New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-08
COMMENT ON SPORTS
The Cubs Are Coming for a
Battle with the Giants.
YANKEES TO INVADE WEST
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and Professional.
The Chicago Cubs are coming. WITH
Evers Tinker and Chance and few other
good baseball players. 10 invade the tenn
porary nome of the Giants on the hilitop'
They will be here tomorrow for the hrSt
fest of strength this season and weather
permittine. four games will be played The
winners Of the National League pennan'
last year are right on the heels OF the
Giants. and much depends on the outcome
of the series One year ago John j. NC
Graw and his men suffered rude shock
IN the first tilt with Frank Chances play
ers hut that was in Chicago. So fer as
can be Judged the chances favor the
Giants IN the present series While handl-
canned ia some extent by being forced 10
rlav off their own diamond, the men are
taking kindly 20 American League PARK,
and have had time enough TO accustom
themselves 10 their new surroundings. Not
81 with tho cubs and the other Western
teams which will follow. They have never
plaved on the hilltop with its difficult sun
parlor. and the. straneeness of the diamond
is sure to prove something of puzzle.
According TO reports. Chance himself who
will be back IN the fray ana King Cole
has been sroomed for the occasion. But
The Giants who went through last week
with the loss OF only one game are ready
for the struggle. and while ANTICIPATING A
hard battle. have no fear Of the outcome
with Chicago out of the way. the 81. Louis
Cardinals will he here on Saturday Tor
four games. and following them the Pirates
,trfn eff he a.
While the Giants are holding forth at
the home Of the Yankees Hal Chase viii
lead his team into the enemy'S country IN
an effort to check the fast going Detroit
Tigers who. with a voracious appetite,
have been gobhlinC up game after game
from the three Western clubs in the Amer
ican League. Something must he done. and
that right soon. TO bride and control the
team that Hughey Jennings has whipped
into condition once more after slight
lapse for a year The winners of the
American League pennant in 1901 1905 and
1903 have been playing great baseball As
compared with the 81. Louis Browns
the Cleveland Maps. who momentarilN are
without a regular manager. and the chi
cago White Sox hut there is some reason
heen none too strong, and that a different
story may be told when the Yankees. the
Athletics. the Red Cox and the Washing
ION Senators beard the Tigers In their own
lair The Yankees will play their last
game on their own grounds to-day until
MAY Is They start West tonight some
distance behind Detroit and with some of
the regulars IN poor condition, but the
fans" cannot believe that Chase and his
men have shot their holt and Improvement
can he looked for any day.
The time is approaching when the loyal
fans" IN BROOKLYN will begin 10 scold-
Something appears 10 he radically wrong
with the Superbas, hut Just where the
trouble lies nobody seems to be able TO
tell on paper tho team looks strong
enough TO he lighting along IN the hrst
division on the field 1t acts weak enough
20 account for its place IN the ruCk. Char
Iev Ebbets has spared neither money nor
rans 70 build M = strong combination
Individually. the PLAYERS are fast enough
End clever enough 70 shine on any team
IN tho country. but unhappily there seems
~ he q lack Of the necessary snap. dash
and aCgreesiveness which Is 50 essential
~ the proper development Of real inside
baseball II a change for the better does
not como shortly any chance Of finding
place I'm the first division will he lost
Tim Tags Fm Turks was tho head
noticed in a Boston paper last week. re-
ferrinE 10 a further christening Of the
Roston club Of the National League nv
I'm Murnane. the well known baseball
writer and critic The former Doves have
been christened SO often that one is almost
At 2 loss to know what to call Fred Ten
nev and his men. They have been dubbed
'he Rusters. the Terriers. the Hustlers
and now the Turks. Well might the poet
say What's in name To paraphrase.
the Turks or Terriers or what not by any
other name would play the saue.
One day last week-on Wednesday. to be
exact-Fred Tenney, the erstwhile first
hsseman Of the Giants and now manager
os me Boston team. made FIVE hits In FIVE
times at bat Some baseball PLAYERS can
come back"
Now that John T. Brush. chief owner Of
The New York Giants. has made formal an
nouncement Of long term lease on the
Polo Grounds. the much moOted question
~ what would he the result of the disas-
trous FIRE which destroyed the grandstand
three weeks ago has been answered. The
famous park has been saved 70 followers
Of the game for the life Of the National
League. and the promise has been made
Of huge steel and concrete stadium TO
seat 5000 persons. In the DAYS Of ancient
Rome stadium was built to accommodate
5000 persons but comparisons are odious,
and the one projected in these modern
times should be quite big enough TO satisfy
the growing appetite for baseball for years
10 come There is no telling just when the
Giants will be back IN their new home.
hut ii turns out that the fire was blessing
in disguise. As TO the modern Olympia
projected in connection with the baseball
park more can he said when the plans are
finished II may fl a long felt want
The following letter. addressed to the
sporting editor Of The Tribune, makes an
interesting comparison. which speaks for
itself:
suggest that comparison OF the rela-
tive strength Of Eastern and Western col
lege athletes may be obtained by treating
the relay carnival at the University Of
peunsN lvania, on April p as an eleven
event track and held meet. letting first.
second. third and fourth places count five.
three two and one points. respectively. or
course II is not accurate 10 consider the
championship relay races as simply quar-
ter half and one mile races, but any other
method OF scoring them would he more
geSted the various colleges earned points
as follows: pennsylvania, p. NOtre Dame,