Evening journal., 1914-07-30
BALL Clubs NOW
IN PENNANT FIGHT
Mack Gradually Forges
Ahead in the American
League Race
NEW YORK HAS
TROUBLE AHEAD
By Hal SHERIDAN.


NEW YORK, July 80.-Never was
there such a great little old scramble
In which pulling, pushing, tripping
and wide-open lighting has kept half
a dozen clubs involved, worked its
way through June and July, and
started to swing into August as the
present American League scrap Is
doing. If you don't have revised
standing OF the clubs every morning
for breakfast the whole day Is spoiled.
IA team looks like a pennant eonten-
der today and ft to drop into a deep
hole in the old family pond with
rock to weight EN- down tomorrow.
Day after tomorrow everyone 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
eny wondrous flashes Of form, but
with a consistent jog. Others have
been up and down. Turning over
the pages in search of the dope to
eee whyfor the wherefor, the answer
lent there.
The Chicago White Sox, buzzing
and whizzing into the streak that
rarried them near the top and still
makes them regarded as among those
who may be present. have been a
hig help to the Athletics. Only the
New York Yankees have furnished
Connie Mack with more nourlshment
than Callahan's crew. Up to July
30. the Sox had won only three games
from the Athletics. while Mack had
annexed eight set-tos with Callahan
Ehe Yankees did the best they could
md helped the Athletics along with
ten games. taking but five in the
meantime to put in their own yawn-
Ing pantry The ST. Louis Browns
still refuse 10 hand anything to the
champions in the tussle, having
broken even with five games Won and
FIVE lost up to July 20, Detroit, up
10 the same time has also put up a
afty-ffty fight, dividing ten battles.
Going on through the list, up to July
20, the Athletics had disposed Of the
various teams as follows. won seven
and lost four 70 Washington: won
eight and lost seven to Boston; won
five and lost two to Cleveland.
Just to show how you never can
-ttsalil@---the aforesaid wherefor Of the
whyfor. the old WashinEton-Cleve-
i&nd feud has been on with consider
able fire and birthstone. and Cleve-
land this year has the edge. The
Maps are buried deep in a dark corner
pf the cellar. Washington Is up
hmong the elite who have the fun Of
seeing their standing changed every
twenty-four hours or so, but the Maps
have walloped Washington six times
10 the FIVE occasions on which they
have been on the short end
Although leading the National
League, the step of the Giants has
been so uncertain that they have
drawn the worst OF the argument
with the Cardinals and haven't any
great edge over the Cubs and the
Phillies.
The Cardinals have watched for the
Giants with a big stuffed club
stuffed with nothing soft. AS re-
suit Of the last series. during which
hey winged McGraw for three in a
row, the Cards. now had. up to July
20, seven victories over the Giants
o their credit. against fve defeats.
Hank O'Day had lost the decision up
~ tAAf ~ ny Aht ntdctig margin
Df one game. The Cubs had, up to
hat date, grabbed five from the
Giants and lost six
Against the Phillies McGraw has
heen returned a winner eight times.
On six occasions the Polo Ground
clan has been clubbed into submits
sion by the Phillies To the Her
soggian Reds McGraw has lost only
two games; from them he has gar
nered five needed victories.
Mack's former trainer. Robinson.
now manager Of those Brooklyn Dod-
gers, has contributed seven victories
10 his former boss. Against the
seven games won from Brooklyn, the
New Workers have lost five-not a
big margin when 1t is remembered
how slightingly every Manhattanite
speaks of all things Brooklyn.
But from Boston and Pittsburgh to-
gether, up TO July 90 the Giants had
anatched fifteen Victories against
seven defeats. Eight of these vic
tories came from the Braves to whom
the Giants had lost only three games.
The Pittsburgh Giant standing up 10
July 20 gave the Giants seven wins
and four defeats
AS result of this scrambled, not
to say mangled mess. in both leagues,
more than precedent is likely to be
fractured this year A rare assort-
ment Of records fall all in one day
at Pittsburgh when the Giants won
chat famous twenty-one inning game
but who would have thought of a
team winning the pennant with less
than 100 victories. Echo failing, we
ourselves rise to answer that none
had, up to this year, ever had such a
thought Present indications are
that the team winning between so
and 80 games may be the team that
cops this season.
MOTORCYCLE NOTES.
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