New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-14
Giants Need Just a Bit
More Dash and a Couple
of Pitchers.
PLENTY OF FIGHT
STILL IN PROSPECT
How Marquard's Failure to
Stand Up This Year Has Had
Big Bearing on Struggle
By HERBERT.

By HERBERT.
Tho Chants need quite little more
dash and vigor IN stheir play aNo
rouolo OF pitchers 10 stand shoulder 70
,,o,,i5er with Natty and Tesreau. Inc
formcr can be had il the players SO
viii and II would help a lot. Inc laI-
tor could hardly be purchased TOT y
linV's ransom and are as hard 10 nhu
"a q manager for the Yankees. mere
= No excuse, however, for lack OF am
hitien. with the worlds series plum
HANGING before their eyes ana WhIp
and spur should not be necessary "
rouse d tagging spirit. The hght is n n'I
over by twcnty-siN games, Snd OF tnese
the Braves and the Giants must ctash
in five i'm four days. beginning on sep
,emher 30, and on the Polo Grounds
fy,',H ,b.t series is over the fans have
- reaso,r 10 lose hope. a lead of two
Games is not such serious obstacle TO
overcome. The Boston pitchers appear
10 be going along more smoothly just
q, tbis time. but there Is little 10
choose and baseball is charmingly IN
certain.
The Brooklyn Supcrbas have been a
thorn in the side of the Braves TINS
year. winning twelve of the sixteen
games played, aud perhaps the end Is
NOT Vet. They made trouble for the
Giants last week. they checked Boston
an SATURDAY and arc likely TO take an.
other punch or two There's lots OF
GOOD sport in prospect before October
: is checked Off the calendar.
II seems pity that Frank Chance,
who we'll earned the name OF peerless
Leader" with the Chicago Cubs, snouIu
have come 10 parting OF the way
with the Yankees. No doubt there is
,,,ncb "a he said ON both sides, hut she
charge that Frank Farrell holds MS
purse strings too tight is hard TO pc
love He has spent deal OF none!
I'm irving 10 build up winning team
Tho trouble is he has been badly al
vised in many purchase and poor!
served BY one manager or another ]"
passing along players VINO have proved
highly valuable TO other teams. u IS
nuite possible. on the other hand. 'ns'
there is vast difference between De-
ing a leader or 4 builder.
Fred SnodcraSs seems TO be the Dr:
JclvU and Mr.. HYDE Of baseball ON
tbe diamond he II ono Of the most gen
tlomsnIy and cultured Of fellows; on
tbe diamond he has the faculty OF
quickly sntagoniLing opponents ana
fans III times when the pressure -
vreatest. II Is largely a question OF
personality. Larry Mclean or Larry
bowie could do and say the same things
as Snodgrass and elicit only 4 laugh
The cenireiieldcr Of the Giants Is tenn
veramenial and bit intense. lie IS
irving hard all the time. and sometimes
allows his enthusiasm TO get the petleT
of his judgment. This is not SAID 20
excuse what has been called unsPoTts-
lnanlike actions in Boston on LABOR
DAY. but rather 10 point out that lac is
casilv misunderstood and Ottenhnce
uujuStly censured.
MAYOR Curley Of Boston in c%erciS-
ing himself over the mote in SnoJ-
grass eye overlooked the beam which
WAS sticking out Of the eye Of his own
fair city. lie thought only OF punish
irg visiting player for fsncIed m
suit, and not OF COndemning the DIS
graceful actions Of the crowd IN bonn
harding Snodgrass with pop bottles ana
vile epithets. Evidently the greater o.
the two wrongs was condoneo, or IN
any case, overlooked from an eNaggef-
ated sense Of civic twaddle. No DOUBT
his honor felt convinced that the bot
other nearby towns, and Of these he
lad no concern Atonement for the IN
suit TO his dear Boston must be had
hence his invasion of the diamond,
his repulse by Larry Doyle and his
letter TO Governor Tener.
Grantland Rice has so nearly ana
lived the situation in which the Gi-
ants find themselves that IT IS worth
repeating lie says in The Evening
Mali:
@The effect of Marquard's slump upon
the Giant cause can be shown beyond
argument. When the Giants landed
their first flag in 1911, Marquard won
% games and lost z. His margin OF
victories over defeats was II. The I'll
ants won out by games. In 1917
Narouard won &c games and dropped
Il. His margin Of victories was 10.
The Giants won by 10 games. In 1919
the eminent RUDE won % games ana
lost 10. His margin OF victories was
80. The Giants won by games IN
the three seasons Of Giant conquest
NArauard pitched 10l games TO deci-
sion. He won 20 and lost %. His WIN
ming average vas .722. But 1914 has
been widely different affair. The
stutely southpaw so far has worked III
% games. or these he has won 9 and
lost 10. HIS average Is .0EI, aBdlhsI
.f22 for the other three years. In
mace Of having q big margin Of vic
tories 10 his credit anywhere from IL
20 II he has margin of 10 defeats.
YOU can easily see what u vast differ
cncc this makes. When one of the
star pitchers Of club drops from a
margin of 10 victories to margin Of
10 defeats the wallop Is husky one
and pointed toward vital spot"
Il seems hard to lay the full burten
on the handsome husband OF Blossom
Seeley. but there's All old adage that
Figures never lie" and the cold figures
point to this dismal slump of a pitcher
on whom 50 much depended. 1t might
be we'll, however, to recall that the
team as team has suffered sorrowful
lapges, else Marquard's failure would
not stand out in such fullface type. On
the last Western trip alone he lost two
Games By a score of to 0, and again
on Saturday it was the same story,
MOTOR WANTS.