The mirror., 1913-07-10
BObbIes
By A Fan.

Said Giant to Phil:
What makes you look so ill?''
Oh" replied the trembling Quaker,
You may think me just faker,
But I've just had very bad pill"
Aha, said old man Polo Grounds,
what have you got to say now? I told
you what the Giants would do, didn't I3''
We couldn't even conjure up smile for he
had done just that The Giants swept
into first place and commanding lead by
four straight victories over Dooin's bunch.
The scores do not indicate that they met
very stiff opposition, except in the first
game. That was slugfest in which the
Phlls excelled with the bat, but they also
pulled the most boners having seven against
| tve for the Giants. With a clean lead it
is quite likely the Giants will never be
headed, for there doesn't appear to be any
team close enough to turn the trick. The
PhilS have just demonstrated their inability
and Brooklyn doesn't look to have the
necessary staying qualities. Manager
McGraw has announced the purchase of
| Schauer, pitcher, from the Superior Club
of the Northern League. A fancy price
of ten thousand dollars was named, but it
is thought three-fourths of it was stage
money. Ralph Comstock, of Minneap-
oils, twirled no hit, no run game against
| Schauer the other day.
The Phils took the air route and lost
eight straight games before getting back to
earth July 4th, when they grabbed both
ends of double header from Boston. That
| the team is not of championship caliber
| cannot be gainsaid. The material is there
| right enough, but someone is needed to
whip it into shape. Frank Chance always
thought well of the Phils and it would be
! interesting to see what he could do with
them. AS to the series with the Giants it
was not entirely devoid of startling cpl
sodes. Manager McGraw sought to en-
| liven the first fracas by interpolating lit
| tie of his line of repartee from the coaching
lines. He launched most of his pointed
shafts at Ad. Bremen who withstood them
successfully during the game. But after
wards Mr.. Brennan was in frame of mind
which could no longer endure Mr. Nc
| Graw's taunts and he promptly delivered
left to the latter's jaw, followed by right
| to the ear. McGraw took the count and
| then some. 1t was about the worst beating
he ever received-and he has had some bad
ones at that. And all this happened in the
City of Brotherly Love.
Brooklyn also appears to be guilty of the
| skyrocket act. After trimming the Phil
lies four straight they allowed Boston to
walk off with three games, practically los
ing the previously gained advantage.
About one more good pitcher is needed to
make the Superbas very dangerous. With
another man like Allen or Ragon, Dahlen
could make all teams hustle. Wheat,
Smith and Daubert have recently been do
ing some hard and timely batting that is
| responsible for number of games in the
won column. The Giants beat them both
games of double-header July 4th.
The Cubs succeed in staying around the
| 500 mark, not varying much either way.
They are playing the in and out variety of
baseball one day like world beaters and
the next day like chumps. They recently
dropped four out of five games to Cincinna-
ii, the tail-enders. Charley Murphy will
not make much money on the Cubs this
year and he may let go. The Chicago
| public is not quite satisfied with Evers as
manager. They think him too nervous and
| highty in disposition to run the team.
Tommy Leach and Zimmerman are both
| doing stunts in cloutng, having averages of
| .319 and $40 respectively.
| The Pirates cannot seem to strike win
ming combination. Clark has placed a
youngster named Hammers in center field
and moved Max Carey over to left, retiring
himself to the bench. Artie Butler, for
merly of ST. Paul, has been subbing at
short in an acceptable manner, while Wag-
ner is out of the game. The team should
finish better than its present position. The
Pirate roster bears the names of some pretty
classy pitching artists and if they once get
started should pull the team out of the ruck.
The Cardinals have thus far been unable
to secure any valuable additions to their
pitching staff. Teams in the lower class
to be dazzled with money offers, but de-
mand players in exchange. Higgins has
lot of players that nobody wants so he is in
peculiar predicament, as he cannot afford
to turn any of his stars loose. 1t is likely
he will have to struggle through the season
with his present aggregation and live in
hopes of securing some talent via the fall
draft route.
Business is improving somewhat with Joe
Tinker and his Reds. Four out of five
from the Cubs was pretty soft for Joe. The
Red twirlers gave some great exhibitions,
including Miner Brown who came back
and sunk the harpoon into his old team
mates. 1t must have made Tinker SUI
premely happy to thus triumph over Johnny
Evers. Suggs, Benton, Brown, Johnson,
Packard and Ames should be able to de-
liver the goods regularly now that hot
weather holds the boards.
The White Sox and Washington are hav-
ing great race for third position with the