The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-04

first division with. thirty-fve victor.
les and thirty-two defeats; the Reeds,
percentage being .522. Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, ST. Louis and Boston fol-
lowed in the order named with percent
ages of .423. .4O7, .391 and 1903, re-
spectively.
Last seasons standing showed sever
al marked changes over this order,
for while the Giants were showing the
way, their lead was of the narrowest
margin, for Philadelphia was in sec.
Ond place and Brooklyn following the
Quakers closely. In fact but .120 points
separated the first -four teams against
approximately 300 in 1912. The New
York club. ultimate winners Of the
pennant, had a percentage of .635 to
Philadelphia's .633. The Giants had
won forty games and lost twenty-three
while the Quakers score stood thirty
eight games won and twenty-five lost.
Brooklyn, which held sixth place in
1912, was but 76 points behind the
second place club, having won thirty
four games and lost twenty-seven.
Chicago completed the list of first d.
SIS. The second half of the league
standing was occupied by Pittsburgh,
St. Louis, Boston and Cincinnati, with
respective percentage of .461, .424,,
.413, n 1873.
In the American league the Phtladel-
phia Athletics were not playing at top
speed in 1912 and held second place
with the Boston Red Sox, showing the
way. Chicago was third n Wash
ington fourth, The race was much
closer, however, than that in the Ma
tional organization, for Boston had
but 12S points separating the first
and fourth teams, the standing being:
Boston, won 46, lost 21, Pct .6S7; Phil
adelphia, won 38, lost rs, percentage
.6o2; Chicago; won SO, lost 28, per.
80, percentage $50; Cleveland, De-
troit, New York and st. Louis formed
the rear guard in the order named.
Last season the Athletics held a
lead of such proportions that the fans
were already beginning to concede
the p~ennant to Connie Mack's players:
With forty-eight games won and
seventeen lost, the Philadelphia club
Cieveland's 900, for forty-two games
won and twenty eight lost. Chicago
was again in third place. with thirty
nine victories and ~thirty-two defeats.
ton, while lot going as trong as in
1912, still managed to hold fourth
place, thirteen points behind Chicago
and five points ahead of Boston, which
fifth place. Detroit, st. Louis and New
York brought up in the rear as they did
in 1912.
Foreign comment on the showing
made by the American golfers entered
in the recent English amateur cham
p%ionship is unusually fair and consider
ate. Although the pick of the Ameri-
can field was entered and did not sur
viVe the fourth round 1t Is general
ly conceded abroad that these players
took their responsibilities too heavily
and were doomed to defeat from the
start. One Enlish writer in reviewing
the tournament stated:
"When your men can come over and
play a round just as though they were
out for a country walk, and play, not
with any idea of winning, but simply
tn Whjle q Uy9U a summer holiday thew
will probably win. You handicap them
too heavily before they start. Too
much publicity is bad for ones nerves;
Nobody knew Tubbs who defeated
Francis Ouimet for example, had even
entered the tournament. He won
simply because he was an
and out for a little golfing holiday
and was therefore playing his normal
game. 1t was quite good golf"
The fact that Jack Johnson had
reached the age of thirty-eight years
1fty-eight days when he risked his
title against Frank Moran in Paris
last Saturday has led to some interest
ing discussion regarding the ages at
which previous heavyweight cham
Pions lost their ring laurels. John 1;
when defeated by James j.. Corbett at
New Orleans in 1892. He held the
title for ten years, but Corbett was less
pionship but five years, being thirty
one years old when Bob Fitzsimmons
won at Carson City in 1897.
Fttzsimmons' tenure of champion
thirty-seven he was knocked out by
Jim Jefferies at Coney Island in 1893,
after holding the title for two years
and three months. Jefferfes who met
Reno July 4, 1910, was ~thirty-fve years
old when the negro wrested the ring
honors from him. He held the cham
pionship for eleven years. g