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Show GOSSIP AFTER GIANTS' DEFEAT New York Still Alive Though Somewhat Rumpled World Tour Next. New York. Oct 12 Far be It from us to flag the subway or elevated train of your thought with Inane observation ob-servation on such a morose day as this, but we --imply cannot refrain j from triumphantly remarking we told J ou so! That is to sa wp told vou that 'ther' was golns to be a world s series 1 here was. Thus are we completely vindicated. There Is nothing more an do ahout the matter except to I gather up the alibis one by one arvi file them away for reference st this ! time next j ear. There being no mortuary evidence 1 to the contrary It is safe to assume that the members of the New York Giants are still SJITO, wherein they have nothing whatever on Edward Plank, the well known old man who , was commonl supposed to be dead In fact a number of the Glant were to be seen about their accus-lomrsi accus-lomrsi haur.ts today and those vho could not be seen were reported convalescing con-valescing The last sad "writes'' halnc been performed by the ball player scrlen ors. we now enter solemnly up thnt .-r interesting period in the dear old latlme when man) star players an-j nounce their retirement forever until next February, while others mereh hold out. Th.- w inter schedule is bef.-re us. Charle Murphy will open the ern Ices with a few remarks unless Tynis ' Raymond Cobb's announcement thai he must hae more mone from the, Detroit club is ready for publication first. Havinc led the National leacue In hitting and receiving an automobile, It seems likely that .lake Dauhert will he right In holding out or retiring with the rest of the boya while J. Franklin Baker and Eddie Collins are almost certain to do one or the other thine UDless they mean deliberately to violate the laws of baseball nature It sounds almost incredible, but It is not believed that any of the Giants will either retire or hold out In the near future heaue John J Miraw is trolnjr to take some nf them around the world with htm and will set so far away from those he leaves behind I that he will not be able to hear a j word fhe sai for many weeks. The ell-National delegation as com f.iled bj McGraw and the all-Amerl-leans under Charley Comlskey depart from Cincinnati on October 18 for a j cross country exhibition tour before I sailing from these shores Met. raw picked Cincinnati as the starting point because ho regards Cincinnati as the best place in the National league to ! lea e at an time He will have with him Fred Merkle. I Iarry Doyle. Mike Doln. and Hans l.obcrt. infielders, unless present I plans miscarry, with Harry McCor-mlck. McCor-mlck. Jim Thorpe. Fred Snodgrass I and Iee Magee of St. I-ouis as outfielder? out-fielder? Christy Mathewsftn. Arthur PYomin and Jeff Tesreau will be among his pitchers, while John Tortes Meyers and the cllnglns ivy. W'lngo. will look after the backstoping Mention of the name of Harold Mc-Cornnck Mc-Cornnck -handsome Harold, the Demon Dem-on Pinch Hitter recalls the report that be has been signed to manage the Chattanooga club of the Southern association next year ice Kid Elber-field. Elber-field. who has resigned or otherwise been disposed of. Harold should make a good man acer. which Is neither a boost, a knock nor even a phophecy. but will sorelv ml6s him when the base6 get all filled up and a blow is needed to win a game. He has been pinching in these parts for a couple of years and rarely failed to produce a blow when It helped, although the umpires did not always see hi- efforts The Ciants who are not lo go around the world will shortly repair to their various homes which are all tar awa; from here and we will hear no more from any of them except "Tillia" Shafer. until February "Tillle " Is an inmate of l-os Angeles which Is a place where the acoustics, seem ic be much better for ball play-: ers when they have something td say. Last winter every word uttered by Schafer was labeled New ork papers please copy,' and the; did not overlook a bet. Charley Herzog Is going back to that dear Ridgely, Md . where he has a farm, a bungalow, money and other things Arthur Fletcher will repair to his restaurant at Collinvllle. Ills , while Otis Crandall will fade into recesses re-cesses of Indiana Lawrence Manneiman McLean may decide to live on Broadway. As for Richard Merquard, well you know what Richard 13 going to do Hunt you? If you don't we must decline to inform ou, because it ; is the rule of this column not to advertise ad-vertise a vaudeville attraction. Amons other business oefore the house this winter Is the making of a lot of new-managers new-managers for the National loasrue. so the owners will he able to keep in the papers by havlnc something emphatically em-phatically to deny Undoubtedly gos I sip w ill fire Fred Clarke Charley Dooln. Bill Dablen and several others to the end that the name of Hank O Day may be mentioned as their successor. suc-cessor. Also Thomas J Lynch, president of the dear old National league, will be completely ousted until they take the ote. The trouble about ousting : Thomas J; is that no one ei$o can be j Induced to become implicated in the 1 Job on the basis of a 12-month term, land the National league magnates do not want to elew a man more than a year at a time because then they wouldn't have much of anything to I quarrel and Intrigue about In the winter. |