New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
Comment and Gossip
On Sports of the Day
BY HERBERT

wild pace ripple Of excitement but so little was e
ned Of their Pat Moran that their
Wild whr has set tongues waggng Without detractng from the
credit players who have settled quickly into their stride win
show Of spirit impressive be suggested that the race
not always the swift Pittsburgh Pirates won
fifteen their first seventeen and yet finished far back
ruck History May Repeat Itself
BOUT May 10 1914 writer's marveling and say
n the things about the Pirates as they are now
saying Phes. On May g. to be exact the Pirates
were sailing along far in percentage sS while the Boston
trailing with percentage of 23 having won Just h
games But OH what difference few months made
Every baseball fan knows October All this
for the of discreditg the Phe hey may
not follow example the Pirates and slip back place the rear
but the fact of the Giants nothing OF the
other National League have reason to grow rese or
TO count the battle
EVERYTHING side Pat Moran would make
- himself big league manager Judging from their
IL play here winning four straight his have been
,nsp,red with that fighting spirit largely contest
Granting however, Cleveland Alexander ranks with the
greatest pitchers of all time granting that Chalmers has come back and
that MAYER Daee Rixey pitching staff of which
could proud the team whole does not yet measure up In
skill ability with the Giants Braves Cubs or Superba hngs nave
been breaking right aroused and encouraged by their
very but the comparative newness the fed likely to be
felt whe the bumps which reached
Fire and Spirit Count
MBITION spirit and rushing aggresseness dominant
n Gantand Rice suggested last week. in the winning
4 of pennan but this statement is largely true only with
other things being equal reasonably equal and by other things
meant SKILL extensively and defensive Take finished team
dbood spes who hit and field and match
It against ragged youthful recruits with tons of spirit wagon
loads aggvness furnaces fire. who hit and field only
nneynne times out Of hundred
the would Given two Mines however, well matched
in playing and the with spirit aggresvene and all that
@ rF was with the Braves last year So was why
Braves after fighting their the top the National League carried
the Athletics down straight defeats in the worlds series
row it is my theory too old and not too
settled in Of 1914 be short spirit and long
safety protecting their legs or their arms
baseball reputation In talking with good Judge on
he made the remark They've their heads down and don't look
they'd them again. This opinion seems 70 be more or
less general prepared subscribe to it Certainly the
breaks were not Philadelphia and the breaks count
in opinion Also that the Giants are better 1orted
Pes and better fortified than the Braves and
will win with the psychological reasonably equal If perchance the
spirit is gone, he atmosphere takes on a blue tint
Hope Springs Eternal
CHARLES H. EBBETS is easily He almost
confident Thursday the formally opened Brook
~ vn as he was when had weeks 1--WE
got off on the wrong foot" settling bound
and when it will win lot of games The Superbas
do not look so strong but the material
there edges moohed off, the fans across the
bridge are to have strong roofing interest
PEAKING Brooklyn stories of the correspond
ents were not Ovedra~n to all appearances 50 af as nu
- third base concerned lie one of those natural players
who handles which makes hard chances
the field easy the plate with all the confidence
in the anything the Superbas have captured
prize. Great Chance for Yankees.
u while baseball team strikes bad day. and the
Yankees coded with on THURSDAY when they opened their
l. the Polo Grounds 1t not much that they
sometimes too thicky it rue-bu
they Outsn@uvred and ouguessed WERE in two or
tight Ppp let from him which
easy while Pnpaugh and Sweeney dis
tinctly unsteady
oREOvER game allowed drag, and this usually leaves
MI impression be suggested however that
AVA Bill Donovan leading fOOrn hope The loose playing of
Thursday effect the outcome Shaw the Washington
hure pitched mastery and deserved full credit for the victory
in those
and hard for the
mighty popular this if they make
ably strong opportunity brighter and hoped
that opening bow and not the inherent
weakness which for three four
Athletic Reform.
FOOTBALL at which thanks be gven)
u to be used purpose proving showing the need Of
Of Morningside Heights Ac
cordne the committee the Of football under certain
restrictions its playing is the first in the
Of old athletic system
COLUMBIA aiming and to the forces at work.
An effort plainly being approach ideal in the wide
- Of majority Of the undergraduates in the college
Unfortunately the experiment good is
for the simple that the ideas of
be
who work reform 1t
winning varsity team will do to
desired general participation
particular branch of sport than all the sermons or ideals IN the world