The sun., 1916-09-26

Just thirty-two years 8 this month
Charley Radbourne and Q few other
worthy workers playing with Providence
OF the National League completed .
victorious baseball march around the
country that left the fans astonishsd.
Struggling against every other club In
the league. this historical aggregation
established . record Of twenty straight
victories. eighteen Of which wsre pitched
by the great and only Radbourne. This
feat remained on the baseball records
unapprosshable and unattainsbie. until
yesterday. when tho revived. recon-
structed IND ~rsvitalised Giants swept II
Of twenty-one still unbroken consecu-
tive victories.
That the accomplishment OF the
Giants can be considered even more re-
markable than that Of Providence. as
well as one better. there Is little doubt.
as the athletes who shattered all pre-
vious winning mark are but recently
collected and playing together for the
first time. Also this great winning
SkfVdN lhho pN'u " y ~ stNoi VA
the national pastimc by a team that for
the greater part of the season has been
bounded. beaten INT humiliated by
every team in the league, possibly
excepting Cincinnati.
Further, the Giants have utilised the
1916 campaign to register two great
winning streaks. the irst reaching sew
entecn straight before II was stopped by
Al Dcmaree of Philadelphia.
pills Jar the Giants.
Since Providence established its record
pace several teams have come close to
the mark. hut not until the Giants tossed
aside the Cards in a double header yes
terday has the record been bettored. In
1904 another club led by the indominlta-
bic John J. McGraw few through the
league SO rapidly that eighteen straight
victories fell to It's lot m also the PEN
nant. In that c Chrlsty Mathewson.
Joe McC;inn!ty. Dummy Taylor and
Hooks Wiltsc were tho pitchers. and
they bafied with such consistency that
nothing stopped them. However. an am
bition to establish a new record was
thwar;ed by Philadelphia. Just as the
nrs. winning streak Of the 1916 Giants
was broken by the pestiferous Phill'es
In 1906 the Chicago White Sox. led by
Fielder Jones. hung up what had been
styled until yesterday the modern VIM
ming record. when II scored nineteen con-
secutive victories before bowling to Wash.
!nStor IN both ends Of q double header.
Several minor league clubs have az
ceeded the record established yesterday
by the Giants. The Corsicana Club Of
the Texas League won t~wenty-seven
consecutive games In 1909. Charlotte In
the Carolina League won twenty .fve the
same year. Jersey City OF the old East
crn League rang UP twenty-four victories
in a row in 1908. The Giants still have
q chance to exceed these marks.
one TIE Game.
In compiling its twenty-one triumphs
the Giants actually played twenty-five
contests, as on September Is the second
Rame Of a double header with .Pittsburs
was stopped In the eighth inning With
the score I to /. This game o into
the official records Of the league. but as
Il was not decided II does not count for
or against the victorious Manhattanites
The most peculiar feature about the
Giants success IL that Notwithstanding
the remarkable sprint OF the team. II
stands only an outside chance Tor the
pennant at best. Only once before IN the
history OF winning streaks a the team
which did the. s~printing failed to gain the
championship. Washington running sec
ond 10 Boston In 1919. Not only does II
seem improbable that the Giants will win
the pennant this season but II Is unlikely
that they will, finish better than third
and maybe not higher than fourth.
In their great squirt that began with
the defeat NJ Brooklyn by I to !. Sep
TENDER :, the Giants have met every
,ther club In the league excepting
Boston. They have played no less than
seven double headers during the pace
making. which !s another unusual fea-
ture. as old baseball axloms invariably
rive A weak team a better than even
chanoe TO win one game on double
header days.
New Me- Boltser C1ub.
There has been no one man reepon-
sible for the astonishing change Of front
on the local baseball defence. The adj
dition OF HerzoG. Zimmerman. Folke
and McCarty has added great power moi
only on attack. but on defence. and has
rounded u the club In the positions
that were weak during tho early months
NJ the chase. The pitching has been
high class. Tesreau. Schupp. Benton and
Perritt especially doing yeoman work
on the mound.
During the twenty-one games the
Giants have played as q team and not
individually. a fault Of the club In the
last few years. The stands out a. the
records Of the drive show. As q team
the players have batted .e7i and only
~ errors have been made in the
81 games. All told Al ven hundred
runs were collected by the aid Of l7%
hits. : OF which were homo runs. II
triples and 81 doubles.
Leading the batting attack 10 Ben.
1amin Michael Kaufr. the $4,000 Fed
erai beauty. who has Just started to
show his worth. OF tho regulars Benny
Is considerably in front. with 81 hits. Of
which 3 were home runs. 2 triples AMI
doubles. for a percentage Of .32S. lie
also stole g bases during the drive.
The pitchers ~ mora than done their
share TO establish the Giants as the
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