New Britain herald., 1914-08-24
abRAYES TIE GIANTS
 ] IN NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Duly TaiI-Endcrs Now Threaten
 Grown Of Thrtc-T Time Champs.

Forsthe first time since the National league season was fairly under way a foreign foe this morning disputes the lead with the champion Giants. The sensational Boston Braves stepped into a tie with the three time National league winners as a result of New York's defeat yesterday at the hands i of the. Cincinnati Reds. The Hub ! team was idle in Pittsburg. They didn't have to catch the Giants, the Polo grounders came back to them. Whether or not Boston earns the privilege of facing the Athletics in the
 worlds series, the fact remains that
 no ball team of modern times has ac- Icomplished such herculean task as this same force of George T. Stallings.
 In a little more than a month the Big
 Chief ran the gamut from last place
 to frst-or what is practically the
 same thing, a tie for 1t. There was
 but one other such squirt during the 1 regime of the National Commission. In 1906 Fielder Jones, by grace of 1 nineteen straight victories with the w sition to the front He did not climb alone on nerve and luck, for after beating the field for the American league championship Jones astonished the world through winning a worlds series from the Cubs. And the Cubs then were at the heyday of their pow CT. They had just established a rec , ord of 116 victories in a schedule or 154 games that season.
 In 1906 everyone looked for the White Sox to crack after they at tained the lead. Optimists who live outside of the City of Culture have
 been predicting the same thing for Boston for more than two weeks. If Boston is due to break it has shown
 no evidence of the calamity to date.
 Invariably the team has come back strong after every defeat. Saturdays
 double header was fitting illustra-
 tion. James, one of the main de- pendences of the Braves, was beaten after twelve innings in the first game. In spite of having an early lead tied in the second game the Braves turned round and doubled the score of the Corsairs.
 Those who had regarded Boston as a false alarm two weeks ago are try
 ing now to hedge their bets. Some very judicious purchases and trades
 by Stallings have enabled him to frame cast of real merit. Boston is out even with the Giants because Stallings' team has been playing the best ball in the league for more than a month He has been accommodating power rather than wasting his re- sources in a blind dash for the lead.
 Within the past couple of weeks Stallings has secured two players who should help him greatly through the furious drive the rest of the way. Third Baseman Red Smith is one, OutfeIder Herb Moran the other. Moran was secured Saturday from Cincinnati. He will report to Boston in Chicago. The little gardener was chiefly instrumental in helping Red Ames to yesterdays victory over the Giants, for by some strange turn or fate the right to New York's final hu- initiation was reserved for the hard luck pitcher castoff of McGraW.
 Boston may step into the front to- day, but that does not mean the pen nant Stallings is likely to encounter stiffer opposition from now until Octo- Der than that which Fielder Jones met from American league rivals ln 1906. The four first division teams of the National league are so closely punched that any one may have dis 1 tinct advantage by the end of the week Nor are the second division l clubs to be despised. Brooklyn, Tn 1 last place, is only eleven games De- hind the Giants and Braves. Every 1 club in the league is capable of giv- ing another a fight to the finish. The American league of 1906 was not rnoa rlu Sa well balanced