New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-06
Uncle Wilbert's Bows.
Champing at Bit, Dis
cuSs Chances.
"NOTHING TO IT."
SAYS Mr.. STENCIL
Giants Are Disheartened, bu
Are Working Hard to Break
Hoodoo.
By FRANK O'NEILL.

/ Inc brooklyn hOOlhs SUI view Tie
world from their coign Of yantag. a
the top Of the National League per.
centage column, although they w.r,
held in enforced idleness yesterday AZ.
ternoon. Ebbets Field was little bette,
than a frog pond when game-time rolled
around and Charles H. EDbets decided
| 20 postpone the struggle with the chan.
/ pion PhilIies until some time later IA
| the season. With perfectly good AZ.
| ternoon of the players followed a tine.
honored precedent and sat around the
/ clubhouse discussing the baseball out.
| look.
There is q feeling OF confidence ia
/ that Brooklyn team which will 70 a
| long way in aiding 1t 10 hold the lead
or at least 70 keep 10 In the first fgh.
until the season closes.
Nor is this confidence based upon
chimeras. There was the last trip around
the circuit, for instance. The Supsrbu
won six games out OF eight from he
Giants, the Braves and the Philliss
! Robbie declared IL the most successful
| trip a Brooklyn team has enjoyed sines
/ the pennant-winning days Of long ago,
But aside from the result OF any one
| trip, there is the power and drive %
l the team 20 carry il along. We will le:
Casey Stengel tell the story as he told
/ il 70 Jack COMBS, Buck Wheat and
other members Of the team yesterday.
Il claim that, II the Braves or Phil.
| lies want 20 win this pennant. they will
! have 20 fight harder than eves any
, teams fought" said Casey. Eve have
I everything that goes 20 make up q ball
/ team. No team in the league can shog
more pitching strength than we; no
/ team has better catchers; and ! guess
that infeld is going a lot better THAI
/ people thought IL would.
"If Olson or Mowrey should nee,
with any accident we have two good
/ ball players 10 step right IN. OMAN
/ can play ball with any Of them. II re
will just take it little easier and no.
/ be 80 anxious he will be ono Of the
stars Of the game. Getz, too, is a high
/ grade player. always in condition ard
hard worker.
Buck Wheat and Hi Myers require
no introduction, and 'Myers looks as Il
+ he were going 70 have big year. Jus.
/ the minute any one OF Us slows down
/ there is Jimmy Johnston waiting 20 &c.
into the game. He is some player, Toe,
/ this Johnston. He can hit. throw and
run and is likely 20 poke out hit tina.
Will bust up an old ball game at any
time at ais."
Mr. Coombs Expounds.
"Yes,7 said Jack Coombs, taking the
floor while Stengel paused for breath.
eve seem TO be on our way for the
heights again; and IL looks mighty
good 20 me. The boys not only think
they can play ball; they are beginning
20 realize they can do the trick. Whea
a good team gets thinking that way
look out for trouble.
Take Cleveland, for example. Iris
/ Speaker has rallied that bunch and they
may accomplish wonders"
No discussion in the Brooklyn club.
/ house Is ever complete unless Wi.bert
Robinson has his say, so let Robbie
take the floor now.
The best part Of my team this year, '
/ said Father Wilbert, "is that the boys
are playing real baseball. They are
taking more chances on the bases. going
/ after everything in the field and there
/ IS no bone showing under the caps.
That pitching staff of ours is going
/ 10 cut wide swath in the National
/ League race. We have a frst-striny
man TO start every game. Take it from
/ Uncle Robbie, We'll be there RICH;
along"
Giants Game Losers.
The Giants have made some gallsn.
fights for victory in the last week or
more, but breaks OF one sort or an
other have been against them Extra
| inning games have been the rule
rather than the exception on the Har-
| lem meadow recently.
These brave stands have lessened
/ the sting of defeat 10 the fans, but,
just the same, they are discouragins
to the players.
Take the case Of the defeat by the
Braves on Thursday for example. New
York made a half dozen runs, which
/ will win nine out Of ten games, yet
! they were insufficient 10 save the
, Giants.
/ II takes real courage 20 60 on try-
ing in the face Of repeated reyerses
and the danger Of the whole situation
lies in the possibility of the players
becoming disheartened. II ever the
idea enters their heads that they can'
not win, then the local fans may pre-
/ pare 70 spend another summer in Dis
NAL Swamp.
A man who Is we'll known in base
ball said of the Giants yesterday:
/ "McGraw certainly has task on bis
hands this season. With team
which is little short Of cyclonic on the
attack, he finds himself facing the sea
son with only one pitcher, or perhaps
two. Tesreau is his only reliable man.
Fred Anderson may come through and
fulfil his promise Of greatness. The
other pitchers may be winners, but
they have shown no sign Of IL thu
far"
Senators Are Whining.
The Washington Senators are blsz'
ing the trail through the American
League, thanks 70 the marvellous RICH;
arm Of Walter Johnson. The Big Bull
let has pitched his team 20 FIVE OF it'
eleven victories. II there be any con-
ISOLATION in the fact, his fast ball has
lost not bit Of its hop and zip.
The place Of vaudeville in baseball
Is secure. Time was when the umpire'
would Danish a player who INDUCED iu
the slightest bit of levity on the coach
ing lines, but no longer. Time Wa
called in the ninth inning Of the game
between the Athletics and Senators IN
Philadelphia on Thursday while Car
Sawyer, the Washington comedian, put
on his vaudeville act The crowd
howled with delight while Carl
wrestled with himself, swan. turned
fiip-hops and brayed like a donkey.
GUNKLE, OF ILLINOIS,