The Washington herald., 1912-06-30
Mdrqudrd the Real Reason
For Giants Great Standing
Christy MathewsOn Says Wonderful "Rube" Is Re-
sponsibIe for McGraws Club Streak Race
Win Tighten Up

I from the past instead Of looking ahead
are wearing their future for busile.
as some sage once said Every onG
knows thai the Giants are far ahead
The question f.. How far win they re.
main ahead7 prsdlct that they VIII nol
Be Is far ahead when they return from
their impending Western trip as they are
now. The club win face greater opposi.
ton n the West this time. I predict
further. that when the club returns home
after this next round 81 the circuit, whili
the lead viii be comfortable. there WI
be those who stu consider that q race L
in progress, and the cries of the league
being broken up by the Giants running
away with the pennant won't be 30 loud
and persistent-
This expression Of opinion ia due 70 the
fact that every club In the West with
the exception OF one. ie stronger now
than It JFas when we faced Il on our
first swing around the circuit The ex-
ception Is the Cincinnati team. Chicago
and Pittsburg win be the two toughest
propositions whlsh We VIII meet on the
road. Both win be playing easy Eastern
clubs AZ home while we are fighting with
the other tough Western ourftE They
win have a grand opportunity 20 gain.
The St Louis team 70 q much stronger
aggregation than Il was when the club
was East, because its pitchers have i'm
proved, and the Giants DO not expect any
sinecurs in the mix-up with Roger Bres-
nahan's bunch. with Bresnahan's pitch
ers going better than they have been,
the Cardinals win play their. heads on 10
beat the Giants Bresnahan has the
making of q good club as soon as the
men get properly seasoned. and the team
Is Just beginning to ind itself now.
While we are fighting with them. Pitts
burg win be playing Brooklyn and Chi
D. st.aN Ill ~ I,
fine little chance for tacse two bah clubs
20 gain The same may be true at each
stop except when the Giants are playing
Pittsburg or Chicago themselves. There
fore. my prophecy that he win not be
as far ahead when we'return appears TO
Re a fair one. We can expect little aid
from the other Eastern clubs.
Dodgers Are Improved.
Brooklyn. Of the weaker teams. is
the only one which has shown any i'm
provement lately. and this IS probably
only a nash The other teams are sad
disappolntments, and the Philadelphia
club, with good pitchers and fine hit
ters. Is probably the greatest disap-
pointment OF the season. The Quakers
looked very badly in their series against
us last week. Their play was lstless
and Indifferent and the pitchers, who
formerly worried Ln6 GlAnNa bdNN1l1s
had lost their cunning against them
don't expect to see the Philadelphia
club finsh further up than fifth place,
although IL looked Ike one Of the
strongest teams in the league before the
season started.
Boston has fallen further away, and
with the quitting OF Perdue. the best
pitcher on the team. the outlook for the
Hub is very dun. Something aside from
the lack of baseball appears TO be the
matter with the club. The team hits
hard, is one Of the worst batting ag-
gregations in the league. but with al
the run getting capital that II can
collect. It consistently fails to win
games.
Cincinnati is the second disappoint-
ment of the season. II was a great sur
prise TO all concerned when O'Day shot
out ahead in the early part OF the race.
Garry Hermann was the most enthu-
siastic. But then the Reds pitchers fell
OF, and those Of the other clubs round
ed into form and the team Is trailing
along about where it viii finish now.
The Reds may recover and win a higher
percentage of games than they have
won in the last week, but they win not
climb any higher in the ladder. Both
Pittsburg and Chicago win top them at
the end OF the race