Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-26

| victories, then he lost n and mn
ished by. getting 13 more, making a
percentage of 1868. The record has
never been equalled in organized base
ball and probably never will be.
Can the Cubs put 1T over the Giants?
| Can they win the championship in
the National League? Chicago fans.
| and the Cubs, too, seem to think they
can. Manager Chance has announced
that the Cubs are going after the 1912
| pennant and the worlds title in real
earnest.
Mordecai Brown and James Laven-
der are two factors for the Giants TO
contend with. Lavender is the recruit
pitcher who stopped Marquard; he is
going at a fast pace. Mordecai Brown.
the veteran hurler, is playing in his
old form. Other Cubs who are doing
a lot to get Chicago in first place
are Johnny Evers at second, James
Archer behind the bat and Heinie
Zimmerman at third, but they will
have to go better than the fondest
hopes for them to succeed.
OWilB u Tic OpPOCAiiCI VI POtlliCdl
enemies, Jim Coffroth, the San Fran
cisco boxing promoter, is going to
shift his scene of operations to
Venice, a resort neal Los Angeles.
When asked what he thought of the
American League race, Davis said
that the Athletics are by no means
out of the running. although they did
0 seem to be as strong as last year.
He didn't see any of the star pitchers
perform while his team was there last
week, as Mack used young material
in the box against Cleveland.
Jinxes and the like are lot con-
fined to baseball. Alma Richards, the
American winner of the high jump at
Stockholm, refused to soar without
wearing a frayed felt hat of the
vintage Of '92.
The Chicago Cubs aren't hitting the
ball as much as usual this e IA
There are thirty-four hitters of 300
calibre in the National League at this
one of them-Heinie zimmerman.
AS a team the Cubs bat .273.
Maurice f. Mclaughlin, the famous
tennis player from the Pacific coast,
who is now in the East, seems to be
playing a better game this year than
ever. He is in excellent condition,
and his game appears more finished,
swifter and more deadly.
His service particularly seems to
have improved, for in place of the
effort to get an enormous break on
the ball he now gets more pace and
yet break enough to deceive, and is
more accurate. He isn't netting the
balls as he did last season, and his
bounding activity is more impressive
than ever.
The American League seems to
have a monopoly on the fastest men
IN bases in organized baseball. Who
"a compare with Clyde Milan. of
the Washington Nationals? With
Eddie Collins, of the Philadelphia
Athletics? With Ty Cobb, of the De-
troit Tigers? The only man outside
the American League who travels in
tiiclI SldSS rs DODDle beScner, OF the
Cincinnati Reds. Bescher has stolen
thirty bases in seventy, FIVE games,
while Cobb has performed a similar
feat. Milan has stolen ~forty-fve
bases in eighty-six games and Col
Inns thirty-three bases in eighty-four
games. Nc other players in organized
baseball this season can show as
good a record.
Here let us pause to remark that
Milan is a brighter star in baseball
than most folks imagine. He ia a
victim Of circumstances. His great
natural ability would have been rec
ognized long ago had he been playing
on a first-rate team. The limeliebt
doesn't often stream on a Door club.
and for that reason Milan has been
compelled to stick around in the
gloom. Washington's great sp,rt
this season has attracted the atten-
ton of fandom to that team, and this
accounts for Milan's discovery.