Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-18

ers in the major league pennant
races.
Two teams are going & get the
breaks and slip under the wire to
enjoy the big series cut.
But those breaks don't mean just
h edges in close decisions by the
umplres.
We refer TO the breaks which
non-contending teams give the con-
tenders.
Naturally, as In any group, each
player and team has likes and dis
Fixes amosg the clubs of the cir
cult.
A year ago the Reds were the
popular choice of the National
League clubs. They made life mis-
cradle for McGraw by manipulating
all the stumbling blocks possible to
roll up for him to handle. He didn't
come through either.
The tables are turned this year
and IL is Cincinnati hat Is the un-
popular team. The Robins have a
nice chance to cop but they r not
the popular choice. The color that
tha moneys on, Is none other than
the despised Giants of a rear ago.
In the American League the
Yanks r the ~outcasts. Ask play
ers on the Detroit team, the Red
Sox or the Athletics their favorite
and they'll say they'd like to see
Iris Speakers Indians stage the
p-ost-season entertainment.
It's anything to beat the YankS,
On the recent swing of New York
around the west they felt the knife
clear up to the hilt. In st. Louis
Jimmy Burke sent Urban Sh6cker
/ AnainEf thu VonLC f4>n 4~ fn,a-
game series. Shocker has q habit
of fooling New York sIuggcrs. He
did It twice In four days this time.
In Detroit Howard ..Ehmke was
sent In out OF his turn to administer
defeats to the Babe Ruth &c Co.
1t isn't wrong to work a pitcher
out OF his turn to defeat a certain
club. No, IL is part of the game for
each team to win as many games
as possible. Yet 1t doesn't seem
quite fair to the team that is on the
wrong end of the deal.
Both New York clubs have hand
ed out this T of medicine in prev
fous years. It is nothing new to
them. The Yanks. aren't whimper.
NJ. Their game is smuggling. And,
Of course, the Giants aren't kicking
on getting the glad hand.
m "help the Giants" spirit in
the National League and "anythfng
to beat the Yanks' in the American
isn't saying that McGraw is going &c
win the pennant or that Higgins !.
through for this year.
But IL docs show that the best
team doesn't always win a pennani
because of the personal friendly and
unfriendly feeling of sister clubs.
Big Loss to Baseball
The loss OF Ray Chapman, star
shortstop of the Cleveland Ameri-
can baseball team, to his own team
and to the baseball world is being
sadly felt. Chapman, a great attn.
lete, well liked by his wv team
mates and all who have played
against him, was one of the players
who helped to make the national
game what it is today.
Any player or team who has 8
a r for the welfare of the national
game, should sympathfze with Car
Mays, the pitcher who threw the
fatal bah at Chapman, and not take
action such as was started by tho
Boston and Detroit teams OF thu
american league in trying to bar
Mays from organized baseball
Mays is not TO blame for hitting
Chapman with the pill unless be
actually meant to do so, which Is
doubtful, for IL he did there is every
reason to believe that the crowd and
the umpires would have noticed it.
While the Boston Americans and
Detroit Americans threaten to take
action against Mays, Connie Mack,
manager OF the Philadelphia Ath-
letics; Iris Speaker, manager of the
Cleveland Indians, and Colonies
Rupert and Houston of the YAM
KEGS yesterday made statements re-
garding the accident.
Connie Mack, one OF the wisest
baseball heads in baseball, stated
that the action of the two American
League cams is q little hasty. Tie
Athletics manager is Of the opinion
that there is not a man I'm baseball
who deliberately would attempt to
MAIN another player. 1t IS unfor-
tunate, Mack added, that Mays was
In the box when the accident oc-
CURED. This last statement touches
On the one-tfme accusation that
sTbean balf...
Manager Speaker, of the Indians
in a conversation with the owners
OF the Yankees. stated although
there was some bitterness on the
part OF two or three of the players
against Mays, he would do every
thing to suppress 1t. This action will
be for the good Of baseball, for the
good of the players and especially
out OF regard for the poor fellow
that's dead.
The colonies replied that they
would do everything possible to pre-.
vent any bitterness arising.
The most serious accident I'm re-
1 cent URaRG DxTfGiA0 NJ TEau rawrr q rfs
was the injury to Chick Fewster OF
tho Yankees al jacksonville in q
game with Brooklyn. Pfeffer threw
the ball which fractured Fewster'i
skull, but the latter is around tbs
baIlfield again. Roy Corhan, short.
stop of the Chicago Americans, soms
years ago was hit on the head by q
bah thrown by Russell Ford, OF thu
Yanks. Corhan was critically Ill
for weeks, but his skull wasn't frac'
tured. Corhan was a failure at tho
bat after that, Ford was un'
nerved as a pitcher.
Andy Coakiey of Cincinnati STRUCK
Roger Bresnaham back of the ear
several years ago. Bresnaham wa,
near death for q week but recovered
completely and was as good a bat.
ter as ever.
Accidents VIII Happen
This accident may nave its effect
on baseball players, fans and rela-
tives OF players who viii fear for
future accidents, but it must b.
taken into consideration that acct
dents win happen in every walk OF
life. One fatality in organized big
league baseball is without doubt the
lowest death rate of any sport
known. Accidents in the game OF
baseball are very few and far be-