The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-17
YANKS BUMPED
OUT OF FIRST
RUNC IN RACE
Many Predicted Their Fall From
the Top Before Start of
Western Trip.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER.
(CoDvrigbt 1922. BY The Argus. }


New York, June 17.-Eumplng
day was celebrated in the Ameri-
can league on June 16 this year.
The Yanks we're bumped right out
of first place into second speed.
The little old wisemen who said it
was likely to happen when the
Yankees set sail for the west may
sit up and look around this morn
ing wearing a condescending smile
and a soft collar. They win
For the first time since the sea-
son began, the New York Ameri
cans are not at the top, and if the
western. clubs of the National
league were anything but what
they are they might too smile be-
cause they had their chance to put
the Giants out of first place. The
Yanks just managed to clear June
Is before they went overheard. In
no o.her year in baseball annals
have two clubs from the same city
carried on for so long time in
first. The Giants in the early
days Of the race were not first.
They were second at the first week
end. Then they went to first place
and have been there ever since.
The Yanks were first right at the
first and held it. to June 16.
The ST. Louis Browns have not
played the best Of baseball On the
other hand, they have been playing
with deadly earnestness, while the
Yanks have been playing with some
bad luck and some luck that was
place. They haven't been
batting when they needed it and
their pitchers have been none too
asseTtiye.
Detroit has been playing the best
baseball in the American league,
and. except the success of the New
York Giants. the best baseball in
both leagues. Again the Tigers
have proved that they are the dark
horse of the American league race
and thog are to be feared if their
pitchers ever take the bit in their
teeth.
The Giants defeated Pittsburgh
again and Brooklyn defeated St
Louis. The National league race
is going plumb to seed, and if they
don't stir up something to defeat
New York. the National affair will
be as humdrum by the middle of
July as a photograph concert in an
asylum for the deaf The Nationals
are in hard luck with only kite and
the rest all tail.
Two players of the St Louis Ma
tionals filled up on disappointment
powders during the winter and that
is one reason why the Cardinals
are not cutting the figure they
promised to their st. Louis friends. |
Clemens and Lavan are not bat
ing at anything like their speed of |
1921 and the st. Louis team isn't !
powerful enough TO get along with |
1ut all the batting it can get
There are other reasons that &C |
count for the non-success of the |
CARDINALS. The pitchers haven't !
net expectations. but somehow that !
seemed to be forecast in the spring !
raining and the boss of the club !
ant say that coming events did |
lot cast their shadows before"
When Pittsburgh let George Cut |
haw get away and Detroit took |
lin, and the National league did |
lot play its hand very cutely, for |
here are three clubs in the Ma |
ional league that could have used |
Seorge just as beneficially as De- |
roit is using him. The Detroits
ave fighting chance in the Amer
can league despite the uncertainty
f their pitching, and Cutshaw with
is steadiness at second and bat
ing average around 800 is doing
is part to help 1t.
St Louis would have been as
rell of with Cutshaw on the infield
D help out as it is with its present
utfit. He wouldn't have hurt Chi
ago's chances in the least nor
hose of Philadelphia, and after the
situation is studied a
title it doesn't look as IL IL would
ave hurt Pittsburgh 10 have chung
D him, at least another years