The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-06-02

10 the CubS-bnth Doyle and MCrklf
going better than they did for the last
! couple OF years. before they left th'
Giants. 4 change OF uniforms is 4
great tonic to some players. McGraw
| Is aware Of that fact.
AS soon as | let IL ball player 20.
Mac half complained to me in New
! York. ''hc shows ali kinds OF stuff
! against my club. Look at Dcmarce. one
OF the toughest in the league Tor the
] Giants TO beat"
II wish YOU would let ME have 4
couple or players if YOU will guaran ter
| them 10 play their heads off aGainS1
the Giants" told him.
What Mac has said is true. Take n
| man off the Giants payroll and put him
with another team. and he becomes q
| Ty Cobb or Walter Johnson when go
| To pride To show McGraw he made q
! mistake, and part knowledge Of the
style OF play and batters accumulated
| while with the team. If Il general fought
| with Germany for time and then was
! released TO the allies, ne ought 10 get
rcsults--he knows the Teuton type and
| style.
| In my opinion. YOU will observe from
| now on that the Giant pitchers will
get slammed more consistently than in
III" early weeks Of the race. except
| SChupp. This young Southpaw Is one
OF the finds Of the game and the best
! left handler In the National league to-
day. according 10 my view. would
| take in more territory and make It the
| best sou;hpnw In baseball. except
! don't feel ] know those Boston Fed Sox
left handlers well enough fairly to com
pare them. But Schupp will get better
! the further he goes.
However. MCGraws other pitchers
had Il spring squirt because they came
back from the south heaDing over with
condition. but from now on The batters
will measure them pretty accurately. II
artillery wins this war. IL vii also win
the National league pennant for the
Eiants-if they win il. Heavy hitting
not alright pttchinS-will have to
do II.
Don't count Fat Moran's PhtllIes out
rs real contendcrs. He has q good COM
hination. his own shrewdness in han
ding pitchcIN and as 4 manager. than
whom there is none smoother OrShrewd-
CT. Alexander. his bnndhox bali park.
and club with some power. but great
unity and mechanical perfection be-
! cause Of tho long and constant aSsocia-
| ton OF lis members. PAT knows the
value Of IL machine after tho parts ARC
broken In.
Fat has several wallpapers that At fine
into the bandboH park and who have the
range of that rlglrt Held wall MS accu-
ritrly rs n modern artillery officer has
tho cnemy'S Gnbby Cravaih does not
old age. judging b. the way he Is past
Ing that ball His artillery sights nrc
as good as ever.
Big Alec seems 10 DO right for ar
other drive this season. and that means
thirty or more wins. The only game
against my club in which the Phill!cs
looked bad was the contest in which we
piled up n hundred runs nr SO, hut here
was some NOR" of Fat Morans STRAIT
cgy lie Gnt my boys so tired out thew
could hardly play tho next day. so they
beat us.
"What Is holding back thc brooklyn
rhamrS"' was n question fired Et me SO
often in tho cas-, that ! thought ma
chin" guns must b" splitting II out.
Robbirs' boys lacked the confidence as
In the opening days OF the race tho
spirit that took them through 10 the
pcHnant last year. More lately they
seem [" hn getting back that never
beaten unit 1.-the las t-man-iS-Uut feeling
and are going better. They used 10 slop
along last season. and YOU would won
der how ball club like il could reach
such heights. hu; somehow they would
carry Just enough ~ win enough Of
their ERm"S--a sound practice. If tho
can collect lh.S same coniidf NC they
! may become c"ntenfcrs again This sea-