The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-06
MANY THRILLS IN THE
NATIONAL LEAGUE RACE
Pirates Started OF Well, Then Drop.
ped-BrookIyn Then Had Spell.
Cubs and Cards In Spotlight.
BRAVES DASH THE FEATURE
Como Up From Last Place In Short
Period Of Six Weeks-Fans Are
Asking What Will BE Result Be-
fore End OF Season.

Tho National League race this year
has been filled with moro thrills and
more sensations than any in all tho
other years OF Its history. And. as they
say In classic Boston, "the end amt
yet"
Tho Pirates started things BY grab
bling on about 9a.ai per cent OF their
like n fourteen-inch shell, and every
body began to assure everybody else
that the Pirates would be among those
present In the we'll known NJ. S
Then came the smashup.
Right at this point Brooklyn took
the bit in It's teeth, 50 to speak. and
team: They shot up through the ranks
like bullets. and Just when tho Brook :
ig ~ ,,n fans sro were dreaming pennans
the Brooklyn machinery
Phiiiies Doing Stunts.
Tn tho meantime the poor Phillies"
were doing stunts. They walloped the
Giants. the pirates. the Braves and
From. a seemingly certain tailender
the Phillies took on real team aspect.
But their squirt was short lived.
have recovered their sea legs, and. after
considerable skirmishing, besieged first
place and finally captured it. But
Cincinnati Reds. who played wonder
full baseball In the West. and came
along to New York confident OF fore
ing the Giants to retreat.
But the Giants didn't.
Then came the Cubs. with n grand
rush. storminG first place with their
heaviest artillery. But the Giants turn
ed them back. just at a time when the
Cubs were within a hop. skip and
jump OF tho coveted position.
For a bsie' spell things looked calm and
then the Cards connected with a winning
streak and shot along the first place goal.
= f,a~A mud.
over other foes. halted the cards. and
again the Giants settled back. figuring they
The Greatest Thrill.
In las, place carly in July. the. Boston
catapuited from last place to the top In n
period of six weeks.tho most wonderful!
The remarkable feature OF that squirt
Is the fact that the Braves have tranlpied
CUBS the Cardinals and the Giants. and and
to he second dVso as eInss
They have swept forward like n tidal wave
What viii The ' next four Week Weeks bring In
this .,,, season son Of amazins dashes. Staging
sse he noS,h s.ors Ss
closes that will force us to vote II ae sven
I, greater surprise than the onward rush OF
no one can foretcll. a. this moment who
VIII be at tho top OF the National League
heap when the song bangs for the fnai
ronad OF this battle royal IL may be the
Braves. the Giants. the Cubs tho Cardi-
mails. and It may be some one else.
The other clubs In the National seem 70
be too far in the rear OF the first four al
this time TO have ghost OF a chance
But six weeks ago Boston In a much
sorrier position. 1t had TO jump from the
bottom. And IT had to travel longer way
tnah any OF the teams now In the second
division would have 70 travel to overtake
the leader. The irst-plnce Giants then were
farther ahead OF the last place Braves than
the distance that nov divides the leader
and the tail-endeT
IT'S certainly a merry little war they're
staging In the old league.