The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-11

New York. August I0-Although tho
coneiu11ing games OF the major league
baseball season arc still two months
away, interest In the pcuuant races Is
already overshadowed by the POSSIBLE
tiles OF play in the worlds series. This
unusual situation in the camp OF the
national sport is due entirely to the
runaway race being made BY tho lead
ing teams in the National ana Amcri-
can Leagues. Not In some years have
SUCH wtdc margins separated the first
ana second clubs In both major asso-
cations at this stage OF the peuuant
races. There have been several exam
pies Of the so-callcd runaway race in
PVT simultaneous and sustained spurts
Ike these uncovered b. both the Giants
and Athletics are unusual
glance back over the records Of
the clubs in both leagues during the
past :cw years shows that. AS Il rule,
where one league had a leader we'll
pcnnant vas cIosc ana the outcome un-
certain at this period OF the season.
Wht!e the Athletics ana Giants are
!eading their respective leagues by APP
proAinatcly Il loo point margin over
nc runner -up, the ISL? records show
quarters %. their present margin. IN
the National League New York had won
August . The Chicago cubs were trail
4hs sccond. eighty seven points IN the
rear. with Pittsburgh ana rhiladcl-
phia holding third and fourth places.
The American League standing showed
5oston to have won seventy one ANA
ton second. with sI&ty-Hve and forty.
giving Jake STALLS RED Sox II lead OF
nny points The Athletics were still
In the race. and the Chicago White Sox
had an outside chance from fourth
place.
1911 Races Closer
The i9ll races. were FAR closer, FOR
the Athletics had but tweuty-two points
H.. a. Fl ffU Ht,a
League, and Chicago was leading PITTS
burgh by Just nine points in Tie Ma
ton. while the New York team. hold
Ins fourth place IN the american
the Athletics. with Detroit ana Ios-
ton between IL and the leaders Tho
races OF 1910. as viewed AT this date,
bling the present situation. The Attn
lctics were travelling at top speed. with
Il clear lead OF eighty points over Bos-
ton The Detroit Tigers were third.
thirty points in the rear OF Boston and
New York was fourth; but ninc: points
below the Tigers In the National
ahead OF Pittsburgh. with the New
York Giants third. ten points sepa-
delphia was poor fourth.
Pittsburgh and Detroit were the pace
makers in 1909. but neither team had
anything like the margin OF safety that
the present leaders possess. The Pr
rates had won sixty-eight and lost
twenty seven games, for a percentage
OF .7l5. The Chicago Cubs were right
at their heels. less than thirty points
separating leader and runner-up. The
New York and Cincinnati clubs were
third and fourth, respectively. but far
below the percentage standing of the
first and second clubs. The American
League race Was even closer Detroit,
with sixty-two games won and thirty
eight lost, had just twenty points over
Philadelphia which club had won sixty
and lost forty games. for n percentage
OF 600. Boston and Cleveland were
both within striking distance OF the
leaders. for there were but seventy
hvc points between the Tigers in first
place and the Cleveland club in fourth.
Predictions Go Wrong.
Despite the dire predictions made for
the present year. 1913 has proved to
date far from being an unlucky period.