The Washington times., 1915-07-08
Baseball Map Is Due
For Transformation
Boston Red Sox About to Displace Chicago White
Sox in American League Race-Athletics Take
Distinct Brace During New York Series.
BY KIRK c. MILLER.

That baseball map Is undergoing al
most as much of a transformation as
a certain country which we know across
the Atlantic. Today the fans awoke to
find the Boston Red Sox exactly two
points to the rear Of the leading Chi
cago white Sex, and unless the latter
can dispose of st. Louis today, who
can tell but what new leader Will
have been declared twenty-four hours
hence?
Boston has for years been famous for
It's tea parties. but 1t seems that double
header parties are destined to eclipse
them In popularity. Three very sue
cessful ones in three days Is not a bad
AVERAGE. and the same are calculated to
boost the pennant chances Of any team
which can get away with so high cali
Der of baseball acumen.
Carrigan's crew took It's longest leap
of the recent ascent when II won two
from Washington while Chicago re-
mained dormant the while rain pitter-
battered over the greensward out In
ever. play st. Louis today. and II they
win. will have little longer lease On
first place, and II they lose. UP INFO
the crows nest will 60 Bostonians, per-
haps to stay.
Like the sands Of the sea over night.
another transmigration was effected
when Mr.. Cornelius McGillicudy' s
resurrected Athletics split even in a
double bill with New York. and silently
crept into sixth place displacing Branch
1t might justly be called a Homecom-
ing Day. that duplex schedule at the
Poo Grounds yesterday. for during the
afternoon twenty-nine players made
ton; In the opener thirteen New
Workers scored while all Philadelphia
could send across was five. But IN
the second Philadelphia nominated SIX
to the extreme honor of soaring while
the best those Yankees could summons
was five.
There was every reason on earth why
Mack should have dropped that open.
ing combat. There are two reasons ir
particuiar.crowell ISGtI lar. and Davis. Between
with fourteen free trips to first ano
twelve earned trips to the same point,
OF course. in building a new machine
as Mack has promised to do. one must
tall tactlcian did yesterday. He useo
the rawest material he had. and In re.
turn got q raw deal 1t kept him from
taking the series outright-as 1t Is he
took four. out Of five. which is not bad
for a rehabilitated band Of players
Wyckoff appears to have been the sub
tect Of ingratitude in the second game
He pitched splendid ball. got poor sup
port and won his game. Wally Schang
was the chief offender. but he made
UP for this weakness by doubling in
the third and sending a run across. He
was also connected with a hitting rail-
ly in the fifth which netted two runs.
Beside the WashingtonLBoston setto,
there were no more games in the young
er colony. f. e
Those Braves are still champions Of
the world. You can't take that away
from them until next October. How
ever their present position would never
indicate the high honor which they
won last fall. They further intrenched
themselves in the last ditch Of the Ma
tional League by dropping the first
game of q double header to Brooklyn
and quitting in the second after sixteen
innings, during which no scoring was
done, had been played. Brooklyn's VIC
tory was by to 3. II being the fourth
straight black eye they have handed
the Braves during the series. All Of
the games have been decided by a
single run
In the first game the Braves got after
Sherrod Smith In the first inning and
nicked him for three runs scored on a
hit by Joe Shannon. a youngster from
Seton Hall. double by Fitzpatrick and
a glaring error by O'Mara. coupled with
Egan's single and Smiths long fly. The