Show Western Ball Clubs Favored In Majors Giants Not Considered Money Cards to Have Strong Club ClubBy By ny GEORGE DWICK ChADWICK SI S Special lal Correspondent of Standard Standard- at d 1 i Copyright 1927 by Consolidated Press Association NEW T YORK Feb 26 26 1 4 baseball men inch men figure that the tho west s will lake take I both loth oth major league c In 1927 eighteen 1027 years y ears after alter such an event occurred th t h last time Not since 1909 have bave two esterl teams t eams won the Mic major league pen pen- pen pennants n arita and battled against each o ther In the world serIes aeries Out In the west they dont don't think t hu New York Giants have haye a a chance chanc to t o win sin the National league pen pen- penant pen pennant pennant n nant ant They look upon the recon recon- reconstructed reconstructed recon recon- s New ew York team as one of c crutch carriers and not standard bearers b The westerners also tea tea- rea reason s son on that because the eastern teams of o f the American league are so ostrong strong trong s the they will Ill batter each other othero to t o a pulp and lie Inert at the fin fin- fin finish i ish sh of the race while one of ot the western estern teams blooming with youth y and fortified with reserves will come home with the tho bread and and cheese I For or four tour consecutive years In auld lang l ang sync syne the west held supremacy In I n baseball and the east cast languished Fans In the W west t bragged about It and there was waa no reason why they should not The two Chicago teams won th major league pennants In 1906 the year after the Giants had created a great furore by winning the world series aeries the first to be played under the new Brush rules The winning team GIants thought they had a wInning team In 1906 1006 also but they nursed cripples all the season SMALL LJ li ATTENDANCE UA In 1907 1901 the tho Chicago Nationals National and Detroit won but Detroit tailed failed to steam up much Jor tor that world series It was waa as played to tattering scattering Detroit returns In 1908 Chicago and De- De De troit won again and for the second defeated time In succession the Cubs de- de de the Tigers Then burg entered Into the competition de de- de tea de-tea fea eating ting ling Chicago In In the National Detroit league lue and anil also winning from Do- Do De troit trait In the world series of ot 1909 1009 Since then the west west- has done done no nomore more winning of at both major league pennants Americans In I 1910 the tho Amer Amen leans hit the war var path again and 4 won In In the American league and Chicago won In the National league The Cubs were licked by the Ath- Ath Ath If tics No 0 other western National league team won a world series again un- un un til ill until Cincinnati tl plunged Into that drab mess mass In 1919 1019 that left the odor theodor d of a deceased herrIng herring on on the trail trall of ot the national game In the American Amerlean league the westerners do not count the Bos- Bos ton tor tor Bos-tor Red lied Sox In the race The Ath Ath- Ath Washington the Yankees and WashIng l ton are looked upon as three teams teanis which shoulder sho black blacksmiths blacksmith's ham mers Whenever hene one of them puts up its head one of the others will knock that head back hack to the floor Jn the process will III continue with regularity and monotonous monotonous- result It I la is predicted that one ono ot of the sprightly western estern estern teams maybe teams Chicago maybe Detroit or maybe St Louis will win There Is also alsoto to be cO considered Cleveland with its wealth Haith of pitchers It Is a very nry pretty little theory It can work out successfully but disappointing baseball theories arc are as often orten dis- dis dis appointing appointing- as us workable FOUR STRONG G TEAMS In the National league the west believes that Chicago CincInnati St Louis and Pittsburg have as good asgood a a chance to win as the Giants or h better The Boston and Brooklyn are counted out of It liS as being too weak In all und all strength The Giants are admitted to be the best hest In the east cast but the west doesn't worry about the GI- GI Gi Giants ants as It did Not even the trans fer Giants of ot Rogers Hornsby to the GI- GI Gi ants gets much of ot a II ballyhoo In the Inthe west If It you ask some Bome of the fans to give you ou their lowdown about the trade they answer that because St Louis got the better hetter of ot It be- be be cause they dont don't see Hornsby as a they did Ho He failed to make a as many runs In the last world as were made by Babe Bahe Ruth and he lost caste on account of ot It and some other tau faults Its The argument Is advanced that the western estern team teams of ot the National league are so well matched they may Mil kill each other off Olf gets a kick out west The Tire fans an- an back ack 01 that tour four good KOOS teams those In the league vc Uck lIek a a crIppled star Etar out out- out like New York and as for tor the of the league It cant can't as as squeak through |