New Britain herald., 1918-05-06
new YORK TEAMS
ENJOY AFINE WEEK
Giants, Yanks and Robins Grab
Off Many Victories

New York, May 6.--The three
successful week in the six days end
ing last Saturday. Among them, the
! Giants, Yankees and Dodgers won IL.
| games and lost only two 1t probably
will be some time before Pop Knick-
erbocker's baseball representatives do
as we'll. The Giants made clean
sweep of their five games in Phila-
! delphia and Boston, the Yankees won
three out of four games played with
the Athletics and Red Sox, and the
| Dodgers won four out of five games
| played with Boston and Philadelphia
The work Of the Yankees last week
was very gratifying. The team work
! was better than the previous week
and the pitching also was greatly i'm
! proved, due to the two splendid games
| tWirled by the seven foot lefthander
! Love. l ...-
| Higgins did not attempt to use
| Caldwell and got along just as we'll,
! me little manager for q time be-
! Heved that the only way to bring
| Caldwell around was to have him
, work the soreness out of his arm in
| actual competition, but this was a
rather unsatisfactory method, mas
| much as all three games started by
| Caldwell had been lost
Loves Work Features.
| Warm weather may bring Caldwell
| around, and if it does Higgins
| pitching problem will be much SIM
| pier. Not much had been expected
of Love, but he has proved the star
! of the staff. His recent effectiveness
should give him the confidence he
needed. .- ..
The Yanks did not hit as hard last
! week as in the previous week. but
that was due to the calber of the
pitching which the team faced. The
three men defeated last week were
| Gregg, Bush and Ruth. each of
whom, in baseball vernacular, is
very tough baby"
The Boston Red Sox look strong,
despite their two defeats on the Polo
| Grounds. While Stuffy McInnis is
not the star at third that he was on
| first, he is playing the bag in pretty
| nifty style. Hooper is having his
greatest spring since entering the big
! leagues and Dave Shean is playing
surprisingly we'll at second. Boston
| will stick among the leaders all sea-
son, with a good chance Of finishing
/ on top.
Western Teams Weak.
The Western American league
teams are not showing up very i'm
pressively; at least, they don't look
very good from this side of the Allie
| ghany Mountains. Despite the fact
that Cleveland has been badly bunged
| ie y,Ja
| and Halt, a mediocre player when he
was with the Brookfeds, at third, the
i Indians are winning most of their
| games. The White Sox are winning
I whenever Williams, tho little left
handler pitches, but so far neither CT
| cote nor Faber have shown any
| thing.
Detroit continues to suffer from
pitching weakness, while Cobb and
Heilman, who were laid up for some
time, have not yet hit their stride.
| The Browns again seem to be in for
a disappointing season.
| The Giants still are making mon
| keys out of the National league and
| will continue to do SO. AS heavier
drafts will be levied on eligible men
| in Glass l, clubs like the Cubs, Reds
| and Phillies will be weakened more
| and more, while tho Giants, with
| their team of married veterans, will
I remain untouched. About the only
real valuable man the Giants are
likely to lose will be Kauff. Young
! will not be 81 until after the season
| is over
Fourteen out of IS victories tells
| story in itself, but one must analyze
| those victories to see how New York
] In re 1n
| its head. Last week in scoring five
victories over Philadelphia and Bos-
ton, the Giants piled up SO runs
| against two Of their opponents.
Not only does the Giant team
| stand head and shoulders over the
| rest of the league in offense, but the
| teams pitching staff also is by far the
! best in the league.
The Cubs are the only hope of the
! National league, but their bauble will
| likely burst, just like that Of the
| Phillies The Mitchellmen have been
! beating the Western teams regularly,
| and the opposition out there seems
| much stronger than what the Giants
| have been picking on in the East
| Dodgers Come to Life.
! The Phillies were not permitted to
| suffer long. Few really thought the
| Quakers would seriously challenge
! the Giants but Moran pulled a mir
| acle in Philadelphia once before, and
| there was an outside chance that he
might repeat. But those three crush
! ing New York defeats, all of them
! shutouts, took all the pennant pep
| out of the Phillies They lost five
| straight games last week, Brooklyn
| jumping on them Friday and Satur-
| day
Brooklyn, by the way, has sudden
| ly come to life. The Dodgers are
nIaying some real baseball. After