Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-13

seventeen games from Boston, while Pitts
burg has found no harder club to beat that
this same Boston aggregation. Brooklyn
has won more games from the New YORK
Nationals than the Bostons and Phill1es
combined. having taken five games. against
two each from New York by the other two
clubs. although Hughey Duffy has great ex-
pectations In the thirteen games his team
has yet to play with the champions. ana
these may cut considerable ice In the CHAM
pionship struggle. The Philffes have GER
tafnly made a wonderful showing. year
ago well fmmured In last place, and this
year well up in the race and a pennant pcs
stbility-a record Of which Hugh Duffy may
well be proud. This means a gain OF some
thing like 600 points over the standing OF
last season at this time. New York. thanks
to Pittsburg has not been able to show a
percentage as fat as that of last season. but
a most credftable one. all the same. Pitts
burg has made a good gain, Chicago has
dropped and Cincinnati has certainly gone
to the wall. The showing Of that CLUB
against New York was certainly most Ia
mentable. and but for that Pittsburg would
be nearer to the lead than It Is at the pres
ent time. Boston was bad enough year
ago, but Is infinitely worse. and Brooklyn
has also fallen behind the record OF last
season. 1t noW looks as IL Boston would
finish In the last place. for although 1t has
won more games than Brooklyn. 1t has also
lost more. Boston has q good array. AT
times 1t plays a game that would win Win
any team in the country. and at other times
Young continues to pitch fine game, ana
Willis has done some brilliant work of late.
while Fraser at times pitches excellent eaii
but Wilhelm has not held his end up, ana
the team could use to advantage another
frst-class pitcher. but such are not to be
had for the asking although there are men
in the New England League who could nelp
the Boston club today. Frank Dunno, the
prospective owner of the club, intends to
take in all of the home games from this out
and figures out what Will be necessary to
make the team winner.
Well may the presidents of the two major
leagues. Messrs Pulliam and Johnson. feel
over the showing this year. 1t has been far
and beyond any ever chronicled. In some
cities it has been nothing short of phenoms-
nal. Here in Boston it has been beyond all
expectations. Although Boston has won two
pennantS running 1t seems the patrons or
the game cannot get too much of a good
thing. for they are roofing just as hard now
for another one as If Boston had not gam
ed any distinction at all in that direction
and such a thing were entirely new here.
Mondays are considered off days, yet last
Monday. with such an attraction as the
crippled Clevelands, who had lost four
games running here and nine straight on
the eastern trip there was a splendid turn
out of almost 1880 people. In New YORK
the showing Is magnificent, and Frank Far
reu will have handsome sum to his credit
at the close of the season. The brilliant
article of ball that Manager Griffith men
have exhibited has attracted the attention
of the base ball fans of the city, even those
formerly adherents of the National League
and the result is the crowds are rapidly at
tanning the dimensions they did on the Polo
grounds. On the Polo grounds the patronage
has been fine but not up to the standard
of last season. for the reason that the OPP
posing teams have been dead easy for the
ON ha
however. the attendance to see the Giants
play has been better than 1t was last sea-
son for the reason that everybody wants to
see the leaders beaten. In Pittsburg espe-
cially has the turnout been immense, and
in the last series with New York all rec
ords were beaten. and the chances are when
New York visits Pittsburg again In the last
of September there will be more music.
X
One of the strongest Of the so-called out
law teams in the country went out Of ex-
istence last week in the club known as the
LYNN Association team. This club had a
monopoly of Lynn last season. Manager
Fred Lake of Lowell, approaching the fact
made known to him that the Lynn CLUB
was drawing good-sized crowds, took ad-
vantage Of an opening to dispose of his
Lowell franchise. He then acquired the
Nashua franchise and transferred the club
to Lynn. The enterprise was regarded ask
ance by many who did not believe that his
club located at Glennlere could succeed.
Lake was sanguine, his venture was go.
and the crowds began to increase in size
until he had the call in Lynn. despite the
fact that the other team had the advantage
In location. This being the fact, overtures
were made for the purchase of the team.
but it was not until last Monday that the
papers were passed. Frank Leonard, the
manager of the team, Is one OF the veterans
In the country, and there is no doubt at all
of his ability to make Lynn a fine money
maker. The attendance last week was all
that could be desired. and the outlook for
another season Is brilliant In the extreme
Not doubt at all that Fred Lake will not
retire from the game but will be back
in the harness again next season, there
are plenty of openings for a man of his
description. There are few better minor
league managers In the country than Lake.
and he has always turned out hrst-clasS
ball team, including a pennant winner The
deal was a good one for the league as the
consolidation of the two teams means
greater interest and a better feeling all
around.