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Show MANAGERS I TAKE HOPE Past Week in Baseball Circles Quakers Creep Close to Giants, While Naps Make a Gain on the Athletics Which Causes a Sensation Sen-sation New York. Aug. 4. With two full maining pennant aspiring managers, aside from McGraw of the New York Giants and Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics, took a measure of comfort from the week's play concluding con-cluding yesterday. In the seven days Philadelphia crept clore to New York in the national organization, while in the American Cleveland made a gain on Mack's clan that was sufficicnti) noticeable to bo significant signifi-cant In the National circuit the Eastern teams began another invasion of the We6t, and the Phillies were able to climb a little hlger by winning five games against a single defeat, while Chicago was corcing the Giants to spilt a four-game series While Doom's team, as a matter of fact, made but a ten-point gain, owing to the Giants' continued good playing, the week's showing of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia club indicated its return to early 1 season form, and gave its follow ere 1 reason to hope that through the regeneration re-generation New York s lead might be worn down But the Giants have not given recent proof that a slump is Impending ami a slump by Mc-Graw's Mc-Graw's men appears to be Philadel phia s one hope. Ban Johnsons organization furnished fur-nished the baseball scnatlou of the week in the fine showing of the youthful Birmingham's team from Cleveland Through a seven -game string of victories, Cleveland made a thirty-seven point leap toward the pennant. Inasmuch as the Athletics did little more than hold their own. The only bright spot in the showing show-ing of the Athletics was the pitching pitch-ing of Carl Rrowm Mack's youngster who has made a record this year that has surpassed those of the veterans, Plank Bender and Coombs. The plaing of thfl WashlntnnianH last week put a damper on the hopes of their adherents. After Cleveland and Philadelphia the best work in the American league was done by Detroit and St Louis. New York dropped further into the cellar Roston and Chicago disappointed their followers. Chicago dropped close to the .500 mark in the percentage per-centage column lit the National league only the 1 first division teams managed to win more than they lost The Giants dropped only two out of eight, the Phillies one out of six, while Chicago won four out cf seven and Pittsburgh four out of six The fans' interest centered on the records of several pitchers, notably Bochling of Washington Boehling's string of eleven victories, unbroken since the start of the season, was interrupted in-terrupted bj the "lowly Browns." The St Louis team, with Mitchell in the box, gave Griffith's youngster a four to one defeat at Washington Later In the week Boehllng showed I the effect of his early work by los- Ing again, this time to Hall of Detroit De-troit and by the sonif score. Marquarci appears to be on the wa? I to another record, although he pro-1 fesses not to be trying for one Sun-1 day be won his uinth straight, defeating de-feating St. Louis Thursday he narrowly nar-rowly escaped losing to Chicago, the technical rules of the game crediting his team's defeat to another pitcher. |