New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03

! | New York ....l 4 o 3 > o l. iIS'.36t |
II. Louis ......I = o 1 L 9 Or 500 |
| Games lost i$iii7.i2i 90 3"s
, been writing forecasts Of the intercolcSi-
ate championships for the last eight years,
picked the winner Of the team champion
ship and six of the thirteen individual win
ners. He gave Cornell 10 points, and the
| lthaCans scored ILL.,; Michigan was figured
| to win 70 points and got j.. II were given
TO Columbia and the New Workers got two
more than that. Dartmouth scored liz OF
| the Is points given to the IIanoverians.
| Syracuse was picked to win 10 points, but
got l.. Harvard and Princeton failed TO
come up to expectations. The Tribune gave
Harvard % and Princeton L. points, but
Harvard made only Is and Princeton =.
Thirty-two of the ffty-two point winners
were named in The Tribune's forecast.
One of these DAYS some enthusiastic soul
will write a book about the uncertainties
of baseball, and he will not lack for strik-
ing illustrations. John j. McGraw and his
Giants arrived home on Friday, after
whirl about the National League circuit IN
which they played in every city except Bos-
ton. with a loss Of only two games. and
on their own diamond and before home
crowd promptly met defeat at the hands
of the St Louis Cardinals. OF course, the
Giants can't go on winning game after
game. but. for all that, IT was rather dis
appointing. more particularly as the men
played far below their true form. This was
forgotten, however. when, led by Matty,
quick revenge came on Saturday.
II begins to look as il the figure nine
had something 10 do with the loss Of their
first home game. Three times this year
the team has won nine straight victories,
only to slip up on the tenth. The PhliHes
put an end to the first run. the Cincinnati
Reds to the second and the st. Louis Car
dinals TO the third. With that jinX dis
posed Of il is quite possible that another
string of victories is in store. as there Is
no denying the fact that the Giants this
year are amazingly strong IN pitching, bat
ting base running and helding-in fact,
everything which goes TO Iaake up the fin
ished team.
1t may be recalled that the Detroit Tigers
did last year what the Giants have been
doing this, and yet lost an American
League pennant. On May %, 1911, the De-
troit standing read: Won q. lost ). and on
May 81, it was: Won 81, lost II. The Tigers
were sailing far along in front, too. with
even a bigger lead than now held by the
Giants. All this is not recalled for the
pleasure OF being pessimstic, but simply
10 indicate what may happen If the slump
comes AS a matter Of fact, the comDarj-
son IS not a particularly good one, as the
New York team appears to be much strong
er and better balanced than the Detroit nine
was year ago.
Another illustration OF the uncertainties
Of baseball has been furnished in the last
two weeks by the Cincinnati Reds. After
travelling along at a furious pace, game
for game with the Giants. they suddenly
and even Unexpectedly took fancy for a
slide on the toboggan. The Giants gave
them the first push by winning three games,
after losing the first two in Cincinnati.
and since then the Reds have lost eleven
out of the thirteen games played. HanK
ODay, a National League umpire untIl
Garry Hermann picked him out last winter
to manage his team. is now beginning 10
anpreciate the "slings and arrows OF OUT
rageous'' baseball. Having enjoyed the
ups with all the pleasure and satisfaction
that goes with it, he is now experiencing
the downs with all its worries ana cares.
In Justice to the team II may be said that
Il has been suffering from the temporary
loss indisposition OF two or three pa!
ers who mean much to the smooth run
ming of the machine.
If the Williams College baseball team de-
feats Cornell on June 10, it is hard 10 see
how any fair minded critic can deprive II
of the so-called championship. They
turned the tables so decidedly on Amherst
last Thursday, by n score Of to 2, that
the only defeat suffered this season-when
Amherst won the first game Of the series
loses it's bearing on the final standing.
Williams has defeated Yale, Princeton and
Dartmouth, among others, and If Cornell
also is beaten, the right to the title could
hardly be questioned
Cornell. by the way. has hard trip In
prospect, with Williams. Brown and Yale
TO be met on successive days Further
than that, defeat by Pennsylvania on Sat
urday was disquieting TO the undergradu-
ates. who have been counting on the cham
pionship since defeating Princeton. The
chances now look pretty gloomy.
Yale's decisive victory over Princeton on
Saturday makes the outlook dark for the
Tigers. 1t is possible, of course, that the
tables may be turned next Saturday. which
| will leave the question open for the final
| battle in this city. The Yale team is living
I'D to the promise it gave early In the
| season, when / did not hesitate to pro-
nounce II one of the best developed at
New Haven in recent years. Princeton has
| a strong, well balanced nine, but appears
| to lack the finish OF last years champion
| ship team.
Brown has had bad week, losing TO
Holy Cross and Amherst. If the team
beats Cornell on June. IA and repeats
against Yale on June 20. Il may sun be
counted in the running. Holy Cross, by
| the way, is sure to get forward place
| The team has played good baseball al the
season and numbers among lIs VlctlmS
Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Brown.
The United States League appears 10
be doomed. 1t looks now as IT the powers
| in organized baseball sat back, knowing
full we'll that in due time IT would develop
| into horrible example"
IL Roy Mercer is being showered with
honors at Pennsylvania, and well are they
deserved. 1T is seldom that the same man
is elected captain in two major sportS YET
this distinction has come to Mercer, as IN
addition to leading the football eleven next
| fall for the second time he VIII gulue tno
destinies OF the track and field team.
HERBERT.