New Britain herald., 1923-09-25
s aking of Sports

.s The New York Giants are still on the iimh-not very far out. but out They lost to the Cincinnati Reds yes. tefday, and their lead was cut to three full games, In plain words. the GiaHis age 3 up with to %, although one or
 Ihese games with st, Louis may not
 be played.
 The Cincinnati Reds are s down
 with to play,
 To make the National league pen-
 nant automatically safe the Giants ,iraust win three of their last siA
 games Then, fl the Reds win i've
 straight. the standing would read;
 Club w, l.. PC.
 New York .,.,... ob 5g .62i Cincinnati ..,,,... sb be ST
 If the Reds lost one game the
 Giants can clinch the victory by winning two games.
 The Giants have one more game to play with the Reds in Cincinnati to- day and then come home for four games with Brooklyn and one with Boston. The game with St. Louis will not be played unless so ordered by the president of the National league.
 After the Reds play the Giants to- day they have two games in St. Louis on Saturday and Sunday and two i games with Pittsburgh on the follow ing Saturday and Sunday, so that the fans of both cities may have their agony long drawn out.
 Again It is repeated. Something ought to be done by the school de- partment or some other authoritive organization about cleaning up the mess that exists in High school athle- tics.
 The charges and counter charges that are being made daily. with Coach Cassidy as the storm center, are be- coming troublesome to those who like clean sports played and directed by sporting men.
 One of two things must be true. Either Cassidyis not qualified for the position of responsibility in the school athletics which he holds, or the High l school boys, alumni and undergradu- | ates involved and lined up against him, are doing him an almost ire parable wrong.
 Whichever it is it should be clean ed up. Cassidy should be exonerated | or he should be proven guilty of the peculiar charges and the whole mat ter snoothed out.
 No doubt there's much to be said on both sides.
 The High school players of past easons-Landino, Murth and Griffin who now come forward with lurid tales of alleged irregularities a year or more ago, are making their com- plaints at 9 peculiar time.
 Can it be that they are so terribly upset by what they believe to have been the coach's actions that year and more later they decide that the honor of the school and themselves has been impugned. Or is it for some other reason that they make these serious charges thus tardily?
 It would seem to disinterested ob- server that the time to have made complaint was at the time of the $ alleged offenses or, as the minister { says in we'll known phrase, Tor for ( ever hold your tongue t
 It is not at all unlikely that the { old H. s. fraternity feeling has some t thing to do with the situation as re- S gards athletics.
 But the attitude of both Cassidy and the boys is hard to understand.
 Certain boys make startling charges against the coach. yet they continue to associate with him on and off the football field.
 He permits them to associate with him--they seem willing to do it.
 It's muss that is displeasing and also hard to fathom.
 It was the rookie iniielder Fowler Tho hit homer with two on yester- lay that enabled the Reds to give the Giants such a setback.
 Chief Bender is not likely to hurl n any of the games against Hartford ut Parnham, the famous Oriole twirl- IT, is expected to start the series.