The Washington times., 1910-07-24
Yep. there seems to be some hope.

Manager 8IcAIeer, Of Washington,
rather enterralns the idea mat the Ath-
Ietcs ere about due &c blow up and
lose their strong grip Oh first place in
this league lIe5le 81. and perhaps.
bat, the contrary Notwithstanding.
there is no Eo0d reason why the team
should tuEu5le from its proud eminence
at Jhis time If the pitchers keep Up
their work The rest Of the team is on
the Job and after the Athletic played
the series that opened the season IN
column that no matter how good me
other teams might look when they came
10 washington, the Athletics would be
strong courendeTs and mighty likely
winners OF the peuuant all through the
campaign OF 1slf- So Tar. so good
I1aLh, Who Fad no chance 10 break into
the Athletics i1EelG, having been trad
Cd 10 Cleveland Tor Bristol Lord.
mighty useful CUJ1eldeTs has strength
eued the Athletics, and they look more
formidable now than before As q bench
warmer for utility outfeld play Connie
Mack Still has IOpsy H4rTSel- who al
though becoming an aEed man entitled
Co carry q gold headed cane and be hon
urarE vice president Of this and that.
IS st.- some pan player. A9psy mas
hattec pa-t1y - but Lord Is only
sticking at 81 rate which i no vast
difference Lord has been IN twenty
two games, stolen three bases and made
flIrtF-Lv-s games, made eight sacrifices
end stolen eleven bases Lord has more
speed IN the Leid- and Is a decided i'd
clifton 10 the Mack forces. but rem6u-
games the Athletics are away up there,
eiEhty-o1e points ahead OF New York,
hence Iopsy could not nave been a
1etriment All Of which IS TO say thar
Mack has certainly not weakened him
self hv trading man he had no earth
~ use for, IN exchange for one prob
ably better than a regular who has
helped him 10 the top round
But our principal interest now is IN
seeing that Groom and Reisli1E 90 not
blow Up tomorrow
sam Crane must be in his dotaEe
Somebody should 80 around with the
dear old fellow to see that he does lot
. hurt his neck staring at the tall build
iilES- NO more complete evidence OF fulS
sad state Of q most admirable and low
2 able character could be found than in
his magazine article IN which he picks
the players of the two big leagues for
the nine positions After erudltely and
interestingly telling us all about divers
. play etS- young ana DID, Zee goes to work
and picks the men without counting
f Waiter Johnson among the pitchers or
s George Mcbride among the shOrtstoDs.
I Ir,1- --.-'ET-S about how much some Of
+ the Stuf coming from the real wise
ones IS worth sometimes Further dear
I that LhrlSJy MaJheWSOn IS the greatest
player the game has ever. produced. fol
lows further along with the statement
B that he thoroughly agrees with Charley
! Com Skey LEar Iy Cobb is the greatest
player that ever wore spikes We pre-
. s-me that he means CEristy is the
+ greatest Of them all. and tops Cobb bv
being even greater than the Cuban
scrub mines, which wear neither shoes
] nor spikes
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,savaUel should massage his mind By
( I-adiuE the NEWSPAPERS now and then
I if he is so careless as to always re-
main away from the park when Wash
( inStOn is playing IN New York
4 washington took a game from Chica-
I - yesterday which was badly needed
az was also somewhat Of a freaB
2 Il was another Of those cases
Z the Washington public gets more
oass ball oddities for its money than anz
other IN the league. We have not The
figures - as but are willing TO make