The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-30
STARS OF PAST
BRING REMNANT
IN FOR GIANTS
John McGraw, Hughey Jennings
and Jesse Burkett Once More
Reunited.

New York, Sept 30.-Reunited
after many years Of glory and strife
/ on the diamond a great trio of base
ball players has brought the New
/ York Giants through this season S
I battles for the pennant. John Nc
Graw, Hughey Jennings, Jesse Bur-
/ kett-the names of all three are
written at the top of the list OF
| baSeball's heroes.
| McGraw is finishing his Goth year
as manager of the New Yorks and
in this year he has had as first as
sistant Jennings, his teammate on
the old team of Orioles of Balti-
more, and Burkett, as the second
| deputy. The individual records of
this trio at bat and afield stand out
among the greatest in the history
OF the game.
Burkett has never had the good
! fortune to manage a major league
pennant winner but McGraw has
! piloted the Giants to a goodly string
of flags and Jennings won three
remnants with the Tigers.
McGraw was a third baseman,
first with the great Baltimore club
and then with st. Louis and when
! he landed in New York he retired
as an active and became a leader
one of the foremost in the annals
of the game. Jennings was a Short
stop, first with Louisville, then with
| Baltimore and finally with Brook
| Ign. His work as manager in De-
! troit came to a close with the sea-
son Of 1920.
Burkett came to the Giants in
| 1890 as a pitcher but was converted
into an outfielder because he could
not control his left handed shoots.
And as an outfielder with New
York, Cleveland and ST. Louis, Bur-
| kett made history as one of the
most able batsmen in the game.
The batting records of McGraw,
Jennings and Burkett combined.
represent 81 years of hitting over
the 300 mark in the big show Bur
kett batted better than 300 for II
years, McGraw for nine and Jen-
nings for seven. Burkett was the
mightiest of the trio and in 1895 he
batted Asa mark second only
to Hughey Duffy's .43S of 1894.
! McGraw's top average was 800.
| in 1899, the year that Ed Delehanty
finally succeeded in his long effort
to go over the 400 mark with an
average of .40S. jennings did his
best work with the bat in 1896,
when he hit 1897. Titans three, in
deedi
Burkett went to Cleveland in 1892
! and saw his club beaten for the Ma
tional league pennant by Boston.
1t was not until 1895 that Burkett
was arrayed against both McGraw
and Jennings. in the Temple cup
series.
With Burkett playing a heroic
role with the bat. the Spiders took
the measure of the pennant winning
Orioles that fall. Cleveland won
four games and Baltimore only one.
In 1886 it was Baltimore against
Cleveland again for the Temple cup
and once more il was McGraw and
Jennings against Burkett.
This time the Orioles cleaned I'D
without losing a game. They took
four straight, finishing the series
with a 5 to shutout on the grounds
of the Spiders. Baltimore was IN
the series again in 1897 but Cleye-
land had dropped back and Boston
fought the Orioles for the old tra-
ply. The Orioles won that final
competition for the Temple cup.
From that time until he vithdrev
from active service McGraw was
one OF the best third basemen in the
game, at one time being considered