East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-07-30
VARIATION SEEMS TO
Be LIFE OF LEAGUE
CLUBS INVOLVED KEEP FANS
GUESSING AS TO WHAT Is
NEXT MOVE.
(By Hal Sheridan. written for the
United Press.)

(By Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press.)
NEW YORK, July 30.-Never was
there such great little old scramble
in which pulling, pushing, tripping
and wide open fighting has kept half
dozen clubs involved. worked it's
way through June and July and start
ed TO swing into August as the pres
ent American league scrap is doing.
II you don't have a revised standing
Of the clubs every morning for break
fast the whole day is spoiled. A team
looks like a pennant contender today
and fit to drop into deep hole in the
old family pond with a rock to weight
EN- down tomorrow Day after to-
morrow everybody wants to find the
rock. cut the string, and let 'em up.
They're going again.
From the start Connie Mack has
kept up his little dog trOt that has
kept the Athletics in front, not with
any wonderful flashes of form, but
with a consistent jog. Others have
been up and down. Turning over the
pages in search Of the dope to see
whyfor the wherefor, the answer
isn't there.
The Chicago White Sox, buzzing
and whizzing into the streak that car
ried them near the top and still makes
them regarded as among those who
may be present, have been big help
to the Athletics. Only the New York
Yankees have furnished Connie Mack
with more nourishment than Gala
hans crew. Up to July 20, the Sox
had won only three games from the
Athletics, while Mack had annexed
eight settos with Callahan. The
Yankees did the best they could and
helped the Athletics along with ten
games, taking but five in the mean
time to put in their own yawning
pantry. The st. Louis Browns still
t refuse to hand anything to the cham
= pions in the tussle, having broken
l even with five games won and five
:. lost up to July 20. Detroit, up to the
same time, has also put up a fifty
fifty fight, dividing ten battles. Going
on through the list. up to July 20,
the Athletics had disposed of the var
iOus teams as follows: won seven and
I lost four to Washington; won eight
and lost seven to Boston; won five
5 and lost two to Cleveland.
Just to show how you never can tel
q the aforesaid wherefor of the whyfor
l the old Washington Cleveland feuC
. has been on with considerable fire
/ and birthstone, and Cleveland thi!
year has the edge. The Maps are
buried deep in a dark corner of the
cellar. Washington is up among tn,
elite and have the fun of seeing theil
y hours or so, but the Maps have wal
loped Washington six times to tn,
= five occasions on which they hav,
been on the short end.
Although leading the Nationa
league, the step of the Giants ha,
been so uncertain that they have
drawn the worst of the argument with
the Cardinals and haven't any grea
edge over the Cubs and the Phillies
The Cardinals have watched for tn,
Giants with big stuffed club-stuffeC
with nothing soft. As a result of tht
last series. during which they winge,
McGraw for three in a row. the Card
now had, up to July 20, seven vic,
tories over the Giants to their cred
1t, against five defeats. Hank ODay
had lost the decision up to July q
by the measely margin of one game
The Cubs had. up to that date. grab,
bed five from the Giants and lost six
Against the Phillies McGraw ha.
been returned a winner eight times
On six occasions the Polo ground clar
has been .clubbed into submission b,
the Phillies. To the Herzogglan Red.
McGraw has lost only two games
from them he has garnered five need.
ed victories
Mack's former trainer. Robinson
now manager of those Brooklyn Dodg-
ers, has contributed seven victories tc
his former boss. Against the seven
games won from Brooklyn, the New
forkers have lost five-not a big mar
gin when il is remembered how slight.
ingly every Manhattanite speaks Of al
things Brooklyn
But from Boston and Pittsburg to-
eether. up to July 90 the Giants have
snatched fifteen victories against
seven defeats Eight of these victorie.
came from the Braves to whom the
Giants had lost only three games. The
Pittsburgh Giant standing up to JULY
20 gave the Giants seven wins and
four defeats.
As a result of this scramble. not tc
say mangled mass, in both leagues
more than precedent is likely to be
fractured this year, \ rare assort
ment Of records fell all in one day
at Pittsburgh when the Giants wor
that famous twenty-one inning game
o. but who would have thought Of q
team winning the pennant with les.
than 100 victories. Echo failing. W.
ourselves rise To answer that none
had, up to this year, tver had such
a thought Present indications are tn,
team winning between so and 81
games may be the team that cop: