The sun., 1919-08-28

YANKS AND GIANTS
TALK CITY SERIES
Probably Will Settle the Local
Championship in
October.
FANS FAVOR THE IDEA
With Two Sunday Dates In
cluded Tits Might Rival
Worlds Series.
FANS FAVOR THE IDEA
By FREDERICK G. LIEB.

BY 1s
with the return of the Yankees from
the West strong talk of a city series
began to buzz around yesterday. The
idea finds much favor with the Yankee
players. The Yankee Colonies. Rupert
and Huston. also are strong for it.
II would be hard to determine which
OF the local clubs Is the most disap-
ponted over the loss of the champion
ship. On July Fourth the Yankee own
ere felt confident that Huggins's team
could turn the trick and win New York
its first American League pennant. TIL
fortnight ago the Giant officials hoped
strongly for pennant victory in the
National League. .
Failing to get into the worlds series
n red hot series between the Giants and
Yankees would come pretty close to fur
nIshing some fall excitement for both
teams. Despite the recent setbacis In
the West the whole Yankee bunch seems
convinced they can lick McGraw's team.
The Giants are just as confident Of their
ability to down the Yankees.
Fans Are for 1t.
There has been lot of fun poked at
city series, but the fans are for II.
New York fans seldom had such an ap-
petite for baseball as they have shown
this year. The Cincinnati series was
splendid test, but even with the Giants
knocked out of the pennant race the
fans continued to come strong. Twelve
thousand were out for Tuesdays double
header with Pittsburg.
With the baseball season shutting
down late in September a city series
can be played at the time in which the
last week of the regular schedule gem
orally Is staged.
The first city series between the
Giants and Yankees In 1910 was hum
msr and ran a close race to the worlds
series in interest and attendance. Both
New York clubs finished second, and
there was quite a lot of curiosity to see
which was the stronger team. The series
went seven games, the Giants winning
four against two. The seventh was
tie
Mathewson practically won the Sc
rles single handed for the Giants, as he
captured three games and saved a fourth
for Drucke. BY the peculiar twist OF
baseball fate Chase. manager Of that
Yankee team, Is now McGraw's first
baseman and a member of the same
team with Mathewson.
With the exception of the last two
games, the series was played to capacity
houses at both the old wooden Polo
Grounds stands and the Hilltop. The
attendance for the series was 1oS,O33
and the receipts ss1.46a5o.
Frost in 1914.
The next time they tried a city series
hs.e-l914-it didn't go so well. 1t was
the year the Giants were nosed out in
the last month of the season bS the
Braves, while the Yankees, finishing the
season under Peckinpaugh, were tied
for sixth place The Giants won this
rerlcs, four games out of five, The
series attracted little interest. The only
large crowd came on Columbus Day.
when the attendance was 1000.
The 1914 city series attracted little
interest II came after New York had
taken part in three successive worlds
series, so a clash between the Giants
and a hopeless second division team.
with such regulars as Cook, Boone, Cole,
&C, naturally was tame.
This wear, with the Yankees possess
ing such talent as Mays. Baker. Pipp'
Lewis, Shawkey, &C., city series with
the Giants should be a real contest ana
give New York something outside OF the
worlds series to interest it in baseball
way. For one thing it should be
great battle of home runs, with the
long range hitters OF both teams hring
at the Polo Grounds fences.
II the local owners would get In
couple Of Sundays they might make
more out OF 1t than the owners OF the
worlds series teams. Under last win
ter's legislation, the owners or the cnam-
p,onshlp teams are forced to divide half
OF their worlds series spoils with their
rival clubowners. In city series, the
clubowners keep everything above the
players allotment, which is SO per cent
arTla
More Double Headers.
The Yankee Washington double header
on the Polo Grounds and the Dodger-
Brave game in Boston both were washed
out by the shower around noon yester-
day The sun came out later, but the
ball fields were seas OF mud and In
no condition for play.
As result OF the postponements. the
Yankees and Washington viii mingle
in double headers on the Polo Grounds
to-day and tomorrow. while Brooklyn
will put on a double header with the
Braves to-day. The Giants come to
Brooklyn tomorrow
With a flock of games scheduled with
the Senator's and Athletics. the Yankees
hope TO pull away from the Browns and
intend 20 keep plugging away In the
hope that either Detroit or Cleveland
may slide The club no longer enter
talns any pennant ideas. There still Is
a chance to finish third or second, and
under this years worlds series dlstribu-
ton second place players hope to get
slices OF $1,000 apiece or thereabout-
Even the third placers will be nicely re-
membered.
Mays will pitch one OF the games to-
day, and II possible this bone OF base
ball contention will be pltted against
Walter Johnson.
Were Babe Ruth only a slugger he
would be a baseball marvel yet the really
remarkable thing about this player is
his versatility, Ruth already has broken
one OF the most famous pitching rec
ords in baseball, and now he is after
enother-a slugging record. which II
was believed could not be approached
under modern conditions.
Up to the 1918 worlds series Mathew
sons worlds series shutout record OF
twenty-eighth successive innings with
out permitting a run to be scored was
considered the last thing in worlds Sc
rles pitching. II was considered base
bai masterpiece. something which might
not be done again for generations. II
ever.
Yet along came Ruth and pitched
tWenty-nine consecutive scoreless worlds
series innings. beating Matty's per-
Torrance by a game.
But the boy stll il not ssatished. In
ne days when fellows like Davis and
Murray were winning home run leader
ships with seven homers. Buck Free
mas record Of twenty-five was regarded