Show GIANTS SMASHING DRIVE TO DECIDE GREATEST PENNANT WANT RACE IN FORTY YEARS p Steam Roller May Cost Robins Flag in Record-Breaking Record Spurt LIV I 4 s N Lt I I I V Here are the pitchers w who ho are carrying Giants through record winning streak Left to right top top Perritt Sauce Sallee Below left to right Tesreau Tesreau and Benton By HAROLD JOHNSON It might have been different had the Giants copped the pennant pennant pennant pen pen- nant V Theres There's the alibi that's certain to go the rounds when Hot Stove leaguers assemble this winter National league followers will derive some consolation from the knowledge that perhaps t the e strongest club in the thO circuit didn't break Into the titular series Regardless of their present resent positions in inthe inthe j the waning pennant pennant- drive neither Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia nor Brooklyn is playing the brand of ball that the Giants hav have put up durIng during during dur dur- ing their major league record breaking dash New York will decide the present cam campaign cam as it meets Brooklyn In a crucial game four-game series at Brooklyn beginning today and experts pick McGraws McGraw's men mento mento mento to knock the Robins from the race Not content with smashing the mark set In 1884 by the Providence I I club which won twenty straight and andS I the more recent record of the Chicago S White Sox who copped nineteen In Ina a 5 row In 1906 the Broadway beauties I gifted with remarkable pitching have I suspended a new mark marli that should withstand au all attacks for years to come iI- iI Pitching pulled the Giants through In twenty-six twenty consecutive victories the speeders were scored upon just thirtyfour thirty thirty- four tour times or an average of a a. little more than one run earned and unearned d per game 4 During the winning streak McGraw's McGraws organization picked up ten full games on 01 I the leaders as oa Ott September 7 when they started their streak they were thirteen thir teen and one half games garnes behind Previously Pro Pre this season the Giants had won seventeen consecutive victories The hero of the great drive Is Ferdinand Ferdi Ferdl- nand stand a frail left hander bander who for tor I three years has done diligent bench duty on the club Ferdy arrived with a great splash holding Brooklyn to two hits September September September Sep Sep- 7 7 the day the streak was set in motion During the te march of Ot triumph he pitched one one hit game two two hit h games I two three-hit three games and two six hit vic vic- torl tories s. s A comparison of the different phases of the two notable records compiled b by bythe bythe I I the Providence Grays and the Giants show that In many respects the two performances performances per per- ran very veO close to each other I In the creation of ot twenty wins each Among other things the Giants scored runs Tuns against twenty-nine twenty for their theil opponents exclusive of the 1 to 1 tie game while the Grays scored two ninety-two against thirty In running up their string McGraws McGraw's McGraws McGraw's McGraw's McGraws Mc Mc- Graw's troops registered eight shutouts shutouts shut shut- outs while the Grays blanked the opposition six alx times The Tho largest number of runs for a single game forthe for forthe the Giants was nine They made this I count three times timea The Grays topped them with ten runs rune In one battle V The Giants employed five pitchers In their run They were Tesreau I. I Benton Sauce Sallee and Perritt The Grays used but two Radbourne won eighteen games game's ame and Conle Conley two For the tho Giants Tesreau won von six p and Perritt five each Benton five and Sallee one The Giants stored s their victories over the fol following following lowing clubs Pittsburg 5 Philadelphia fOl 1 4 Cincinnati a IB 4 St. St Louis UIS 4 Chicago 3 ni Brooklyn r 1 Boston st J. J I I |