The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-07-10
**Muggsy " Gives Sidelights
On Race in the Big Leagues

the going now they arc back in th%i:
old ways
You can't win Il war with cream
puffs.' says Staliugs. George and the
umplrcs az. getting along as well as
the United States and Mexico. from
what they tell me.
My own team has had very bad
week. and we are glad 10 get away on
the road again. Tor the boys think they
can play better baseball. They couldn
play worse. l can personally vouch for
that. don't know what proportion Of
baseball is luck. hut | do know that
everything has broken against US lately.
l am not complaining. understand. Tor
when they break against you. 1t means
bad baseball. They break for winner
IN any line.
But here Is an instance. | am as short
of pitchers as an egg is shy OF hair.
have been trying the worst way TO make
a deal TO gather in Salee Of the ST.
Louis Cardinals. who is nor doing any
one any good. SO far | have not COM
pieted the deal. although Sail &c. is no;
performing work for Higgins. | WAS
offered a pitcher named Eeebe. 81 years
old. who had been in the National Lea
que before. and did not look like Il
prairie fire by any manner of means.
He didn't burn un the league there. He
is pretty old now, too He had been go
ing pretty good in the International
League this Year. but I did not count on
that. Cleveland signed him. and he has
stood the clubs he has laced on their
heads so far.
AS for the race itself. l admit that
now l have got IL change my tune.
Brooklyn has certainly got a chance:
You can't so behind arithmetic. anI
bbie's boys arc pretty cOmt"rtapI!
up on top. The big happy manager Of
the Brooklyn has done wonders. and all
with salve. The way he makes Mar
Guard pitch BY bullying him is marvel
LOUIS TO me. He could always get tile
work nut of "Rube" when he was coarI-
ing the pitchers. for the Giants. and now
the big left handler seems. To be nj TT
deliver good baseball for Robinson In"
rest of this season Marruard gave inc
Giants couple OF battles and. In th"sH
Two games, he seemed ~ carry as much
as he ever did. He had speed and t:''
hop on his fast bali and Il nice curve
with floater 10 mix. II Marquard can
hold up the rest Of the year. would
through. The "Ruhe." Of course. fat
tens up every time he beats us.
Ar tho present writing. Boston is tn:
lab which will push the Brooklyn boys
Stating ;r.ld his gang 1T" great ilnISn'
,rS and they have cut lo"SH now AGAIN
YOU can't go behind arithmetic III ne
40 of the phillicS. and they ar: Gr
,btre and have I chance. | have always
cuutcndrd tina; band box park ~ thtitS
helpS the club. Tor ii is EraEa'h'E ulrn
~ hoist them oyer that snort right 'l'r,
fence. II IS made To order for him an !
Luderus. But sun am not convinced
in the cas-. rt the i'h:llI"$. The str'uSl h
docs no, Look TO b. in the club. Eut II
dill not look that way 10 me last Year
either Perhaps | AN goinS hacA as il
prophet. 49,
Tn" Giants arc not OUT nt IN" i'cc i"T
the flag get. for We have not reached
the half way mark. and lot: Of things
can happen between now and S"1tGlnh:f.
Nuo,hrr winning streak. which the team.
certainty has the p"Hrr I" maxi. w""hi
pu: AS tight un with the leaders again.
Ii we don't SHOW something on this
western "trip. the club Is going To get a
worse shaking; up than th' Germans did
when the Allies started their offensive.
Before passing on Ia the consideration
of the american League. wan; To give
credit tn = fine bait player wig X dead.
lie is Fad Sharpe. one. firSt bas"mAn
OF the Boston Braves and great friend
Of George SialnGs. Hc has been III
with tuberculosis tor some time. and