Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-06-10
GIANTS 5O.TO.l
 PENNANT SHOT IN
 1915 RAG CHASING
McGraw's Only Real Pitch CT Is Tesreau, Since Mat
 heWson's Arm Revolted.
By Frank G. Menke.o

NeW IOrk, June g.-Ihe Giants are 50 10 1 shot for the 1915 pennant- just that and nothing more. Nothing but miracle can win for them now.
 The Giants have just one real pitcher-Tesreau. And no ball club ever won pennant with less than three top notch pitchers. Mathewson is about through. The brain Of the "old master" is as crafty as of yore, but the old arm refuses to obey the dictates of that brain. And the opp opposition has batted the feeble shoots and slants to all portions of the lot on practically every start Matty has made this year.
 Marquard is cratic. One day he pitches a great game: the next day he performs like bush leaguer. Per- ritt was a winning twirler with the Cardinals but he hasn't touched the .500 mark With the Giants. Stroud is showing up nicely but he cant be depended upon to win two- thirds of his games. Schupp and Shauer have not shown anything.
 And these men constitute the Gi- ants defense, Tesreau, marvellous pitcher. the fast-slipping Matty, the cratic Marquard, the inandout Per ritt and the unreliable Stroud, Sehupp and Schauor.
 Extensively the Giants dc not show up much better. On some days they look like the greatest outfit of slug gers in existence: on others they act like bunch Cf blind men. They hit in streaks; and no streak-htting club ever won the pcnnant.
 Some wonderfully optimistic Giant rootcrs still see chance for the pen nant. They point to the work of the Braves last year. They argue that the Giants can do what the Braves did. But how different is the stiua- tion!
 Last year the Braves had no one to beat out but the Giants. The New York outfit overshadowed every other club in the league up to July 4th. Every other club was of the second division order. But this year there are at least four clubs that seem as powerful now as the Giants did in 1914.
 The Cubs, Phillies, Braves and Pir- ates-and even the Brooklyn Dodgers can give tho Giants a mighty battle No team other than the Reds will stack up as a pie counter attraction for the 1915 Giants, because even the Cardinals are dangerous. The Giants. in an attempt to climb from the bottom to the top of the National league heap would find the climbing at least ROO per cent harder than the vpsox J 1n 11H n nl more, the Giants haven't the power that the Braves had. The Braves were aided and abetted in their achievement by the most remarkable pitching feats the baseball world has ever known Three twirlers-James Rudolph and Tyler-pitched in rota- tion week after week and pitched as no trio of men have ever pitched be- fore.
 NCGraw hasn't any trio to work as Stallings had. He hasn't got a Mar anville nor an Evers. His men aren' imbucd with the same fighting spirl as were Stallings' men and. most i'm portant of all, he hasn't got the Stal lings luck.
 Coed playing and marvellous pitch lIS WtiG IIShtS IstSto'o DN' '''' mightiest of all was luck. dozel times the "breaks" saved the Braves from defeat and gave them victory Day after day the god of Good For tune smiled .on tho Braves-and vic tory rested upon them.
 A pennant contendins team must DC we'll rounded the Giants of l9l. are not Their nitching department is the main weakness but the catchlns department is not anything thai should be envied. The team as a whole is prone to hobbling in pinches Bone" plays are frequent. and. wors of all hard luck jinX has been pur- suing the McGraw outfit since the season began And it's still pursu- ing. But the Giants won't finish ir the cellar. They probably will climt out of the rut soon and leap over frames of the Reds. Cardinals and Dodgers. They may go notch ol two further. dcncndina very largely upon what the Cubs. Phillies, Braves and Pirates do from now on. But they won't finish first unless all the players on tho other clubs become afflicted with bcri-beri. spavin. sea sickness and hokus-pokus.