The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-06

ALREADY WON.
Base. Ball Season Waning and
Results Assured.
.PITTsBURGs AND BosToNS
.PlTTSBURGS AND BOSTONS
They Now Have the Championships Of
the National and American Leagues
Won-Prospects ofthe Various
Teams-Future Games

The base ball season In both the Atneri.
can and National Leagues is drawing 70,
a close, and viii end before tho present
month Is added to tho list Of Septem-.
bers passed and gone. With nearly
month yet to play, the remnants OF botn
leagues are us surely In possession OF the
clubs now leading their fc5i,ectlve lea CUES
as If tho season had already ended. NO.
thing but d miraculous performance could
take the American League pehnant away
from Collins Bostonians. or the American
League banner from the already twice
champion Iittsburg team. The schedules
of the remaining games are decidedly IN
favor Of the GU BIS now leading the two
leagues.
Boston, leading the American process
sion-for tbs now nothing more nor less
already has seventy Two games won, ana
but forty lost, whYc Cleveland, its near
est competitor, has record OF slxty-three
won and fifty lost. Boston has only
tvcn,y-iour more games 10 play, and
of this number twenty-one are to pe
played on the Boston diamond Cleveland,
on tho other hand, has but six games u
home and twelve abroad.
Philadelphia or the Athletics. as they
are known TO distinguish them from the
National League 44llies. lis me- q IN
the penIant race, with sixty games won
and fifty-one lost. Tho Athletics have III
teen games at homo and but SIX ABROAD.
Under these conditions It Is reasonably
certain that the champions OF last sea-
son will finish second. Their prospects
OF landing even nearer Boston In the Tag
fight we're dashed by the erratic performs
ances and disappearance OF Ruoe 'au-
dell. the star pitcher, who did SO mucn
to land their pennant OF tho year before.
There Is no doubt that the cleveland
Blues have been coming up ana coming
fast for the past month. for they nave
been playing wonderfully fast ball, and
had lust struck the strike OF which they
are capable But tho Athletics are game
bunch, and with so many games at home
they will surely land~:n second berth.
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New York now in fourth place, with
the average OF sos. may beat the Cleve-
land Blues out also and land IN thlro
place, but 1t Is going to require the hard-
est kind of playing on their part anu a
slump BY the Forest City bunch TO sand
the Gothamites thus high. Ne" ! or ork
has twenty-seven more games to play, OF
which tEenty-one are at home and SIX
abroad. Cleveland has but six more games
at home and twelve abroad. Granting that
each team wins two-thirds OF the nome
games and half those abroad. Cleveland
will still have>a record OF seventy-tnFeo
games won and flfty-elght lost 20 New
York's seventy-one won ana slxty-three
lost. and that would land the Blues well
above Grifflths stars.
Granting that the Athletics win halt
their games abroad and two-thirds VI
those at home, Cleveland would still lead
by a small margin. So. In order to beat
the Ohioans out for the place tho Con
ME- Mack champions must either lose one
or two fewer games than nail tnose
abroad or win one or two more than two
thirds Of those at home
Summing up the prba bilities 1t now
looks like the finish In the American
will be: Boston first. with a large mar
gin. Philadelphia second, by in eyelash,
and Cleveland third and New York
fourth. st. Louis may beat Detroit out Tor
fifth round, but It Is not likely, and
the schedule is more favorable 70 Detroit
holding her present place. Chicago VIII
hardly land any better than seventh. ana
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. old senators-wlll bring
up the rear With their accustomed ease
and grace.
In the National League Pittsburg has
an even greater cinch on the pennant tnan
has Boston on the American League lag.
With the splendid record OF y games
Won and but 81 lost, the nearest con.
testant is New York, the once desplsed
Giants. and their record Is but W games
won and 46 lost. Chicago, with "! won
and 46 lost, will surely beat the gGiants
out for the place and land them NJ tni,u,
even II Cincinnati does not push INC
Manhattan beyy down peg lower any 'l
take third place herself.
Tho schedule In the National League
for the rest of the season Is al N favor :,
of the Western clubs, which are now an
to the good, while the four eastern tea I
have n hard hill to climb from now on,
Pttsburg has 20 games at nome ana put
one more abroad, big advantage, ana
nne the team does not need to give 1t the
nannant IN n walk. New York has put
three games at home and IL abroad, WINE
Chicago has II at home and but D ABROAD.
| Figuring on the same basis or V'c,oties
| az home and abroad-wlnning Two tnlros
| of the homo games and nan u .uuso
MISUNDERSTANDING will end the season
viii q record OF OF games won and but
e lost, New York. on the same tigur,hg.
| vii end the season with a record OF ~
cames won and IS lost. while chicago
Viii finish with 50 games won ana %
| lost, Cincinnati, On the same calculat I
viii finish with 70 games won aha o. ,a los T
A for the other teams OF the Nhllona!
1onp,e, brooklyn cannot easily lose fifth
MACE. unless she plays very pun' PAY,
and Boston will hold sixth, While 81. LOUIS
erpeclaly Mt the pace they are now set
ting. will surely finish seventh. pushing
| The st, Louis Brown back into me last
hole and tail-ond honors.
The Giants might have been IN the
hunt for the flag had they had another
good pitcher. Matthewson, the on. one-n ~ n',
phenomenon, has been worked TOO hard
- expect him TO keep up his old record
Of Victories. and though he and MeG'innlty
have done brilliant work, the quantity Of
| It expected Of them has been too much
for their powers. Pittsburg has splen'
did corps Of pitchers. and OF the bunch
Sam I4eever the ex-R chmonaer. - pre-
mier easily. But that Pirate bunch does
not ,,s, depend on its pitching staff for pen
nanta II Is team Of great ;a,n ball c Play,
and sven brilliantly ana batting out vic,
tories with their handy sticks the sm9 -
City boys deserve their th!rd successive
pennant. With the loss OF Chesnro ane
| Tannehjll, two of their star pltcRers, VINO