| Show Yankees Picked to Win American Flag I Reds Have Slight Lead Leadin Leadin in National Loop Base Baseball ball Race BV fly l Gr ot CHAI I lal Correspondent Corre lon l on of or The Th ll CopyrIght 1929 nu By uy ThU Consoli Consolidated I dat dated d Press Association YORK July 3 0 Ode 3 3 Oi e ot of the heritages of baseball that will not down has liaC ha to ta do with the old saw that run runs Le Lend Lead d the tho on the Fourth of Or July and win the championship This Thin bewhiskered od old has been tottering along alone the lh days when tho the grand dat daya of o the tho kId kids I who now play baseball were spectators of or th the contests In which the tho heroes hros of the An- An Ansonia An sonia period did theIr heir stuff fluff Th The yankees load lead tho the American fea league ue on the tha Fourth or of o July If IC the old oid saying holds truo the Yanks will sill If I win wIS the p pennant In the th sodden oddon days dAYI ot of September Tho They haio a better lead than many a learn has hU boasted ot oE on July 4 The Cincinnati tI Reds Hedl afo coming Into the offing in the he National Iague lh i tn a lt lead d that Is smaller than than th the Yankees by se se-cial mole mole- molecules cules The Rods fedS I lead a ni- ni alm al almost m most s be called a lead b but t the they lire are entitled to the Iho h hOnor nor ot of o being seriously as al a posSIble pleas Tile Trie p percentage of hopfl 11 lit to or Of the tM Yanks as 06 as asI asa I a against tho the Fourth of July per per- pere percentage e ot of the tho Reds neds s 's s about eight to On One But Dut neither mar finish on top tOV Old Fourth Furth of JulY may bo be elM dent clear out oue of f his prophetic beat nil tills year Tear ea It th the ho Yankees can tan be slammed for tor a consecutive series erles nt nf f t games I Inot not fewer than five thy thoy will come comb back Into the tho ehid with I such rapidity that the they they will b only n a n fighting element as u against i a leading element NO XO o GI CIlA CHA G I I The Yanks have ha been beti dropping for 01 sonic some time They seem to be b I winning and ond the number of games gamos won and lost has no changed chan much but they 1 tire are reach reaching ing that stage lit Iri a race i wherE defeats mean a terrific shrinking In percentage ge Irk Irk- vic victories tories m mean afi only a few slender I poInts The rho only 0 way to defeat Yankees i Is for at toast least throe clubs to to lead a combined attack That I hasn't developed cd to date although that Isn't saying It cant can't dt elov SomethIng mil may map happen to the he New NewYork NewYork NewYork York team to cause first one cog then two cogs and then a thIrd Ila to yield under the strain of M grind grind- grinding ing ins the grist grist and and then thell the lead lead- It leaders ad ers era may find that a crippled wheel can wreck wre lc all the thC machinery The fhe great attack pOs e 1 b by bythe tIme the Yanks has hu h held 1 them In the thevan thevan vat van It JC the attack stop when the errors errora collect ihl team may ay have havo to o WI Wield ld tho the most mos val val- valIant val valiant lant Stick It ever tried to wIN wield 1 to win another r American league Its lIa Il greatest gooI fortune has hall been beto that tho the team which It finds so ISO hard liard to defeat the Ath- Ath Ath Athletics Idles has found It to do- do de defeat teat feat other teams If the tho Athletics had run as wild gild lid n against Washington Washing ton as u the they hal hate hale e against St Louis the Yanks might not I tip to In the lead on thO Ih glorious Fourth In the National I league the thel l Fourth tradition Isn't worth much moro morl than th the copper dUAl l whIch rites flies off a 0 penny when whelm rubbed sith flannel The Reds Cede RIO are just lust about the Pirates were ere last season rl- rl ill though they hey have been tip lip longer than Pittsburg was WIlS up It was on oh the week-end week of July 4 that first reached tine the top In iii Inthe the National league ue first week end of ot proud fo this year was wu on May 15 SIJ SLit l It C Last year rg dro dropped ped from first place the he first v neck eek In August and many fans fl said ld It was the tho old sl story ry of tho the Pirates get lIet getting get getting ting something they Couldn't Mn handle le But they came back Fred Freel Clarke was with them aid an he ho bad bada hada a lot Jot to Jo do lo with bringing them back This year they haven't ha got up And If It they dont don't fling their tootsies tootles with more abandon In the baseball Charleston they are go going ing to be ba another one ono of ot those thos teams which find the talk task of or wIn wIn- wInI winning win nine I ning one on pennant about all they can can endure forI for tor n I few tew years This Fourth of ot July there hero Is a amore amore amore more dangerous dark horse snort snort- snortIng snorting ing lug In the National league 1 stables It goes Koell Koe und under r the tho nam namo of ot St Louis Cardinals an and It Is full of like all famous black chargers ars ers era Managers who have been through the baseball mill would prefer to be where the tho St Louis club it sits than on the Cincinnati because they sissy always figure the waiting team as a little better chance than the throne team The Tho pl ers on the leading team team are aro nervous and play pIny under a strain A team In the lead lend must luve have lots lotsof lotsof lotsof of reserve and somehow the team which Is 18 on it Its heels always seem to be bubbling over with reserve no 00 |
