Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-19
Monty Says Giants Would Stand No Chance in the
 American League.
DEFEAT WAS PITIFUL
Athletics Outclassed the New York Team in Field and at the Bat.
BY MONTY

BY MONTY
 New York, Oct. 18.-Where would 1.-the Giants finish if they were in the |American League? Answer-they Ewould be lucky to finish in the first division. Perhaps the correct guess would be the sixth place. The Ath cities showed such overwhelming su- beriority over them that it is cer- &ainty McGraw's National League Ehampions are not even in the class with Washington and Cleveland of the American, and the Red SoX and White Sox are so little behind those |wo that it is difficult to see how the Eiants could defeat them, either in a hort series or in a full seasons chedule.
 This looks rather rough on the Ma onal League, but a little unbiased areful thought on the subject will pnvince any close follower of the ennant races of it's truth. The main ercentage in favor of the American eague just now is the superiority of e younger circuit in the two prin- bal misunderstanding and tching. Joe Tinker remarked back August, after he had found oppor- mites on a few days off to take a ek. at games of the American aguers- that the pitchers in the hnsonian circuit, taken as a body, fully p per cent stronger than pse of the National Lea ague-and he a National Leaguer. He made this Bervation after sitting in the nds behind the catcher and bas- his judgment not on the amount batting done but on the stuff the frlers put on the ball.
 Frank Chance said the same thing September. He opined that even tail end Browns, with Hamilton, Eerenz, Weilman, BaumgardHer other youngsters, had a hurling ri stronger than any in the Ma pal with the possible exception of Giants corps, and the Athletics nd the Giant pitchers easier than did those of the Browns, with single exception of Christy Mat gson. Against the better pitching their circuit, the American League ters hit twenty points harder than the batters of the National gue against their weaker pitch- onnie Mack expressed his opinion september that his pitching staff
 eXcelled by those of at least three er teams in the American League. nat IS so-and Connie is a pretty
 Judge in such things-where Id the Giants have been if they
 been up against Walter John
 Joe Boehli2g and company, de- gu oy Mack to be the best in the 'flcan League. Clark Griffith, ager of the Washingtons, while recent massacre of New York Ill progress, sighed: "Oh, if only 'eam had crack at these Giants. pson could shut them out in the ana third games, Boehling could
 Ill the second and Engel in the It would be the only worlds 's Tn history where the losers
 to get single run." Griffith purse is stretching point when peaks of the Giants-or even, if ere the Cardinals or any other going through a whole series ou' run, but it would have
 Slaughter nevertheless. And ehoefg, Gregg and the other eiahd pitchers could make the 'S eat crow almost as lusril,, ,u 'otAlng of how Joe Wood, in con
 seconded by Bedient could do Dr bring Ed Walsh back into
 ana let him and Reb Russell
 ai'efaating in the box. Also
 .uio go still step farther and
 m George Dauss and Gean Du-
 'he sixth place Tigers against
 'ah's' letting Ty Cobb and Sam
 o,o pear the brunt of the att
 They would and pretty close
 even chance with the Giants
 ,s within the realms of possi-
 'hat they can beat tho Mo-