DEVOTED TO BASE BALL. TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS VOLUME 37, NO. 14. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 22, 1901. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. * NEW YORK NUGGETS. BOSTON BRIEFS. AN ANALYSIS OF THE TEAM'S WEST­ THE BASE BALL SITUATION IN THE ERN TRIP WORK. HOB REVIEWED. The Pitching Batting and Fielding ol The American Leaguers Having the Call the Giants Abroad The Work Sat­ at Present Value of a Good Ball isfactory on the Whole -News and Part Incidents o! the Recent Series Gossip ol the Club and Playars. The League Team Braced up. BIJ n m. V. II. Koelsch. Ell Jacob C. None. New York, June 17. Editor "Sporting Boston, June 18. Boston Is now reveling Life:" The first trip to the West has In base bull galore, with both clubs at been completed and taken on the whole <he home. Certainly the conflict has not done tour has not been a bad one. Compared the National League team anything but with the showing last year on this trip, harm, for the people will not spend 30 cents the result is very good. When Davis' men for what they can get for 23. In other left here for St. Louis they were in the words, if the 2u-cent article is rank they lead by a narrow margin. Cincinnati was will pay 30 cents freely, but if the 23-ceut close behind and even after the Davisites article is all right, that is the place for had dropped two games to the Iteds they their money. That Is only natural, and still led by a narrow margin. It was In will hold good when both clubs put up an Pitlsb'.irg that the team lirst lost the pre­ equally good article of ball. Now, as a mier position. Fred Clarke's Pirates took matter of fact, the Colllus team has been up a gloriously good article of ball. games from George Davis' putting three straight The magnificent hitting and fielding that hustlers and (or two days they held the have been seen on the American League lead. Then their positions were reversed grounds have been the talk of the tcwn. again for a day, and on Saturday the Pi­ Then Boston lias a ground that is a ground. rates again pushed to the front. It Is a Hits go (or what they arc worth, and if :i close race and although the Pirates are in ball gets beyond the fielders what a chase the lend at this writing"It Is a sec-saw race those outtloldors have before iVm. It is so far as the leaders are concerned. a case of leg it for fair. 1 .-, triples ANALYSTS OF TRIP. and home runs do not go (or singles, on account of the fences. The National League place The New Yorks left, here In first people were very short-sighted they did nnd although they did not win a majority Ben Korton, ol tlifl Hazard Powder Co. not get of their games on the tour, they return A FIRST-CLASS GROUND to the Polo grounds a good second in the | a long time ago. It was claimed It could race. In St. Louis they won two and lost pitchers In one game. The New Yorks : bndly crippled team found him for thirteen not be had. I understand the plant now one; in Cincinnati they won one and lost played j hits, four times for two-baggers and once occupied by the Americans was regarded two; In Pittsburg they dropped nil three j ONE KR.RORL.KSS GAME I for a triple. Matty received excellent sup- as too expensive. Doubtless It would have games; and in Chicago they won 2, lost 1! on the trip, while their opponents played I port In that game, and It was his lirst cost money to equip them, but the 20-cent- and played n tic game. Thus they won 3 ' three games without a nilsplny. The great | bumping" since the championship season ers did not nnd it too expensive a plant to with Hie team was iis inability to secure, and they are getting a rich return games and lost 7. Last year on the first trouble I began. Perhaps Matty is so deeply eu- hit at the right time, and perhaps the with every game in the expressions and ad­ four ! grossed In ' Invasion of the West the team won poor baserunning cut some figure also» as WRITING t'P THE GAMES miration r,t the outfit. The fact that the nine games. On the trip just and lost In the games played but 8 bases were for the "Journal" that It lias effected his National League grounds had been good completed the New Yorks scored <i8 runs, stolen. On a number of occasions a timely work. A ball player who has his mind on enough for a very long period is no argu­ to their opponents 03. Hits, New York 121); hit would have turned defeat into victory, other things, the races for Instance, is said ment. The public had to put up with it, as opponents 117. Errors New York 28; oppo­ but In this particular it must not be over­ to be handicapped. Now. perhaps, it would it has to put up with many other things. nents 23. These figures show that al­ looked that good pitching by the other be better if Mathewson cut out his efforts For years the contracted grounds at the though the New Yorks did not will a m.i- fellows deserves some mention. There were to tell the public just why it happened South End used by the National League Jority of the games they were right up also instances when hits were forthcom­ and devote his entire energies to the busi­ Club have been ridiculed. It was only two to snuff so far as hits and runs are con­ ing after poor hascrumilng had disposed of ness of winning games. Hut the fact that seasons ago that the magnates legislated cerned. Of course that terrific bombard- | b.-iserunnors. It would therefore seem that Mathewson did not win a game on the trip j against the left field fence, and then re- merit in bascrumiing more Hum in any other de- does not signify that he has lost his hold. | seuted, and left the- rule as it was. The re- IN CINCINNATI. partmct does the New York team need to Hilly Phyle lost his first game of the\year suit was that any number of pop-ups that did much to add to New York's run and show considerable improvement. at Pittsburg. The record of the pitchers would not even be base hits without the hit record. In base running the New Yorks I PITCHERS' WORK. was as follows: Phyle, won 2, lost 1, drawn fence go (or homers, and if the bases are fell away behind as r.nly 8 stolen basos j The greatest surprise of the trip was the 1; Tayliir, won 2. lost 1; Doheny, won 1, occupied, anyone can see what a farce this are credited to New York while their op- j failure of the husky young Mathewson to lost 1; Mathewson, won 0, lost 4. Phyle makes of the game. The fences should be ponents get credit for 28 steals. It Is a ; win a game. When the boys loft home it won the pitching honors on the trip. Ed­ at least 2o(J feet from the home plate, and remarkable fact that of the fight stolen ' was considered as a certainty that Matty die Doheny, although he pitched but two the rules ought to call for this distance. bases credited to New York Sam Rtrang : would carry off the pitching honors. Man­ games, did good work. His defeat was a POOK DUFFY has six to his credit. Even the fleet foot- ' ager Davis concluded to pitch Mathewson ten-inning allair. and in both his games could not take a single game in the series ed Van Haltren did not get credit for a | hi regular turn, giving him a an me in each the Vermont southpaw demonstrated that played here. It was mortification enough single stolen base on the trip. In base : of the four cities visited. Instead of win­ he has parted company with "old wild- to have It rubbed in here. The only con­ running the team needs bracing up. They ' ning all his games, as was hoped, the young ness." When Matbewson begins to win solation he could take with him was the seem to be about the poorest base run­ twirler lost his game in each city. In St. again and llogor Denzer gets into full line, solid silver loving-cup, the diamond ners in the League. Captain Davis would Louis he was barely beaten; in Cincinnati swing, the pitching department will be ring and the fine, fat check, which was the do well to remedy this defeat. New York he was ont-pointed by Noodles Hahn; in strong enough for any emergency. But largest he received on the Eastern tour, for was whitewashed once on the trip, in ! Pittsburg he pitched but four innings, but upsets in base ball are quite as frequent mire. The people turned out in goodly num­ Plttsburg by Leever, and Davis' pitchers ; In that time the Pirates scored four runs as on the turf. bers to see his aggregation play ball. Bos­ did not whitewash any of the Western '' nnd found him for five hits, and in Chicago Tlie New Yorks played fast enough to ton pitched Kelliim and Cuppy against teams.