The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-06
CHANGES OF BIG LEAGUE OUTFITS
 AS SEASON AGES
By GEORGE CHADWICK
epssisl CorrsspoAdent of The Age Herald (Copyrixht, 1s29, by The AEe-Herald)

Bpssisl correspondent of The Ags-hsssaio
 fCopyriEht, 1e29, by The Age-Herald)
 New York, August 5.-Percentages arc . pretty reliable oracle of base ball, and the major league races are now reaching a point where the per centages of games won" are getting ready to dispense real information. For the moment. percentage Is drift inx away from the Giants. It would have drifted still further away if the Cardinals had taken advantage of their opportunities.
 The Giants have had their chance. In fact, they not only have had it, but for a time they seemed likely to hold 1t, and the stage was beginning to be set for another triumph of the glitter of gold over sport for sports sake. Recently. however, these Giants have shown signs of senility. The numbering Toney has been eased out Douglas has complained of pain in his biceps, MeusePs arm rrows less supple as the days pass by, Groh Is hors dknee, after a long joust with nature. and there are others who have to be massaged, rubbed coddled and nursed to bring them through.
 Giants Advantage
 Where the New York team shows to possible advantage Is not in ac- tuh work on the field, but in the work it will have to do on the field for the remainder of the season. The Giants are more than half through with the western teams for the year, and If they can hold the westerners to something like an even break in the games which must be played. they may be able to pull through by winning a great majority of the 24 games which are scheduled with the weaker teams of the eastern sec ton.
 To date the Giants have won from the western teams a trifle more games than they have lost, but it is such a trifle that to all intents it may be considered an even break. Against the eastern teams, the Giants have done far better. Their percent age of victories over the remainder of the east is .6e2. That Is better than standard championship baseball by 25 points. If they can continue to play at that speed against their eastern rivals and can break about even when they play the west, their per- centagc at the end of the season will be 500.
 If 600 Wins
 If anyone can figure that 500 will win the championship in the National league, then it Is possible to figure that New York will repeat.
 New York won in 1921 with .614 and that was not considered much of . showing for . championship or ganixation.
 Brookiyn has won four of the thirteSn games 1t has played against New York this year. Nine more are to be played and If Brooklyn re-es- tabl1shss itself against New York. the Giants will have sorry time of it somewhere in the future. always fig ur1ng. of course, that St. Louis con tinues As it is going.
 ..' Cards Chances
 Using exactly the same method to figure tho chances of the St Louis Nationals as in the case of the OiAnts. the Cardinals will have at the end of the season a percentage of .e14, the figure at which New York finished the season in 1921. CoIn- pared with the figures of the Giants --see-the percentage oracle indi- cates plainly which team will win the pennant. Of course, this predic- ton of the percentage figures is based on the assumption that each team will continue to play the same kind of ball the remainder of the year As 1t has heretofore this sea- son. If the Giants can do no better than they are doing they cannot win the peanant, unless the Cardinals spratn their brains
 About the Yankees
 In the American league. by using the same system of comparative per centages, it Is found in the case of the New York American league| club that against the western teams the Yankees have been winning at some thing like .520; while they have beaten the eastern teams at a .620 rate. If that sort of ball is main tained Go the end of the year. the best to be hoped for in the Yankee percentage column is in the neighbor- hood of .670. It does not appear that such q standard of play is likely to win any bunting.
 St. Louis. in the American league, is not much better. It has travelled at .B77 clip against the east. In the west 1t has done much better than its bitter rival, approximating an even 600. The total Is 8 little less than 500, but conjointly the rating of the sections would give St. Louis . chance at .580 against .570 for the Yankees and that would win the pen nant for St Louis for the first time in history. If the same sort of an- alysfs be applied to the White 6ox, Chicago would run about .500 at the finish and that shows how difficult 1t will be for dark horse to get through the race unless both St. Louis and New York take decided GIsAo