Show CHANCE YET VET MA AY V TURN OUT A TEAM Peerless Leader Is Gritting His I. I Teeth and Experimenting With Material BY WALTER MARSHAND ht 1513 by bj the Pr Press Publishing 1 Col 0 1 X New w York J June ne 14 Patience H.-Patience Patience and perseverance says the tIme proverb will accompliSh accomplish ac ac- C all aU things If Ie this be true Frank Chance ma may yet be bo abl abI j to buildup build buildup up a team which will win a a. few games now and then That his present position tion as 9 leader of ot a n. team of at apparently hopeless s must be Irksome to toa toJ J a 1 man who has never ended a season outside the first division and nd generally generall at the top or pretty close to it It but grits gitts his lute t teeth with the he material he has keeps a sharp lookout for what he needs and if It he Is discouraged doesn't show It The trading of ot Chase Is Is isan an indication indica tion of ot what lengths Chance will go to get a n team t nm to his liking Chase Is 5 s a great ball player No r doubt of oC that but he was not as valuable vain vain- able to the Yankees as he will be to some sonic other club The Tue hopelessness of the tenn had a a. abad bad effect on Ch Che who Is an as temperamental aa as his his' f fell Californian Tithe Shafer With Uh a win winning ning team he will pla play playa a much better game of oC ball hall and with his hl promising young voting players who are still capable of or I being molded Chance can get got better results I 1 still believe that before the season Is over Chance wll havo a n. team which will win moros gam games amos s than it loses and that thal next season he will bc begin ln to move to tho the front As 5 the s season Son C advances class clas's begins to tell In both la leagues ues The Champion Red Sox and anti th the near ear champion Pittsburgh Pitts burgh ar arc aro mo moving steadily up and those who have hae been prophesying g that these teams would finish In the ruck will have havo a chance to revise their opinions The Giants GIant too seem to be getting Into their th 11 stride since they the so soundly trounced th the Phillies Cf Cleveland veland Is holding up the pace wonderfully well weH Altogether there is cr c every prospect ct of oC smashing finishes in both leagues l S The Red fled POT n slump lump started the same the club old cry cn that luck carried through last Season iRson and amid that It never nevera was a a 3 championship team The facts tt being wherever the Red fled Sox Soc pull up this HIlt season that Stahl's club won In b because cauM It played bettor bettor bet bet- tor ball through 15 games gaines than an any rival rl In 51 sight ht From June to mid mid- R September th the tima red hosed legion leg won twenty three con consecutive e series la last t Isn't achieved b by season season season-a lon lon-a. a stunt Munt that If tho rado Play pIa an any touch hi hr second grade seco n team team was fighting above Its speed then nil all time the Ere ateI credit is due Tho The White Whit Sox Sor of 1906 1306 are nrc tipped by byman many man as us tho tIme worst ball club that over won a pennant Which is merely tho the r g-r greatest boost bOORt that the club could draw An Any fine ball club might win a pennant pennant pen pen- nant but b t It takes tal es nothing t short hoo of a liel f ei em o 01 om um UC LU LV LUnt nt S' S viii iu outclassed The Time number of ot games won von and lost this season sei b by a single le run run difference Is conspicuously large compared to the number Dumber played In Doth noth the National and American Jea leagues this season more mora tItan tl-an a third ot or tho thu games played have ha been bc n of that sort It Is natural n that time the stronger el teams win a a majority ot or their games of or this kind but tho the prevalence prey pre alence of ot such contests shows that the clubs club give one ono another r harder battling bat bat- h da than thu differences lung day ny by day dav in percentage ml might ht indicate It will be bo t. t found und in numerous In Instances Instances In- In stances that t a i clu clubs club's s 's percentage of oC one run games 8 won and aill lost lest corresponds pretty prett well with Its full tull percentage Time The Giants aro are one Tho They have havo won 4 f 45 per cent of or their ono one run margin marln contests which is below their actual percentage but It was during du their big brace against Phillies that they captured cap cap captured two of or the tue five lv victories which they ha c taken by tho the difference ot of otono otI ono one run So simultaneous with their I brace brac camo came a n bettor better showing in close cloo I I games |