The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
real Fight ON
WITH DETROIT
DURING WEEK
Nationals Have Fine Chance
to Pass Tigers and Finish
IN Third Place.
OTHER SPORT COMMENT
Grifmen Have Already Finished with
Yanks and Browns. Winning
Majority of Games.
By WILLIAM PEET.

Despite the fine showing OF the Ma
tionals since the club invaded St Louis
when IT won three games out of the four
played, but little ground was gained on
the Detroit Tigers in the fight for third
place.
Jennings gang trimmed the Philadel-
phia Athletics two games out of the last
three engagements, but the Jungaleers
will be forced to meet the Boston Red
Sox for a series starting today, and as
the Carrigan crowd appears TO be going
at top speed right now, the Griffmen
should come across with good big gain,
as Washington opens in Chicago this
afternoon, and winds up the week in
Cleveland.
IF Plank and Bender crack I'll catch
those Athletics yet."-Mutterings from
Bill Carrigan, manager of the Boston
Red Sox, on Thanksgiving Day.
New York fans are wondering II the
Yankees and the Giants will clash IL the
latter fail 10 win their fourth straight
National League pennant President
Hampstead, of the Giants, says there is
no agreement existing between the clubs
calling for a post-season series IL both
fail in their respective pennant races.
Hampstead says he is perfectly willing
q let his team meet the Yankees il they
II would like to see the players make
a little extra money" said Hampstead,
IF they lose their chance to get into the
big series; but at present 1 hope there
will be no reason for us to play series
with the Yankees"
The American Leagues adoption Of the
rule for transferring postponed games
when necessary is a wise move Hereto
fore it has been the policy of that league
TO allow the club owners to do as they
pleased about playing on games which
cannot be disposed Of on the grounds
where they originally were scheduled
Provision was made for transferring
them if consent was obtained. The Ma
tional League rule makes 1t compulsory
TO transfer and play them OF II possible.
The decision to adopt the National
League scheme was announced during
the week by President Johnson.
In a close race if is greatly to the ad-
vantage of the sport to have all possible
games played, so that each team may be
on the same terms in the percentage
table. which gives an advantage to the
team which plays the fewest games in
case Of a near tie. The American
Leagues race this year is not close, but
by adopting the transfer idea when 1t
does not matter particularly, it will be
easier to enforce it when close race
does occur.
Manager Fred Clarke, Of the Pittsburgh
team, has hopes Of getting the jump on
his opponents next year by trying out a
big bunch of young players this fall.
Clarke has been experimenting with his
recruits and he proposes to continue this
policy until the end of the season. The
only exception that he will make is
when the Pirates play New York and
Boston Then the Pirates manager in
tends to put his full strength on the
field. So that neither McGraw nor Stall
lings. nor their followers can claim that
he is playing favoTites.
Pittsburgh is unaccustomed to second
division team. So long as the Pirates
cannot get among the first quartet 1t
doesn't matter to the clubs owners or
followers whether Clarke's crew finishes
fifth or last. The 1914 season will be
known as a black year for the Pirates
It is interesting to note that the Ma
tionals have played their last games
against two clubs in the American
League
It is also gratifying to learn that both
of these teams were forced to bow be-
fore the prowess of the Griffithian clan.
The New York Yanks and Nationals
played twenty-five games and Washing
ton has won sixteen Of them. The st.
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