Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
MONTY FIGURES
RED SOX FINISHING
Believes Boston Team Has
Best Showing to Land the
American Pennant.
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no factor in the present race for the
American league pennant-at least
not yet. Unless they should drop
bunch of games all in a row right
now, they are far from being eliminat
ed from the fray, The season is not
half gone yet, and it takes only a
brief stretch of consistent winning
to NOW down a margin of half a dozen
games. The Red SoX are we'll within
sight of the top, and if hard luck
does not overtake them in the form
of injuries or sickness, we look for
these Bostonians of Bill Carrigan to
be right up there give-and-take with
the leader during the last few weeks
OF the season.
In the Reds we have team that
has not obtained the best possible
results from it's endeavors in the early
part of the season. They have been
trying hard enough and they figure
on paper to rate as strongly as any
team in the circuit with the possible
exception Of the Athletics. The latter
belong miles ahead Of the field If play
ing up to their form, but the concelt-
ed overconfidence OF the regular mem
bers of the team coupled with the in
different work of the young pitchers
will be found disastrous to the cause
of Connie Mack if things are not
changed. and though the team has
stayed up there on top most OF the
time, the same situation still exists,
and if Mack cannot lift his men out
of the rut soon, he will find them los
ing games in punches.
The Detroit Tigers have circulated
about in the first division from the
top down to third place, always no
worse than a few games behind, but
they are too brittle to be expected
to stick it out, since the Interpretation
of either Cobb or Crawford makes
them a second rate team. The Sena-
tors without Walter Johnson in form
F; loom up hardly more prominently
than fourth or fifth place at the best
when the final reckoning is in. The
Browns of course are to be consider
ed. for Hickey has young team
fighting for every little point, the
sort of team that is hard to guage.
Nothing could please the average fan
more than to see them scrapplng II
out for the flag at the finish. But
they are not the tried and true band
of performers that the Red SoX are,
having only three or four established
starts against six or seven for the
| BOStOnians.
Iris Speaker, Harry Hooper, Duffy
Lewis, Larry Gardner, Steve Yerkes,
Forrest Cady, Bill Carrigan, Ray Col
Inns, Hugh Bedient and Joe Wood are
all veterans of the 1912 worlds cham
pionship team, as also is Pinch Hitter
Olaf Hendriksen. The outfield made
ND of Speaker, Hooper and Lewis,
still classes as the best in the game.
though Speaker has not hit anywhere
near to his proper standard thus far.
Gardner at third base, Yerkes at sec
ond, form the nucleus of the new IN
field, with capable youngsters IN
Everett Scott and Howard Janvrin
holding down short and second re-
sDectively. And on the bench sits the
| injured Heine Wagner, a shortstop
who when right ranks hardly below
his namesake. Hans, as we'll as CLYDE
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tense of this array has been plenty
good enough and now, with Speaker
lust beginning to find his batting eye
again, the punch on the attack is
arriving more strongly as the days go
by.
But the chief asset of Manager Car
rigan is in his battery power. He and
Cady, with Pinch Thomas In the role
of third string backstop, form
catching staff that compares favora-
b1v with any in the business. With
ali hi spitchers gonig properly, there
;e only one club in the game-the
White Sox-that can hold candle TO
the corps of Carrigan, and the Whlte
Sox. of course, are so weak in all
other lines that they are hopelessly
out of it now.
Joe Wood seems to have come back
to his old self after being in the dis
card year through injury and III
ness. If he can perform in his sem
sational 1912 manner, even the White
Sox mound staff will be outclassed for
five other capable performers are on
the lob with him. Bedient, the Won
der of the worlds series against the
Giants, has begun to display his true
worth again and Ray Collins, the big
southpaw, once more is doing con-
sistent work. TO back them up are
three of the most amazing young finds
of many seasons in George FOSTER
Dutch Leonard and Rankin Johnson.
The last named is the boy who upset
the great Walter Johnson two times
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One point in favor of the Red Sox
as they set out to become BUSINESS
like unit aiming at the pinnacle is
their uncanny ability to wallop the
good teams more than they do the
weaker ones. The Athletics are the
only gang in the first division that has
won majority of games played with
the Red Sox to date. The Bostonese
have whipped the Detroit Tigers by
five games to three, the Browns D!
/ five to two and the Senators by sly
{ to five. The Red Sox also have llckec
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!. Yankees and the White Sox are tine
clubs against which they have played