Evening star., 1924-08-10

'1ll tell you how il can be done
by licking the daylight out of Phil
adelph;a- Brooklyn. Boston and Gin
cinnati for the remainder of the sea-
son, to say nothing about St Louis,
which We've pretty nearly eXtermin-
ated as it is. Now out of that for
proposition you can figure out how
it will be done, if il can be done.
1t is apparent enough that we are
two series back of the Giants in the
race. If we can gain that two series
we have got them where they are
as likely to come back to us as we
are to drop again. That's our aim,
20 catch up those two series. Give
EN- to US right now and we'll beat
he Giants out / say 1t right out
N meeting that if were tied with
New York as the race has progressed,
,ay August IL, when the Western
cams turn home and the Giants go
Vest for the last time, We'll have as
good a chance to win the champion
hip as they have. Our team is COM
ns.
Chicago Has Blown.
Chicago has blown. The re-
-Hainder of them aren't there. The
Giants are out in front where they
ave their right to be by reason of
he opposition they have encountered
he same opposition being mostly
about as "oppositious" as a sand bank
20 a tank. It's partly our fault. 1
loiN II EpL d tIlIS 10 say Dut NISH d
cam can demolish the East as
she Giants have, chew up st. Louis
and spread the Cubs over the land
7cape like peanut Eutter on cracker
sandwich, what is there to be said?"
The Giants have defeated PhiladeI-
phia in 10 games and have lost to
them. Pittsburgh has got to equal
that to make good in the East. New
York has won Is games from Brook
'yn and lost 4, and Pittsburgh has
practically got to sweep through
srooklyn like a cyclone through a
Western town to come up to that.
Fhe Giants have won II games from
3oston and have lost 5. and Pitts
burgh already has lost 6 to Boston,
% the Pirates, to do as well as New
Fork has done. have tremendous
ask ahead of them in the East. And
he Giants are by no means through
with the East. They expect to win a
lew more there themselves.
Take it in figures and put it down
that Pittsburgh, to be a highly sue
,essful dark horse, has got to canter
through the East for the remainder
Of the year better than 700, 1t is
possible, of course, because the team
IS going well now and any team that
q going we'll may do anything. But
here's the target for Pittsburgh, II
t wants to be a dark horse. From
now to the finish of the season not
b.
In the West it is not so bad. Ihe
iiantS have won more games than Pitts
sIrgh. but it must be remembered that
Pittsburgh cannot play against itself IN
he West so that the Giants naturally
would have a greater number of VIC
ories Pittsburgh has played better
gainst st. Louis than New York. That
,oint is good as far as it goes Pitts
spurgh has played about as well against
chicago as New York. Pittsburgh has
,ot begun to play as well against Gin
fnnati as New York and there isn't
nuch left to play, so the Pirates must
vim everything they have left with Gin
.innati Pittsburgh has played better
-gainst New York than New York mas
r4ayed against Pittsburgh, so that
ounteracts just a little the poor work
# the Pirates against Cincinnati.
To be that nice, fat, dark horse that
pittsburgh yearns to be, the Pirates
must play close to .667 base ball against
he West. If they could combine old
dr. .667 with old Mr.. 700 they prob
bly, would win the championship, and If
hey do that they will be the blacklist,
,lossiest-coated dark horse that has
.ome down the National League pike
since 1914. and Bill Mckechnie will be
happy and his emotional tenor voice
will sing hymns of praise to the SCOT
IIaden airs of Williamsburg, Pa, all the
next Winter.