Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-22
WILL PLAY GREAT
BALL THIS WEEK
Lively Times Anticipated Before Ma
tional League Leaders Conclude
Present Series-CIeVel lands
Struggle Interesting

Every ball fan in America will heark-
en- to doings at New York this week,
for the bitterest diamond rivals of the
country have claShed.
Chicago's mighty Cubs wrested vic
tory from the all powerful Giants of
McGraw yesterday. Gotham fans wit
messed their heroes go down to defeat
in what must, from reports, have been
more than strenuous game.
This is a bad time to moralize upon
what fans should do and not do, be-
cause the New York fan doesn't care
rap what any one thinks of him so long
as "Muggsy'' McGraw and his band of
Irishmen cling fast to that top place
in the race for a worlds championship.
Those who followed last years strug-
gle will remember what happened to
the Giants when they refused to play
because of objection to an umpire. Ac-
cording to New Workers who have late
ly visited Los Angeles, old Broadway
must have been something of a griddle
devoted to the roasting of McGraw and
his men.
But that, remember, was when New
York was losing, and hopes of a pen
nant had gone by the board. Gotham
ties are just as tickle as those goodly
fans who linethe left field bleachers at
Chutes park When the Giants were
1t has been hinted that McGraw's men
quit cold when they saw that the jig
was up. If so, they deserved all that
came.
And what a time there must have
been in Chicago last night when wires
burned with the news of Frank
Chances victory! Deep have been the
forebodings of what would happen
when the Cubs opened negotiations with
h.n nNf. Of Loo
Cordially hated are those big Giant
boys in Chicago and there is no telling
what will happen before the season
closes. But last night they probably
built bonfires along State street in cell
ebration of the great event.
A glance at the major league stand
ing this morning discloses the fact that
in the National association New York
and Chicago have refused to mingle
will probably find either of the two
with at least slight lead.
Pittsburg is a very bad second, with
Philadelphia a lowly third. So far as
pennant hopes are concerned the 9TH
ers appear hopelesly in the rear.
True the season is young and long
hot summer is in store for the big
clubs. Pitchers may fall down and
others will without doubt become
Ned Hanlon, once regarded as the
greatest of all ball managers, is now
at the helm of Cincinnati's club. At
the present Ned and his crew are
foundering about near the bottom.
Hanlon, however is optimistic and says
that time will tell. He refers to the
year when Baltimore achieved cham
pionship honors. Baltimore started
badly and semed to have a cinch on the
tail end position. Hanlon. however,
had gathered stronger than he or any
one else thought and Baltimore came
away with the big honors.
1t is New York and Chicago now and
will be for at least a week to come.
Watch for the dope; it should make
nice reading.
Friends of Napoleon Lajoie are hop
ing against hope that the great bats
man will land an American pennant
before his retirement. 1t now appears
that Cleveland may press Chicago hard
before the season closes.
But seventy-six points separate them
and that is not a great margin at this
stage of the season. Detroit has beer
battling as thought bent upon cham
pionship honors and is not bad third