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Show EBBETS PROUD OF HIS BROOKLYN CLUB Prexy Is Confident His Bunch Will Snatch Flag in National. By CHARLES H. EBBETS, President of the Brooklyn Nationals. The pennant prospects of my team are as bright as those of any of the clubs that are mixed in the thrilling National league battle but no brighter. It's a fight such as baseball never has seen before, and, although I have absolute confidence in my team, it would be foolhardy for me to claim the pennant now. Baseball is an uncertain game and this year, above all others, is a year of uncertainty. In this battle, where at least five teams seem almost evenly matched, the result may remain in doubt until the last week of the season. The Brooklyn team is a young team; practically a new team. Of the twenty -one men under contract, nine are wearing wear-ing Brooklyn uniforms for the first time, six ot these, in fact, never had major league experience prior to this season. Of the remaining twelve, five-have five-have been under contract to Brooklyn for two seasons, and the seven others for three years or more. The team, as.it is now constituted, is a smooth-working, fast-traveling machine. ma-chine. But the welding together took time and the experiments cost us many gomes during the early part of the season. 'We got away poorly and didn 't really start until July 1, by which time Manager Robinson had secured se-cured the winning combination. Since July 1 the Brooklyns have greatly improved in all departments, making a wonderful spurt from last place to second. It has been said thev are traveling beyond thjir real speed but this I believe is not true; on the contrary, had: the boys batten as thev Hid in I9ia and 1914." they would be BO far ahead at this time that it would be impossible to overtake them. The boys deserve great credit for the good work done to date. The team is a well-halnm-ed team. It has an exceptionally strong pitching staff; it is ambitions, has '-onfidence in its ability, it works harmoniously and it is fighting and hustling all the time. Wherever the team finishes I shall bp satisfied with the knowledge that thev have done their best. |