The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-25
YANKEES AND GIANTS ARE IA WING TROUBLE
 AS SEASON ADVANCES

less 1t can win on it's own field with something better than TOO.
 The most interesting thing in the record of the week just finished Is the similarity of the work of the New York hines. It is not so much the manner in which they handle themselves against individual teams, but 1t Is the extreme uncertainty they have in being consistent.
 For example. the Tanks began as If they would tear the western cir- cult apart and acquire such lead on the trip from home that the other American league teams wouldn't care much if the board of directors called off the race on the Fourth of July. Then someobdy left the ash pan open and the fire drop ped out from beneath the boiler.
 Tanks Fell Through
 It became as easy to defeat the Tanks as 1t had been for them to win and that Is what renders it out of the question to get an intelligent line on the kind of team they are. Emphasize the strong points and demonstrate the individual excel lence of the outfit as you will. ths fact remains that there Is a big blob of uncertainty about the nine which may tarnish it's gilt the very next time that 1t is called upon to face an important series.
 The Detroit baseball club won 10 games when 1t paraded through the east on it's first jaunt down the line. Three of these games wore won in New York, and when New York went to Detroit, the Tigers won four moro. It Is true that Detroit has foozled. and that 1t foozled quite a h0 nfa nS it has shown ability to climb from last place to third; with only slight retrogression on the first upward trend. 1t has given indication of possessing better punch than New York's, because the Tanks fattenei this year on Washington when ths Senators were disabled and not going well.
 It is also true that Washington played peter ball in the west than New York, but Washington was over-matched by both St. Louis ann Detroit. ana that is where the fight ing power of the league Is center ing for the moment. This first east ern invasion of the west proves 1t and establishes the fact that, If things keep going. as they are. the American league race Is likely to walk right down to the last fort night before 1t is decided. Never has a race in June given more evidence of a termination of that kind
 Tn the National league, the trip of the western clubs shines better by comparison in one respect. St Louis played better on the road than the Giants played, and it is predicted that the ultimate struggle of the National league race will be between New York and St. Louis. Pittsburg and Cincinnati flubbed. Both of them were so bad in the east that the advantage they had gaAAed on the home ground was more than offset by the trouncing they re- cefved on the other diamonds, un- less there is great turn for the better and both the Giants and St. Louis reverse what little form thew have shown to date.
 It has also been proved in many respects that the caliber of the teams fighting is not that of other days. The Giants, despite all the energetic effort made in their behaif are not such Giants as have won championships in the past They have their good days and they play their good games, but there Is vacillation In their effort which is foreign to the aggressive fighters of New York in the past who stormed their way into National league pen ants, because they could rise superior to their rivals and not for the req sons of the breaks of the games that came their way. They made their breaks.