The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-29
WHO WILL LAND
SECOND PLACE?
Interest in League Now Gen.
tiers on This Import
ant Question.
r IS IN SOLID
Took Lead From Start and
is Holding Position
Well.
(By w. 7. Finyay.,

After the most disastrous trip of
the season the Winnipeg Brownies
are now at home for a stretch OF
games with the other clubs of the
See-Eye league. and their position in
the race will depend to a great ex-
tent on what they can accomplish in
the next two weeks. The local boys
have been a puzzle to the fans all
season owing to their meteoric work
at home and away. as at times they
looked as If they would clean up the
league, while again they appeared no
better than ~tail-enders. Man for
man, n team appears to be the
strongest in this young league. but
some part of the machine always
seems to be going wrong just when
the team looks like having a victory
slowed away. 1t is quite true that
Manager Brown has been greatly
handicapped by continued injuries to
the players for the best part of the
season. but there is no excuse in this
way to offer for the recent disastrous
Journey. When the boys left here
two weeks age they were travelling
at top speed. and seemed to have the
edge on the Duluth bunch. and their
of catching the league lead
ers looked very rosy. But three losses
by n run, all gained in the last
round of every game, to the O'Brien
nero Just when they were beginning
to get very anxious about the merits
OF their team, put the Duluth crowd
In lighting trim again with the result
That they have been cleaning up the
rest of the clubs. while Winnipeg was
losing at Superior n Grand Forks.
roo work in the box, while the boys
failed to give the twirlers very good
Sunn0rf Seal11C IN ho cha roo o,.
Of the defeats on the road. though,
judging by the box scores. the catch
ing was not UP to form. and this NAV
have caused the pitchers to slump to
a certain degree.
The chief interest for the rest of
the season will be in the fight for
second place. Both the Grand Forks
and Superior teams seem to be
stronger than on their last visit here,
though the Taylor gang are proving
just as easy as eve for Duluth to
peat and h players to fatten up
their batting averages. and the locals
may have to extend themselves to
hold second place. The ability is
there to do this-no question about
that. If it is properly brought cut
through the remainder Of the season
the Brownies should land right be-
hind the White Sox. who. barring a
horrible run of bad luck. including a
train wreck and epidemic of scarlet
FEVER. or something of the like, have
the flag absolutely cinched. The ina
bility Of the Superior team to give
Duluth an argument has made things
pretty soft for the O'Brien crowd,
and all hope of overtaking the
"~Wrecking crew" seems to be gone.
O'Brien did the smart and wise thing
when his team was going fast early
IN n season by going out and
grabbing off all the games he pos
sibly could before the season was
half over. with the result that he is
so firmly entrenched now at the head
OF the league that nothing reebler
than an earthquake can shake him
out of first place. But Darby's cum
ming in getting away to such a whirl-
wind start may injure the new league
IN Its first season. as the attendance
from now on will no doubt be much
smaller tina the first half of the
schedule owing to interest having fall
len through the race being practically
over. Here in Winnipeg the fans
nave shown faith in their team by a
record attendance, but they seem to
have been given a run for their
money by some first class baseball,
which is a much higher grade than
that served up in the Western Canada
league last year.