Show AMERICAN PLAYING VINC FAST BALL Young League Is Credited With Showing More Speed I Than the National NEW YORK June iAn An evening paper tho the other day hay printed a piece on the comparative strength of the American Ameri I can and National leagues In which the opinion was advanced ad that this year ear the tho American Is playing the fa faster aster ter ball ban of the two While opinions opinions' will differ on the point there Is reason why the opinion ion expressed In ta favor vor or of of the American hit the nail on the he head me d d. d It is simply the r result of or a natural evolution simply nature ture as asserting Itself says MYEl the Sun ARone As AR one league gue finds UH its veterans slowing up It goes out and nd digs up imp younger ones A As A soon eoon a as experience makes the time younger players fit for their company compan their speed tell tells Tho The old mu must t give way ay to the young oung Alternating of or superior speed be between between he- he tween the two leagues league Is a condition likely likely like like- ly to continue an ns long as the two big leagues continue First one th n the theother theother theother other will have tho the edge d e on Its rival There Isn't any doubt that last year and two or 01 three irs ears prior to that the National league pla played ed faster ball than the American played with more vim and fou fought ht Its battles out harder This year yeara a change has hall come com over o the order of things Tho The American lea league ue Is playing faster and more determined hall hail than titan for several Ic years cars more up tip to date late and re resourceful re- re ball Not all of or the tho clubs are aro doing it It but more of them thorn than before and the whole league feels the effect The Tho young teams built up or being built bunt up bv by by- New York Philadelphia Boston and Chicago go are arc setting letting a fast last pace The Tho fact of one league or another winning winning win win- ning a A. worlds world's championship in iii a series of seven games ames Is no proof of oC the su superiority en- en P of the tho league represented by th tho winner though It Is 18 altogether probable t that at the thA cubs cub pirates and giants In the years eau they won the tho worlds world's series rles could have won the p In th the tue American league They had the speed and strength to do so so and In Inears ears when their lea league u as as a It whole was ph playing the tho faster ball balt The point however Is IH simply this In th the duo due course of or events th the tho American Ica league u O has s had to put pul aside veterans and recruit younger and faster men A few year ears back It was the turn of tho the National league to do so so and the result of or getting younger oun er and moro more ambitious ambitions players wa wu a R. speedier game me The Tho whirling of or time finds the American league supplanting vet veterans rans with youngsters on such a n bl big scale this year cRr and anda a consequent Increase In speed The Tho balance of speed between the tho t two 1 lea leagues es never neer is great eat but hut what there I It i is likely to continue to swing back and anti forth as players como coma and go o. o Both l leagues are fast enough but the tho several teams in the tho Am American l league ague have hit bit up their speed mo more over ll last t year than nn any National league ue team has baa done and while whitt- the wool the National league partisan partisan par ma may not admit that tho the Am American has teams playing faster ball he must con concede ede that those teams are playing faster astor than last year |