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Show I BASEBALL FORECAST What May Happen If Both McGraw and Chance Hold Pennants (By Monte) New York, Jan. IS. Before many jesrs have passed, i)Osill only two "or three, there Is likely to be presented pre-sented a condition unique to baseball, with New York defending the citadel against the attack of the rest of the country. It Is reasonable to assume that IfcGraw will keep the Giants either at or near the top for every season In the future, for a decade or thereabouts, judging from his past performances, resources and material now at hand. The Yankees, also,; can be expected to reach the top class within a brief number of seasons sea-sons with Frank Chance at the helm for, be it repeated a winning man-i ager is a wlnnlnc manager, and al- -lowed the time, he Is bound to win in the end It Is far from unlikely that, say five years hence, grantinc that both McGraw and Chance stick to their ! present posts, the penants of both 'big leagues will try In Manhattan for la number of consecutive seasons, maybe two or three, without a team from any other city cutting In. Should I such a condition arise, what would be the effect on big league baseball , as a whole'" Would New York be-I be-I come so used to pennants that there would ceaso to be a flurry of excitement ex-citement over them and the natron-j natron-j age In the present gold nunc clt drop off to nothing'' And would the repeated re-peated discouragements In second division cities kill the game there" i A certain ring of far-seeing though they might be called dreaming, baseball base-ball men in this cttv have been nsk-ing nsk-ing these questions the laxt few days. Greatest Baseball War The time of the greatest baseball war in history, between the old American Amer-ican association and the National league In the earlv nineties, is re-called. re-called. Each wns an debt club organization. or-ganization. The baseball public of those days had to support eight scc-cnd-dl Islon c'ul s altogether, and then, as now. second -dlvlsioning was as much a habit as first dlvislonlng and pennant winning. A few years iof second division teams In the name 'IIk.s caused loss of Interest there that wns greater than the K.iin in Interest In-terest in the successful places -con-sequenth both leagues faced the peril of having to co to the wall The American association, known as the : Flayers league, broke first and w as forced to compromise, and the two Circuits Joined hands In a twclve- club league. Again came the trou- I ble of too man habitual second di-vlsloner.-', and the league was cut to i its present size What Will the Future Hold? Docs the old time disaster spell anything as paralleled to the present I condition. In eent that Chance and I McGraw should keep up their past rate of success" Some oi the afore-tnentlnned afore-tnentlnned "thinkers" believe so It will not create a larger numbor of tallenders, but it is likely to lend the same element of monotony to the ensemble after Chance sets Into his swing and begins to win the flag he has promised to Frank Farrell, his boss. There Is another and brighter side to this long range prognosticating The fact that New York Is a common point of att3ck in both leagues may add additional dramatic and romantic Interest to the pennant fights, with all the country concentrating against the one stronghold. And who will I venture that Jake Statal, Clarke Griffith, Grif-fith, Hughcv Jennings, or Connie Mack may not make Chances life a1 -ragged one, or that Fred Clarke. Joe, .Tinker, Johnny Evers or George Stal- 1iiil. may not do likewise to McGraw, not to mention Stovell, Callahan. Birmingham, Dooln, Mugpln3 and iDahlen? Optimism seems the side of wisdom. Two Remarkable Pairs. The sinning of Chance by the Yan- j kees and lircsnahan by the Culs bring the birth of two of the most remark - I able pairs in the game's annals. With Hal ( hasp still the best flrt baseman base-man of them .ill und mauling that Chance should come back to his old I capability, the two greatest first I sackerg In the game would bo to- i gelher on the same team Hresnahan and Archer of the Qubl 'rank Just aR high In their work behind be-hind the bat. To be sure there are a numbor of other first rate players on both team, but that does not .keep them from being the most un- balanced nlno6 In the world. The j Cub catching staff outclasses all Oth- I er departments of the team, and the Yankee first base tenders make the guardians of all other positions ap- , pear pygmies by comparison. There Are Others. But these are not the only great pairs moulded during the winter. 1 There is more than tfi likelihood of 1 the rejoining of Johnny KUng and . Mordlecal Brown as a battery, per-forming per-forming for the C incinnati Reds Likewise there 'B a breaking up of j famous old coupler Tinker and Brers, Br-ers, always bitter personal enemies, but a great pair of co-workers on the field, will he together no longer Bionahnn and Slim Harry Sallee, a batter) tnrtl threatened to become as famous as any. if they continued in eompanj and Bailee staved on the water wagon, Is no more College Nines Go South The decision of the 1'nlvcrslty of Pennsylvania athletic management to follow the example of a number of other big college nines and take a trip to the south during the Faster vacation this spring Instead of spending spend-ing the time at Atlantic Cltv as heretofore, here-tofore, seems to Indicate that the policy pol-icy is in line for adoption bv every major college In the country The University of Michigan team was one of the flrsi lo do this, and Yale was one of the first Imitating There is no reason why college baseball play crs should not benefit by a trip to warmer climates the same as leaguers. And the problem of expenses ex-penses is practically out of consideration, consider-ation, for there are games awaiting for the northern eollegeians in the south, both with the college teams of the section and with leaguers training train-ing there, that would net more in gate receipts than Is needed for the entire outlay for such a trip. In a few vears f Continued on Page Five.) (Contnued From Page Two.) this may be a stereoptyped animal feature. Just as are the trips that come later on for the games that decide de-cide the championships of the various vari-ous sections. |