Evening journal., 1908-09-10
SENATORS HOPEFUL
OF WINNING OUT
In Second Place in Tri-State
Race, But Believe They
Will Shift

Harrisburg is hopeful Of winning the
Tri-State pennant though the Senators
are in second position. In Harrisburg
the only gossip one hears is about the
Tri-State pennant Up in Williams
port the Millionaires are awaiting the
end with nerve-racking periods, and
trying TO console themselves with the
belief that the Bllies are a sure win
ner. In Harrisburg the fans are still
hopeful and to win the pennant would
mean great joy. On the corners. in
the stores, at the clubs, in the hom es
in fact wherever two or more people
are gathered it is a ten to one shot
that they are discussing the baseball
situation in the Tri- State. 1t is going
to be great week.
Harrisburg fans declare the team
looks good as a winner and is sure for
second place. Williamsport must lose
but one game and is at a disadvantage
because they finish away from home
Harrisburg has one more game to PLAY
than Williamsport, and finish at home
Harrisburg must win two games while
Williamsport is losing one. Rain may
be factor. Should the Billies be un-
able to play their game and Harrisbure
finish all contests, then the Senators
would be on top. On theaother hand
the failure to play any one game this
week, if the Billies play all will put
Harrisburg down and out for the pen
nant. The Heckert bunch must wir
all the games, and with the game they
are playing that can be expected
Johnstown had five games with Will
Transport and ought to take at leas
one. Capital fans regret because OF
the closeness of the race that Harris.
burg did not have as many games will
Williamsport as with Lancaster and
1ther teams, for they believe that tn,
Senator's are the strongest team.
would be possible for the league to ge
together and extend the season bu
that will not be done, for some of thl
teams are ready to quit because o
! financial troubles.
Whether Harrisburg comes unde
the wire first or second, Manager
Heckert and the whole bunch deserve
all the praise that can be given them
William sport has been I'm the leaS
since July 6, and at one time was 81
points ahead of Harrisburg. on Angus
! the distance was Al points Since tina
time Williamsport won % out of g
games played. and Harrisburg % on
of 81, Williamsport now leading by onl.
a few points.
Harrisburg is fighting hard. Mana
ger Heckert has been in every rae
since the Tri- State started. He woi
pennants in 1904 and 1906. and fnishe'
second in 1907. Never has there beei
a time that his teams-Harrisburg an
York-were not feared end respected
George Graham, in the North Ameri
can, says
"Heckert is a wonderful finisher,
nasty. nagging, desperate fighter. VIII
will keep on scrapping even after h
has been pushed i'm the dust and hel
there. Always he has left a wiggle G
battle
Perhaps nobody else but Georg
would have kept his men pluggin
away after hope seemed TO have fed.
, "But he is always on the lookout fo
| something TO turn up, and in the hop
of a Williamsport slump he has kept hi
players right up to the concert pitch
and It cannot be denied that in the las
month of the race he has eclipse
every other club, not even excludin
Reading, which since the Fourth {
0 July has gone at racing speed"