Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-26
NEW YORK FANS
ARE MIGHTY GLUM
Realize Their Teams Have No
Chance-Everybody Down
on Muggsy McGraW.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


York base ball fans have come to the re-
luctant conclusion that neither Of their
high salaried teams is to win a base ball
pennant this year. This Is keenly felt by
the adherents of the New York Nationals
or "Ji'nts'-if you want to speak the YER
nacular of the Polo Grounds-for the fol-
lowers of Muggsy's band Of umpire-baiting
warriors were confident earlier in the sea-
son that nothing could stop their favortes
In their climb to another worlds champion
ship. 1t is also keenly felt by the support
ers of Clark Grffiths American League
team, for the latter, in view of recent
eveats in this city, had a golden opportun-
ity to attain a popularity which would have
threatened to wipe the Giants off the map.
But just at the crucial moment, when ev-
eTyo1e was expecting great things of the me
them as the only representative ball team
of the metropolis, they took on a losing
slump, which has continued with disheart-
ening regularity. Coming home chilly few
points behind the league leaders. the High
landers on their own grounds have been
beaten to pulp and have dropped to
fourth place. This was naturally discour-
aging to their friends, and the average New
Yorker cannot stand losing team.
Times Have Changed.
The American Leagues advent into New
York educated the. base ball loving public
here into a regard and respect for clean
base ball. A few ~years ago anything the
Giants did was justified and applauded by
the rooters. Nowadays, when McGraw
shows quitting streak and bars umpires
from the grounds and does the hundred and
one things that once might have ap-
pealed to the passions of the lower ele-
ments in the base ball audiences here, he
gets only Kisses and hard knocks in the
papers for his paias.
naOnlp Ia sf
bitter experience will teach McGraw the
lesson he so long has needed. Seldom has
home ball team been held up to such Scorn
as the newspapers here piled upon the
Giants management as a result of the
tombstone incident. The demonstration fans
accorded tombstone when he appeared on
the field the day following his exclusion
from the Polo grounds was something new
in the annals of base ball history. 1t sound
ed strangely in the ears Of the suspended
McGraw, who sat in the little coop he has
had built for himself near the players
bench, but under the grandstand and sep
arated from the field by partition in which
there is a particularly large wiRd0W.
Muggsy uses this coop during the periods
he Is under suspension. 1t is generally oc-
cupied. 1t is a bad condition of affairs
which makes such a coop necessary at
ball park. and it is believed the Polo
grounds has a lone distinction in this re-
spect.
The local newspapers have supported Pres
ident Pullian unanimously. They declare
the people will not stand for dirty ball
playing and managerial sleight-o'- hand any
longer, and advise the Giants that the
quicker they get down to real ball playing
and cut out the senseless kicking the bet
ter it will be for their welfare. Many of
the sporting writer's say that if it were not
for the many suspensions the various play
ers have incurred for their incorrigible con-
duct on the ball field the Giants would be
a good deal nearer the Cubs instead of hav-
ing to fight the Pirates to hold on to second
honors in the league race.
Everyone was pulling for the Highland
ers when they came home this time, and it
was thought they would put up an article
of ball which would wipe out the unpleas-
antness left in the public mind by the john
stone affair. 1t was the irony of fate,
however that Griffiths men, after playing
ence their greatest batting and fielding
slump right at this time. That's the way
1t goes in base ball. however.
The Post-season Series.
The fans have now turned their thoughts
to/a post-season series between the Giants
and the Highlanders. Every effort will be
made to bring such a series about, and 1t
is sure to attract some of the biggest ball
crowds ever gathered together in this city
of record-breaking attendances. Clark
Griffith was asked about such a series the
other day, but he stated 1t was too early
to talk on the subject.
81 have not given up the idea of pulling
down the American League pennant," he
said. I'VE are not so very far out Of it,
even II we did drop TIC fourth place. II
the men will take brace and get into their
stride again We may easily overtake the
fast-f1ying White Sox and the other teams
that have forged ahead of us. The Ameri-
can League race is not won yet by a long
shot"
McGraw, of course, Is under suspension
and out of town, and his views on the
post-season series are not obtainable. He
mr. hah Iy hat rvtfR ~,
ever and claim the Giants still have a
chance to overhaul the Cubs. The way the
two teams have been going, however, gives
little weight to any such claim
Futurity Nearly Here.
The great Futurity stake at Sheepshead
Bay is now but six days away, and nearly
all the prominent candidates for the big
$4,000 purse have returned from Saratoga
and are being prepared for the fateful
journey down the sevenfurlong chute at
the historic race course. AS the time for
creases that the field will be one of the
largest ever sent to the post, the two-year-
old classic takes on decidedly open look,
and horsemen are figuring In vain for the
outstanding winner. Pope Joan, from the
Keene stable, was thought to be an infalli-
BILE youngster, but in the Hopeful the other
day at Saratoga the best she could do was
to run third to Peter Pan and MoCarter.
The tactics of Mr. Keene's trainer in this
stake were very puzzling. Here was Pope
Joan who was said to have outworked any
thing in the keene string, with the excep-
ton of Grimaldi, entered in this stake un-
der 112 pounds. At the last moment Peter
Pan was added under the Keene colors
and with 100 pounds up. To cap the climax
Peter Pan romped away from everything
in the stake. 1t may be that the stable felt
Peter Pan could beat all the others in the
field and were content to give Pope Joan
merely a racing experience. Finishing in
third position size incurred no penalty for
the Futurity.
Artful was masked in just such a fashion
the year sho won the Futurity from Ira
dition and the never afterward beaten
Sysonby. Artful was entered with a stable
mate in Saratoga stake and finished well
back in the ruck. Next time out she smoth-
cred the highest-class Futurity field of
many years.
Pope Joan or Grmaldi of the Keene lot
may yet win the F'uturity and there are
thousands OF bettors who are going to pin
their faith to the Keene colors, no matter
which of the youngsters his trainer may
choose to start. They all seem to have
way of getting home in front
The Rainey brothers are still pinning
their faith to Horace E., In the Futurity
and Trainer Bud May is putting his best
efforts forward in conditioning the sensa-
tional westerner for the $4,000 purse. May
Is looking forward to this race to make