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some Big WINNING STREAKS
Sweep Of Giants Through West
Brings Memories Of New York
Streak of 1904.
PROVIDENCE HOLDS THE RECORD


New York, June 3.--The winning
streak Of the Giants recalls the great
run OF victories made by McGraw'I
team Of 1904, the dub which won th'
first Of the five pennants which cam,
to New York since the little Napo
leon took charge The 1904 Giants
won eighteen consecutive games be
fore they were checked and this rec
ord has stood during the intervening
twelve campaigns II Is, in fact, thu
best run OF consecutive victories made
in the National league since 1884
when the Providence team ran up I
total OF twenty consecutive wins.
Twenty straight is the record fol
any major league club. No othei
team has ever reached the mark set b.
the club that had on its roster suel
notables OF other years as Charlie
Radbourne, Jerry Denny, Charlie,
Sweeney, Paul Hines and Arthur Ir
win. Frank Bancroft, now business
manager OF the Cincinnati Reds, wa
the manager OF this club, which fin
ished the season with four victorie
against twenty-eight defeats.
The modern record for CONSECUTIVE
victories in the major leagues j
owned by the Chicago White Sox 0
1906. This club, known is base bal
history as the "hitless wonders" wen
through a stretch of twenty game
without defeat, from August 2 Il
August %, but the game Of Angus
IS was a 0-to-0 affair with the Yam
KEGS, so they won only nineteei
games. The Sox had won elevei
games before the tie and followel
with eight victories before they wer
defeated.
Walsh In His Prime.
Fielder Jones, now here with tn
St. Louis Browns, was the manage
Of that club. The wonderful arm o
Ed Walsh stood out strongly in thi
long winning streak. Walsh worke'
almost every day and alone he woi
seven games, FIVE Of them being shut
outs. Doc White and Nick Altroel
were Walsh's assistants, with Bill,
Sullivan behind the bat. Donohue, Is
bell, Tannehill and Davis were the in
helders, while Jones, Dougherty an
Hahn did most OF the outheld work.
In the last ten years the most pro
longed winning streak in major leagu
base ball was that of the Washington
club in 1912. Like the presen winninI
streak OF the Giants, it was startel
away from home, and practically a
OF the winning was done on the field
OF the enemy In this respect tn
Washington string of victories differ
from that of Providence in 1884, III
New York Nationals in 1904 and III
White Sox In 1906. The Senators wo
sixteen straight games away fror
home. then won one at home and los
the next day at Philadelphia unde
most peculiar circumstances.
Home Run Baker Again.
Washington was one run ahead G
the Athletics in the ninth inning, tw
were out and Frank Baker was At ha
with two strikes against him. Bake
hit one over the right tield wall, whic
tied the score, and the Athletics wo
in tho tenth inning. ending the Ion
winning streak OF the Senators,
The Washington winning streak {
1912 ia the only one ot note which d
not carry its team into a champion
ship. Providence had won pennar
in 1854, the Giants won pennant !
1904, and the White SoS won th
| American League pennant an
worlds championship IN 1000 9Th
Senator'S, however. had 90 he tontef
with second place, with niueiy-on
victories and sixUson defeats. th
best record ever made hy a VAST
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