Show MUST WIN IN BASEBALL TO HOLD SAFE THE PLAUDITS OF GREAT ARMY OF FANS Chicago Sept 25 The time ap approaches approaches when all the managers In all the leagues will begin to talk about what they will do next season This next season stuff Is s older than Methuselah lah but we fall for It itt it Every season we i listen Usten to the same old line of promise and every season we believe what the manager says We have sixteen teams in the big bis leagues and sixteen managers promise winners every fall The tough part of it is that fourteen managers are disep 1 pointed There can be but one pennant In each league and odd as it may seem the team which is just nosed out for the flag beaten a few thousandths in the percentage column drops away back out of sight while the winner goes on into the postseason with banners fly flyIng flying Ing Take for Instance the case of th be beloved beloved beloved loved Pirates In 1908 Those old boys were never worse than fourth at any stage of the game and that for only one short week when they oozed back Into third place again a n In July and August the Pirates led 1 the league and In the whipping batting scrambling finish the Pirates floundered In seven points behind the Cubs Cuba beaten a whisker with witha a fighting chance to win up to their I last game g me Did anybody outside of hear anything about the Pirates when the end of the season rolled around Not on your It was all Chicago and New York the Cubs and the Giants Giant The Pirates were right there or nr thereabouts all the way wa run running running ning ling with pith the thi front bunch bunh rh from flag fall fail t to If nt raising and the best tic tb y g t was as the Peary eye and the overlook Considering the homage paid to a pennant winner and the extravagant form of adulation lavished on the boys who win the flag It would seem that the th team which plays good baseball all aU the season and loses by a few points should be entitled to some BOme visible token of a game race When the prize dogs go Into the show ring the winner takes the blue but there are other ribbons for the dogs which are not quite good enough to win When eight horses run down to the wire the winner gets the cheers and he comes Into the ring to be unsaddled but there are two other horses some somewhere somewhere somewhere where in the bunch which have won some money by coming second and third When two men stand up to fight there is 18 a short end for the loser Baseball Ba ball is one of the few sports where all the glory goes to the winner Of course baseball is business No manager would care for a pennant if it it meant the loss lOlls of or money The men who own clubs are anxious to secure win winning winning winning ning teams because a winning team means a lot of money in the course of the season and a lot more in the sea seasons seasons seasons sons to come One pennant will keep a good baseball community readied up for four or five years One reason a ball team is always trying is because e a losing los lOll losing lOllIng ing team hits the man In the box office before the slump strikes strokes anywhere else el e |