The Alaska citizen., 1913-08-04
| latest Outside Sporting Dope

. ambulance. 1t IS time TO order a
hearse"
While We are on the subject of
sign stealing. they tell good s,ory
about the acumen OF the Cubans
when the Athletics went TO Havana
10 play in 1910. The Cuban clubs
had heard all the talk OF the Phila.
delphia team stealing signs. so they
decided 10 fool them by giving the
signals N Spanish. Connie" Mack
Immediately signed an interpreter TO
sit on the bench. but he vas dis.
covered after a few innings and chas.
ID to cover. even though he did have
on a Philadelphia uniform.
They tell me here in Cincinnati
that Cleveland IS baseball mad over
the showing the club Is making un.
der Birmingham. The merchants
have promised to give the players
100000 if the team takes the pen
want. and this may have something
TO do with the hustling OF the Maps
at present. They have experienced
only fairly successful road trip
however, fairly successful because
The Athletics are gong so well. The
Cleveland team is playing great ball.
and the pitching staff Is moving
As smoothly as demons ration six
cylinder autom bile. but they can
not win the pennant II the Athletics
never lose.
The club has made a good show.
ing on the road. and the players are
in there fighting. but the Athletics
are Al the top OF their gait and are
holding it. Bender and Planks were
never better in their lives. The in.
cid IS moving as 1t did in 1910 and
1911. Collins is going al his best
at second base. Every man on the
club is hitting. They act like
college team. more like one than
ever saw in the big league. They
to the great management Of Con
ME" Mack that no d.scords exist In
the club and there are no cliques.
Mack is always right there urging
he d recting and encouraging A
Young pitcher named Wyckolf start
ed against the New York Americans
II Memorial day in the morning. and
ran into game in which Russell
Ford did not allow hit up TO the
ninth ming. Between every round
Mack was sitting beside his young
twrler with his arm around him.
steadying and talking to him. He
held him on the ground. The pitch
er won that game in the ninth in
mig.
Therefore, it does not appear TO
be due to any fault of the Cleveland
club but more 10 the excellence
the Athletics, that the pennant
chances OF the Birmingham boys
are slowly fading. They are up
against wonderful team going at
its best. and the expected weakness
in the pitchers box is not there. be-
cause Connie" has discovered some
good talen in Brown, Wyckoff, Heuck
and the rest of his youngsters. The
Cleveland team is making game
ght of it, and deserves credit. Ii
has been facing harder schedule
than the Athletics for the last two
weeks.
The National league race 10 prac-
tically just as it was. The Giants
have net profited by their jaunt on
the road, while the Phillies have fail
ed to crack as we hoped and expect
ed. The fact that Doom caught
Pittsburg going badly just after We
had taken four stra'g ht from his
club was big steadier. II the Pr
rates had cleaned up on that series
it would have pretty nearly crowded
Philadelphia out OF the running.
men we ran INTO the flTdteS WHen
they We're m wing at something like
their normal gait. II was due to
bad baseball that we did not win
FOUR straight In Chicago.
The Philadelphia club is newt ably
in the race to the finish unless II
cracks vide open. which ! do not
expect now Ii does not seem 10 me
that Chicago and Brooklyn can hold
up ahead Of the Pirates much longer
Pittsburg will begin 10 climb. and
the other tive start to sink. The
Cubs looked very badly against us.
although the best We made out OF
The series was an even break. or
course, we did not get fair glimpse
of Overall because he threw his
arm out after pitching four balls in
the game he started against us,
but lately he has been Evers' win
ming card in the box with his newly
found spitball He will be out OF the
game for a time new and this Will
further reduce the efficiency Of an
already weak pitching staff. Then
there is not the spirit behind the
Cubs in Chicago which used to be