New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-03
M'GRAW NEAR RECORD
No Manager Has Won More
than Three Flags in Row.
POP ANSON SET PRECEDENT
Interesting Figures on Fight Tor
Championship in the Ma
tional League.

Win Johnny McGTaw be able 10 round
out "A trio of consecutive championships
With the Giants next year, is .he question
which is puzzlug the fans HIS oiu
machine captured only two pennants oe-
fore the collapse came and the ChlcaSo
cubs forged into the limelight. But the
men he had with him then were turther
along in years and at the top OF their
stride when they outdiStanced the field
while the present team is young and not
. fully developed
Only five mana gers in the history OF the
National League have been able-to win
three pennants in row. Pop Arson set
a precedent with the Chicago club begin
ming with the year 1850. But not until
Frank Selee took mold OF the Boston team
C,cvcn years later was the feat duplicated
the Hub players winning in 1891, 1872 ana
1S93 For the next three years the PEN
} ant went to the Baltimore orioles under
Ned Hanon. and then there was lapse
until Fred Clarke led the Pirates TO three
consecutive victories in 1871, 1902 and 1905.
frank Chance was the last manager TO
accomplish the feat. organizing the great
cub machine which was victorious in 1906,
1851 and 1905 the pennant in 1905 being
won on a technicality from the Giants
when Merkle failed TO touch second.
Five managers have repeated once,
Harry Wright with Boston in 1871 and
1875 Arson with Chicago in 1881 and lsS2
Mutric with New York in 1885 and 1889.
Seize with Boston i'm 1897 and 1898, Han
ion with Brooklyn in 1899 and 1900 and
McGraw in 1904 and 1895 and 1911 and 1872.
The six managers who were unable TO
repeat were Spalding with Chicago in
1876. Bancroft with Boston ia 1885, Morrill,
with Providence in 1881, McGunnigle with
Brooklyn in 1880. Clarke with Pittsburgh
in 1893 and Chance with Chicago in 1910
If McGraw is successful with the Giants
next year he will tie the record OF pen
nahts won by any manager in the Ma
tional League, a mark which is shared by
three men, over period Of seven years
Arson won five pennants with the chi
cago club. Selee rounded out tye pen
nants in eight years with the Boston
club. Hanlon got a running start with
three while leading Baltimore, then lost
10 Selee with Boston a couple OF years
hut was victorious twice with the Brook
lyn Superbas. all in eight seasons.
For the last twelve years, since the
National League has beeh made up u
the cities that compose Che circuit to-
day. the yennants have all been won by
three managers. McGrdw Clarke ana
Chance form this great uiumvirate ana
have held an absolute monopoly. Each
leader has four championships TO his
credit, and the race this year between
Clarke and McGraw for fifth flag VIII
be Il spirited one. The Pirates am
Giants. judging from present indications
will be the leading cOnteIders in the next
race. and the fur is sue to fly. chance
is out Of IL unless he picks up contract
with some club aside from the Cubs. 1t
would be great reversal il ne could
edge his way 10 victory with new Cuo'
1t is not likely that the Cubs viii play a
big part In future races, for while at
leas, and tnery is a vacancy in the tn
umyirate which some of the icadlhS
spirits of the league will have to fill.
In the history Of the National League
neither Philadelphia, Cincinnati nor 81
LOUIS has ever won penEant chicago
LEADS IN victories over a periodu OF thirty
seven years. having ten flags 10 lis credi"
uo,ton comes next with eight the last
one being won i'm 1898. The Giants have
won six. Pittsburgh four and Brooklyn
three. Three other clubs, not members o.
the asue at present, have been penran'
4 winners. Baltimore won three times
Precedence s,y!ce and Detroit once.
McCraw's chances to string three pen
nants together are bright with Marty
Narouard and Tesreau 10 do the bulk o.
the pitching, and promising youngstei
in Demaree, the team is well foruhed III
The most important department OF the
game, There are chances for improvement
in the rest of the nine, but as II stahdS
to-day il is well qualified to wage anothei
fight for first honors. The inneid is easll!
the best in the league, and Is only over
Swallowed by Connie Macks star quarter
in the younger organization. IL any
,banses at all are made there VIII De d
ebift IN the outfield but this Will come
only after psvcre or Snodgrass has faiier
5or,n in the next campaign. McGraw has
d.clared that the two men will start on
the season in spite Of their SHORTCOMINGS
,rhe Pirates will not be as fast as the
Giants. but their overpowering hittihs
ability will keep them in the race.
is question, however "he'"ei -,
O'TooIe. Camnitz and Adams VIII ioIin
as strong d pitching proposition as NC
Gray's crew Of twirlers. Clarke has MOI
= first class southpaw which is an es'
scntial factor in every championship
teams success No better pitching could
be asked than that presented by Hendrix
I'm the last race, and he finished the sea
son the leading twirler in the league
Camnitz is getting on in years while
O.To,le and Adams are both unknown
quantities. They may come around al
right and again, they may not
Tho National League pennant winners