Evening star., 1912-07-15
aer Managers Are Strengthening Teams for Championship Series
MANAGERS STRENGTHENC CLUBS
= FOR FINAL SERIES OF GAMES
Nearly All Probable Pennant Winners Secure
Players to Make Teams Strong for Post
Season Contests ts-Other Gossip.

ity and Trust Company. Post Once and
the independence League Representative,
whether it be Loff1er or Pepco, the
chances favoring the latter. 1t may De
held that Cornell and American security
and Trust are the stronger. but ootn
Post Office and the other clubs Will. nave.
besides good pitching. good hitting ana
fielding teams.
The four clubs mentioned WILL ln EVEN !
nothing happens to mar their prospects,
put up one of the greatest contests ana
probably the best general exhibition ever
seen in any post-season series. SCnuer
such conditions to say there will be q
falling off in interest seems rather 1ncom-
patible with the circumstances. 1t Is
dollars to cents that larger crowds by far
attend the games in the post-season
series this year than last.
comparison of the work of college
athletes to those of clubs In the olympic
meet shows very we'll for the former
class. The results give evidence tnat
nineteen college men were placed In the
finals Of the events. while seventeen men
from the clubs won the same honor.
Not poor honors for the colleges when
1t was generally considered that the main
dependency in the meet would be the men
from the clubs.
There is great deal Of disappointment
being expressed in all parts OF the coun-
try because of the failure Of such classy
runners as Taber, Jones, kiviat and Shep-
pard to win first places in the events at
Stockholm. Particularly does their faliure
in the 1,5OO meters race rankle with many
Of those who selected them to win. Inc
race in the 1900 meters was thought to
be between Kiviat and Jones more so
than between this country and any otner.
but the thing which nearly always nap
pens on the track took place and dark
horse came through with the victory.
Simply because their calculations went
astray, though, is no reason why the
critics should fall on the men and say
they are not as good as they once were.
Everybody regrets the fact that the 1.5OO-
meter race was lost. but since 1t was
there is nothing to be done about 1t, and
the less said about the athletes. who. by
the way. have really accomplished more
than was expected of them. the better
if it must be in deterioration OF their
honest and worthy efforts.
Because Jones did not win the 1.JcO-
meter race one man who stands n1gn
in Olmypic affairs was constrained to say
that Jones is not the Jones OF old.
Whether or not that be true, and the
chances are it is not. 1t hardly appears
that circumstances behooved the worthy
member Of the Olympic committee to ex-
press himself in that wise. And to judge
by what some OF the men whom that
committee refused to take across, ana
whose expenses had to be paid by their
friends. have done some OF the members
of the committee are not overcompetent
to judge whether or not man has gone
back or is better than standard pre-
viously set.
Jones and several. other members OF the
team went through a siege of sea-sickness
during the trip across. and possibly were
not in the best Of condition for that rea-
son. Let any man who has never been
on rough water for days at a time try 1t
once, and he will speedily find out that
1t is not conducive to the best athletic
performances a few days afterward.
The post-season series Is apt to produce
some Of the best pitching seen for years
among the amateurs. There is not a club
that will be represented that will not be
we'll fortified with twirling talent. I'll
Pepco wins In the Independence League
1t will have Barton, Balzer and Sullivan.
a trio which Is very competent. II LoHier
gets the league championship 1t will have
Smith, Brady and Buscher to use on the
mound, and there are few in the city who
are better, taking them as a whole Post
Office has Flannery and Ferguson;
American Security will be represented on
the mound by Fienle and Green, two of
the best college pitchers in the south,
while Cornell has Hummer and Edmon
ston, both of whom have had long ex-
perience.
The pitchers themselves should guaran- |
tee some mighty good games being played
even though the men behind them are not
I'D to the desired standard. But, at that. |
they should all get fair support. as the
teams are pretty evenly balanced.