Evening star., 1915-09-15

Brooklyn will hook up with the Cubs
in Chicago and by tomorrow night
there may be some little change in
the comparative percentages of the first
three clubs in the race, and should
Brooklyn win and the Braves lose this
pair may change places once more.
The Moran forces have been extreme
ly fortunate in Pittsburgh, where they
have won every game they have played.
four in number, and they may make it
five today. This fact has allowed the
leaders to retain a comfortable ad-
| vantage, but it. may be that the hard
est part of the trip is still before the
Philles and that there may be a
change in the standing of the clubs be-
fore they finish in the west
game in Boston today, and unless they
take a decided brace there is but little
chance of their scoring victory there.
After the Boston series the Sox go
to New York for three games, and,
| while the Yankees have been going
poorly, losing seven games in a row.
the chances are that they will take a
brace in time to slip a few defeats
to the Rowland crew. So that by the
! time the Chicago aggregation arrives
! here next Tuesday there will be real
| fight on for third place, and it goes
without saying that Manager Griffith
Will be ready for the SoX when they
get here. The Griffmen have been a
thorn in the side of the White Sox all
| season, and they propose to continue
to clean them up, in the hope OF gain
ling third place in the present race.
George Siser of the Browns has found
the Mackmen's pitchers much to his
| liking, getting ten base hits in the four
games. Sisler is playing first base Tor
| the Browns and is showing himself to
| be the find of the season. There seems
to be no position on the team that he
cannot fill satisfactorily, and with an
| average of over the 300 mark he is
| showing that American League twirlers
are not troubling him. sisler was
much sought after PLAYER while he was
with the Michigan University team.
| Griffith, too, had line on him. but he
missed him because Sis,er promised to
write him at a certain date
| Joe jackson is not contributing any
| batting strength to the White SoN
| these days. His hitting iE the Boston
series was the weakest of any or the
members of that team, and 1t must be
dawning on Comiskey that he did not
make a ten-strike when he took the
supposed slugger off OF the hands OF
| the Cleveland club. when jackson Is
not hitting he is absolutely worthless
to a ball team, for there is nothing else
he can do. In order to be of value to a
team jackson must hit 400, and he is
hardly holding on to the 800 mark
/ these days.
The Braves are having all sorts OF bad
| breaks this season The latest accident
to deprive them of a good ball player
has befallen Snodgrass, who was spiked
in the hand the other day. Snodgrass
who came to the Braves from the
Giants. has been playing excellent ball
| for the Stallings team ever since ne
got there, and his loss will be severely
| felt.
There are three players on the hospital
list who. if they were in the lineup, would
probably do much to gain the lead In the
National League race. No other team
| ,onld be expected to make a strong hnish
with men of the value of Maranville,
Schmidt and Snodgrass on the injured list.
Z! 1t makes IA lot of difference in player
| ,.hen he takes interest in his work. and
,hen he doesn't Dumont. the youngster
no made his debut yesterday, is in case
all because he figures that he can make
omething out OF it. 1t is not summer
'acation, SO far as he is concerned The
,ung man is the only support OF an aged