Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-20
HAVE EDGE
IN LAST HALF Of
SEASON SCHEDULE
Yank Manager Talks of Posi-.
bilitieS of the Years
Finish.
By GEORGE CHADWICK
Special Correspondent Of Tho Great Fails Tribune.

at nome nau q SdlutaT! effect on n
baseball team that was trying to win
the championship.
If it is a close race. yes" was the
reply.
Why"
PLAYERS eat home food. sleep on home
| beds and can get away from the fans.
| On the road they eat what they find
| before them. sleep at least half of the
| time in Pullmans and don't know where
to go to get away from the fans unless
| they lock themselves in their rooms.
and they are not safe there.
DO YOU ralize that the lanks will
, finish on their own %sround?,
Yes, that's why | am talking this
way
''The Giants finish at home. What
do Sou figure they'll do in the National
league"
Win the pennant. probably: but
that's as far as I'm going. l haven't
got anything to say about the other
league.
''If we win we'll play 'em. whoever
they may be. and | think we'll come out
on top. We've got the pitchers this
year"
SO much for that. The general i'm
preston is that the Giants ave all the
best of it. The National league clubs
outside of New York and ST. Louis
seem about through. Never very much
class at the best. They are worse
than they nave been at any time this
year and are ~deteriorating instead of
improving. Jack Dunn. of the Inter
national league, says he would finish
one, two or three in the National league
with his Baltimore team and Jack
Hendricks of the Indianapolis club,
now leading the American association.
which team has some old New York
Nationals on it. has told his friends out
in the midwest that he wouldn't Eesi-
tate to take a jump into the National
league right now if they would tell
him he could saunter through the ropes.
I'D put crimps in the eastern half
at Boston and Philadelphia he said.
land take my chances with Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati and Chicago unless you
look the National league schedule over
you don't ralize how fortune favored
the Giants. The marking of schedules
i until they are hoarse AID their vocal
| cords are strained when schedules are
given out and % times OFT If 4 hun
dred they could not have lone as well
themselves"
Remember first of I'll. that the sea
| son is now more thar half over and
then analytic what cOnfronts The Gil-
| ants for the final. 1t is absolutely es-
sential that you take the Giants into
consideration even If you happen to be
a little preiudiced against them and
think New York IS given much attention
because they are the champions ard
therefore the team to be defeated.
Certainly it does not matter a wiloop
,-Int ro,, xh;~I, ~f nactn, lr Ihtto
| delphia because all they can get is
a low place unless the mir icle man
gives the remainder of the league sleep
ing powders and picks some team to
show favOritism.
The New York club is now On its
second western trip. 1t may get a
setback here and there but to date it is
going the other way. When it is fin
ished with this trip it is coming right
back to the polo grounds and play the
western clubs again and then it viii
paddle back to the west for the last
time this season.
That will leave September in the
east, and look at the program before
the Giants. They have five games
with two soft teams in the east. If
five games are needed to win the
| championship and only five, those may
w bN w hlIA'E ihht Ii 'ltAi ~
take into camp for their own Then
they have three games on the polo
grounds with the stumbling Pittsburghs
who are right where every club goes
when it loses its manager. They have
three contests with Cincinnati then.
|, The Reds will not be hard TO beat on
the polo grounds if the Giants are
headed for the pennant because the
New York club will outgame them.
They have three with the Cubs and on
that round of the big cities the Cubs,
will be playing ball which might do
for the American association. but is
not likely to go far against the pen
nant aspirants of the National league.
which will be desperately fought if
there is any occasion for it. BY that
time the Giants may be so well off
that every morning the Cards will look
out of their windows and murmur q
prayer to Lady Luck.
All this time the New York club Is
planted on its own little polo grounds
where it seems impossible for any club
to make Roadway against it this year.
THE schedule" said one of the Ma
tional league owners, was made to
order for New York and the Giants
did not know It."
While the Glants are at nome all
this time, the Yanks will be travelling.
They are not the best road club in
the world. They must have a lead to
start into the country Of the enemy
with any confidence and yet their
pitchers may carry them through when
they are off their own grounds.
However, there is no such chance
for analysis Of the race in the Ameri-
can league as there is in the National.
The American sweepstakes is too
close. There are opportunities in 1t
for four clubs. as the race stands.
IF the limit were stretched to six,
it would not be out Of the way. Sup
pose the Boston American league
comes through with a lot of good
pitching. Give them ten victories in
succession to encourage the players
and see what would happen. Chicago
and Detroit have walked up and down
the ladder and threatened first place
several times and all of the leading
clubs have shown a distinctively char
acteristic punch Mt one time or another.
TIGERS BEAT COUGARS
After holding the North Side Tigers
~~o-ola.u fnr civ full INNINGS and how