Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-07
AROUND THE BASES

Elberfeld has gone to Camp Shelby.
at Hattiesburg, Miss, as a Y. NJ c.
\. instructor
The Red sox look good for the
pennant. Cleveland whitfield down
their lead, but a strong point now is
that Boston will have the bulk Of her
games at home. and they are almost
unbeatable at Fenway Park. While
the Red SoX have lost some of their
most valuable men the club has a lot
of stars who are able to arise to
big occasions.
The Yankees again have fallen by
the wsyside and are just finishing out
the season. Frank Baker had a bad
slump after being the first big league
player TO get his one hundredth hit.
and the entire club slumped with him.
The Cubs practically ended the Ma
tonal League race last week when
they took three out of four from our
Giants. Pittsburgh already had turn
ed similar trick here. so the Cubs
had a five and half game lead. with
less than a month to go. The major
ity OF their remaining games are to
/ be played on their home grounds
The Giants have been unable to profit
by the assistance rendered them by
Brooklyn. which recently beat the
Cubs four straight. The Cubs had
been enjoying q runaway, but the loss
OF those four games while the Giants
won four out OF five from ST. Louis
[ once more made a race OF il and to-
day John McGraw has pulled his COM
pany up to within few points of Fred
Mitchell. McGraw never quit battle
Until the umpire was home and in
led. He has a good chance this year.
Ralph Mulford. the worlds greatest
all around automobile driver, is the
second champion to enter the Inter
national Sweepstakes, to be run at
Sheepshead Bay Speedway on Satur-
day afternoon. August II. Arthur
Durray. the worlds speed king. was
entered Saturday by Harry S. Hark-
ness. the millionaire sportsman and
owner OF the speedway.
Mulford this season is driving with
more skill and daring than ever be-
| fore. He has finished we'll up among
/ the leaders in the several long races
contested this season. but expects to
show the way TO the field of starters
/ in the coming $4,000 sweepstakes.
That Hugo Bezdek has made good
as manager of the Pittsburgh team
I is now being admitted by Eastern
} baseball critics who couldn't see a
/ chance for the "busher" a year ago.
| One of the latest to praise Bezdek is
I Joe Villa, the veteran who writes in
/ the New York Evening sun:
Hugo Bezdek surely has made good
as manager of the Pirates. He took
/ hold OF the team last year under the
most trying circumstances and grad
ually strengthened the weak spots
until the Pittsburgh players now are
holding third place with a firm grip.
BeZdek has surmounted several OBJ
stacles this year. He has lost Stem
I gel, Cation. King, Carlson. Hamilton
and other capable men who are in
the service. Ellam at short field is
a genuine find. So is Southworth in
right field. Bigbee has developed re-
markably under Bezdek's coaching.
while Cutshaw is covering second
base as well as he ever did for Brook
lyn. II Secretary ot War Baker had
allowed the players in the deferred
draft classes to remain with their
clubs until October. Bezdek modestly
says that the Pirates would have had
an excellent chance to win the pen
nant from either the Cubs or the
Giants At any rate Smokeville
fans. after many years of gloom, are
supporting a real ball club, and
Barney Dreyfuss is making some
more money"