New Britain herald., 1917-07-02
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 POOR FORM
Giants and PhilheS' Slab- men Off Form

Aw York, July 2.-The Giant aing wabbled quite a bit last K, but 1t didn't wabble badly agh to cause the team to lose k ground. The Giants won five Of eight games. The pitching of Philadelphia staff was Just as " as that of the locals as evil cd by the Quaker box scores in ,klyn.
 ae Giants and Phillies are now so \ ahead of the field that both can ,le about quite bit without any, k serious happening to either, un- acme team starts drive on the r, of the one launched by the bn Braves f1 1914.
 Ather the Giants hitting Aor aing Is coming up to expecta- Early in the race the Giants laS batting lead of thirty points
 their nearest rivals. That was time they had six regulars bat
 over 300. Now they have oed to third in hitting and have players just barely hanging on hT the 300 men. Herzog es- lily has taken an awful flop in }tick work. He is down to .222. l G5beon in Comeback"
 lpleastng feature of the teams Hast week was the fine all around i of the veteran catcher. George bn. Gib during the last few has been in the form displayed bttsburgh in 1909, the year the IAs won the worlds series, when hught almost every game played httsburgh that season.
 poklyn did some strong playing week, despite it's battered up con- D. Tho Robins especially hand
 to the Braves, the former jinx
 of the Dodgers. The Robins ted them in five out of seven Is. Brooklyn also made the go- 1ery sinteresting for Philadelphia. Igton has been trying to bulldoze ny into winning a few games
 coming to the greater city.
 tactics won one year for Stall
 sut . team must have some
 Stronger to win . champion
 than rowdy tactics. Tener called saw's threat and showed him lis boss in the National league. F cannot afford to, overlook the as any longer. Ebbets regis
 a protest of their behavior in klyn, but judging from the dis sful conduct of this team on the
 Grounds last Friday Charley's e Cincinnati team is making a did effort to get above .500. fthere, the Reds will go after the jnalss and Cubs. If Mathewson ] finish in third place this season puld be almost as big 8 boost Big Six as if he won the pennant. Poor Work by Yankees.
 1 3 Yankees suffered a stunning ] in the second half of last week. finished their home stand in a satisfactory manner by taking { put of nix from the tail-end ] tics, but then ran into a mess ] 1uhle in Boston, where the Red .eeled them over in four straight
 8. This is the stiffest jolt the Sox have handed the Yankees Boston inherited the Athletics as tho Yankees could make more 1e for Boston than any team in eague.
 { is not lost. but the Yankees NH luickly to remain in the tnt fight. The team is' not well Hh equipped to be able to make Est ground should either the Red pr White Sox get too far out in The outfield is the biggest of vans dtsappointments. but the ling stan lately has faltered as
 as the outneld. Even the pitch staff is beginning to skid. How both Fisher and Mogridye had \nlisfortune to lose splendidly fled games in Boston, Ray allow ! Sply two singles.
 ! dwell appears to be the same
 we'll aa of yore. Slim especially 5 to select such fine times for his feakA Last year he broke out T. Louis while the club was los Ehe league lead through six de.
 In Gt. Louis. Now that the team 4unsred 1t longest losing streak he ssaAon he again has thrown
 his mates and employers. Cald- Nappearo to be incurable.
 tfe two Boxes again are closely ned for the lead, while Detroit is lik to make up lost ground. The
 fs will be barking at the heels o1
 Tanks very shortly unless Wild E men take that brace very soon