Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-08


and, with the exception of q trip over
70 Jersey City, the Tigers with be with
Ms for the remainder of the season.
Rut with the home coming. instead
of the fans being in a hilarious spirit.
there is really a feeling of apprehe1h-
sim among them. Such a condition
cannot be helped. of course. but sure
Nv there appears to be little reason
for such anxiety. with team that is
stanneh and true and with material
the class of the league. slump
though annoying, is certain to be
overcome. The case of the Tigers
is not similar to the case of some
clubs which blow out in front for
while and quit for all time when
collared. Newark has ball team
Arst-class. steady, evenly balanced
bali team-a team that has won It's
way TO the front because of its gen
eral al-around superiority and
team that is about as sure as baseball
sureness can be to win the gonfalon
of the season of 191s-1914.
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"Faint heart never won fair lade
is an old story. but there seems to be
more faint hearts at the present time
in and around Newark than even
good judges of such things would
imagine. Everybody and his brother
seems to be stretched his fun length
on the floor yelling. We're beaten
we're beaten!" when, getting right
down to brass taeks, as "kinley
Mack" would say. it is almost
moral certainty that good old Tige
will come home with the pennant
with a naughty little twinkle in his
eve. The cry of alarm and the cry
of help is everywhere, and oceans of
tears and rivers of sobs are nowhere
more pronounced than right at the
famous -Four Corners. There's
where you get the right dope. right
out of the bat bag. According to
the prophets" Newark is not going
to win the pennant. All the other
teams in the league are against the
Tigers, so it's said, and are for the
Rochesters, and for that reason the
Hustlers are being "shooed home" as
champions That is the silly story
you'll hear if you just for one mo-
ment lend your ear to the gossips.
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The fact is, though, Rochester, not
Newark. is the Gin bad" club. John
CAMEL manager of the Hustlers, Is
far from popular, while Harry Smith,
handicapped though he is by the pres
ence of Wise Man" Solomon, is adj
mitted to be the biggest favorite in
the International League. So the
warns we hear that the clubs are LAY
ing down" to Rochester and playing
their heads off, against Newark are
not to be believed at all. The real
facts are, as Harry Smith says, I'VE
have been in a little slump, but We
are out Of it, Luck has been kind to
us all year and we have no complaint
to offer We struck a snag the very
last thing. but it is not dangerous. ALI
the boys are working hard and our
defeats came about more through the
breaks" in the game than through
any lack of effort. We will win sure
though, and we will win by a good
margin. We are home for a run of
games and that means a run of vic
tories"
Those who know baseball at all,
know that the flying leader is some
times brought up with a sudden jerk.
1t has been so with the Giants in the
National League and with the Athlet-
les In the American League. In the
Southern League it has been even
worse, for Mobile, looked upon 81 few
weeks ago as a CERTAIN winner, has
been nosed out by half game by the
Atlanta Club. That's the way or base
ball--the luck of the game. To win
today from the champions and to be
beaten tomorrow by the tale-enders is
nothing new or startling. Rather il
is a common occurrence and it is that
same uncertainty that makes baseball
the great, big. honest sport it is in
this year of Our Lord.
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AS to the standing of the clubs
Newark has an advantage of ex-
actly five full games over Rochester
In bold figures, the Tigers have wor
So games and lost 81, while the
Hustlers have won SO games and lost
81. In order TO overcome this ire.
mendous lead-and it is a tremen.
dous lead. with Newark having only
twelve games to play and with
Rochester having only fourteen
games to play-the Hustlers would
have to win practically all their re
naming games and the Tigers woulC
have to lose about so per cent. o
their twelve games in order to cap
ture the bunting. That's the situa
ton as the figures show us. and Tig'
would have to fall all over himsel
to lost out.
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There is no denying the fac
| that the Newark team has hat
a very annoying slump, but
as Harry Smith says, that
over with now, and Tige will ge
down to business again. From what
can hear, throughout all the hard lucl
and the trouble Manager Smitl
never once lost heart or hope. He ha
been the optimistic man at every stag
of the game and he has been so sur