Show J Big League Campaigns I In Wide Open Scramble Rise of Dark Horses Horse 1 Causes Confusion in Flag Race By ALAN GOULD Associated Tresi Sports Editor ei NEW W YORK May 7 Not 7 Not in many M lean have the thc two major league e championships resembled old old-fash dog doff fights so much as L they e 4 40 thIs spring Yei It Jt Is of course quite true that two es If I the prime favorites the Cleveland rit Indians IndanS and New York Giants have been been doing very well when it Is conr con ir r i that both clubs dub have patched ath up their infields ec Both have shown U the pi pitching hing class 1 B BI c expected of ot them and exhibited pow I ml be when tf cr r. r The Indians may stronger Billy BlUr Knickerbocker returns to acl ac de l and the Giants will be better off oft defensively with Hughey Critz back er 1 b at tt second base basc eci They will need to be be Already the aI horses dark in both leagues led by bythe bythe byu M u if ifa the Chicago White Sox In the American Ameri a can the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Cin Cm Beds Reds in the National have havee ft e t upset several barrels of ot dope Strong Strone Cz The White Sox on top Tuesday may nay be too good to last but there I li Li 11 no fluke in their jump from the 1934 4 cellar to such dizzy heights j Johnny the freshman pi right tight bander hander who has scored four victories in a row and his former I Dallas pitching mate male Joe oe Vance have filled two of the clubs club's pitching gaps n The rhe Sox I lead d In Sn the league In fielding as well as batting battin with a poInt 10 margin marln over the Athletics Athletic and a 20 lead over the club club- id Hayes Bonura Dykes Appling Washington and the veteran Al Simmons Sim mons all aU are hitting over for lor a J team that was once famous as the I wonders Both championship clubs Detroit's u Tigers ligers and the St. St Louis Cardinals in have bave st started rt d slowly but they will be bej j ft tougher to beat as the thc season devel ops The already have snapped mapped out of their slump though Schoolboy Rowe has yet to show a return to his sensational 1934 form a The Cardinals have hac missed Man Man- I iger r Frankie Frankle Frisch and Pepper Martin Mar Mar- 4 tin both casualties but the Deans 2 are coming along now aided b by Bill BiU w Walker to furnish the kind of pitch pitch- d di Ing the club dub needs Meanwhile the thea them a m spring hero Terry Moore has yielded I 1 ll it the center field post to Ernie D uJ l in the lineup of the world champions The rookie surprise of the National league is 3 Elijah Darrell Cy Blanton ef bI ball screw right hander of the Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- ro burgh Pirates h hk Blanton has taken the pitching spotlight spotlight spot spot- light from Dizzy Dean with his exploits ex cx- l so far which include a one hit shutout of the Cardinals and a 3 2 E decision over the great Dean New Strikeout King Kinc c C Cy has registered four straight and It fanned 30 opposing b batsmen in the I pro process pross s to become the new strikeout t king at least for the lime time being National Na Na- leaguers say ay Blanton's Blantons screwball screw screw- u ball is equally as baffling as Carl Hubbells rL AU All told Blanton has had a hand In five of the nine gam games gamon won on by the ri Pirates who will need to g get t more consistent pitching otherwise to menace meni men men- ace c the leaders i I |