Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1917 — GIANTS EASY FOR DEMAREE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GIANTS EASY FOR DEMAREE

Cub Pitcher Has Now Won Fourteen .Consecutive Games From Mugg- , sy McGraw’s Hirelings. There is another pitcher in the National league besides Jack Coombs of Brooklyn who finds the New York Giants easy victims. That other twirler is none other than Al Demaree of the Cubs, who the other day defeated the Giants 6 to 1, and-in so doing conquered them for the fourteenth time consecutively. That is a better

record than the one of which Coombs boasts. The Brooklyn slabman has beafen McGraw’s men 11 games in a row. Manager McGraw let Demaree go two years ago because he believed he was not strong enough to be a steady and effective pitcher. He included him in a trade which brought Hans Robert, who now is a utility player .to the Giants. Immediately after he was traded to the Phillies Demaree set out to prove that he was a better pitcher than credited and one of the clubs he delighted to defeat was the Giants, and while he was a member of the Philadelphia club he took 13 games from them. Demaree started this season successfully against McGraw’s club by beating them with seven hits and winning his fourteenth game. It is Mitchell’s hope that he keeps up the good work and if he does he will be a bigger New York Giant killer than Pfiester or Lavender ever dared to be.

AI Demaree.