Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-05
BASEBALL DOPE.
 |BY TIM MuRNANE.
CBy Tim Aiurnane.l

BOSTON. July 4.-Whew, what a lively baseball season this is If the major and minor leagues all over this broad land keep up the pace they have shown up to the present time it will be necessary to erect new sanitariums.
 In the National League the cubs have slowed up. giving the other clubs encouragement, until the fans can see real race ahead Already the Phil lies have dropped by the wayside to struggle on. having shot their bolt. Brooklyn, St. Louis and Boston, never dangerous, will go along with hope of landing in the first division.
 The New York giants took a splend- i'd brace and pulled down the cubs. This will encourage the McGraw boys. and the first division is a dead sure thing for the team, with the chances good for at least third place. Pitts burg is bound to be a big factor whil' that man Wagner keeps in the game and Fred Clarke has the handling of the team. for Clarke comes pretty near being one of the really greet baseball managers.
 I cant see how Garry Herrmann's boys can be stopped from landing n the first division. which by the way, would be big feather in John Can gels cap. for they certainly did not look like the goods for so high a place this spring.
 The peerless leader" will be put to his best work from this on, as the boys have received bumps from clubs that for the last two years proved the easiest kind of marks Nothing could have disappointed the cub leader any more than to find the New York giants unbeatable
 After two years of taking the count it looks very much as if Johnnie Me Graw and Fred Clarke had about sig ed up the men from Chicago and were after the peerless leader" in earnest It will take the supreme efforts of that wonderful boy rom Troy to keep the cubs on their feet, for I look on Eysrs as the brightest baseball star of the day when it comes to inside baseball and gameness combined.
 The two hard battles with the white sox and the tigers took consid- erable life out of the present cham pious, and nothing less than a mighty
 
 much longer. It bOthers a man to hear the rumbling chariot wheels in the distance, but once you get the sight of the leader every inch gained tells doubly. The money in sight this fall will make the players work like sailors ana at the same time it will make nervous those who have tasted of the profits and would like to in dulge once more.
 With fair show to get the money, McGraw, Clarke and Chance will drive 8 splendid race. with the chances with the lucky combination.
 The four clubs from the west have mOnopolized the first division in the American League and will mix it up among themselves for a week or ten days. The eastern clubs received an awful drubbing in the west, but will get even with their r'cals when the boys from the golden west come east later on to indulge in our east winds.
 The white sOX made a remarkable showing, and yet have taken no great lead. Cleveland did grand work with "a badly broken tip team, while St. Louis has more than held her own this season. outside the games with the Boston red soX. The winner is just as hard to pick now as it was two months ago, and will continue to be for fully one month yet. Ths road