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Show BRILLIANT OPENING OF I EASTERN LEAGUE ; I BASEBALL. I New York Giants Sweep Ail 9 Befora Them in the First H Games of the Year. : ;H Pittsburg Gees to the Bottom With a Thud That Shakes 1H All Fandom. ; rH Boston. Starts Off Strong Again .Whllo "Waohlngton la Truo to Her Bad Record, I The first week of the basoball season 1 in tho East has passed and tho fans ,"H are beginning to get a line on tho play- 'H lng ability of the various squads, one week ago tho experts wcro buoy telling , what tho different teams would du when tho clash came, and now they are ' . IH explaining how it happened. r' 11 Tho New York "dopesters" can say, "I told you so," for tho GlontB havo made a clean sweep of everything be- foro thorn. Not In many ysarH hau a IH Gotham ball club mado suoh a brilliant ( opening as did tho Knickerbocker lust j wook. Now York fonn aro happy and 'H they think that their pots havo a lead I plpo cinch on tho big ponnnnt already. Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Chicago and ( St. Louln aro lighting for uacond plaoo, ' whilo Pittsburg, the world-horaided, three-times champion. Is plodding; along dangerously near tho bottom, Phlla- delphla and Boston aro among thy "also rang." In the American leaguo tho Hoon- 'M caters seem to be doing most of the buBlnoBs. Tho last year's "champs" won flvo out of their first six jamoo and jH have a good chance to cop tho rag again IH this season. Tho Phillies are next in lino and scorn to bo easily the oecond best club In tho bunch. Cleveland, Chicago and St, IH Louie aro pretty well bunched and aro lighting hard for placos in tho lint dl- , vision. !H Speak softly and In mournful ncccntn when you mention tho "Washington -p team. The Ill-fated Sonators havo mot with their usual hard luck and dropped their first Hvo games with regularity. ,' 11 The big league teams havo boeit hnn- ' ll dlcappcd during tho papt week by tho 'il cold weather that has prevailed ,' throughout tho East and an a result most of tho teams aro a few games be- : hind. The cold spell Is scheduled to jH end soon and the clubs will probnblv H get a good start In tho pennant raco bII during the coming week. H k . rl Seventy-one thouoand perrons attond- i ed the ball games In four cities of tho East last Sunday. And yet some of tho chronica arc telling that tho Na-tlonal Na-tlonal game is loosing Its popularity. jH Christy Matthcwson and McGlnntty havo boon doing great work for tho JH Giants In the opening series. Lust fel Tuesday McGlnnlty pitched llftecn ln- H nlngs against Philadelphia and' only nl- '"H lowed the Quakers Ave hits, which only , netted one run. "I guess that's going ' - H "Rube" Waddell has lost none of his irH old time cunning and last week mode If monkeys out of tho batsmen who faced i- jH |