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Show Eastern Clubs Walk Off With Pennants in Majors Not Since 1910 Has Western Nine Won Flag; Supremacy Is Difficult of Explanation; 1916 Adds Two More to List. By International Xews Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Who will explain ex-plain the peculiar yes, amazing fact that not since 1910 has a western club , won a pennant In the majors? Seven seasons ago the Cubs hurtled J through the National and landed at the j top. Their accomplishment ended the ! triumphs of the west. Five races have been fought and finnshed in each league : since then. And the ten flags flutter in the east. For 1916 two more banners of victory will be hoisted to the top of the eastern flagpoles. In the National the battling has aim- mered down to a stretch struggle between be-tween tho Dodgers and the Phillies. Both are easterners. The western clubs have been outclassed from the start. The fight in the American Is practically finished. The Red Sox nre the choice. How can one account for the phenomena phe-nomena of continued eastern supremacy? Some will say that the eastern chihn always al-ways have had better talent. But that is not so. Ot hers will offer the guess that it is because the eastern clubs are richer, and ran buy needed stars in critical moments. mo-ments. But that hardly can he the answer, an-swer, because the misfit Braves of 1914 and the patehed-up Phillies of 1915 romped In ahead. TKe ttiants won the flags of 1911. 1912 and Iftlo with a club that, on paper, did not show superior to the lit 11 Cubs or the 1912 CuIih and Pirates. Yet they won. The 1H14 Cardinals looked awfully good and they fought a game battle. Rut near the end they faltered and succumbed suc-cumbed under the spell of the east. The Ifil 1 Tiger erew was a wonder team, but It couldn't head the Athletics. In 1SH2 the best the west could do was a fourth with Chicago. Tho 1U3 Indians In-dians were real ball players. It was a great team. But it couldn't win. Was there ever a better team on paper than the 101.") or 1016 White Sox? In each Pea-son Pea-son It looked like the class like a certainty. cer-tainty. Yet Its pennant dreams never came true. The 101.") Tigers flashed tho " greatest offensive work In baseball's history his-tory and an easlern club won, coming across tlie line an easy winner. Two tables follow. One covers the finish fin-ish of each National league club sineo 1011 and the other embraces t be Amerl -can league finishes. The figures show-that show-that the west not only has failed to land a single winner in five yea'rs, but its entries en-tries have slipped into second place only three times In ten. NATIONAL LEAGUE FINISHES. (Not Including 1016.) 1911. 1912. 1913. 1014. miS. New York 1 1 1. 2 8 Boston 8 S S 1 2 Philadelphia ... 4 5 2 6 1 Brooklvn 7 7 fi 5 -t Chicago 2 H :i 4 4 St. Louis 5 fi S :i Pittsburg 3 2 4 7 R Cincinnati .... 6 4 7 8 7 Pennants won Fast. 5: west, 0. Second place East, 1: west, 1. Third place Fast, 2; west, 3. Fourth pdaee Fast, 2: west, 3. First-division totals Fast. 13; went. 7. AMERICAN LEA OUR FINIPHFS. 1911. 1012. 1913. 1914. lOiri. Philadelphia ... 1 2 1 1 S Boston 5 1 4 2 1 Washington ... 7 3 2 3 4 New York fi 8 7 fi Chicago 4 4 5 7 .'I T 'droit 2 fi 1 4 3 Cleveland 3 3 8 7 St. Ixjuis 8 7 8 5 6 Pennants won Rant, 5; west, n. Second place East. 3; west, 2. Third plaec Fast, 2: west. 3. Fourth place. East, 2; west, 3. First-division totals East, 12; west., 8. SUMMARY FOR FIVE YEARS, BOTH LEAG FES. (1911 to 1915, Inclusive.) Pennants won Easr, 10; west, 0. Second place East. 7; west, 3. Third place East, 4; west, 6. Fourth place Runt, 4: west, G. First-division totals Rant, 2?; west, 16. Delving Into the musty sheets of history, his-tory, fine finds that the eastern chins, since the Inception of both leagues, have gathered the major portion of t lie first-i first-i pl.i'e glorv. Of the forty National Iohkua ! battle." f.inee 1S7fi. the eastern clubs havo I won t went y-ft ve. against fifteen for th j westerners. In the Amerlenn circuit tho eneiei ner-j have taken unto themselveu I ten nf the slxteon Konfalon. That makes (thirty-five victories out of fifty-six for the east, or a gnmd percental of .025 for the e:i!:t against .37f) for the west. Tlie mimes of (be penna nt - winning clubs and the year they won follow: NATIONAL LEAGUE WINNERS. Ro.-'1on (nine pennant s) 1 S77, 1878, 1:. W1. 193. JS97, 1 S'..S. 1M4. New York (seven) 1SSS. Ri, 1904, 1905, 1911. "1912. 1913. i;rn.,Hh (three) 1890. JS99. JOnn. I Baltimore Ohree)- JK94, lG. 1S9G. I'l-ovldenee ( wo ) - 1 79. 1 SS4. Phlhtd'-lwiin (one 10ir.. Total for tli'- east. 2.'.. rhh'.'-fo -icn i y.'f. 10. 1881, 1882, i IV.-, vw U-in:. '"'. I9ns, 1910. ) FitiO.,irg (four) 19fll, )9t'2, 1003, 1909. Ik-m-oK (one.- 1887. j Total for the west, 15. I AMEP.K'AN LEAOl R WINNERS, j T'hllndeiphia (sixj lOnj, 190S, 19JU, 1911, 1913. 191 I. I Boston (four) 1903, ion I. 1015. J Tolai for east. Ri. cine (thn .- 19i.o, umi, J9K. I I"-t";1 Hi I"-)-. I")?, 19iiS. 9 "9. I Toial fnr we-M. il. And in foii'-hii-ion we reiterate why th j eastern superiority? |