Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-26
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the team looks stronger than il did
last season. but il is not playing the
same kind of baseball. Last season
the men were diving" and taking all
kinds of chances. believe il Is the
old four consecutive championship
bugaboo which is holding back the
Giants. t..
Il don't look to see this club win
that pennant unless il takes a great
brace and steadies up. and you don't
chances to get out in front in a com.
manding position already" said Me,
Graw after the disastrous Cincinnati
series
McGraw Fears Boston.
McGrqw predicts Boston will be in
second place when Stallings club
starts west at the end OF this week
He thinks il is the team to fear, since
it has been playing steadier ball than
any other in the league after il once
caught its stride on July 8. The Cubs
and St Louis Cardinals cracked on
their eastern trips and the Giants
would have been far in front with
these two contenders practically out
of the race now il the team could have
held any sort of steady gait. II was
only the fortunate recovery OF the
Phillies to form that saved the Giants
from being forced out of first place
during that disastrous Cincinnati ser.
les. Dooin's club held the Chicago
team in this crisis. s
II seemed strange that the Reds
should be the club to give us the hard.
est bang, because up to the last series
with that team at the Polo grounds
the Giants had always carried psy-
Geological percentage on It. Both the
New York pitching and batting went
bad during the Cincinnati invasion.
while Herzog's club was playing ahead
OF its form.
The trimming irked the whole New
York team. but particularly McGraw,
and he rode" his players hard all the
time He also got into several wordy
scraps with Herzog and forgot his reso-
luton to lay off, the umpires. The
work of Byron. and Johnson in that
series was enough to make anybody
forget good resolutions.
Herzoe and Giants Wrangle.
While HerzGg has twice in mis- big
league days been member of the
Giants. still McGraw and he are con-
slant wranglers during the series be-
tween the two clubs. HerZog has so
much pepper and fight in him that he
is inclined to start many rows on a
club. McGraw brought him out and
made him . big Lacquer in 1908. Then
Herzog and Joe McGinnity had some
trouble and Herzie' went to Boston.
McGraw was always a great admirer
OF the third baseman.s work. even II
there were some personal differences
which Mac never lets come between
him snd' d good bah PLAYER, He knew
If Herzog was on his team that he
would be the boss, so he brought the
former Giant back to the Polo grounds
to take Devlin's place when Arthur be-
gan to slow up. Things went along
smoothly until McGraw decided to
play Shafer at third base regularly in
place of Herzog and benched the lat
ter. This irritated Herzie all last SUM.
mer, for he is not the type of player
who fattens up on the bench. since he
plays the game even harder from that
position than when in the field, and
uses up more nervous energy.
After Herzie was traded to ClGcin-
natl and Sbafer deserted, the new
manager of the Reds began to chortle
at McGraw. saying he had traded him.
self right out of all the third basemen
he had and declaring that Mac should
have stuck to him. Ever since McGraw
and Herzog have taken it ont in con.
versation at each meeting. They went
to it strongest after the Reds had
made FIVE runs in the last inning of the
final game of the series McGfaw got
into an argument with Umpire Byron
nd was ordered to the clubhouse. As
h, PASSED out he went by Herzog.
we're q threatening as the war situa.
These % exchanged remarks that
ton in EmN ~e. Then, after the game.
Herzog was a. ~1nd in the New York
~. -.:...... p. ..
How are you, >, erie? greeted
Mac. ........ Il. ~, s.. ...-....
Fine replied the To- oer Giant
third baseman. 81 came aronl. to sly
that there is no use in us having any
rows after you brought me into base
ball" H..
I'VE haven't any after we take of
BUR uniforms" replied McGraw.
Passing Of Napoleon Lajoie.
1t looks as If the great Napoleon La
ioie were nearing the end of his play
ng days. Waivers have been asked
On the big second baseman who led
he American league in batting so Of
ZEN before Cobb and Jackson came up
20 push him from his place. There
vas some talk OF bringing Lajoie to
he Yankees as a first baseman. but
Chance thinks he has found man
who will grow up with the team and
become star in young Mullen. !
should think that Lajoie would be val
liable to any team as a pinch hitter,
even if he has slowed mp in the field. |
Lajoie has fallen down further in |
lis hitting this season than ever be-
ore in his career, but don't think it
s 50 nuch the failure Of his ability |
% bat as the unpropitious conditions.
I is no secret that there has been in
ernal trouble on the Cleveland club |
III year, and that Lajoie was mixed |
I'D in it. One day Birmingham. the |
nonaopr fnok the hip second baSemanl