Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-29
YANKS GOING WELL
Recent Play of New Workers
Points to Better Days.
INTERSECTIONAL RESULTS
Washington Did Best Work Against
the Western
Clubs.
INTERSECTIONAL RESULTS


hope that better days ar ahead of them
for the remainder of the season. The
pitching staff is performing with more
steadiness than at any other time. and
the team has been showing decided i'm
provement in getting results from organi-
zation. At last Wolverton has been able
to have the same merf i'm the lineup with
out daily breaks in the ranks and the
teamwork and spirit have been better in
consequence
The last stretch of home games played
by the Highanders was by far their best
Of the season, and that notwithstanding
the fact that no games were won from
the Detroits. The team didn't hit its
stride until the Tigers had left but held
its own with the clubs that followed on
the Hilltop. The record against the west
ern teams was eight victories and ten
defeats. not one to point to with pride
records so. but exceedingly good work
for the Hilltoppers compared to the weak
and uncertain playing which had pre-
coded It,
The best work of the last intersectional
series was done by the WashingtOns, who
won eleven games and lost four. The
Bostons won eleven and lost six, and
there was nothing in the developments of
these games to point to danger of the
Red Sox losing their lead. Certainly SO
| far as the season has gone they look
plenty able to win the pennant; and if
the Athletics are to catch them they must
! hustle hard and show greater strength
| than they have shown. There is no rea-
son why the Red Sox should crack. Bet
ter play by the Athletics rather than a
slump by the Red Sox seems to be the
only hope of the champions to win an
other pennant
The Athletics won twelve games and
I 1ncf ,,fr,
tional series, and there isn't much in that
! to bank on for pennant. The Clevelands
won eleven and lost eleven. the Detroits
won eight and lost nine, the White SOX,
who apparently have shot their bolt. won
five and lost ten, and the Browns won
five and lost twelve. The eastern teams
won forty-two games to Twenty-Five for
the western contingent.
While the eastern teams of the Ma tional
League were in the west the last time
they Jared as badly as the American
League western teams in the east The
Giants and Philies won a majority of
their battles but the Brooklyns and Ros-
tons fell down hard. something not uneX-
pected The Bostons are falling down
pretty much all the time but the Brook
lyns showed gait Just Iefore leaving
home which pointed to a better perform
ance in the west. This is the champion
in and out club and can switch from high
class to poor playing with greater facility
than any of its associates.
The Pkilies. with eleven victories and
five defeats, put up a stronger game dur
ing the intersectional contests than any
thirteen and lost six. The squirt OF the
former has been the most recent featul e
Of the race. and now that the injured
players are all On their feet again the
Ouakers will be a harder team to beat
| from now on.
The Giants won nine games and lost
eight. Their slump didn't turn out nearly
as badly as the croakers declared II
would, and the team again demonstrated
its recuperative power. There was some
| extremely poor ball played by the Giants
| in the west, but there was always that
| distinctive characteristic the Poloists
have Of coming back just as strongly
as they fall down. The fielding in Gin
cnnati was particularly atrocious. and
plays Of the bone variety were not want
ing, but nearly always for each bad
play there was a fine play to retrieve 1t,
| and the bad fielding was absent In pinch
es, though it has been present in pinches
| in the last two games here with the
| Cubs. Again the men were always work
! ing hard with their bats, and made up in
| that respect what they lacked in defense.
| Immediately after the coming series
with the western teams the Giants go
west again. returning August 20, and IT
has been predicted that this is a stretch
| of hard games which will make lots of
| trouble for them. As a matter of fact,
the New Yorks do no tfear the western
| teams, either as whole or individuals, a
bit more than anybody else. As one of
them puts it: when we are playing
our game there isn't any club in the
league We can't beat oftener than that
! club beats us. When we are playing
| poorly. as we were in the west, we're
likely to be beaten by any club. When
We are going right We can beat the
strong as well as the weak"
/ For the reconstruction OF the High
anders, which has been going on since
! it was found that 1t was much needed,
| Wolverton has a rich supply of outfield
material. and were the prospective tim
Der for the infield as good the outlook
| for next year would be more encouraging.
There Is lots of time between now and
| then, however, to bring about changes
! for the better in the infield.
| With Wolter and Cree back in the fold
and as capable as ever-there's no reason
why they shouldn't be-there will be
Wolter. Cree. Daniels. Sterrett and linn
to chose from for the outfield. Wolter
and Cree have only to play the game
! they have been playing to hold their
own. in which event their hitting. run
| getting. fielding and aggressiveness will
make them Indispensable. Zinn's ability
| to slug makes him valuable: Sterrett Is
| improving rapidly and gives much prom
ise. and Daniels is fast.
What the club needs, and needs badly
to cope with the best teams of the Amer
lean League. is more speed in the in
| field. more ground-covering ability.
w neither 1t Will ind 1T remains to be seen
The pitching staff has been a disappoint-
| nlent, but has braced lately, and it is by
no means out OF the question that 1t
will have a better year next season than
this. 1t will be reinforced by two or
three youngsters of promise. There's
| nothing more uncertain than whether
young minor leaguers will do for the big
| leagues, but the only way to find out is
| to give them chance.
The jump which the Giants got on the
other teams in the early weeks is now
coming in very handy. The going has
been rough for the Giants since July l.
In that time they have won fifteen games
and lost twelve. Critics have discovered
all sorts of glazing weaknesses in the
Giants ranks since they began to get
their bumps. some real, some imaginary
but the fact still remains that they were
prepared to take advantage of the early
| season conditions as they found them
They must have played a lot OF good ball
of their own, whatever may have been
the condition of the other teams, to es-
tablish the long lead they have So they
are pretty well equipped to survive such
reverses as may come their way. The
team has no less intrinsic strength than
had when it made a strong finish and won
the pennant last year. That the Giants
have played a good deal of poor ball this
month is undeniable, but that doesn't
mean that they are striking their normal
gait. Quite the reverse: they have been
playing below their normal gait Not by
long shot are all OF the weaknesses
which manifest themselves during a
slump chronic weaknesses.