Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-30
AMERICAN LEAGUE ENDED.
Chicago Has a Walkover For
 the Tenant.

The National League Will Finish at
 the Close of This Pittsburg
 Will Finish First, and the Only Con-
 test Will Be Between Philadelphia
 and Brooklyn for Second Place
 State League Directors Will Meet
 This Week and Prepare for Next
 Season.
 The American League has finished sss season and the National League will practically close this week. Two games are scheduled for next Sunday in the West, while the Eastern teams will wind up next Saturday. The commencement of the final week finds five of the places still in doubt. name Iy: Second, third. sixth. seventh aEd eighth. In fact. Boston still has q chance to beat out St Louis, but the chances are so remote that those two teams are virtually where they will be at the finish. So far as the figures go, New YOrk's prospects for finishing sixth are better than Brooklyn's for finishing second. From now on. how
 
 fairly well on the present trip West. will have two first division teams to contend against, St Louis and Brook Iyn- There are three games to be played between New York and Brook lyn this week. these contests possess ing the twofoId interest of having a bearing on the final position of the To- cal clubs aud on the inter-borOugh series
 The season has been notable for the number of young pitchers of ability it has brought to the front. More per- formers have come to the front than In any other position. Seldom have there been so many good twirlers in the game. With the advent of the American as q major league organiza- ton, there has been q demand for more first-class pitchers. and the supply has responded to the demand. OId-timers, such as Griffith. Young and Nichols. have held their own with the best of the new crop. but on the whole the young bloods have made the old box men look to their laurels.
 Newcomers in the box this season who have shown their right to be in
 
 per, Hughes of Chicago: Townsend. l.. Taylor, Poole, Stimmel. Murphy, Pit. tenger. Eason and White in the Ma tional League; WiItse, Sieyers. Plank. Patten. Moore, Patterson, Winters and Lee in the American League. Several In this list are not products of this campaign, but, nevertheless. the sea son of 1901 proved their worth. Fur fhermore, Chesbro. Kitson. Donovan. Newton. Bernhard. McGinnity. Miller. katOll. Carrick, and several others are comparatively young in the service.
 The game could stand a correspond ing increase in the number of good men in other positions. There is bound to be bigger supply of pitchers than anything else since each team carries more twirlers than occupants of other places Still the disparity in the out put of pitchers and infielders. for in- stance. is noticeable More men have been taken from the pitchers box to fill field positions than have been ta- ken from the field to go into the box. The history of shortstop will suffice to illustrate the point. Long, Davis, NJ. Cross, Dahlen. Wallace, Corcoran. Ely, Shugart. Keister and Klingman. who constitute q majority of the short stops in the two major leagues. are not young bloods. It is only once in great while that the equals of the Longs, Dayises. Dahlens. WalIaces, &c,