El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-04
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TEAM HAS MADE 4 GREAT RECORD
Consecutive Victories of the McGraw Men, as Well
Consecutive Losses Have Been the Wonder of the
Baseball Worldwide Will Be Hero of
the Coming Wcrld Series.
BY FRANK G. MENkE.

N Of 1915 viii "a rank as the i mos st
I remarkable club in the entire
history of the national game. No
team ever again can make a showing
so weird and wonderful in a single
season
Yet the Giants returned from their
western trip in second place-haIf a
game behind the Dodgers-because
they had performed the miracle II
winning Il straight games Peunant
hopes were revived Even outside of
the Empire state the folks conceded
them a glorious chance for the bunting
Dash Hopes Again.
And then those pesky Giants upset
the dope again Just as soon as they
Sot back home they resumed their
earlier flivvering- They played fear
IullT inconsistent baseball and grad
Ualiy slipped back from the heights TO
which they had been lifted by that
great winning streak. Then they
treaked toward the sunset section once
more and played as miserably on that
swing as they had played brilliantly
On the first.
Battling against the same teams
that had been steam rolled by them
earlier in the year, the Giants disport-
60 ike bush leaguers. They eouldn [
kit they couldn't field and their
pitchers were wilder than a Zulu with
toothache- They We're ingloriously
waEoped.
They Revived Again.
Hopelessly out of the pannant race.
the Giants started for home-back to
the Polo Grounds where they had won
about a dozen games out OF 40 or 40
And the hearrsick fans figured they
were due to suffer more beatlngS-
And what happened On. nothing.
except that those Giants. with naughU
left TO fight for. hitched up their belts
and played the most astonishing base
ball that has been seen in more than
three decades. They played the game
as no team ever played il before. For
nearly four weeks they tackled prac-
ucally every club in the league-and
beat en- to a CORY pulp
Establish straight Wins Record
Those Giants came back. disgra ced,
dishonOred, unwelcOme-and then pro-
ceeded to smash Straight wins" record
that had stood the onslaught Of teams
over sweep of 80 years. Not content
with that, they hung Up a new one for
successive victories that probably
never viii be eQualled.
Can you beat it,
One Of the strangest features of the
Giants two winning records Is that
each was made with an iufield almost
entirely different Merkle was at first
Doyle at second. Fletcher at short and
MCKechnie al third during the tri-
umphal tour through the west in the
springtime. Fletcher alone remained
WleE LuE trlalLS mace their new
record Holke, a rookie" had sue
ceeded Merkle HerzOg was at second
and Zimmerman performed the third
basing chores
Giants Loom Up For 1917.
The Giants We're so far behind the
Dodgers. Philiies and Cubs when they
started on their rampage. that none OF
the three pennalt chasers feared them.
But when 1917 rolls around every
dopester will concede them the grand
est chance TO capture the muslin.
Folks refer TO AcGraws new infield
as the 500, 900 quartet" Placed on the
market as a whole. IL probably would
bring the sum- Individual sales might
reduce the receipts TO SOC. 600 or
$4,000. Holke's value is stiH ques-
tionable- He has flashed a great game