The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-26
FAREWELL, GIANTS!
WELCOME, YANKS!
McGraw's Men Hit the Trail
After TO-day's Games and
DOnOvan's Return.
WALTERS FINE CATCHER
~ WILLIAM n. HANNA.

Yankees are coming home The former
take the trail tonight after another
double header to-day with the Pirates.
and the Yankees open at the Polo
Grounds with Detroit tomorrow after
a second disappointing trip through the
West.
Both times through the West the
Yankees lost more games than they
won. but made a slightly better show
ing this time than the last. The team
was crippled for "A while on the second
trip, but not since its series at ZONE
with the Washingtons last month have
the Yanks played up to the standard.
The last six series have gone like
this: The Washingtons were beaten.
three games to two the series with the
Athletics was lost. four games to one.
the series will Cleveland was won,
three games TO one the Detroit series
was lost. two games to one the st.
Louis series was even. two games 10
two. and the Chicago series began with
two defeats. There Is a good deal OF
interest just now in Manager Donovan's
new blood, and Judging from the work
Of his scouts and recent purchases a
lot Of new timber will he tried next fall
and next spring. Walters. the Waco
catcher, bought by the Yankees for fall
delivery. had, when he caught against
the Giants last spring. decided earmarks
OF a backstop Of front rank.
The Giants have made a creditable
showing and played a good deal OF irst
class ball since they last returned from
the West-more first class than second
class. though they have spotted their
winning streak with glmes OF extremely
bad playing. The ups and downs of the
Giants have been attended by playing
which was conspicuously Inconsistent,
meaning they ,ould drop quickly from
high grade work to the reverse. but for
some time they have managed to win
a goodly percentage OF games, and this
Inconsistency ailing. come to think OF
II, has afflicted other clubs In the Ma
ttonal League as much as II has the
Giants.
The phillies have shown the steadiest
game In the parent league. and that Is
a quality OF no negligible value In a
pennant fight. The Brooklyns and Bos-
tons have been scudding at a ~pennant
pace for the last few weeks, but. the
entire season considered. their playing
has been more variable than the Phil
lies. The Reds. Cubs and Cardinals
have been as In and out as the Giants.
and the Pirates haven't shown much
more stability. The Brooklyns and Bos-
tons have flashed spuris which nave set
the league by the ears. and just as likely
as not some other club or clubs will get
In motion to do likewise and add to the
gayety of the struggle.
Anybody seeing the Giants play last
Friday would have said that their
chances for coming back from the West
In last place were about even. Anybody
seeing them on Saturday would have
made so bold as to say that their
chances of being fourth or nth on their
return were a shade better than even.
The chances ~ the latter eventuality
depend more on the pitchers than any
thing else. The outlook in that regard
is none too rosy. The pitching staff
has given no reassuring evidence OF
evenly distributed reliability. The Chi
ago. ST. Louis and Cincinnati staTs
are all likely tn steady down to better
work wher. they get home, and the Pitts
burg corps is going pretty well right
now, The New York stan needs to have
four of its five regulars DO more even
work than the stan, as a whole, is doing
now
we would that there was more slug
cling on the New York team, more long
distance or clean up hits. The Giants
are n good hitting team. but they are
a better hitting team than they are
"A heavy hitting team. Those bows who
can and do deliver a clean UP drive TO
the boundary viii some degree of reg
ularity help a lot In keeping their team
IN the fight. In eXtra-base hits the
Giants nave been outbatted on their
own grounds since they returned from
the West. In home runs more than
anything else have they been outdone.
In all that time Just two of them. Rob
- A,l Match. .- -
baggers. Not in two weeks or SO has
one Of them lifted the ball into the
stand, but visitors have frequently.
Since June 90 at the Polo Grounds OPP
ponents have made eight home runs
to the Giants two; eleven triples t.
the Giants ten. and thirty-one two bag
beis TO the Giants t~wenty-three.
Hugh Jennings says Crawford is the
hardest hitting batsman of any time.
Crawford leads in long hits, which goes
a good way toward proving Je~nnlngs's
assertion. The matter, however. has
its ramifcations. We believe there are
or have been batters who drove the ball
away from the bat with as much We
locity az Crawford imparts. but who
didn't make as many long hits because
they didn't give AS much loop 10 the
drive. TIL ball went straighter and
hadn't the Crawford lift to carry long
distances. that is. the lift and the i'm
pctus combined. the compound force
which Crawford eXcels In b%es.owiug.
Delahanty. Lajoie and Arson are three
We think OF who pr, baby landed as
hard as Crawford. hut sent the bal!
away on "A line oftener. As IA hard
straightaway batter Arson never had a
superior, Zimmerman and Safer are
two of the best OF the present at driv-
ing the leather with clean. swift We
loc!ty-!t seems to jump like a swift
pitch-and Wagner In his heydey could
hit il through an infeld so fast the only
way to locate 1t was by It's whistle.
Keep your eye OH Jacques Fcurnier of
the White Sox as IA savage hitter.
When he does land good there isn't any
body can make the ball spi ing Off the
wood with better applied power or
cleaner speed.
"Hanlon." said Jennings. won the
pennant In 1894 with fourteen men. He
had seven fielders, two catchers and
Ave pitchers. He had no extra OUT
fielder and no extra infelder, Keller
played a couple 4 weeks with a felon
on his finger. Men didn't want TO get
out of the game in those days. Five
pitchers are better than nine. knowing
abou, these extra men the fan nova
days yel.s Take him out when It would
be better for that particular pitcher
and work out his own salvation, Then
he'd learn to pi;ch.'