Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-07-05
GIANTS ABLE
 TO HOLD OWN Ability to Rise in a Crisis Is the Secret of Their
 Success. ABLE TO HOLD LEAD After Getting Runaway Lead Giants Continue to Win and Retain Lead Secured in Early
 Season.
(By Frank G. Menkc.)


 New York, July 4.-One of the big secrets of the success of the Giants is their ability to rise up in a crisis and soak soidly upon the knob any and all contenders for first place hon ors
 It has been the case this year. It was the case last year and in nearly all the other years that McGraw has held the reins. The sudden strength shown by the Giants against strong teams, immediately following a per iod of floundering, seems almost un- canny.
 The Pirates brcezed along at mer- ry clip early this season. It seemed nothing could stop them. The Giants, in the meantime had been just merely ambling along. Finally the Giants wandered into Pittsburgh for a four game series with the Pirates. On past showings it looked like three out of four or four straight for the Gl- ants. But it ended just the other way The Giants surprised everybody by whirling around and delivering a crushing blow upon the domes of the Pirates.
 The Cincinnati Reds started on their recent western trip just few games behind the first place Giants. The Reds against the Braves, Phllies and Dodgers fared mighty well. They played good, consistent baseball. The Giants, in the meantime, had a mighty job getting an even break with the Pirates, Cardinals and Cubs who had preceded the Reds at the Polo grounds X "CrOOcial Series.' Then the Reds came along. "croocial series" was in prospect Four straight would put the Reds il first place, while three out of foul would put them only few points from the top. It looked rosy for the Reds for they had been playing req baseball while the Giants for the two weeks previous had been just Hummer ing through their games.
 1 We'll, the Reds came-and the Gi ants whaled the daylights out o them. The Reds threatened to ous them from first place and the Giant: stiffened their backbones, cleared tho decks for action and took the entire series. The Giants hadn't been ablt to do much against the other thret western teams that came, but just as soon as the team came along tha was in the runnerup position they gave that team an almighty beating and incidentally, increased their holG on first place. A,,f nf With Wcnk TOnnS | In 1913 it was the Phillies whC proved to be the Giants most formid- able foes throughout the year. The Giants had considerable trouble beat ing the so-called weaker teams, which the Philles walloped with ease and dispatch, but every time the Giants met the Phillies it meant beautiful beating for the Quaker town gang. And so it was in 1912 and 1911. The Giants found it rather tough sledding when they bumped the weaker teams, but just as soon as they stacked up against real pposition-against clubs that threatended to oust then from the top-thy played like fiends-and won.
 The dear, old Cincinnati directors don't seem to have very much on the dear, old Harvard Alumni.
 After the Yale Harvard varsity boat race which the judges awarded to Yale, despite the fact that a moving picture film plainly shows that Har- yard won by two feet, Coach Wray, of the Harvard crew, went to l.. S. ! Chandler, stroke of the crew and ask ed him why in blinky blazes he didn't hit up higher stroke, as Wray had ordered. The Harvard crew, through out the race, didn't average a stroke over 30 but in it's trial races had re- peatedly hit up 36 and maintained it through the four miles.
 Chandler, answering Wray's ques- tion, said:
 q stroked according to instruc- tions."
 "Whose instructions demanded Wray, who up to that time had SUD- posed that as coach he was the only person who was passing out instruc- tions.
 Instructions from the Alumni,' an swered Chandler.
 Wray, being a brave man, didn't faint-but he felt faint. And so would any other coach under like circum- stances. If the Alumni hadn't inject i ed it's finger into pie in which it had no share, the crew would have followed Wray's instructions, and Harvard, probably, would have wor decisively, in the opinion of rowing