The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-06
Shamrock W Sure
 To Prove Dangerous To American Defender
INSIDE INFORMATION INDICATES THAT IGPTONs NEW CHAB- IENGER IS BEST EVER SENT ACROSS THE ATIAArT3C


 New York, July 6.--American yachtsmen. who are in close touch ! wit the preparat1ons being made by Sir Thomas hpton for his fourth at tempt to lift the Americaas Cup have recently received an interesting anal xsis of the preliminary showing of
 Shamrock ". According to this re-
 port, the challenger deSi gned by@Shasss Nicholson Is likely to prove the most
 dangerous yacht ever sent across the
 Atlantic In quest of the famous tro- phy. Although the English yachting
 experts will not commit themselves regarding the chances of the challen- ger as yet the impression appears to
 bs growing that, if Shamrock "
 makes the ocean trip without strain able than any of the Shanarocks or
 Walkyrfes that raced for the cup be-
 tween 1898 and 190S-
 This move WAS doubtless decided
 upon to avoid the friction that occur
 xed in 19OSs owing to a sort of dual command This year. Captain Bur
 ton. will be in sole coInnaand- He e1
 will have as his assistant. however,
 Captain Turner, who acted in a. sim
 liar capacfty for Burton in most of the
 big races in English waters and re-
 gently on Sir Thomas Lipton's twenty
 three metre yacht Shamrock in Eng
 fish regattaS. Aside from the lack of
 experience in America Cup races
 some
 yaehtHmen whether these two VIII get
 as much out of the crew as would Captain Sycamore. who is better known among the men forming the
 crew.
 A zac41tsznan who has lad exper-
 fence with each of the yachts Sir
 Thonfas has sent across the Allan tie expresses the opinion that one of
 Eae chief causes of failure in the past
 has been the lack of training of the
 crews of the Shaxnroeks. The Am
 orleans, he points out spend weeks in X getting their crews Into training and
 hour after hour they areH5ut through
 practice of lowering and raising sails
 until orders given by the captain ares
 carried out with a quickness that is
 a. marvel and surprise to English
 yachts1neM while h z Americans are ! { practEeangs he sa1ds the British crews
 taks life easy The result is seen
 when the race ts ons Ance quickness
 i'm carrying out orders makes the diff
 ference between success and defeat
 With the major league baseball
 clubs about to enter upon the second
 pRr1Bon EFdEh the records of the past
 two years develops some interesting. ' data regarding the strength and weak
 ness of the teams in the National and
 eandzat10n the New York Giants led
 their league on July 1st in both 1912 { and 1913- Two years ago the Mo
 Graw1tes were making 2 runaTay race of the peunant contest, having won
 fifty and lost eleven games for an av- craze Of .z30. Pittsburgh Wss sec ond with fEatrty-sEven games won and
 twenty-five lost giving the Pirates E percentage Of -597. Ch1cag0 with -567 was third having lost tWenry-six
 games and won tk1irty-forr. Cincdn- uad completed the first division with tF1irf5r-f1ve victories and thirty-tzzo de- Heatag the Reds percentage beiug -5z2- Ph11adeIpniaz Brooklyn St Louis and Boston followed in the order named with percentages of .423, .4O7, .391, and 1903 respectively
 Last seasons standing showed sev- < era1 marked changes over this order, efOrs while the Giants were showing the. 5-pEaT. theIr lead was of tho 11arro47sesst
 zaargfn. for Phi1adeIphia vas 4n~sec- 0nd place and Brooklyn following the { Guakers closely. In fact but .120 spofnts separated the first four teams against approximately 300 in 1912.
 The New York club, ultimate winners of the pennant, had a~percentage oI E-.635 to Phiiadelphiass 633 The Giants had won 40 games and lost 23, while the QuzherS ecore stood thirty setgnt games won and twenty-two lost Brooklyn, which held sixth place 1Ei SuS12s was but T6 points behind tn BecOnd place club, having won thirty Sfour games and lost twenty-seven- Chicago completed the Iasf 915f first t1i kyiadon teams with a. percentage of R-515- The second half of the league sstanding was occupied by Pittsburgh, sSt- Louis, Boston and Cincinnati with respective percentages of .461, .424, t.4d8. and -879-
 In the American League the Phil sadelphia Ath1etics were not playing at k&op speed in 191z and held second kpIace with the Boston Red Sox, show saEag the way. Chicago was third and fVashington fourth. The race was kmuch closer, however, than that in sEnad but 128 points separating the first and fourth teams the standing being:
 Boston, won 46s lost s21, percent EAge -6S1s Phi1ade1phia, won 43s, lost ES5s percentage -602s Chicago, won 3a. l k7rst 2s. perceutage .576;s Washington. Ewon S8, lost 30, percentage 559. kEIevcland. Detroit. New York and St. RLouis formed the rear guard in the k0rder named Last season, the Athletics held s1ead of such proportions that the fans fwere already beginning to concede the pennant to Connie BEacE's players with forty-efght games won and sev-
 enteen lost, the PhiladeIphfa club Ehowed a pefcentage ofs TBS against sCleveland5s 500. for forty-two games swon and twenty-eight lost Chicago Swas again in third place with thirty suine victories and thirty-tWo defeats, ssdving the White sox .549. Washing stons while not going as strong as in B7S12, still managed to hold fourth place thirteen points behind Chicago kAnd five points ahead of Boston, which in one year had dropped from sdrst to fifth place. Detroit, St Louis b@nd New York brought up in the ETear as they did in 1912.
 Foreign comment on the showing made by the American golfers enter cd ir the recent English amateur 1 Championship is unusually fair and sconsiderate. Although the pick of the rAmerican field was entered and did mot survive the fourth round it is gen. erally conceded abroad that these