New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-15
FEARS FOR MONOPOLY
ON WORLDS SERIES
Athletics and PhiIIieS Still
Booming Along Toward
Two remnants.
GIANTS HOME THIS WEEK
Will Arrive at Polo Grounds
on Saturday for First OF
Four Games with the
Brooklyn Team.

II begins 70 look as if the height ~
baseball selfshness may be charged
against the Philadelphia fans next Oc-
tober. The very thought OF that city
having the worlds series all TO Itself Is
almost para Tying. IT has happened IN
ChIcoeo. and one Of these days 1t may
happen in Now York but for the present
the only thought here is that this city
may be robbed Of what is considered al
most a necessary climax TO the season
Tho time has not come 10 DO much real
Worrying. a. only the calamity howirfs
have lost faith I'm the Giants, but II must
he acknowledged that ;he Athletics ana
The phillics are booming along I'm a way
which points toward two pennants' anu
r. is high time that they were checked III
their mad career II any Of the otner
teams hope TO get finger in the Dig pool
John j. McGraw and his Giants VIII DO
hack al the Polo Grounds on SATURDAY
for series with the Brooklyn Superoas
and will he at home for the better par
81 TrIy arart from a couple Of SIDE trips
10 Philadelphia and Brooklyn The team
is resting to-day. but to-morro" IL WI
oren a series in Cincinnati which VIII
carry II TO Thursday. while one hoIe
game will be played with the Pittsourg"
Pirates on Friday. II looks like reason
ably easy week. with a chance Of gaming
on the Philies who will be 1gntnG u
ont i'm four games with the Chicago CUBS.
Tho Superbas who have not been going
so smoothly as they did in the early part
Of the season. also viii wind up their first
Western invasion this week in four games
with the St. Louis Cardinals. They VIA
travel East on Friday TO be mere IN Ilfne
for the series With the Giants.
The Yankees have almost completed
their first long stay al the polo GROUNDS
and il seems needless to emphasize that
little or no progress has been made tow
ard crawling out of the cellar. The De-
troit Tigers will b. here for one more
game tomorrow. and then the St. LOUIS
Browns will put IN an appearance Tor
three games. which will wind up the 1rst
appearance Of the Western clubs in this
city Frank Chance will take his men
over 10 washington for a game on Fri
day. so that for one day at least the
, fans" here will have 10 do without their
baseball.
one Of the reasons why the Phlllies are
bounding along I'm front of the Giants and
other teams in the National League race
lies in the fact that home runs have been
so plentiful. Sherwood Magee. Fred Lu-
derus and Cactus" Cravath are the
home run kings. but four other players
have helped swell the total Of twenty
Dode Paskert. Otto Knabe, Mike Doolan
and Tom Seaton. II is we'll for the other
players In the league that the Chalmers
automobile Is not offered for circuit
drives.
Speaking Of home runs, Joe Jackson
Lee Magee and Joe Connolly share the
honor this year OF cleaning up with
the bases full.
John j. McGraw. in talking OF jim
Thorpe the other day in the West, was
quoted as saying:
Thorpe is the quickest man TO learn
new baseball tricks that have ever had
on my club. He is improving steadily
and promises to be the greatest utility
PLAYER in the history OF the game. Just
now he can play any position on tho
team and he is steadily growing better
Thorpe's teammates also have faith
In him. Chief Meyers has the follow
ing to say OF his fellow-Indian:
Thorpe is an apt student in the Nc
Graw school. / have never seen ball
player famillarize himself so quickly with
methods that must have struck him
strangely at first When he Joined Us
he had little TO recommend him except
his physical prowess. The progress he
already has made makes me feel sure
that in Jim Thorpe McGraw has a dia-
mond IN the rough. He'll be real gem
in another year"