Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-08-02
BRAVES ARE PICKED
TO WIN PENNANT
StaIIing Aggregation Started
Their Winning Squirt Only
One Week Late

New York, Aug. 2.--IIistory is re.
peating itself. The wise ones who were
croaking several weeks ago that "they
never come back' are beginning 10
nunt the cyclone cellar. For
The Braves are coming!
They are proving every day that they
have a real baseball playing outfit and
one that If it uots not win the National
league pennant, will finish well up in
the race and be running hard when the
curtain falls Right now they look
like the best bet in the National league
and that statement has the whOlesOul.
ed support Of baseball men, experts
and mere fans.
The Braves started their squirt this
season just week later than last year :
dash which carried them to q pennant.
On June 10 Of this year, there were six
other clubs above Staling's crew in
the official standing, and things were
looking bad--Eyers was ult and the
iarfamed trio Rudolph, Tyles and
James, was going like a Fliyyer with
tne heaves. They split double.headcr
on the l3th-taNng the last game.
The next game they lost was to the
Reds on. July 2 and it was July 3OI
before they lost another one, still toI
the Reds Fifteen games out Of II on
the won side Of the big book doosn u
look exactly rotten
That the Braves are fighting is evil
denced by the fact that out of the 10
won in II days, z OF the games were
won by the margin Of one run. Ninth
inning rallies and all that stuff, When
Il team can pull that consistently and
get away with IT, storm clouds begin
TO creep over the October horizon.
The Bostons are slightly more than
60 points behind the leading Phillies in
todny's official standing. But for
three weeks they have been playing
BAH at a .SS3 clip, and IL they can keep
II up It won Z take long TO make that
60 points look like Freddie Welsh
would look II some astute diplomat
could inveigle him into a ring for about
20 rounds
The next few weeks is going to dc.
eide the flag winner. The team that
can stand the gaff through these swell. |
terlng August days In the one that ia
going TO breeze down the stretch in nd. |
vance ii seven other clubs. John Me |
Graw once remarked that cit takes the
red necks' 10 stand that The Braves
nn'e them they proved it in 1914.
The Red Sox haven I proved the past
week that they were the best team I'm
the league. And despite the fact they
10 maintain their lead in the
johnson loop their stock dropped lit.
Tie and the white SoX correspondingly |
rose The Chicago team has nunp on
the coat tails Of Bll Cnrrigan with al
tenaclty that was rather surprising in
view Of the widely forecasted opinions
that they had shot their wad. But twol
points separate them today. And Bos
ton stands u fine chance of being pasg. |
ed this afternoon, fer they are PLAYING
the Cobb Crawford Veacn combination
while the thicagoans are sQuaring offI
with Blll Donovan y lanks.
II is generally thought, however,
'hat the tremendous pitching strength,
not to mention far greater than the
average batting array will carry them
through. \ momenlary relapse will bel
ln1al to them, however, for the Sox and
Ilgers are giving every indication ofI
gong to the mat on this pcnuant promo
'luon The American league race AZ
l9ls stage looks very much up in the
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