The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-10
IN MAJOR LEAGUES

To-day the Red Sox are almost ten gm1nea ahead of the Athletics. the on- nv other club In the American League believed to be of championship cali insr, but there does not seem to be any witd desire anywhere outside of Boston to start the business of hand ing it to the Stahl crew.
 More than half of the Red lsox lead hm@ been acquired within the past &mm days or two weeks. Competent qrfStlcR ra:y the club is going stronger now khan at any time since the open 5nk of the season, with every Hkeli- t1ood Of improving still further as the srrumer, ages
 w]coa seems to lose none of his ef- fme&SwanesR; 0'Brien has acquired con- Rrol of his wild elants; Cicotte, Be- ff1@n&. Hall and the rest are all go- zng great guns for a club that is Gsldins and Hitting and running the bases with anything their league could send against them.
 yiu1x,x McA1eer would serve as an all-fred good example for a flock of mnEnmtea. McAaeer was something pf manager himself, when given half E5tahl has suffered any from interfer- &nee on the part of the executive of- ncers Of his club.
 Sort Of ( colncfdspcs that two ef ths strongeet clubs in the American Les. Lea. backs-'' The White Sox, after a long lMiaE@ of hard going are back in third lplncm and Jimmy Callahan ie in high &amrF again Stahl ran a bank In lchicag0 all last year, but his plunge into chance seems not to have taken anything from his abilities either as a player or as manager.
 The Giants having started upon Khnir second Western jaunt, it now re- Hnains tc be seen whether the Vest Msn cluhH will make good their inten- rtnn Do stop the Giants and make Mhie National League thing a race ssnstsae of runaway.
 on papsr they do not figure to do it. Unless the Giants spring the si1r- prise of the season by going all to pieces they should gather better than half che games in the West and thus come home Mafely clutching the pen nAnt of 1912. Tn fact they should get Enurh better than an even break away from home. The Cubs and Pirates are the only teams that threaten to aH much as break even on their series with the Polo Grounders.
 Jimmy Lavender. has made bid for a place among the sensations of the season, and looks as if he should have at. Lavender started poorly this Eear with the Cubs and looked at one kime as though he was about to go to the minors. But Chance expressed conddenee in him, the same having Eincs been justified by the excellent a1ra&ns and Cardinals.
 
 pfttmDurRh has the record so far for Mh@ number of games lost by single with some justice back of it. There ss some merit ir the claim of the Pi- kafe fans thai the club Is in hard luck Pittsburgh has lost fourteen games by one run, which is better khan Brooklyn was able to do Iass pemncn, and Brooklyn made a game
 NmMcn. one Of Dahlen's young twirl- efs. gives promise of becoming one of khe peainsteys Of the team. While he lost in his last appearance against khe Giants he showed symptoms of bsE teaSue stuff. He has speed and H6od curves and needs only a little knufe experience.
 According to stories in Western pa- BnrB there ia a move on to prohibit bifnhers from purposely passing bat Esrn. Chief Meyers, Hans Wagner ard He1nie' Zimmerman please. take no<ica
 while the fans in the Capital City are still roofing for the Senators to @et into f7rst place and win the pen- hant Clarke Grin1th is more intent bn second place, knowing pretty well khat hR has at best only an outside Ehance for the flag this year His EZub is made up Of too many young Sters to expect they will win out R<ainst veteran players such as are 51 the sox and Athletics. At any tate Grin promises to finish further hp in the column than any Washing E6n club ever finished before.