The sun., 1912-06-03
MOdcrns. on the Whole, Com
pare Favorably With BY
gone Cracks.
GIANTS WINNING STREAK
Order in Which II Has Been
Made-22 Victories on
the Road.

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better than. II as good as several of the
hest Of to-day. Old timers are constant
ly asserting. as n arguing on the defen-
sive that the game to-day is not faster or
moro scientific than II was In their day. II
may have advanced some In team
tactics and In alertness. but individual
comparisons, SO far as they are practi-
cable. point out no great difference one
way or the other Here and there an
old time star stands ont prominently after
all the years, but n there is any differ
ence of moment II II that there are more
players now Of certain high standard
than there used TO be. There ought TO
ha with the greater number OF players
In the field
Just where to draw the line between
the modern and the past IL not easy TO
decide. There are players OF the modern
era who were In harness up TO year or
SO ago who certainly don't belong to the
past even " not playing this year.
Were they to he Included in the bygone
regime the past would have an enormous
advantage over the present In the far
greater number Of years represented. In
any event. the stars of to-day compare
favorably with those Of any one hygone
period.
Take an array Of first basemen COM
posed Of McInnes, Chase. Daubert.
Konetchy. Gamer Merkle Chance and
Tcnney and there Ia no other lot to equal
H. This is true even eliminating Chance
and Tcnney. who retired only last year.
Jiggs Donohue. who played up to few
years ago. was as great as any. whereas
group consisting Of Tucker. Tcbeau.
, Doyle, Comiskey. Reilly. Mckinnon,
Anson and Brouthers didn't have the
fielding range Of the modern group.
There has been no better second base
man than Eddie Collins or Evers. hut
from the past may be picked larger
number Of first class men. such as Dunlap.
Pfcrer McPhcc. Richardson. and Of be-
tween period. Lowe. Rc,z and Ch!lds. The
dim past never had two as accomplished
shortstops as Long and Jennings. the
greatest contemporary pair of all. ~ Is
question II there have ever he"n i've !he
| present period or OF the remote past Long
after the day Of Williamson and Glass
cock came Corcoran Mexican. Germany
Turner n group as u whole better than
any predecessor group. hut with which the
strictly mGdsrn group c"Fs,snE Fa,shsT q MrRrIe
and noolan does not suffer in comparison.
Latter day third hasein.n are much
senta,iv: OF more all AROUND sk!ll than
those Of earlier times. Long since the
DAYS cf Denny. Sutton and Smith came
Collins and Bradley and Leach-the first
named Of these three the greatest third
| has,inan of any tifn.-and since their day
worthy SUCCESSORS in Baker. Devlin Lord
! and Ryrnc.
1t is only in the outheld that old time
stars are to be found with whom one is
slow !. match ou,feld.rs OF later tines, r,
| Aleers and Johnstons. To these may be
added Griffin, Corkhill. Hornung and
Gu,iieldcrs who could cover ground and
judge flies as these could are hard to
md, hut does not their fame take on an
one one ! Of ITEM " ~ the later comers
Fielder Jones and Bill 1.anGe are not
| keeler, cobb and Clarke? In speed and
Judgment Speaker and Eecler may be
more nearly the equal o.: Hf McAieer than han
remember his work may have placed him
The best ca,chers the game has pro-
anyway, for Buck Ewing was the best
hackstop Of any time. And there were
Crirer. a group Of far and near past
receivers which the Erour emhracng
Rresnahan, Sullivan, King. Thomas and
Gibson hardly parallels Incidentally II
there is ono OF these moderns who more
Ewing it is Ainsmith, " " ' ''''' .
:, As TO pitchers. Radbourn.. Whitney.
EMnTMinson' MaM,ton Mscn5misM .o Ks.fsi Hssker.
sey, kilroy, Carruthtrs and Morris Of
tho past vs. johnson. Mathewson. Mar
guard. Ford, Wood Gregg, Young, Walsh.
Plank Of a different period. There isn't
the slightest doubt that the ancients could
make all sorts Of trouble for present day
moderns would be quite as effective
against the hitters Of the past as the
old time pitchers named were 1t Is hard
to conceive OF any group Of pitchers being
~ the modern pitchers Ty Cobb probably
could hit we'll against the old time ar
ray, and Anson do lots of damage against
those OF 'he present age.
The notably fast and sustained work
of the Giants this spring has been with
time. only nine out Of thirty-sevon games
have been played at the Polo Grounds
only two Of thes" were defeats one for
ciGn game was IA tie. Eliminating the
tie. the Giants have played twenty seven
games on the road. so that they have
won twenty-five and lost Ave games on
at least twice and no one opponent has
an 'Tr The " fan, S ,Ss, tne S"is Po .sm haSe ,S
feature Of their progress and an indica.
ton OF ability to adapt their strength sue.
cessfully tn all corners,
| hf'i tdHpdlSH mas SoIlt dloIle III tnls
order: First a victory. then three de.
feats their longest losing srelD. then
nine straight wins then one defeat, then
seven straight wins, then a tie followed
by two more victories, then two defeats
then nine straight victories. then a de.
feat. then. a victory. Applying this
stretch to clubs and the results have been
One victory over Brooklyn. two defeats
by Brooklyn and one by Hoston, two vic.
tories over Boston. two over Brooklyn two
over Philadelphia, one over Boston. two
over Philadelphia, one defeat by Phila-
delphia, one victory over Philadelphia
four victories over ST. Louis. two victories
over Chicago. one tie with Chicago, two
victories over PittshurE, two defeats by
Cincinnati. three victories over. Cincin.
victories over Philadelphia; one defeat
by st. Louis. one victory over St. Louis
II the YalePrinceton game last Satur
day was a fair sample. then higher ethica
standards obtain In college baseball thi,
year than for some time. SO orderly wai
} the vocalizatiOn both by players and par
: tisans that the effect nv contrast was as n
, the game WAS being played In A minor key
There was no absence OF either organized
or spontaneous cheering nor of chatter
among the PLAYERS. but Il was decorout
in approval Of some good play. also witt
view to announcement. and not done a,
all In a Rloating way over any misfortune
that came to the opponent. What talkinI
the players did was legitimate words o
! advice or encouragement ITO their own mer
, and no noisy indiscriminate iabbe ring sC
as to get on the nerves of the other side