The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-13
JUST TWO FANS
ARE SHOUTING
Post MOrtemS for All but the
Pirates and Tigers Are
in Order.
JEFFRIES MAKES BAD MOVE
CARLSBAD WATERS FAIL TO
BOOST ON THIS SIDE.

New York. Sept. 12.-The baseball bug
has shed his wings and picked up his kit
of embalming tools. The loud, enthusi-
astic individual who. but a short month
ago, was all lungs, mouth and language,
has deteriordtsd into a sad and silent
person who conducts the post mortem on
the home team and tells his friends what
might have happened if
The penuant race i'm both leagues seems
TO be over. In the National there remains
nothing but the shouting and Pittsburg
seems to have the shouting privilege this
season. The Pirates. working like a we'll
oiled machine, and hitting the ball when
ever hits can be turned into runs, have
clnched matters very neatly and etlec-
lively MeSSrs. Wagner, Leach and
Clarke. constituting the PIttSburg team,
will walk home barring Unforeseen acct
dents. Tt is all over but the shouting,
and there are some cities in the National
league circuit where even the shouting
IS all over. New York IS one of them.
The Giants by a brilliant performances
on the road. reSindied the dying flame,
and then snuffed it out to ashes by the
games with the Pirates and the Cubs.
New York VIII finish on the limb this
season and there is no flag for third
place.
Chance of the Cubs who is game to
the last inch and will never know the
meaning of the word quit unless ne
looks it up i'm the language book. has
abandoned hope of catching the Black
Flags. few men who can hit the ball
consistently have made new National
league history and the Cubs with their
famed "iusiIe ball" VIII finish just out
side the spotlight this season. The other
teams are hOpel1SSly OUrclassed-
IN the American league. the Tigers
nave again shown that close race has
no terrors for them. 1 slump while on
the road and 4 sudden sprint from Boston
and Philadelphia, put the three teams to-
Eether at the head of the stretch, but
the Tigers came again, as they came
last season, and now have a COmfOra-
able lead on the Athletics and the Red
Sox.
1t looks like Detroit and Pittsburg this
yea, and i'm this event the post-season
games viii take ON new interest. Evil
IDENTIFY the Tigers cannot beat the Cubs
They have never been able to 10 very
much with the Windy City pitchers. Two
teams Of hitters. with pitching staffs of
nearly even ability, should give us q
sensational worlds series
When the Tigers find pitchers whom
they can hit 1t viii take something more
than phenomenal fielding to stop them.
The other team must Init. too for Cobb,
Crawford and the other Tiger stars have
a habit of hitting the ball on the seam
and driving it to the fence.
From the point Of view OF the press
agent Jeffries made a bad move when
ne took himself out of the public eye and
ing matters i'm the air
When Morris was trying to get JEFF
fries TO sign a theatrical contract, he
found that Mrs. Jim. who is always
strong factor i'm the retired champion
plans. did not approve Tn order to please
her. Norris suggested that Jeffries' en-
Eagements might include a trip to Eu-
rope. A. Mrs. JaffTies was born in Ger
many. and the trip would mean a visit
10 her mother. whom she mas not seen
i'm years. she was Immediately won over
by the Morris forces and Jim made the
trip 10 Europe, not because it was a wis
one or there was money in sight but
simply because ne had promised his wife
TO take her home for a visit
The Hon. Norman Selby, otherwise Kid
Mccoy, has just returned from the other
side where ne found there was no money
bOuIevards. The Kid thinks that jeff
made a blunder by going abroad.
They don't know he's on earth over
there" said Mccoy. "The day he gOc
into London some of the papers carried
as much as an inch about his arrival
OF course there wasn't any news sent
over here by cable. and jeff might as
we'll have jumped into q well and STAYED
there for six weeks. You've got to keep
people of this country interested or they
forget YOU i'm six weeks"
The waters of Carlsbad may be good
medicine but when it comes TO stimu-
l8ting the public interest, all the water
I'm Germany can do nothing ON this side
of the Atlantic. Jim will he forced to
return and go into active training before
two-thirds of the people i'm America will
believe that De means business