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Show FIGHTING SPIRIT WINS MOST' GAMES New York Giants Under Manager JohnMcGraw Wouldn't Be Beaten. The New York Giants won four successive suc-cessive National league pennants, not so much because they had an unbeatable unbeat-able team, but for the reason that they refused to lose. More than Individual brilliance "and collective skill, it was the fighting heart of the Giants that carried them through. They were much like that ordinary Princeton football team of a few years ago that was inspired by the sign which Bill Roper, the coach, hung up In the clubhouse club-house "A team that won't be beaten can't be beateo." For four yars the Pittsburgh Pirates Pi-rates were th big disappointment in the National league. Man for man they were just about as good as the Giants. Perhaps they were even superior in all-around playing strength, but they didn't have the fighting heart of the Giants. They wilted when the pace became too hot and played with the attitude that a good team (the Giants) couldn't be beaten. The Pirates were forced to cultivate culti-vate a winning disposition this year. They were in the National league hole for so long It seemed they never could make up the lost ground, but they started fighting, and found that they could win. The experience gave them courage that they had lacked and when they started winning they refused to lose. Rogers Hornsby put a fight in the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that had the "don't care" attitude under his predecessor. The Philadelphia Phillies Phil-lies remained in the first division in the National league for one-third of the season, simply for the reason that they were fighters. One of the most inspiring exhibitions exhibi-tions of fight was shown in the American Amer-ican league recently when the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics, 11 runs behind the Cleveland Indians in the eighth inning, scored 13 runs and won the game. |