The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-03
Question of Pennant Winning
Said to Favor Packers.
''DOpist" Figures How SOOs Will
Take the "Rag."
LEAD AN ADVANTAGE.
Eighteen More Will Total LOG
Games They Have Won.
No Need of Pessimism Seen Bar
ring Serious Accidents.

Is Sioux City going to win the pen
nant?
This is the question bothering a
great many fans in the western part
of the United States, says the Sioux
City Journal, the inhabitants OF
certain section of Colorado being par
ticularly vexed by it.
Though the question cannot be CIV
en- a positive answer at this stage OF
the season, yet a glance at Few ng-
ures warrant the reply that things
look favorable for the Packers to cop
the rag. In fact. things present such
an iridescent hue that only one OF
two improbabilities can keep the 7.
& z. climbers from annexing the punt
fng-the Sioux must take an aWful
slump, and lose game after game, or
the Denver Bears must have a phen-
omenal winning streak. And at the
rate the Packers are trotting now,
there is but a slight possibility that
they will break and lose any great
number of contests. On the other
hand, the Bears have never displayed
any qualities in the season that should
make 1t appear as though they will
do anything out of the ordinary in
the remainder of the schedule days.
Denver will play at home for prac-
tically all the remaining days OF the
season, having only twelve games
scheduled for other towns. Four OF
these, however, are booked with the
Cooley Sox, and will be transferred to
Denver, provided Cooley follows out
his present policy. The Packers have
twelve games scheduled for home.
This fact means that they will play
twenty-one games on foreign fields,
while Denver is playing twenty-four
games at home. If games played on
the home field give a club any great
advantage, Denver will have it. But
the lead which the Packers have
should prove great advantage In
these waning days of the great PEN
nant chase.
OF course, Denver will be at home
for a majority of its thirty-two games
and should win two-thirds. or more
The Sioux will be on the road for a
majority OF their games and prob
ably will not win two-thirds. But, sup
posing the Sioux win only half of their
games, or but Is out of the 80; this
number of victories would make theil
total for the year just 104. Denver ir
order to equal this record would have
two games. This would mean that the
Bears would lose only nine games II
the remainder of the season.
There is more likelihood that thu
Sioux will win more than sixteen o
its thirty-three games. It has twelve
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of this number. OF the twenty on
games on other grounds the Siou1
should win at least ten, going even a
a rate not so fast as they have playeC
in the summer.
If they win eight games at hom'
and ten on the road it would meal
that they probably will clinch tn
pennant, with several games to spare
Eighteen games would make their to
tai 106 games won. To equal this rec
ord the Denver club would have t
win twenty-seven out of thirty-tw
games. The chances are decidedl
against Denver's pulling off such
stunt.
Considering the situation in tn
most pessimistic light and giving Den
yer all advantage of the doubt, tn
Packers seem to have the rag almoe
won. They are now going at a fas
clip, and II no serious accidents accu
Denver and Lincoln will have to awai
the coming Of another season befor
they can get a championship title.