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Show CHANGES ARE ABOUT DUE AMONG GIANTS Latest Failure of McGraw in World's Series Points Out Needs. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Is there a jinx following John McGraw? Being the manager of the New York Giants and drawing an annual salary of JaO.OUO doesn't suggest that McGraw is unlucky, not by a jugful!. But McG raw's friends say he is hoodooed hoo-dooed because of the fact that his pennant pen-nant winners since 1905 haye been unable to land the world's championship-There championship-There may be something to it, for McGraw Mc-Graw has certainly been out of luck in world's series, and to say the least, his latest attempt to capture the big purple and gold championship was not smeared with horseshoes of four-. leaf clovers. No one can take an ounce of credit away from the White tox rfor the manner in which thev galloped home with the world's title this year. Yet the deciding game of the series, and the game in which the Sox came from behind to overshadow over-shadow a five-run score were tough games for New York to lose, and it is only fair to say so. Heinie Zim and Dave Robertson slouglied away the deciding game with their errors and ZIm's mammoth bone play. The fifth game was tossed off when McGraw left Sallee in the contest too long and then ordered him to put the winning tally cn the bags, Back in 1912 Fred Snodgrass dropped a fly ball and went down in baseball annals an-nals as the creator of what was probably the most costly error ever made. Frank Bakftr's home runs off Matty and Mar-quard Mar-quard were also responsible for Jawn's heroes losing out, and Merkle's famous lapse of memory in not touching second kept the Giants out of the hunt for world's series dough and honors. Sjnce the recent world's series ended not a few baseball men are inclined to believe that despite the easy manner in which MeGraw's team captured the National Na-tional league bunting this year, 391S will see a new ordor of things. The Giants, it is pointed out, will have to undergo some changes within two years' time, for a great many of Mct Graw's players are getting along in years. Heinie the Zim, TIerzog, Fletcher, Tes-reau. Tes-reau. Sallee, Perritt and one or two others oth-ers may all he among the missing two years from now, according to the wise birds. And it will not be surprising, for. after losing this fall's big classic, Mcv Graw has a perfect right to be disgusted. dis-gusted. The near future should see a number of changes in the National league. The oncoming on-coming Reds and Cardinals can be expected expect-ed to make trouble in future pennant hunts, and Fred Mitchell, with moncv ; bags opened to him, should be able to I put the Cubs very much in the race. As the pennant races and the world's , series turned out. it is generaltv admitted j now that the Giants were the best of a 'very uncertain lot of National league ball clubs, and although staunch Giant fans will not admit that the bst team won the world's championship, thev agree that the Giants could stand another shaking up in the way of patching the lineup. |