The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-26

MAY and June and enily July are pleas.
ant months In which one may toy with
the dope. but n isn't often they have
much TO do with the final aspects of
pennant race
August and September are the months
which bring class and stamina to the
front, for these are the months wherein
most clubs grow tagged md begin 10
falter and only the rugged can survive.
Baseball is supposed 10 he light,
pleasant occupation II Ia regarded gen
crally as an easy. drifting sort of NJ"
But the man who Is on the JOB, out
hustlng In championship ball game
every day from early April to early
October, Is under physical and mental
strain far beyond popular belief
As the heat comes ON and the strain
increases. there ~ a tendency to be, ONE
stale, weary and ont Of gear - tendency
10 ease up md loaf on certain days,
whore the sight Of u baseball Is rcpug
nant 10 the PLAYERS eye Few fighters
partake In over ten or twelve caruirals n
season Football players never work IN
over ten games year only once "A week
through short campaign
Golf and tennis championships never
steady drive for l5i days-wel over five
months Of unbrokon competition. o..
Some Examples.
az many In May or June-hut by July
the strain begins to tell.
Take 1915 Early IN July the revised
White Soy were well IN 'front.' booming
along NJ "A dizzy pace
By bate August they were a bad third.
bumped from the running and gone FOR
good They coudnt stand up through
IN" stretch
Last season there were two hnll clubs
struggling FOR the leadership around IN"
middle of July They were then PLAYING
the best ball IN the lohgg" I'll" two
teams we're New York and cleveland Yet
neither finished ns good Hs third In
iuries accidents and general let-doWn
followed, which brought DISASTER
For 1917
ono reason why the Red Soy ar" still
favored hv so many is their proven Rhil-
nv through the stretch In 1875 nud In
1919 they gave all needed evidence that
when 1t came 10 the dusty highway near
tho last turn they had the stuff needed
to continue the hard grind
white SoN and Tigers have Vet 10
prove this stretch ability Both bad soft
chances last eeptcmhcr, with a long
home siny.io work on while the crippled
Red 5UN WcrGaen tnC road Vet neither
couliH get out In fesnt with every Hd-
vantage working .hdN way
The Tiger Handicap
From eight to ten games back around
the mst Of June. the Tiger case isu''
hopeless but the handicap is a heavy
one
Jennings srln has nrst-class baseball
Cllh with greater attacking power than
any I'm tho game An outfieId that car
fics cobb Nepch and Heilmau is enough
10 lead any offensive and II ~ almost a
certainty that by the end ~ the seaHon
Detroit viii nav" greater humber 81
l. a
other club In the maior leagues
But the Tiger defense is stil well be-
low that ~ the Rcd SoN, white SpN and
/ Yankees defense is lust As iripor
tant TN baseball as the ntu0k Detroit
| is pretty sure 10 be M In the race ngair
7 by late July or Auguat But unless the
Tiger defense improves any Detroit pen,
nant is stll quito distance away
phlllies Hang on.
The National League race hnR settled
courlusivelv umong two cluhs-the Gisnt'
and Philli"s
/ Neither cubs nor Cardinals had m,
power 10 ou't either. while N" Hravei
md uodTNts have lost any chance the,
might have had through the hnnIicnI
/ ~ ragged. rirlCty start
i Roth Giants and rhiillrH have the STAN
. in1 and machinery to Keep going. Rnf
while The odds stilI favor the Giants. IN,
pnilli"s should not he Nndetrstimnted
/ Thr} nav" ihie" potent factors th'
/ pitching the punch md tho pep and for
/ the last Two years they have been better
/ through the stretch than AZ any othel
D time
/ The rhIllics have the knnck NJ hang
Ing ON They haven't power enough m
any extended Spuri but ON tho othe
side ~ n. they have the ability to rall
I quickly after any scthn,ks They rcfus.
. To- become discouraged, and this IN a vita
. factor amy IgnFNpf race Moro tlnI
one good ban cluh h1s been WrcCkc,
badly after n few defeats
The Giant Pace
In Hpitc o' the philles' tenacitv. n 4