown me this season leads me to think
they could hold their own with the Boston
team Of last season or the Cleveland team
Of this season with Laioie I'm line.
The QUakers have the nerve and pay the
game but are not over brilliant and viii
have a hard man 10 down in Mathewson.
The Giants are aggressive from the jump
and have an Gii-around hitting team which
plays the string out.
The first games will mean everything.
and the first run means everything in the sc
games, rs NAt IlliCNerS VIII Ne on tISc ana
ripe Tor eacH contest. In the great series
between Boston and Pittsburg TWO years
ago the team to make the first run always
won that game.
Umpiges viii have much to do with this
contest. Messrs. Connolly and O'Day were
practically perfect in that great series. and
would be fine choice for .the next meet
ing.
The crowds will be record breakers if
New York and Philadelphia. as the rooters
can go from one city to the other Ia two
hours. and no doubt the Boston example of
royal roofing will be taken up, even on a
larger scale.
From a sporting standpoint the games
VIII not be as important as was the series
between Boston and Pittsburg. The play
ers received nearly all the money taken in
at the gate. while the next series will inter-
est the players financially in but the first
four games, when they receive only a part
of the money, the winner receiving the
largest share, but in contests of this kind
the majority of the players will pair Off
with players of the other side and make an
even split of the rakeHoff. This will be done
on the quiet. for no class of men care less
for gambling on base bail than the players
interested
Here and there you will find a player will
ing to back his own club. but the art of
gambling among ball players has died
natural death. The players too well know
the uncertainties of the game. For example.
a pitcher Will hold a team down to two hits
one day and the very next day the same
players find his curves and hammer them
all over the field.
The New York team has a splendid lead
and will be able to come to the line for the
big series in fine shape. while the Quakers
having to pass through a trying series may
come to the mark overworked This in it
self would have a bearing on the result.
The roofing is sure to be fierce and while
New York may show up strong in this line
they have not 1-tO-10 chance to hold their
own with the royal rOoters of the Quaker
city
Base ball people from all over the coun-
try Will flock to see the games this fall ard
thereby do much for the sport that is talked
about from one end of the country to the
other until all other outdoor games look
Ike imported pastimes to please the fav-
ored few.
Later / mean TO suggest a meeting place
IN New York for the ex-players who intend
10 be on hand for the sport Perhaps they
can get together for a royal tanning bee