The Washington times., 1913-08-21
WANTS ; GAMES
FROM THE BROWNS
Would Take Series in ST. Louis Before Moving to Chicago
Cleveland Has Once More Gone Pennant Crazy, Says
"Senator" En- Tour With Climbers
By SENATOR"

at their normal positions. The cheer
ing died away. The song writer's, who
had been busy thinking out tunes TO
be sung at the worlds series in CleVe-
land, put away their notes. The sport
writer's began to think of next year.
Meanwhile, the Maps began slowly to
find themselves. They entered the
East and won eight of their first nine
winning five straight from the cham
pions. Could they have continued this
work against Philadelphia and Wash
ington, they might now be in first place.
the Griffmen broke even. halting them
on their road to first place.
Now comes long stay at home. The
MaCkmen. opening hostilitieS a. League
Park, have fallen before the increasing
speed of the Maps, and last Sunday all at
tendance records were smashed when
25,0l7 fans crowded League Park to
witness the downfall of Charles Albert
Bender. The Napianders are once more
under way. and Cleveland is again
dreaming of a pennant and worlds
series. Every fan talks of nothing else
than the coming clash between the
Maps and the New York Giants. They
have gone pennant crazy, even as they
were in the spring.
When speaking of the Maps and the
pennant however. ii must be admitted
that they have an excellent chance to
land the gOnfalon. If they can con-
tinue their good work on their COM
ing Eastern trip, they may nose out the
Athletics The trouble with them is
that their best hitters. particularly Joe
Jackson, do not hit on the road as well
as they do at home. Conditions are
background is perfect, a cool. dark
green. No wonder Jackson can hit
for almost 500 at home and then fall
down miserably when he hits the gar
ish advertising signs in the East.
Connie Mack's team is not standing
the pace as well this year as they did
in 1911. The injury to Jack Barry has
been most costly to the White Ele-
plants. Some foolish critics said that
Bill Orr would fit in well with the in
field, but the youngster is far from be-
ing a Barry. and the Holy Cross star
is being missed sadly. Losing a crack
shortstop in addition to having a
crumbling pitching staff is keeping the
thin leader of the Athletics awake
nights.
Carroll Brown. who beat his team to
Detroit by two days for a rest, told
the writer that the Mackmen would
much rather see the Griffmen win the
pennant than to have the Maps come
in ahead of all others. He explained
the attitude of the White Elephants
thusly:
Wed break a leg rather than have
the Maps win the flag. Larry Lajoie is
the only one of the bunch that is half
decent on or off the field. Those fGI-
lows forget that we're all in this bust
ness for a living. They're not doing
themselves any good by acting as they
have all season. Outside of Larry. not
one of them has a friend around the
circuit This may be a good system.
according to Birmingham, but it =
hardly a system that would be followed
by any other team in the league Yes.
there Isn't one of US who wouldn't
break a leg to stop the Maps
This feeling Is common everywhere,
too it might be added. The Maps. in
order to play Birmy's system. have hurt
themselves in the eyes of their mates
around the circuit