Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-06-22
Monty Says Red Sox Are
Now Making Last Stand
at Philly.
ARE FALLING BEHIND
Will Have to Show Better Form With
Athletics to Regain Pc.
sitiOn.
CBY MONTY

PAoStASoAiS W lhC Sldlu VI tiC
Red Sox is being staged IN Philaiel.
phia at present, with yesterdays game
the first of a series of four tns t. laom
SC high in Importance 10 the Bor.on-
ia: that the use Of the wore cru
CO. by f-antown peamal is strictly
1:,tr liable. # is plain u see that.
Il the worlds champions are going
to do any more "champing" they will
have to spring nothing less than
sensational dash all the way on from
now to the finish in October.
In round numbers, the Red Sox are
a dozen full games behind the Ath-
letics on this day and date. When
the title holders sank to the lower
regions OF the standing and stayed
there up to a few weeks ago, a large
majority of the fans in the American
League circuit began to count them
as beaten team, absolutely out of
the race. with no chance to bob up
again. However, there are a hundred
| games of the schedule left to play.
and if the Stahl men deliver the goods
during this greater part Of the race,
it is we'll within possibility for them
to climb to the top. 1t depends on
whether they get going and also, OF
course, on how the other teams above
them behave. But, for the present,
it is untimely to call them beaten.
They are not. They may be later, but
they are not beaten yet. There have
been many cases in the modern his
tory OF the game where a team can
cut down a lead of over dozen
games after the season was much
older than the current one is now.
The Red SoX have shown sparks of
the old time fire and dash in the last
few weeks. They seem more like a
regular team now than at any other
/ time since last fall, when they took
the Giants into camp. Much of the
early season disaster was due to in
ability of the pitchers to hit their
stride. Wood. Bedient and Collins
seem to have rounded back to some
thing like true speed, however, and
the team has begun to forge upward
Also the injured men are getting back
into the fray, the return of Larry
Gardner in particular proving
source of added strength to the team.
Stahl can afford to sit on the bench
quite bit more if Engle, who has
been filling the shoes of his boss,
continues to play as we'll at first base
as he has done. But the return of
Gardner and renaissance of the pitch
ers are not the only changes of i'm
portance that have developed of late
The improvement of the twirlers ha
seemed to lend confidence to the re
OF the outfit. and the little inside
tricks that made themselves felt so
much last year are beginning to ap-
pear again.
I If the Red SoX are to beat their
way back to select company, they
will have to show much better against
the Athletics than they have done to
date. Up to- the beginning of the
present series in Quakertown the Ath-
letics had beaten the Bostonians five
times and had suffered only one de-
feat at their hand. Connie Macks
people have taken a majority Of thei1
games from every team that has been
met. The so-considered strong teams
| have proved just as easy as the weak
lings. If the Mackmen are to be
! checked at all. it is up to the more
powerful aggregations to do the work.
/ After the Red Sox get through with
their Philadelphia visit, the Senator'S
receive a call from the Athletics of
| four battles duration in Washington.
At the same time the Red Sox will
be at home attempting to fatten off
! Frank Chances Yankees. At the con-
clusion of these series. the visiting
teams swap camps, the New Workers
going to Washington and the Athletics
up to, the Hub. This will give the
Red Sox their second crack at tho
| leaders in ten days, surely an oppor-
tunity for them. Whether they grasp
| it remains to be seen. But the main
thing is that these sets of conflicts
between the high and mighty eastern
ers are likely to hurt somebody's per-
centage badly and help somebody else
in corresponding ratio.
But, while all this is going on in
the East, Joe Birmingham's Maps will
be enjoying the pleasant experience
of landing heavily on the weaker
members at the other end of things.
There is not a team in the West ex-