The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-28
GIANTS HEADING
HOME WITH RAG
ALMOST THEIRS

By JOHN B. FOSTER.
Copyright, 1892, by The Argus.

New York, Aug. 2s.-The Giants
are homeward bound after their
final cruise in the west. They can
not be said to have the champion
ship Of the National league won
but they have bitten everything out
of it except a lite piece Of the core.
Nothing can take the pennant
away from them but complete col
lapse or vital injuries to players.
The Cardinals had a fair play for
the pennant but they fooled it.
Branch Hickey may have thought
his theory sound by substituting
men from the minor leagues when
his players began to falter but it
will never commend itself to ex-
perienced baseball men as good
judgment.
The Giants ere virtually week
ahead of their nearest rivals with
a month to 60 and with the team
which has pursued them furthest
painting with the effort, and with
the other teams strung down the
course like a field Of wind broken
athletes.
The Giants have a number Of
games with Brooklyn, Boston and
Philadelphia. They should win the
bulk of them. Then they get Chi
cago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and St.
Louis in succession but before
they reach St. Louis the pennant
fight is likely to be settled. 1t will
hardly be a last minute affair as it
was in 1921. There is nothing in
sight which warrants predicting a
grand drive to the winner with both
pilots welding the whips over the
backs of their steeds.
Cubs Gave Helping Hand.
Except the st. Louis series the
Giants have won 81 games from the
west - Chicago, Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh. From the same clubs
the St. Louis team has won q. The
series between St Louis and New
York to date is in the Giants favor.
From the eastern clubs, Boston,
Philadelphia and Brooklyn, the
Giants have won 80 games. The
Cardinals have won 80 games from
the same teams. St. Louis fell be-
hind in it's own section and Chicago
was the team that tripped the Car
dinals for the fall. The st. Louis
outfit has won only five games from
the Cubs and Chicago has won IL
from St. Louis. There's the key to
the National league race. The Cubs
that hate New York like poison,
have virtually given the Giants a
helping hand and pushed them into
the promised land.
What should have been better
race in the National league than
that of 1921 has turned out tame,
waterlogged affair with most of the
| fleet sunk long before the harbor
is in sight.
The Giants won all their last
series in St. Louis from team
which passed out of the scene like
ship heading for the open with
every piece of machinery singing in
grand unison Lets get where we're
going as quickly as we can get
! there"
Lucky Open Date!
, Luckily or unlvckily for the
Browns, Monday happened to be
open so that the game of Sunday
which could not be played against
the Yankees because of the cold
rain could be played on Monday. If
the date had been needed for travel
the Browns would have had little
the better of it. for the Yankees
would have had to play in st. Louis
Should the Browns win they will
forget all about the double-headers
they might have had and if they
lose they will hold the schedule
makers responsible for not making
! it compulsory for them to get out
of New York at once on Sunday.
In any event it is not probable
even though they lose, that they
will fade into the atmosphere as
supinely as their city rivals. The
finching of the Cardinals five
weeks in advance of the finish is
not likely to do them or Their
league much good.
Settle Douglas Place.
1t has been proved that the Giants
are quite as we'll off without Doug
las as with him SO that ends any
argument on that incident of the
National league race. On the whole
perhaps they are better Of 'espec-
tally as. they got the better part Of
the Boston club before it was time
to stop making deals. Its fine
thing to pick up strong, we'll sea
soned and healthy young man like
McQuillan who has been getting
better and better all of the time anG
of course Boston being a tail endel
team did not need him.