San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-16
Figures Show They Have
Tremendous Advantage
in Last Stretch.
RACE SIX WEEKS YET
Giants and Yankees Could
Use 80 Victories to
Make Ii Safe.
BY JOHN Il. FOSTER.

Copyright by Tho San Antonio Light.
New York, Aug. 16.-With the fin
ish of the major league season just
six weeks away, the two front run
ners, the New York clubs. appear to
have a big advantage over the other
clubs to retain positions right down
TO the finish. II the Giants win IS
more games and the Yankees 30, which
would simply be maintaining the ra-
ito ut which they have been playing
to date, they are virtually certain tC
be winners.
Here is the simplest way to figure
O nthe chances of the two New York
teams: Take it on the morning of
August Is, because that is as good as
any other day.
The Giants had ~ victories and IS
defeats. To continue winning at the
same ratio, which is not an impossi-
Bile one, they must finish the season
with 2S more victories. That would
give them an exactly e"en 100 games
won and 81 games lost, with a per-
centage of .664.
That isn't very far away from the
percentage train on which they are
travelling now. From now until the
finish of the season, by winning %
games and losing 16, they are as
reasonably sure of the championship
as the sun is of shining. They may
have an awful break and drop ten or
eleven games in row, but it does not
look that way. That, too. is the only
way in which they cam be beaten.
Yanks About the Same.
Pass on. next to the Yankees. Take
them ut the same date as the Giants.
They had 20 victories and 36 defeats,
That gives them As games to play. II
they win 80 and lose 16 they will
baseball they have played all season.
That will give them 102 victories and
80 defeats. Not far from the total
of the Giants.
As both teams have played to some
extent :dentically alike in their re.
spcctive races. the Giants having .
trfe the harder fight. il would >e
logical TO expect them to finish with
the Sanks perhaps q little better off
than their National neighbors.
The foregoing is absolutely perfect
index to the finish of the champion
ship. barring the collapse of either
New York team or both and. of course,
you cannot demonstrate a collapse by
figures until the collapse takes place.
Furthermore, both leaders seem to
have gone by the stage of collapse.
Reds Hopes About Gone.
There was time when Cincinnati
threatened the Giants prospects.
While New York stood still. the Reds
came on with rush. gaining nearly
100 points. Since the Giants went
out to Cincinnati and spanked the
Reds. the parlor lamp has gone out
for Ohio.
1t was suggested when the season
began chat 9j games would win the
championship of 1923. That estimate
was made on closer race than has
actually taken place.
II is within the possibility of both
the New York teams TO WIN 100 games
each. The Yanks. going as they were
few weeks ago. could have won more
than leo games with ease.
Already the impression is abroad
that the two New York teams will
win again and it will be very hard
10 keen players in other clubs Mt their
knitting with the prospect that it will
avail them nothing. This will be espe-
cially true Of teams in the second di-
vision.