| Show YES GIANTS CAN STILL WIN FLAG THEORETICALLY By ill If William Hillman er nl Service Staff Correspondent New York Aug u 21 The I.-The Tho pennant chances of the New York Giants have reached a sta stage o of or speculative mathematics mathe matics which is to say tho the Giants can still win win win-on on paper Out in Cincinnati It Is said that morbid morbid mor mor- bid fans la lay awake nights figuring out how soon soon tho the Reds can cinch the tho pen pen- nant siant The rhe race has not that stage of or tho game ame when whets the chances can bo be narrowed down to tho the question of or a t few fow games g Here Herc however are arc some Interesting statistics The Tho standing tonight between the Ilic two clubs is Cincinnati 8 31 I lost Giants 67 Gi Gion won on 9 39 lost loat Barring postponements Cincinnati to complete her schedule ha has twenty twenty- eight games more to IlIa play and tho Giants thirty Assuming t that at tho the Reds slump anti and win only DO 50 per cent of or their r. r remaining remain maln- maln ing log games the Giants In order o to beat out Cincinnati will wili h have hac t to win 7 75 peC per pe- percent C cent of or their games and anti th then n come out ahead b by one game amo only onh Or to win tho the Giants cannot afford to lose n nrc lre than eight games of or the remaining thirty four If tho Reds on the sr oth-sr hand win 75 per percent cent of or their games as It is reasonable rea to suppose the they will tho the Giants will have hao to take three thirty of their thirty four games tp win tho the pennant But of or course there Is always alwa's the possibility that tho Reds Hed will Viii taU full h be below below be- be low tho the 50 per cent mark PO Possibility mind you ou not probability J M If Cincinnati Cincin nati should win M-ln only 40 44 o per nCr cent of her games tho the Giants In order to win winwill winwill will lIll have havo to go so o a n little litto better bolter than 65 pc per cent And o go o on on ad nil Infinitum which is Js Latin for for- ridiculousness Mathematically the lie Giants can enn win Physically and actually they Cincinnati needs on only I to wn lil a B i more flora than titan half hate of or her remaining games to heat beat out the Giants at t their their- present gait And tho those e who count en n fl the Reds taking laking a cL tumble at t this thin of ot tho the game arc are arc well ls ulde The Tue Rods have just completed a road record Unequaled b by an any other National Na NfL- iL- iL league club chab this thi year Having torn toni four our out of si six from the Giants three out of four tour front from tho Robins exterminating cx- cx terminating the tho Braves t they are now on QI their Va sva way to flatten out tho tIle Phil lies Ring and biller and SaUce Sallee and nC thor ther have Im never III been I 1 bel better tel shape than thaI they are arc at pr present The rue team I Is fighting like an a aggregation rc- rc gation of ot comins from behind i m LU each gao game after being at the he tart start 0 5 I Yeti eR the Giants can VIM ill Mathematically a speaking 0 S I |
