Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-15
WAIT UNTIL NEXT
YEAR, NOW THE CRY
Major League Tailenders Take
New Hope After Braves
Showing.
MANY FINE PROSPECTS

This IS the open season for wiz
ming pennants. The most conVine-
ing and sustained next year" talk
was evident in the vicinity Of Bos-
ton during the winter of 1894. But
these Boston folks made good. In
1912 the Braves had finished last in
the National League scram BILE Last
year found them at the head OF the
second division, and. with the ac-
QUESTION OF johnny Evers, the next
year talk became loud and persist
ent 1t looked like further waste OF
conversation up to July but after
that most every body knows. more OF
less what happened. Now Boston
can see nothing else but another
pennant in 1915. and, considering
the Unprecedented feat of the
Braves this year and the general
outlook among the other teams, ar
gument at this stage of the game Is
largely futile The Giants are ex-
pected TO present one of the great
est changes in the history Of the
team When they take the field for
the 1915 race The next year. talk
in New York is weak and waverina,
for no one knows what to expect.
There is no doubt however, that
Manager MoGraw plans house
cleaning. His machine has fallen
ia pieces. The four time pennaut
hoodoo struck with fun force upon
the Giants Just at time when it
seemed McGraw would overpower
the ink. The infield, catching de-
partment and the outfleld are now
sadly in need of bolstering up. New
blood is needed, and McGraw In
tends to reconstruct his team--not
upon the wreck of his present organz
ization, but after wedding out those
who have slipped back. There IS
| likely to be some lively trading this
winter, in which Giants who have
I heretofore figured in the worlds Sc
Ties box scores will be shunted
away from Broadway. Burns. in
| the outfield, and Fletcher at short
and Tesreau in the box, are about
: the only men who displayed any-
| thing like the form McGraw must
have. 1t was not one of Mattys
| great years. but no one is talking Of
a trade involving Big Six. As for
the rest OF the team. however, no
ones neck is any too secure. =
Cards Looked strong.
Next years pennant is not conceded
to Boston in st. Louis or Chicago, al
even In Brooklyn, for that matter.
The rise of the Cardinals has been all
but as sensational as the Braves.
They didn't go as far as did Stall
ings's men, but kept everlastingly at
IL, and may be expected to giveaa
good account of themselves next year.
The Cubs obviously were suffering
from internal troubles during the past
season. They have the pitchers and
= x~rsHat
will be dangerous to any team.
Brooklyn staged an eleventh. hour
squirt that carried them to the top of
the second division. The Dodgers
have a habit of arousing hopes at the
tall-end of the season, or making
wild dash at the start and then dying
out. go they look about the same for
next year.
At Pittsburgh there Is a probles1
This team, on paper one of Che
strongest in the entire outfit, has been
a complete fizzle. Early in the season
! MoGraw declared IL was the Pirates
the Giants had to beat If they were
to win their fourth consecutive pen
nant. How far the little Napoleon
was off in the estimation of the real
strength of his enemies IL shown by
the fact tina, the Braves, team he
did nos figure In the running heat
isim, while tho Pirates pulled In with
The Cincinnati Reds the only team in
their rear. Tho Pirates slipped so far
back even Hans Wagner fell short
of his annual 800 batting average
The trade between st. Louis and
Pittsburgh which gave the Pirates
| Konetchy, one of the best first
sacl1ers in harness: Harmon and
Mowrey for Jack Miller. Wilson and
Robinson seemed TO make the Card
and simply work the finish of Fret
Clark's crew. Something will have to
happen in Pittsburgh.
Reports that Red Doom is to be re-
leved of the management of the
Phillies win not down. The Federal
League raid put the blink on the
Phiilies this year, where sickness and
injuries have stepped in before. Had
Seaton been with the team and con
trihuted his usual share of victories
Dooin's men would have been up
among the leaders and fighting
around the top with Grover Alexan-
der's mastery pitching as their prize
asset. With Alexander turning in VIC
tories right along and Seaton to aid,
the Phillies would have had pitch
ig strength to burn. This managerial
business will probably be the first
thing settled in the Philly plans for
next year.