Show Ii t tI v Iiii I f t ii n 1 1 l f PENNANT PROSPECT I 1 4 T I H j j H 5 j j j 44 s j j j j i 4 j j 1 j t I f Seasons I IA 4 H A A A A A A A A A A A A A IIi I liE iii National league I ngue baseball race has developed Into one ol or orthe THE T the tb prettiest battles of ot recent recant I years Seldom has hns the season Hasan 1 progressed to Its present stage with a majority of or the lie teams within striking distance of ot the pon on ts state slate of oC every overy i game played of peculiar Interest Inte t for tor percentages so delicately 11 balanced that the thc winning or the dropping of ot two t 10 1 or three thrle contents will materially materia II hopes of at annexing the championship Close followers of baseball fire ure fir find findIng findIng Ing much of significance Interest In Inthe tho the manner in III which the pennant sting gle Is working out Baseball amateur as nil will well as hUH has long tong ben been conducted on scientific principles Man tigers risers and om captains as ne a u rule are orto or wise to every evory move moo and ani variation of which tho gome gamo Is possible and they tho do donot donot not often otten go wrong In their calculations This ThIll year yea I however many man genuine aur sur surprises priMes have been sprung and the he sharps have had manifold opportunities to tomake tomake make malIC valuable additions addition to their stores of ot green diamond 1 lore loreThe loreThe loreThe The wholesale Injection of young youngblood youngblood blood Into certain teams caused enuse 1 a deal of comment nt early In III tho the season and oud opinion as ns to Ha lis advisability was some somewhat somewhat somewhat what divided Many MallY authoritative I JUdgeD stated that thaI lots of new now blood was the medium by which the national pastime was destined 1 to bo ho uplifted A Afew Afew few Cew lively youngsters 1 among tho the seasoned professionals will make the old timers look like small change was the remark I heard made by hy a man mun who vho buys a season ticket to the New NewYork NewYork Ii York Polo 1010 grounds ground every year And I another veteran fan Can replied Young ball hall sharps soon noon shoot their bolt olt t Things cant cont como come their way too fast for tor the first month or so no But whon hot weather went her scorches their necks lie He down and the steady going veteran vet whose head never lIever swells swell takes up the running and finishes s strong The uselessness of a 0 preponderance of youngsters has baa been h n practically Illus lilus Illustrated by y Captain Davis and his tattered limits Giants Georgo George considered him himself himi 1 i self ace high In III the pack of or man mun managers k agers nera when hen Christy Mathewson l I Nelson nod others of ot his colls begun li lito 1 to out cut n a wide shie Me swath But oh what a n difference In the morning The Giants t i I toppled from first perch to the tIu second division with alt all too familiar aur sur surroundings lit Nelson hind had to lit hit K used usel as a ht bench beach weight Mathewson the mighty was knocked out of ot the box and It lost his good eye presenting passes to first base bao In bunches LuncheR Brooklyn Philadelphia St Loul and ui Boston paraded past the he and anti they will probably remain In the second division for foi the rest of ot the thu season j Manager Ned trolley elud dud duders ers have lIvo won admiration from all 1111 quor quarters I tere by their masterful spurt spurl toward I the top Lurking In the taU tall gross grass at att t l tho the lower end anti of at the list during the ii opening days Captain Joe Kelley ami tid nd I his hard hitting crew were thought to tobe toLie be Lie Je distanced Hot lIot weather loosened i 1 the Joints of or the veterans and many j peculiar things happened to some flome of ot oft t their overconfident opponents Indeed 1 the showing of ot the tho old ohl men menI I of ot the game gome has hils been a startling tell fea feature en enI I ture tUto of tile the years play Itlay Several Reveral of ot tho the ball bail towers who have been heen cavorting between the sacks ever since the eight eighties lea ies have been putting up UI Ulla a gilt edged gell ar article during those these strenuous times limes Van lIn the outfielder of the Now New NewYork Yorks York Is setting sot his lili fellow Giants a shining of oC how baseball should be Ie played Van Is It hitting the ball like liken a n il demon mon and hi hl his base running li is I speedy anti and heady heudy Van an Is now about 40 O years old but he lie gambols on the green like an on ambitious om young collegian Long of Boston lias Ion Is another rejuvenated n crack Humor has hns It that Pop was vas ball when Nosh Noah telegraphed news of at the grounding of the ark on Mount Ararat but this report to I doubt doubted ed by n a few latter day The fhe able short stop stoll however U IN doln doing all of stunts His HIM timely and effective reethe lift ht lifts pulled the e Puritan out of or many a bath bal hol He lie I Is cr credited d with winning for his hl team two games of ot the recent Boston New York ten seriaL Joseph I kle Bur Burkett ur kett keU George Davis 1 T m Daly Duke 1 OConnor Chief Im Immer mer Kid Hid I id Nichols and Corcoran nr are also allo disguising their age In III the this quality of their playing Many nn observing folks are now mak making lag ing III guesses gu I as to Just jut what turn the fight between the tho National and und Amer American ican leagues will take In tho the fall Mut hll of ot war ar again fill 1111 the air and tie th report lieN has gone gOlle forth Corth that tho the older oilIer or will wage ale a light of exter extermination anti ami lint that the first step ster wilt be betaken I hi e taken at the close clow of at the season when an nil attempt will 11 bo hI made mado to secure the tho stars of the American for Cor or tho the National to President Ban lIan Johnson on of the Ule American league the National Intends to reestablish the 12 2 club cir dr circuit cult Johnsons Idea Idell Is that Nick Youngs colleagues desire to draw to their ranks certain American league teams In Is order to make up a part of or the tour four our clubs clubB needed 1 Baltimore and nd Washington are arc said sabi to be Included In the plans of the Na No National and ond a 1 strong opinion prevails to the effect that McGraw has das already decided to remove his Orl On ales olen from under Than Bun Johnsons wing McGraw line has been referred to by the president as ns a I Benedict Ar An Arnold nold fold and In turn has hns char characterized notarized Johnson Johnon as a 1 Julius Cress r These ThoRe recent troubles were caused by b bythe the report that McGraw was wn endeavor endeavorIng Ing to In Induce In certain American teams to 10 desert desort to the National McGraW de tie denies denle ales nies the truth of oC the and ami ex erl a 0 to know what partle liar ular business It Is of oC Johnsons who at atleas least leas I Is more than an em McGraw openly declares that the tho at af affairs fairs of or the American league are arc tun In n the tho Interests of or a 1 certain clique POI Pea sibly he hu this assertion als on the fact tact I that he lie was ordered out of oC the game anti lid hl to 10 stay out while shile Clarko Ciarko Grit Grif Griffith of oC Chicago ogo who also was wall ordered out got sot buck back nt mit the moment When shien the tile situation was CIS most dubious for tor Chicago anti and after he had been suspended barely 21 24 hours Breakers akers are looming up ahead In the tho American league Johnson pretends to have a 1 multiplicity of surprises In store for the National but hut If IC he Is not a n wise young man he lie will find that thol parties parlier will become popular In lie his own organization and Instead of the tho Na National National 11 making overtures to the time Amer Amor American ican the reverse rev r e will prove true Christy recent sansa sensa performance when wh n he took the hard hitting Ht St Louis Browns Into camp without n a single hit or a 0 run Is III the thu pitching record of or the tho year rear but un an undeniably deniably creditable as ns Is the th feat teat It has hils been Accomplished immure moie of often otton ton titan than Is generally known Mat the time sonic same Mat whom Torn Loftus Lottus resurrected a couple of tit years enre ago so disposed of oC the time theold old oh Alleghenies In In October Twentynine batsmen ta need 11 l and 11 were sere retired on strikes During the season season of or Bumpus Jono Jon th then n with the tho Cincinnati Reds Hods H s let leI down without a 1 hit lilt though the tho beaten team managed to score n a run Theodore Breitenstein the well known Ht HI who In his lila day dy was the peer lter of any an south couth paw eclipsed nil all of his former Cormer sensational performances by hy retiring the Pirates without a Q hit lilt or a run That was Thes ChoI first season In Cincinnati tI and he lie took part port In that game soon lIoon utter after the time chain cham championship piny Play was Inaugurated Two To no hit hll garnet gaines were recorded In Deacon who Is 18 Ing imig a 11 splendid quality of ball this sea season season season son for tor the Pittsburgh was yule then thon and In a I game against Nw York disposed of oC all ull tho the batters with without without wIthout out allowing a II single alto drive drle Soy Sev Severn ern erni eral months month later loter th Ih elongated Victor Willis now a 11 mainstay of oC time the Boston no Nationals made modo monkeys monkey of the Wash Washington Washington ington not riot permitting them n a nhit hit although that misfit aggregation n succeeded In registering a n run ruu Willis I passed tour four our batters two In the opening round Thou Thon a wild throw by y the time late Martin Bergen came anti and netted the Senators their one ono tally toll Noodles oo Hahn Halm turned turnell the trick against Philadelphia last season while I Doc mole Amole pitching for tor Buffalo In Inthe 1 the time American league was ns Just ns os suc sue successful against Detroit This season Karl Moore w who ho deserted d Donovan and the National for and the American went nine Innings timings against the Chicago white stockings without allowing a hit lilt but bUl loose lo se work In the Held let aggregation tie the time score and by hammering oui ou of oC singles lej In tho tenth win ou oUr j t A very er peculiar game was irA In between Chicago anti Brooklyn Silver Sliver King NIng n a St Louis was as asin In the box boc ho for Cor the former C and lInd let Brooklyn down with blanks In their run and hit lilt columns column l King had lUll Just jUR left the time employ of ot Von der Abe ilie Scrappy Bill Joyce Joce anti and John Ward were ere with time the that year yeah ell A remarkable feature of or the game In question was that Chicago made mado tour four hits hilts hit off nIT of Gus Otis delivery and anddrew drew nine goose Joose eggs while errors gave gae Brooklyn the time final victory S H i |