New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-27

1t is almost a waste of words to reiterate
that Il would be safe to risk the parlor
carpet, as Dan Smith used TO say, in wager
ing that the Giants will win the National
League pennant. Everybody is saying IT.
Baseball is uncertain at best but any team
that can go into the camp Of the enemy
and on foreign diamonds win eleven out ol
thirteen games played is deserving OF Inc
confidence and support of the most skepti-
cal. In fielding. batting base running and
pitching the team is going well, and, while
a slump is almost sure TO come at some
time during the season, it is hard TO see
what team beyond the possible exception
of Cincinnati will be in a position to take
advantage Of it.
The Brooklyn Superbas appear TO be u
hopeless case They did as poorly in the
West as the Giants did well. winning only
three games and losing nine. They may do
better on their own diamond while enter
tanning the Western teams, but the out
look IS none too bright, and it is likely to
be a long time before they arc able 10
crawl cut OF last place.
As 10 the Yankees. the least sand at TINS
time the better I am beginning TO lose
confidence in a team that looked 50 strong
to me on paper when The season opened
The pitchers on whom Wolvcrton and the
critics banked so largely have proved sad
~ disappointing. The players are hittlnS
the ball and scoring plenty o. runs, ou'
the defensive work has been OF kind To
allow the opposing teams to make quite as
i
lust possible that the onC-looked-for I'M
provemert viii come OH the Western trip,
which is now at hand, when under ord'-
nary circumstances. it would be least eN-
pected.
Captain Davis. who ranks among the
best college pitchers Of the season, Shons'
the brilliant centre fielder. Lewis, the
heady catcher. OTIS Ainsley ct al. brought
moro fame TO Williams College and its
baseball team by defeating Vale at TO
on Tuesday. only to fall before Vernon.
another pitcher Of the first rank, and Am
herst on Thursday. They came right back,
however, and defeated Dartmouth At : 10
on SATURDAY, At the pace the team is
going It will he hard 10 keep 1t ont Of the
first three or four i'm the final ranking.
Unfortunately, one game IS hardly TAR
test, although a series Of three IL not
much better in deciding between two nines
which are reasonably we'll matched. II
may be said in passing that the Williams
team as q whole is much stronger ana
better balanced than was rho case year
ago, when it also defeat ted both Yale and
Princeton.
Browns defeat OF Harvard on Wednes-
day by a score Of to in eleven innings
kept the team from Providence i'm for
ward place, although the loss OF a game 10
Holy Cross on Saturday hurt bit. Inc
result of the battle at Cambridge was ols-
appointing and far from satisfying to Har-
ward men for two reasons-tirst because
FELTON, was so wild and erratlc that he
gave five bases on balls and forced in two
of the three runs in the first inning ana
second because a questionable decision by
the umpire made II possible for Brown TO
score the winning run on the squeeze play
in the eleventh inning. The teams were
remarkably well matched, but the fact re-
mains that Brown won, and this must
count.
Yale and Cornell had q merry struggle
at Ithaca on Saturday and the former earned
what little advantage victory brought as
the teams were remarkably well matched.
As in the case Of Brown and Harvard,
however, there was the difference between
winning and losing, and as the fight for
the so-called championship is young, this
means much for Yale. One other game
must be considered. Harvard's chances,
damaged by Brown, practically were
ruined when Princeton won in decisive
fashion on Saturday I'm the only game Dc
tween the two colleges.
Charles Z. Courtney has lost none OF his
cunning and the Cornell crews have lost
none Of their rowing ability. The consist
ency with which the eight-oar shells from
Ithaca win race after race IS little snort
Of remarkable Columbia men think the
spell will be broken at Poughkeepsie in
the big intercollegiate regatta next month,
but almost everybody else in the rowing
world now believes that Cornell again will
sweep the river II Is not surprising,
either, after the decisive victory over Har-
ward and Princeton on the Charles river
lsst Thursday!
Ted Meredith, OF Morccrsburg Academy
the schoo!boy marvel, is likely TO have a
bright future marrcd by TOO much work
while he IS growing and developing ANY
youngster who can equal the lnterco!iegl-
ate ouarter-nlile record OF AZ 40 SECONDS
and run the hdlf-mile In 1:j6 as on the
same afternoon as he did on May II, in
Philadelphia. should be carefully handled.
HERBERT.
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