New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-30
BYRON Calls Game When
the Giants Are Lead
ing Braves.
MGRAW CLINGS TO
REMNANT VISIONS
Proves by Mental Arith-
metic That Mathematical
Chance Still Exists.
Nv W. ]. MACBETH.

Rain Yesterday afternoon halted the
Giants in their assault OF the CorSl'
rama Tex. record OF twenty-seveh
consecutive victories. If the skies are
bright this afternoon, 1t IS hoped that
McGraw and his plucky band VIII
bsve at least tied the mark ere sun
down. A sweep Of to-day's double
header with the Braves would accom-
pljs5 the trick, as the chain stood al
twenty-five in a row when New YORK
finished polishing off Boston in lhufS-
days second shuJ-out. .d
But for the idiosyncrasies OF LoId
Bv-ol,. chief Of staff at the foIU
Gyounds Yesterday afternoon, Friend
Jobn and mis- rebels would probably
have rotten within one stop OF Corsl-
cana Yesterday afternoon. Eight or
ten minutes more and the clubs which
nlaved three and half rounds might
easily have squeezed in legitimate
came. New York was leading BY
core Of / 70 o when his lordship halt
ed bostilities. AS Bill explained 70
his cronies Of the press, he ditehed
the show because of unnatural" dark
ness.
Too Dark for Byron.
A thunderstorm was riding up swift
IL wncn Byron decided u was too dark
for him to Judge balls and strikes.
NcCraw and Stallings both inslnuate
II is too dark on the brightest days
for Bill 10 do that. But after the
game had been called the players and
spcctators had 70 wait fully ten min
utes for the rain. After the freshet
struck all idea Of play had TO be
abandoned. II is true it was little
murkv when Byron first acted. But
NAM major league games before tins
have been played in much worse light
The scoreboard figures were plainly
G.scernible from the most gloomy re
cess Of the grandstand.
Now, the pity Of it all was that Bill
forestalled the rain. Poll Perrltt was
stepping along very nicely for the
Giants. McGraw's boys had nicked big
Ed Reulbach for tally. They grabbed
him in the third inning Of the incom-
plete contest Davey Robertson doubled
after Herzog had strolled, with none
out. in the third. Our boys were on
their way 10 another one in their half
of the fourth Mccarthy had singled,
with only one down, and Reulbach was
away in the hole 70 Perritt when Lord
Byron called time.
You never can figure the tempers-
mental drift of these umplres. byron
has been known to keep teams at 1t till
pitch dark Also 70 make athletes toll
through whole afternoon in tor
rental downpour. Bill = not at Oil
afraid OF either the wet or natural
darkness. But this "unnstu al" gloom
is too depressing TO him.
No Morning Game.
A coterie Of statisticians Of tn. press
were very much perturbed " n the
cancellation Of yesterdays game be-
cause of the rain. After they had fig
ured for several hours on the possible
outcome they came 10 the conclusion
that the idle day automatically ellml-
mated the Giants from the pennant race.
They so informed President Harry y.
Hampstead.
The president was much exercised
over this intelligence. He hunted up
John J. McGraw TO see II IL might not
be possible for the Braves and Giants
10 mingle in three games to-day-one
in the morn ng and double-header IN
the afternoon. In d few minutes Mr..
Hempstead returned with the intelli-
cence that there would be only two
games. There was no further informa-
ton.
II now transpires that John J. Nc
Graw was a more deXterous mathema-
tician than the scribes who were com
posing the swan song of his hopes, and
Mac doped IT all out by mental arlth-
metic just like fash.
It's easy enough when you see how.
The standing Of the first four clubs this
morning follows: