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monty" Says McGraw's
Team Viii Soon Shove
Phillies to the Rear.
UPSET DOPE SHEET
Pitching Staff is Rounded Into
But Fielding is
Uncertain.
(BY MONTY

l
struck their stride? So it seems. The
McGraw clan suddenly has awakened,
shaken off the pail of boredness that
| bound up it's early season efforts and
has torn forth into the opposition with
a vigor and snap unequalled by any
other machine in The National League
The team at last has uncovered a
punch, said wallop being the same
haymaker that mauled obstacles out
of the path of the triumphant cam
! paigners in 1911 and last year. 1t
| strikes at the most vulnerable part
| at the most telling time-the uneX-
pected moment In that one word
| unexpected" you have the secret
and basis of the entire McGraw sys-
| tenn.
| When the McGraw punch, always
so unlocked for that it sometimes is
! called lucky punch" is moi among
those present, the Muggsy charges de
| ski slides into the under division.
When it returns, UP they bob into the
elite.
The Giants are striding along now
| in seven-league-bott manner and the
same pace maintained will leave the
| Brooklyns we'll to the rear and the
Phillies ere long also will be obliged
| to gaze at the end of The New York
automobile on which the license plate
is displayed. The only question is
whether they will maintain this rate.
| The Giants, with their dander up and
driving in one of the ferocious streaks
put up by odds the strongest game of
any team in the circuit. At all other
time they play worse ball than the
Boston Braves of 1912. However, this
team of extremes appears set for a
spell of it's Dr. Jeckyll days, with Mr..
Hyde buried in its wake.
The renaissance of the Giants dates
from a week ago Thursday when hey
struck the Phillies in the start of a
cial' written all over it. The league
leaders marched out ONO the Polo
Grounds cocky and ozzing confidence
at every pore. Their battle CRY was
for clean up that would place them
beyond all danger of being over haul
ed by the two time monarchs of the
circuit. VIVA. they ran into was the
antithesis of soft spot They were
beaten in four straight games, at the
conclusion of which they mus: have
felt like the little negro boy in the
story. He was humping his head on
the steps of the capitol a. Washington
when senator asked him what was
the idea. Il feels SO good when 1
STOP replied the pickaninny.
The clean sweep of that series by
The Giants has knocked the dope into
a cooked hat, or rather has banged it
back into what it was before the sea-
son began. Shall it be called The
turning point of the campaign?
The main thing brought out by the
performances of Giants and Phillies in
the last Two weeks are the facts anent
the two pitching staffs. The Phil
| lies tossing troupe is the more capa-
BILE from general angles of considerat-
ion but can no. receive the backing
of as potent hitting and baserunn-
ing as the Giants Fingers are favored
with Line up the two staffs, with
their feeders behind them, and have
them pitch to the same set of ba:ters.
The Phillies would yield less runs and
would win in a majority of cases. But
the edge in favor of the Giant. club
swingers and path speeders is suf-
| ficien. to reverse the order. At least
that is what seems to have ben shown
by the recent performances of the ri
walls.
| McGraw has rounded six Of his
pitchers into winning form now ready
for the charge through The hot sum
mer months. Mathewson, who was
the only dependable during the early
weeks, is still at the top of his FORM
and Marquard and Tesreau have join
ed him, filling out the trio which ORR
ginally was counted on for the bulk OF
the burden. Demaree has Clipped in
with effective work and Crandall, up
on whom waivers had been asked some
time ago, has proved useful in the
last few days in his forte. the utility
role. Also Fromme has begun to de-
monstrate his value and prove thai
McGraw was not goldbricked by the
trade with the Reds, in which he gave
away Devore, Ames and Groh.
With this half dozen performing in
decorous style in the rifle pit, it is