New-York tribune., 1908-06-15

turn the tables. Running Water did not beat
much Thursday. but she won in a way to indi-
cate that she at her best, and Running
Water at her best is always dangerous Master
Robert is an honest colt and good one, too, but
in my opinion is behind the others in class, and,
further than that, is slow beginner and may
have entirely too much to do in the stretch.
The Giants and the Yankees began last week
with two victories EACH and the local fans
cheered up and began to take more optimistic
view of the pennant fight in the two big leagues.
Then came another losing streak and the fans
settled back in the dumps of the week before
and are resigned for the time being to anything
that may happen. There a sigh of relief
when the Giants pulled out tenth inning VIC
tory Cincinnati Saturday, after losing
three straight to Pittsburg, but the Yankees
brought weekend joy, as they lost the open
ing game to Chicago after dropping three
straight TO Detroit, the American League cham
pions. In looking back at the work of the Giants
il is hard to account for their loose play on
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, while remem-
berfng their strong and at times brilliant work on
Monday and Tuesday and their clever rally on
Saturday. McGinnity came to life, and by his
pitching and batting helped shut out st. Louis
on Monday. On Tuesday Crandall, backed by
steady play. made the Pirates look like school
boys. and then trouble began. Bridwelfs error
of judgment was partly responsible for the to
defeat on Wednesday, Matty could not overcome
the handicap of three costly errors Thursday
and general decentralization and misplays al
lowed Pittsburg 70 pile on the agony on Friday
and thus clean up the series by three games to
one The Pirates have now five out of the
with
The Giants checked the victorious march of
Cincinnati on Saturday when hope seemed dead,
and so encouraged their followers to look for
better things this week in spite of the fact that
the Reds will he at the Polo Grounds three days
and the Chicago worlds champions three. If
the home team break even il will be some
thing TO be thankful for.
The Yankees beat Cleveland last Monday, and
so broke even in the first Western series, but
Detroit proved too strong. and wen three
straight games after losing the opening struggle
on Tuesday. thanks TO a timely batting rally by
the New York players. The Yankees played well
enough on Wednesday and Thursday to win four
out Of five games. but went to pieces in the
field on Friday, and with five errors robbed
Manning of a possible victory. They moved on
to Chicago on Saturday. but could not halt the
White Sox. who by virtue of ten consecutive
victories have climbed into first place in the
league race. Three games must be played with
Chicago and three with St. Louis this week.
The Yankees are In the second division.
where they likely to stay for some little
time, mores the pity.
Yale and Princeton will take the field at the
Polo Grounds tomorrow to settle the so-called
intercollegiate baseball championship. Yale not
only turned the IA bIes on Princeton on Saturday
for the defeat the week before. but clearly
outplayed the Tigers that there is grave danger
Of the title, which has appeared to be at the
mercy of the team from Old Nassau throughout
the season. slipping away at the last minute
Yale has been weak at the bat this year, but
on Saturday. else Clark and Heynger the
Princeton pitchers, have had too much of it, and
are going stale. Clark wild. and made
mess of the first inning, while Yale got ten hits
off Heyniger when he went in With Prince
ton out Of the way. Yale must play series with
Harvard. and a pretty muddle would follow
the victory of Yale tomorrow and the loss Of
the series with Harvard, a team which lost
game after game up to two weeks ago, including
two TO Princeton. Harvard beat Cornell on
Wednesday, Hartford pitching no-hit game,
and Holy Cross on Saturday. 1t the fourth
straight victory for the Cambridge nine and the
Crimson has improved its standing materially.
The standing OF the teams in games won and
lost follows: