Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1918 — M’GRAW WON MANY PENNANTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M’GRAW WON MANY PENNANTS

Giants Defeat Connie Mack’s Athletics in 1905 for Championship of. the World. * John J. McGraw, the little Napoleon Of baseball, has won six pennants and

one world’s championship with the New York Giants. Under the leadership of McGraw, •the Giants defeated Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics for the baseball, gonfalon In 1905. McGraw woo his first National league pennant with the Giants in 1904. There was no world’s champion

ship that year. McGraw’s managerial record is in a class by Itself. He assumed command of the Giants in 1903, finishing second; he won the National league pennant In 1904-05, finished second to Chicago in 1906, fourth In 1907, second in 1908, third in 1909, second in 1910, first in 1911, 1912 and 1913; second in 1914, eighth in 1915, fourth in 1916 and first in 191/. McGraw was third baseman in his playing days.

John McGraw.