Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-22

ing up the line like a cavalry charge,
and the Giants are not so sure that
they will be able to keep in the lead
and out of reach of the Smoky City
crew. Pittsburgh, with much to
commend her and showing signs of
her real class for the first time this
season in her last dozen or so games,
breaks in on New York when the
Giants seem to be at their best, and
therefore the battle should be all the
more interesting and the outcome all
the more uncertain.
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New York has the shade on her
home grounds and she will have
Matty besides. Pittsburgh will be
slightly handicapped with Hans
Wagner out of the regular lineup.
But the Pirates are going so well
that Wagner, startling to say, does
not appear to be missed. The club
has been most successful without
him, yet there was a time when
Pittsburgh without Wagner would be
like a dog without a tail. Hans is
with the team, but he is simply
warming the bench His leg is sup
posed to be out of kilter and he is
said to be otherwise ailing, but the
secret is around that Manager
Clarke is easing Hans out gradually
and that the team Is going surpris-
lngly well without him. Dots Miller
Is still displaying sufficient skill to
be a valuable acquisition to the Pr
rates, and, in fact, all the members
of the team have feeling that they
are going to win the pennant.
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The pennant hopes of the Pirates,
Notwithstanding they are fourteen
full games behind the Giants, are
not entirely out of the question. That
they will have to go at a terrific gait
right up to the very last ditch is a
moral certainty but that the Giants
will also have to maintain a Calling
gun speed is also matter of admis-
sion. AS the teams are going, it would
be silly to predict any consecutive
number of victories for one club over
the other. If anything, you would have
to tie to the Giants on their home
grounds and all The Pirates, though,
play against New York, and the
games between the Giants and Pitts
burgh, even without Wagner, are still
rare old treat.
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Although Wagner is looked upon in
the light of bench warmer at pres
emit, the Flying Dutchman" is des-
tined to become famous in another
way. Selected by the Carnegie Mu-
scum of Pittsburgh as the ideal base
ball player of modern times, Wagner
when he is all through with the great
national game, will be asked to give
his worn uniform and his painless
glove to the institution for future
preservation. 1t Is a grand tribute
and it goes out to man worthy of
the honor Wagner, for years, has
been the worlds greatest exponent
of our national game and he has
never shamed it for minute. Others
there are who might have been
chosen for the honor, but none. it can
be said In positive truth, are more de-
serving. For Matty, when the time
comes. something ought to be done
and l look to New York to do Itself
| proud when the Greatest Pitcher OF
Them ALP passes out of the baseball
arena.
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| Ban Johnson has wisely refrained
! from interfering in the now much
discussed New York; Chicago deal
That Manager Chance got hooked, in
a way, there isn't any doubt, but that
| he should make "belch" is also a
little out of order. Baseball man.
ayers are not angels, by any means
and trades are made on the judgment
of those concerned. Johnson has
kept off, as 1t were, and his judg.
ment in this respect seems to be good
as usual. For moment it looked a.
IL Ban was going out to Chicago and
tear Manager Callahan to ribbons
but when he learned more about tht
| deal and recalled that Charley
4 fxo,v,tsLov rofoht have sornethin1 a