Show I McGraw Picks Yankees to Fight l It If Out Oat With Dodgers in Big Series Billand Bill Billand Billand My Hat Is Off to Wild and His Club Declares Leader of Giants By JOHN J J McGRAW I McGRAW Manager of New York Nationals NEW NEV YORK July 22 Donovan Donovan and the Yankees' Yankees are going great guns in inthe inthe inthe the American league and my Y hat is of off f to Wild Dill Bill and his club lIe He took a team which did cUd not amount to much when he became manager and he has made a a. ball club which has a better ch chance nce today th than n a any y oth other r to take the American I league flag During the earlier weeks of the race the Yankees were winning on their pitching and their fine steady defensive sire sive play Now they are whamming all kinds of pitching and still have the pitching The club has survived in injuries injuries injuries in- in juries to ts stars and has plunged ed gamely along and that spirit wins ball ban games imes mes I 1 have pointed out to my team when nhen the players have been trying to alibi their bad work at home borne by blaming blaming blaming blam blam- ing it on local conditions that the Yankees ces get along pretty well on our grounds The injury to Gilhooley might have ha taken the heart out of or a less game club than the Yankees eEs but hut they have hae moved mO right along although the left fielder was going better with the stick than any other man on the team Donovan has just secured Rube Oldring for his his' club Oldring Is a grand ball player and has a couple more good years In I him It wore woral on his nerves to play with i ithe the Athletics and Connie Mack 1 realizing he would have to build his next pennant winner out of or new material material material ma ma- I granted the release of or this old campaigner when ho lie requested it But nut Old Oldring ring would like to horn into another another an an- other worlds world's series and he has a good chance to do it with the Yankees r Cleveland still has a look in on th the pennant but the club is falling back a little Wherever it finishes the team must be given great credit for the fight it put up It made them hustle for a a. time and with the spirit in the club which it has shown In spite of tough luck it might breeze through to the first pennant Cleveland has ever had although the town has had several narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row escapes My personal opinion to today today to- to day however is that the worlds world's series will be played between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Nationals Cleveland eland is not addicted to pennants The Chicago White Sox Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers have ha been the big disappointments of the race in that league None of these teams Is counted count count- ed out of ot the going yet but they allwill all allwill allwill will have a a. lot of ot traveling to do before they can be exactly counted in it Charley Comiskey Is a game loser but after spending the money he has hason hason hason on ball players it seems a shame he has not had more of a run so far for what he has laid out The White Sox are the most dangerous of ot any of- of the three teams which were exp to I step out and bre break up the tho rac in the tile American league this year I look for forthe forthe forthe the White Sox Sex to be up In the battle but the YaI Yankees I ees will mal make e Comi I fYs club step some before it takes any flag lag As soon as I pegged Detroit as a probable winner In my weekly review Jennings' Jennings club blew All I have e to lo to wreck a team is to say it looks as 55 asif asif if it it ought to come through t tr t. the flaglor flag For lor that reason I ha have ve peg pegged d l lyn n this week I r hope the y tem works and the Dodgers fall tal bak back The Red Sox would woul be bc up UI there f t f they h hd d d not let Speaker go SQ One man m m-ans m ans that much to a ball club II In the meantime Connie Mack 1 rind and andI d dI I must get on the Job and d rl some some- thing It does not look right to see seo Connie and I where wa ws re Copyright 1016 1916 by br John N oler Inc |