The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-01
FLAG WINNING TEAMS
SHOW THEIR QUALITY
Fine Baseball Played Here by
Both Our Giants and
Those Athletics.
MACK HAS STRONG ATTACK
Deluge Of Double Headers This
Week for the Three
Local Clubs.
MACK HAS STRONG ATTACK

The Giants and Athletics were seen at
their best In Greater New York last week.
Both played baseball in various depart
played. and II they could present that sort
of ball with consistency there isn't any
doubt that both would repeat for the pen
nant All teams do dashlng work at
times and Il is the team that can play
high grade baseball most that wins
Nevertheless the attacking ability shown
by the two champions, tho one At the
Polo Grounds. the other in Brooklyn, was
the best display OF that sort seen In the
greater city this year.
The Athletics didn't have the pitching
at the Polo Grounds that the Giants had
In Brooklyn and only the veteran Bender
was not erratic and wild. In one OF their
four games the Athletics had relapse
and played loosely, but their attack was
so skilfully carried out when II was going
rood as to be almost proof that their
strength In that department Is sufficient
TO win the pennant for them II they get
the pitching. The latter Just at present
owing to the uncertainty in form OF sew
eral OF Macl's young boxmen Is a con-
siderable question.
Not that the attack OF tho Athletics II
any more varied or shrewdly maneuvred
than that OF the washlnstons. a versatile
team in offence, but with the greater bat
ting strength of the Athletics there was
last week a confident poise in carrying
on the operations at the bat, an exactness
in cooperation, a readiness on the part OF
each batter TO deliver In cases OF inter-
dependence. individual and team ability
and reliability which not only impressed
the appreciative onlooker but contrasted
greatly with the champions as they were
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April.
On this visit the Athletics are playing
the sort of ball which won the pennant
for them last year 80 far as offence is
concerned They are playing as II Just
getting to the top OF their form. What
a difference from their early spring work
At that time they played more like a team
in the middle OF spring training than one
engaged In a pennant fight.
This week the Washingtons will be at
the Polo Grounds and there will be a
chance to compare another pennant hope
full with the posse~sors OF the trophy
Grif has smart ball club too and Is
strong for the speedy. aggressive, keep
the other side guessing tactics OF which
he and Mack and McGraw are the leading
opponents. For that matter these tactics
appeal to all managers. but with a great
difference In the results obtained, that de-
pending on the material and the manager.
The Athletics and washfngtons have
crowded the Detroits into the background,
but the latter team Is a long way from
out OF II. With its pitchers and with
Cobb back It Is capable OF another squirt
Local baseball will be deluged with
double headers this week. The New York
Americans play two more games with the
Athletics this afternoon, making six bat
ties In three consecutive playing days, and
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two with the Washingtons. The Giants
will play six games in Tour days in Phlla-
delphia. and at Ebbets Field the Bostons
play the Dodgers twice to-day and twice
tomorrow.
The Giants have four pitchers going In
first class style. but there will be work for
others In the double header rush. and
what the reserve pitchers are capable OF
doing Is very uncertain. Fromme Is I'M
reliable. Wiltse goes in mostly as re-
lief pitcher and Schupp and Schauer are
still in the untried class. The Giants
have been doing fine work and the rooters
will breathe easied when the batch OF
double headers has been played.
While climbing to first place the cham
pions have played only nine OF their
thirty-two games at home. Not that this
brightens their prospects appreciably, for
they are as good a road team as they are
at home. maybe a shade better, but they
aren't 30 bad at home, and in any event a
months absence from hotels and sleep
ing cars will freshen them up for the next
road trip. Besides the home folks wan,
to see them.
The batting slump of tho New York
Americans has forced Manager Chance e
experiment In the way OF rearranginp
what material he has. His latest move 1.
to put Walsh in centre field. with Cook ir
right and Hartzell In left. Walsh sup
plants Holden, whose hitting fell of unit
II was no better than Walsh's had been
Walsh IS a better fielder and base runner
than Holden, and the point is whether h,
will bat better now that he Is away from
the sun field. Cook OF course will sticl
at the rate he is hitting He and Hart
zell and Truesdale at least aren't in tn,
batting doldrums.