Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-01
FIGHT FOR FLAG
IN THE NATIONAL
GROWING Tense
Brooklyn Holds the Top by
Eyelash-Great Day for
Fans in Greater New
York.
BY n. C. HAMILTON.
lad Praaa Staff Correspondent.l

scramble tonigh. by an eyelash. The
SECOND encounter with the Philies to-
day did it and next week will decide
whether Wilbert Robinson's Dodgers
will face the American league cham
pions in the series for the worlds
baseball title. The national commits
sion is ready for the wind-up and to-
day set Tuesday as the day for the ar
rangement-' to be made for the series.
Altogether it was a big day New
York tonight is divided between sor-
row and happiness-sorrow because
the Giants were turned back after
winning streak which carried them in
to their twenty sixth victory-1oy. be-
cause Brooklyn's Dodgers. through su
perb pitching by Rube Marquard and
faultless support by his brother Dodg-
ers prevented the Philles from hog
ging the final series between the two
clubs and going home in first place.
In all nearly $4,000 persons saw the
two ball games played in Greater New
York this afternoon.
TWO GREAT CROWDS.
Thirty eight thousand saw the
Giants get their winning streak frac-
tured in a double header with the
Braves and 10000 saw the Dodgers
win. Not since the season of 1908,
when the Giants and Cubs played their
memorable games to decide the cham
pionship of the league, has the Nation
al circuit witnessed such stirring and
eventful times in the closing days of it's
race Next week, the final week of the
1916 race will decide the standing at
the end of the pennant chase. Only
a flood, freezing weather, or some 9TH
er freak of nature, can keep the lead
ing clubs from fighting right up to the
last minute for the pennant.
The Phillies, champions of year
ago, and in second place by only n
game and half, came into town
Thursday and Grover Cleveland Alex
ander Immediately got busy and wip-
ed out one of the games with the re-
suit that the Phillies went into battle
this morning just a point behind their
rivals. Eppa Rixey wiped that out and
put the Phillies a half game to the
good.
The Phillies then started after lead
of a game and half this afternoon To
make doubly sure they would get away
with it, Alexander again was sent to
the mound by Pat Moran.
But this time Alex failed. RUDE Mar
guard Nero of many a championship
campaign, was too good. The Giant
cast-off watched only three safe hits
sail by him from the bats of the Phil
lies. Two of these came in the first
inning when the champions scored
their only run and the third one was
slammed out in the ninth.
MARQUARD IN FORM.
Marquard has seldom pitched bet
ter game than that in which he set the
Phillies down today, and it was to the
tune of yells from the threats of 20, 600
maddened bugs that he watched the
last man hit a long fly to Wheat foI
the third out in the ninth inning.
But while Alexander was peppered
off the mound in the meeting this af-
ternoon the Phillies lack a great dea
of being a crushed set of champions
They have taken two games out of the
three from the Dodgers and they re-
turn home to met the Braves in sis
contests, while the Dodgers must mee'
the strong Giants in their final -four
games of the season
If the Philles go home and walt;
through the Braves for six straigh
wins, nothing can stop them from
again being the National League
champions. On the other hand, if the!
drop just one game and the Dodgers
should succeed in making a clear
sweep of their series with the Giants
the Dodgers are certain to get in OF
the worlds series pie There is onl!
an outside chance of this latter hap
pening.
Perhaps the most which should b.
given either team would be a majorit.
of the series and it is doubtful If tn
Dodgers can take a majority from tn
Giants In case the Philles Shout
win four of their games from tn
Braves, they would win the pennant
the Giants and Dodgers break even.
II the Dodgers take three out of fou
from the Giants and the Phillies ar
beaten in two of their combats wit
the Braves, Colonel Charles II. Eb
bets will be at liberty to erect thos
spare seats for the worlds serie
throng.
The Red Sox have about hogged it /
the American league. Nothing shoi
or a tornado or a summarizing part
can head them off now.
They have only to win one game t
cinch the American league champion
ship and as they open proceedings Mon
day with Connie Macks Athletics tn
song is about as good as sung TIL
worst they can get now. should the
lose all remaining games is tie wit
the White Sox.
The Giants, by losing that twenty
seventh game this afternoon WEI
counted out of all chance for participa
ton in the worlds series, for they 10.
the chance to go into tie with tn
Braves, the only remaining hope fl
them. Also they lost the chance
making a new worlds record for cor
secutive victories. falling short of tt
Corsicana (Texas) run by one game.
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HIGH SCHOOL PLAYER HURT.
Peoria, ILL.,, Sept 3.-Quarterbac
Copper of Normal high school suffere
n fracture of both homes of his rigl