The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-09
ATTRACTIONS AT THE TT1EATERS THIS WEEK

ether National league clubs, except
the, Chicago Cubs. If next fall. the
Giants falter again, 1T will lie pretty
good proof that their training season
Is too long. Three weeks of the right
kind of work ought to be enough a,
far as the physical end of base bal
/ training is concerned. More than that
/ tells on the players. They grow tired
of the training camp. They long fol-
the season to open. They growl and
grumble like old salts.
The Giants were lucky last year
Marquard never can repeat his won
derful record. Matty is going back
slowly but surely. Maybe we have
seen the last of the Giants as cham
pions for some time to come. Let's
pull for the Pirates and Cubs"
Another Western wise man and
prophet cannot make himself believe
I that the Red Sox can win another
American league pennant and a
worlds series. He expresses his views
in this blunt fashion:
The Red Sox had no right to last
years pennant. They won it be-
cause the Athletics fell down COM
pIetely and the New York Americans
were jokes. If Connie Mack's pitch
ers and at least one outfielder had
walked the straight and narrow path
and II the Highlanders hadn't lost
nineteen out of twenty-one games with
he Rex SoX Boston would have been
beaten out by the Washingtons. The
Red SoX have one good pitcher, Joe
Wood: star shortstop, Charley Wag-
ner, and the best outfield anywhere.
As a we'll balanced ball team the Ath-
lctics look like the class this year.
Hut keep an eye peeled for the Chi
cago White SoX if they get flying
start as they did last year"
In the annual East VS.. West strug-
sle for major league penLants and
worlds championships the records
sfHre 1871 show that Boston has ex-
rclled all other rivals, with twelve
National league. three American
league one American association, one
Players league (5rotherhood) and
two worlds championship pennants,
a total " nineteen. Chicago stands
second with ten National league, three
American league and three world s
championships, sixteen in all. New
York captured an American associa-
tion pennant in 1884, followed by six
National league pennants and three
worlds championships total ten.
Philadelphia captured the first real
championship when the Athletics
were victorious in 1871. followed by
an American association success in
1883. Since then the up-to- date Ath-
lctics in the American league have
won four remnants and two world S
championships
Pittsburgs victorious record in
e!Hdes four National league pennants
and one worlds series Detroit has
one National league, three American
league and one worlds championship:
St Louis has four American associa-
ton a Union association pennant and
one worlds series Brooklyn and Bal
timore each have three National
league championship emblems and
Providence two, won in 1879 and
1881, while Cincinnati's only triumph
was in the American association race
Of 1882
This shows that the East in forty
two years Of baseball has scored to-
tai of thirty-nine championship vic
tories, against twenty for the
West 1t isn't strange, therefore, that
Western fans are roofing against Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia, and
Washington. all of which have teams
that at least resemble champions on
paper at this writing.