Evening star., 1920-04-04

The Cubs have won eleven penna
championship every four years. In a
seven seconds and eight thirds. In t
club finished third or better. In no
procession.
The Chicago Nationals also have
corded by National League champion.
1906. In the latter year the Cubs set
only 36 defeats.
Chicagos hated rival. the Giants,
give the Cubs any real argument over
of the New York club against the seve
only four points behind the Cub avera
battling the Cubs have a margin of I
Chicago beat New York 344 times, v
low the Cubs
Chicago won 444 victories from
Boston and over 300 victories from
every other team in the league. Bos-
ton, however, is the only other team
that has played continually in the Ma
tional League with Chicago since the
famous circuit was born in the CEN
tennial year, 1876.
Only Team Superior to Giants
The Cubs are the only team that
the Giants have had to acknowledge
supremacy to in their thirty-seven-
year stay in the league. The Gotham
clan has a comfortable margin on
every other club in the league. The
Giants rank third in number of pen
nants. with eight. New York also has
nine seconds. New York's stock on
the National League pennant ex-
change took it's great boost after Nc
Graw came to the big town in 1902.
In seventeen complete seasons in New
York McGraw won six pennantS and
sevent seconds, the most remarkable
record ever made by any manager
over such a stretch of years. Inc
Giants pulled up in the cellar three
times, twice under McGraw. He took
charge of the club in July, 1902, when
it was last by fifteen games. The
Giants hit the basement again in 191 B.
In third position comes Pittsburgh,
with an average of .527 for its thirty
three years of warfare with the Cubs
Giants. Phillies; Reds; Bostons a St ms
Pirates have been able to scalp the
hapless Cardinals is largely responsi-
BILE for Pittsburgh's substantial per-
centage The Pirates have won 35l
games from st. Louis and lost only
170.- Pittsburgh began feeding on
eleven victories, and got eleven more
in 1902, under short schedules. They
got sixteen in 1903 and then in order
fifteen, twelve, eighteen, seventeen,
twenty, twenty, eighteen, seventeen,
thirteen. fifteen, thirteen and fifteen.
Pittsburgh won 231 victories against
eighty-eight defeats.
The Pirates have the edge on all the
clubs but Chicago and New York, and
have four pennants, five seconds and
three thirds. Three times they have
nants, four of the seconds and the
three thirds all were won under Fred
C1arke's management
The Philadelphia club is the only
other team with an average higher
than 800 and the Phillies just barely
In their thirty-seven years in the
league, the Phillies have won 2,161
games from their present rivals and
lost 2.156, for percentage of Sol.
The Phillies have the edge on Gin
cinnati, Boston. Brooklyn and St.
Louis. Pat Moran won the clubs only
pennant. but it finished second five
times. Incidentally two of these sec
onds came during Moran's four-year
Reds I'm Fifth Place.
Cincinnati ranks fifth with a per-
centage of .4S2 over a thirty five-year
stretch. The Reds have been able to
win margin of games from only two
clubS-Brooklyn and the Cardinals
AS in the case of Philly. Cincinnati
won only one pennant, which was won
by Pat Moran last season. Patrick
topping off his National League hon
ors with smashing worlds series
victory. Cincy only finished second
once. and that was back in 1878, when
Cy Keck ran the club.
Next we come to a base ball trae-
edy, the Boston club. Up to the ad-
vent of the American League, Bos On
ruled base balls waves. Up to the
time !l the american League put club
IN Boston in 1901 the Bean bows led
the National League in games won.
best percentag and greatest number
OF pennants. But since then the Ma
tional League fans in Boston have
had only one bright spot. the sensa-
Braves of 1914.
Boston ranks next to the Cubs in
winning pennants with nine cham
pionships; it also has five seconds
and three thirds. But it's lifetime per-
centage is only AIS for forty-four
1909. 1910. 1911 and 1912-put an
awful dent into the Boston percent
age. This once formidable club now
retains the edge on only three clubs
the Reds, Dodgers and Cardinals.
While Brooklyn ranks seventh with
Dodgers have won four National
League pennants. A twelve-year
stretch in the second division, from
1903 to 1914. inclusive. kept the Dodg-
erS in the base ball background, and
is responsible for the fact that it has
the edge on only one club-St. Louis
Cardinals the Punching Bag.
The poor Cardinals have served as
nothing better than the punching bag
of the National League. Every club
has licked them badly. st. Louis
percentage being .402
while they have never won a first or
finished second In thirty-two cam
naigns the Cardinals have had only
four first division clubs. three thirds
and one fourth. They have been last
eight times. Miller Huggins, the
nresent Yankee manager. gave the
cardinals their best base ball. as he
led two of the clubs that finished
tbird The other was in 1876. the first
vear of the leagues existence.
ELIAS analysis of how the different
teams Jared with one another brings
ont some more interesting dope. The
oost games that, any club ever has
won from another is twenty-one. won
hv Chicago from Boston in 1909. The
Rraves set record in 1909 by losing
fortv-one; games to two clubs. TWENTY