The Detroit times., 1911-09-28
GIANTS ARE KEPT
ON UNEASY
Street
Cubs Manage To Slip One Over and
Mugssy MOGaw Murmurs, $50
Near and Yet So Far"-
sox Hopeful.
Everybody Wants To Deny Having
Anything To Do With These Stories
kbout jennings Crawl, Boys.
ny RALPH [. YoNkER.

The Giants are unfortunate. II
seems that they can hardly help but
win that National pennant. and yet
those pesky Cubs come along with
Richie and plaster the New Workers
down to the diamond and hold them
there, while Schultz with his 21 hom-
ers up to yesterday makes IL %, bang
ing MarQnard and his life-saver Gran
dan, for q percentage Of 1000, being
ofiicially at bat four times; Sheckard,
gets two OF three. and following the
column way, way down to the bat
try" II seems the iron Catcher Archer
gets three in four
"Rube" Marquard will be rapidly
assuming that awful oval profile and
that greenish. yellow color again II
he doesn't brace up.
The hard part of the program for
the Giants is this nerve-racking, teas
ing. now-you'ye-got.it-no
stunt that Ii beng played on them.
Muggsy McGraw mnrmured, so near
and yet SO far lin his sleep last night.
II he had any.
The White Sox also sat up and took
notice. for they were experiencing
the same sort of sensation that the
Giants were, except from a different
angle. They are trying to bribe the
fates to work against the Cubs In the
present series, for IL the Cubs don't
play the Athletics, the two Chicago
teams battle at the Windy city for
the city championship and consider
able OF the filthy. Now, IL the Cubs
should slip into tAat small pole be-
tween the Giants and the fias, aud
cop. there1l be no post-season, purse
developing series Cor the Sox
The speculation about the CuOs win
ming isn't worth much. however but
there is always a possibility that
keeps the Giants trifie uneasy, aoG
the Sox q trihe hopeful.
Another one cs these annoying
stunts was pulled Jcintly by The Tt
gers and the Athl@'cs. The Tigers
won handily srom Washington. and
the Athletics lost j,lst as hand.lr TO
Cleveland That's Ike handing candy
to a kid after he's lost his appel
"A little OF that would have been ap-
preciated few weeks ago.
It's remarkable hat we Americans
lose most OF our interest in pas
time when the chance 10 win has zone
arscoo.ing. The pleasure of tie game.
the delight or fast playing, the en- .
thusiasm OF exciting finishes. pals 1
considerably when our fayorites aren't
IN the running, any more.
There Is where the Englishman, Il
Is said, has II over us. His sport II
less commerciallzed and he plays and 4
watches his soccer, and cricket. and
rugby with greater love for the game i
itself and less for the pleasure ot win
ming. This has resulted In one thing
perhaps, less competition and conse-
Quently less development toward per-
lection, but II has also resulted In a
greater enjoyment of sports by the
masses.
Now that Davey Jones has told us
thatrheis sorry for some things that
he said about his manager, and that
he thinks that some of the things ne
Il said to have said, he did not say
(gct itf) Gordon MacKay, of the phil
adelphia Times. comes forward brave
" with denial that he wrote some
unhappy things about what the Tigers
said about Hughie. which have been
credited to him, but blames IL on
somebody on his stan. Whereupon
Gordon no doubt winked the other eve
at the staff, for the story was sim
poftant II true"
The one best bet now Is that the
Tigers'li all tel us about II when they
onf hara gnnday--uoti