Evening star., 1954-04-15

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need that 3o2 victory the Tigers yesterday
to inspire hem but it didn't hurt The Orioles not only are
back in the big show but they the board, we'll
How long it will last, nobody knows When adversity
its ugly head the enthusiasm may dm But thing
almost certain that adversely will have head
than few times
IN A CHARLES STREET saloon a barman sw1ped at
wet spot with his cloth yesterday the Tigers
began play his television T don't expect too
much he told his customers but just beat the
Yankees will be satisfied"
On morning radio program female huckster of clothes
and recipes turned baseball expert Goodness chrped
there is much to learn Let's any you listeners
know what have discovered More than 100 ago
man named Doubleday -"
The -brown-gray City Hall are riot of
bunting Scarcely drug liquor department store
window is not cuttered with basebas gloves caps and
Sby10 glossy prints of the Orioles buresque district
hfeze color picture bayhooing strip tease exponent
is underlined by large red sgn Root for the
All week in this warm weather cacaphony of baseball
radio and teevsion bang has been ringing open
doors and windows In the newspapers the Orioles pushed
Bowie racing the back sports pages They are on the
womens pages society pages the fashion columns
Fupage advertisements wish them firms
NOT THAT PARALLEL exists, hpt todays all-out
welcome recalls accounts of another held Baltimore go
years ago. when the Orioles National League It
1894 when the Orioles the first successive
pennanS acclaim greatest fastest headest and
most daring club in baseball
They had team batting average 348 then and the
eight regulars finished like this Kelley 391 Brodie 1863;
Keeler, 367 Robinson 348 Brouhers 344 McCraw $40:
Jennings, 1892 and Retz 306 In her book Nc
Graw," the widow of John McCraw wrote: s.s. 81
Some cities rather famed for their outbursts
fervor when their teams win Washington
was moving thing ST. Lous in 1925 fairly
Brooklyn in both 191 947 the frenzied side
But nothing in the annals of the game sheer
municipal deum that greeted the Orioles first National
League championship"
Historians of the were in agreement All of Balti-
mores gendarmes aerted to police the huge
Camden Station the depot gigantic parade was
formed with nearly 200 floats The Orioles already weary
from many stops for receptions during their homeward trip
from the West got the full treatment
THERE WAS A BANQUET, too only two days before the
Temple Cup corresponding Sees with
New York Wearing unfamiliar evening DRESS the Orioles
waded into oysters fish and lobster and washed
plenty of dry sauterne Then la Julenne with
tllado for chaser followed by chicken saue Marengo
and Mumm's extra dry flowing like water.
every Orioe regarded king treated one
with gifts of cash and jewels unprecedented
at dozens of private parties that followed the banquet"
McCraw remembers.
They lost the first game of the Temple Cup Series to
McGraw, declaring the Orioles condition to
perform, threatened to play more although finished
out The Orioles lost the second game g. the third
and the final by whopping 16 to 3.
BUT ToDAY's DIFFERENT kind of celebration. For
thing the old Orioles had nowhere go except
These today have nowhere to go except up
Jimmy Dykes who is managing the team, is finding him
self mild spot Baltimcres uninated-and there
expecting big things of the Orioles.
loose talk of rstdvson finish wild talk of pennant
The Milwaukee Braves of 1858 obliquey responsible
to extent In Boston they strictly DIVISION
playing in semiprivacy AS the Milwaukee Braves they
caught fire, led the National League brief period
wound up second to the Dodgers
Mwaukeeans claimed, not without some justification
perhaps, that solid support-(an al-time National League
record se-nspred the greater
heights other factors-a manager
of Eddie Mathews, the blooming of Johnny Logan
the addition of Bob Buh notably pitching staff
Dykes has no Mathews, or at least no answering
that description the horizon. The Orioles little
changed the old Browns, who year.
than the 1858 Braves they may advantages
of fans