Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12
YANKEES, PIRATES
ARE RUNNERS-UP
Associated Press Poll Shows
Wide Variance for BerthS
Under Second Place.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

N YEW YORK, April 12.-To
M support the theory that
everybody loves a winner,
A the base ball experts have
given the Chicago Cubs as big a
vote of confidence in the forth
coming National League race as
they did the Athletics in the
American League scramble.
The results of the fourth annual As
ISOLATED Press consensus, compiled today
from the opinions of more than three
score major league base ball writer's
and sports editors, show an overWhelm-
ing majority satisfied to string along
with the 1929 pennant winners.
The AS have 1t by only slight mar
gin. Whereas go out of IS named the
Mackmen to win again, 81 out of Sc
have gone on record as favoring the
Cubs to repeat.
In the American League, the remain
ing five votes for first place went to the
Yankees. In the National, the Pitts
burgh Pirates have nine votes for f1rst
place (all cast before Grimes was
traded while st. Louis gets two and
the New York Giants one.
On the basis of the general balloting,
the experts look for a much tighter race
in the National League, with at least two
formidable dark horses" representing
Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
1t took a pennant victory by the Cubs
last year to finally make them favorites.
Joe McCarthys men were picked fifth
in 1927 and finished fourth, selected
for third position in 1928 and finished
third. Named as runners-up to the
Giants last year in a very close finish,
the Bruins completely upset the dope
KiF10
Giants skidded down to third.
Order Of Finish.
This is how the Associated Press con-
sensus predicts each leagues order Of
finish:
Chicago, Pittsburgh, New
York, st. Louis, Philadelphia, Brook
Ign, Cincinnati and Boston.
American-Philadelp New York,
Cleveland, Detroit, st. Louis, Chi
cago, Washington and Boston.
The Chicago Cubs, with the hitting
and pitching they possess, appear to
dominate their league, in spite of in
field accidents and uncertainties as to
the condition of Bell and Hornsby.
Meanwhile. the chances of the club
picked to give them the toughest fight
PittSburgh-seem to have been hit by
the realise of Burleigh Grimes to Bos-
ton.
Seldom have the experts been more
at variance in picking the probable fin
ish of the other clubs. New York and
st. Louis are picked anywhere from
first to seventh. Brooklyn from second
to eighth. Philadelphia and Cincinnati
each from third to eighth in votes COM
piled by the Associated Press. In other
words, the feeling is that with so much
general improvement and so many Ifs"
connected with club prospects. almost
anything can happen when the actual
fighting begins.
This seems especially true of clubs
with such potentialities as Brooklyn and
Philadelphia. New York and St Louis,
on the other hand, do not appear so
strong as in previous campaigns. Gin
cinnati is distinctly dark horse" ca
pable of upsetting lot of dope. but
Boston, even with the addition of
Grimes, still is in the experimental
stage.
American League Figures.
The American League pennant con-
sensus for 1880. compiled by the Asso-
ciated Press and indicating how the
opinions of the IS contributing experts
are distributed: