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Show MEW YORK FANS HOOTFDR BEDS Gotham Baseball Followers Would Be Glad to See Cincies Win Rag. - NEW VOriK.Auir. 23. Klght here In New York where John McGraw unci his GlnntB have been Intrenched for yenrB and years, hundreds of baseball fans are rooting for the Reds. It is the old Btory of the crowd being with the nnder dog. The Reds nre not under bow-wowh bow-wowh this season, but they have been bo many times in the past that 75 per cent of the' fair-minded fair-minded fnns would be glad to see them win a pennant. Cincinnati Is stnrk mftd over the Hens and has a right to be. It 1ms been a lontr, lean, somber strotch of years since the Cincy Reds amounted to nnvthing. They haven't been ns high as second" pluce since 1S7J. and now baltllnfr the (Jlants for tho pennant, they are helng idolized. The fortunes of the UedK under a young itrtny of manncers makes a story of Just one down-fall down-fall after nnother. Even prior to 1000, when the present system of major lenjpie pennant races was enjoy intf Its first real kucccss nnd rlans for the modern world's series were beinjj worked out. the lteds had had their tips and downs. Cincinnati fans, ttie very oldest ones, could look back for consolation to the Red Stockings of lfiOO, who went through the season without a defeut, and made a record thut has never even been approached in basetmll. That prent team of ISOtt, with Harry and George Wright. Asa Rruinnrd, Doug Allison, Charley Gould, Charley Swuzey, Fred Waterman, Cul McVey and Andy Leonard, wns a bear. It shimmied through the season, winning fifty -seven straight Karnes Its entire schedule. And it was a hewhlskered team, too, for in tlmse days the players often wore a beard or mustache, and sometimes both. Rut lenn years followed. For some reason one misfortune after another an-other was heaped on the Reds and one hy one the managers have come and gone until the ei-Clncinntill ei-Clncinntill managers' association now has a membership of ten Hob Allen, Hlddy McPhee, Joe KelU'i;, Ned Ilanlou, John Gnnzol, Clarke Griffith. Hn n It O'Day, Joe Tinker, Ruck Herzog and Christy Mathewsun. Kelley and Matty made the best showings. Kach managed to make one third-place finish with the Reds. Today the slashing Rods of 1019, led by PntrlciiiH Moran, eleventh mnnnger of the team since 1000, are choking six-sevenths of their Natlonnl league opponents with heel dust and civiuR tho other seventh n battle that keeps John McGraw awnko nights. No wonder they're popular. No wonder everybody wishes 'em luck. It whs the same with the Rraves and Phillies, who cunie up from the ruck amid the applause of the fans everywhere. |