The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-08-09

whipped yesterday, but while Chicago
lost single New York dropped both
games Of a double header. These oper
atiOns of the day left the Cubs seven
Games ahead of the Giants. The
Pirates, who were winners in a single
Yesterday. closed the distance between
them and the Giants a little, being
now but five full games, or .04S per
cent behind the runners-up.
Most Of yesterdays contests were
close affairs. only one game being won
and lost by what may be considered
q large score.
Brooklyn evened up the series, one
all, by defeating Chicago in one of
the closest game of the day, 3-2.
Boston repeated on the visiting Car
dihals. winning Yesterday again, "a,
thus taking both games of the series
to date
At Philadelphia the Pirates also re-
Pcated on the Phillies, taking yester.
days contest, 4-2, and walking off
with both battles in the series.
The Cincinnati Reds handed the
Giants a double defeat yesterday, right
in New York. The Reds took the first
game of the afternoon somewhat easily,
,S-. While the second encounter was
a much closer one; still the victory
perched on the shoulders of the visit
ors, 30. This gives the Reds two
of the three games in the series.
st. Louis and Boston close their
series today, while the other clubs will
conclude theirs tomorrow.
Glass Of The Cubs
CHICAGO, July l5-At some time
in the past, a sportive person arose
and bespoke himself thusly:
! "Class will tell. >"
! As his utterance gained momen ntum,
the folks who inhabited the world at
that particular time pondered deeply
over his words and thus articulated: :
"Thc guy is right"
/ But he wasn't.
All this talk one hears nowadays
about "class" asserting itself in q
victorious way in fields of sportive
cndenvor is more or less a flock of
bunk
Glass doesn't win anything. Past
performances count for little oil
nothing. The guy--Or the gang OF
guys-who wins in an athletic con
test is the one who has the wallop
and gets the "breaks." Class means
as much in sporting encounters As
/ neutrality agreements mean to Ger
many.
A week or so ago the Cubs invaded
the precincts of Gotham and took on
the Giants in diamond combat. After
the first game, which the Cubs won
all the New York sport writer's be,
spoke themselves thusly:
''The Cubs haven t any class, where
as the Giants are the class team in
tn" National League Class will tell. y
Maybe-and maybe not. The Cubs
may be lacking in class--but take q
squint at their present standing a
compared with the classy Giants. II
class counted for anything the Giants
would be a thousand miles or 80 be
YOnd their nearest rivals. But they
aren't. So what's class got to de
with a pennant battlef
Remember the Braves of l9l4f They
didn't have any more class than Q
worn out fliver. But they had tht
waIlOp-and thev were lucky Result
they won a world s championship whilt
} the "claSs' teams were left to snifflt
'hVil hhS'' Ht VI lUlt
couldn't even define the word class
but they horned their way into 4
worlds championship just the same
! And the Dodgers of l9l6-what a me
diocrc appearing squad that was. No
one player on that whole team of 2:
or more could have bribed his way
onto an all star nine-yet the mis6t
won u penDant.
Class means nothing in pu"ilism.
Tate the COrbcttFitsimmOns con
test in 1897. There was Gentleman
Tm--the classiest warrior that eve
stepped into prize ring, PitteC
AGAINST clumsy. frenkishly built BOI
FitzSimmOns. Corbett. as boxer, 81
far outclassrd Fits that comparison i
impossible. Yet Bob Fitzsimmons hat
the luck and wallOp.
Joe Cans was one of the nifties
rin"men that the lighter divisions eve
produced. "The classiCst lightweight
Of them all" is what ring experts still
: call the dead whirlwind Joe took o
the altogether classless Battling NelsO
and Joe Cans went down to defeat
Terry McGovPrn ddnt have class
All that hoy had was bulldog courage
} aggrrssiN Neness tha7 was amazing and
wallOD Rased on bOXiny form TER