New Britain herald., 1915-06-24
As Meredith Might Ask.

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we can do without clothes, though
~ we mightn't get by;
We can do without presidents, law
yers and soap
We can do without columns embrace
ing the dope;
We can do without hearing from
Bryan again
AS easy as counting from seven to
ten;
We can do without breathing a
minute or two--
We can do without wearing a sock
or a shoe:
We can do without bullets and pow
der and guns
We can do without Germans and Rus
slams and Huns
And probably you, in your busy array,
Can do without lamping these verses
today;
We can do without working, what
ever the Job
But what could the Tgerines do
without Cobb
when the Giants and Mackmen
we're winning postcards brooding
fanatic, "McGraw and Mack were
given most Of the credit and were
placarded as the greatest managers
alive Now that the Giants and Mack
men are down around the foot, why
not also give McGraw and Mack as
much blame as they once received
praise-in other words. the chief re-
sponsibility for where their ball clubs
are?"
The Counting Factor.
Rank in the kingdom of sport is
based upon a general average-not
always upon one lone achievement.
1t is the average over the long road
that sums up ones habitat around the
top or bottom.
McGraw has won FIVE flags in his
league and Mack has won six pen
nants in his circuit. These two there
fore, hold the best flag winning aver
ages in the game over stretch of
fifteen years. Is it faIr that lack of
success for one season should upset
regulations built up through more
than decade?
I'll There is a fearful amount of waste
in this f1eeting existence. John
Franklin Baker is wasting chance
to collect $1,000 by playing for Mack
and Connie has wasted six men at
third without finding one good one.
AS it is, if Baker would only full
I'll the terms of contract he signed
with both eyes open, both Baker and
Mack would be lot better off.
If
Those who figure that interest in
baseball is waning swiftly should take
! trip to Chicago this fall IF Chicago's
two entries should re-esra blish the
frenzy of 1905 with another exclusive
Cook County world series between
Cubs and Sox
We are willing to. wager a reason
able husky stipend that a 1915 series
of this sort will draw far bigger
crowds who will pay out far more
money than the 1905 affair developed.
But before pushing this wager further
it might be just as well to wait until
Cubs and sox have turned the trick.
The California Invasion.
The coming invasion Of California
by Eastern tennis stars will be OBJ
served with more than usual interest.
The East is sending first class talent
! on the trip across. but California, in
I a tennis way, has always had most of
the rockmarks OF Gibraltar. What
!, ever else they can do we'll In that ex-
cellent state they can certainly thump
| tennis ball with all the fervor,
eclat and adroitness there is, or are.
Leading charge gainst company
headed by Mclaughlin is no part OF
an easy assignment, take it anyway
you will.
So Go the Best.
The late John Graham, killed at
| Ypres, was the golfer picked by Chick
! Evans as the greatest amateur in the
| game Lacking the necessary physical
strength---he had only one lung-Cap-
tain Graham was never able to survive
| the grind of a championship. But
! for beauty Of form and perfection in
execution he was rated even beyond
| Hilton and Ball. with dozen cham
pionship to their credit.
BY Statistics.
| One can prove an innumerable lot
| CT things by use of the ever succu-
| lent statistics.
| 1t was shown year or so ago how
| the Giants won remnants by base run
| ming. Yet the Braves won a cham
| psoship last season and pilfered only
| at odd intervals. And today Fritz
| Maisel and Doc Cook have stolen as
| many bases as the entire Red Sox
| elub--but for all that the Yanks are
still bleak stride or two back Of
| the Bostonian corps.
1 All Nebraskans haven't Col. Bryan's
| viewpoint. The Phil!ies haven't been
/ able to protect their lead the last fort
night, but no one has yet observed
| Alexander. also from Nebraska, in the
act of leaving the club.
The Western Styn1ie.
The West, prevalent IN lawn tennis