Show GIANTS NOT PEN NANT CONTEN DING TEAM t itil if N dr I 1 i owa 14 1401 4 t r r raz r A by FRANIC 0 MENKE the giants aro are a so 50 to i 1 shot for the 1915 pennant just that and nothing more nothing but a miracle can win for them now the giants have just 43 no real pitcher tesreau Tea reau and na no ball club ever won a pennant with less than three topnotch top notch pitchers pit chera mathewson la Is about b out through the brain of the old blaster master la Is as crafty as of yore but tha old arm refuses to obey the me dictates of that brain and the opposition me e batted the feeble shoots and slants to all portions of the lot on practically every atari start matty has made this year marquard la is erratic one day he pitches a great game the next day he performs like a bush leaguer perritt was a winning twirler with the cardinals but he touched the mark with ith the giants stroud Is showing up nicely but he cant be de upon to win two thirds of his hi games gam es and shown bbown anything and these men constitute the giants defense tp reau a marvelous marve loua pitcher pt icher the fact farl slipping matty the erratic or batic marquard the in and out perritt and the unreliable stroud and Sc bauer offensively the giants do not show up much better on some days they look like the greatest outfit of sluggers in existence on others they act like a bunch of blind men they bit hit la in streaks and no streak bitting hItting club ever won the pennant some wonderfully optimistic giant rooters till still see a chance for the pen nant they point to the work of the braves last ear they arsue argue that the giant can do what the braves did but how different Is in the situation last year the braves had no one to beat out but the giants the new york outfit overshadowed tery t ery other club in the league up to july ath every jevery other club was of the r frond cond division order but this year there are at least four clubs that seem as powers now as the giants did in 1914 the cut cubs phillies braves and PI rates and even the brooklyn dodgers can an give the glants a mighty battie battle no team other than be he reds neds will stack up as an a pie counter proposition for the 1916 1915 giants because even the cardinals are dangerous dan geroue the hants giants in an attempt to climb from the bottom to the top of 0 the na NM lional league heap would find and the climbing at least 30 per cent bard harder than the braver did last year and furthermore the giants the power that the braves bad had the braves v ere aided and abetted in their achievement by tho the most moist r remarkable Luar kable pitching teate teats the baseball world has ever known three twirlers jamea james rudolph and tyler pitched in rota tiou week after week and pitched aa an no trio of men has ever pitched before mcgraw any trio to work as stallings had bad he got a maran marant t ville nor an evers his ills men arent imbued with the same fighting lighting spirit as were stallings men and most I 1 am da of all he got the stallings luck good playing end marvelous mary elous pitch ing were mighty factors but the ml might ht leet leot of all was luck A dozen ti times mes the breaks saved the braves from defeat and gave save them victory A pennant pennan t conten contending ding team mist mi st be well rounded and the giants of 1015 5 are not their pitching department Is the main weakness but the catching department is not anything rny t thing that should be envied the team an a whole Is to prone to bobbing in pinches bone plays are frequent and worst of all a hard luck jinx has been pursuing the mcgraw outfit since the season began and its still pursuing but the giants wont finish in the cellar they probably pro baby will climb out of the rut bogn and boap over franca of the reds cardinals and dodged Dod gei they may go a noth or two further depending very largely upon what tb cuba phillies braves and girat pirat pirates es do from rora now on but they ont finish cist unless nil the players on the other clubs become afflicted with beriberi spavin sea seasickness sickness and bokus |