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Show PICKS THE ATHLETICS AND THE GIANTS AS THE WINNERS i HOW MONTY SPECULATES UPON THE BIG LEAGUE FINISHES American National Philadelphia New York. : Washington Pittsburg. Bo6ton Philadelphia. : I ' New York Chicago : : Chicago Cincinnati ! j ; Cleveland Brooklyn St. Louis St. Loul Detroit Boston By Monty Nen York. April 5 Fans who Uk to see i lie scenery shift will get their ' fill in more ways than one In the pennant races that the National and American leagues embark upon next Thursday Not only will there be the careers of new managers to watch, but rhere will also be witnessed a goodly amount of shaking up in the fortunes of some of the teams, with a different arrangement of the club In the final standing when the scramble scram-ble for the flags comes to a close. The Athletics in the American league and the Giants in the National Nation-al those are the teams that will land on top according to the way things lrok 'from the northeast corner " It also looks to us as if the Senators will j beat out the Red Sox, champions of last year, for second place. This shoving of a first place club down to third place seems like a foolish guess , but it happened last yar. when the Athletics fell from the pinnacle to j the third berth The Athletics are j not computed to be any stronger thau , two years ago, hut to be just about the same power, the change being merely a recovery from the fearful slump of last year, which w as due largely to the fnilure of veterans to keep In condition. The whip lash of Connie Mack has ( driven them back to the scratch and ' the team should reappear this sea - I son with exactlv the same punch that was used in 1911 and 1910. which' punch was the most forceful gallop that has been seen in baseball for a decade at least The going of Briscoe Lord has been ; no loss to the Athletics, for two youngsters, Eddie Murphy and Pete Daley, will suppl) enough pepper and I youthful vigor to more than make up, for the loss of the veteran outfielder's outfield-er's steadiness. With Rube Oldrlng, captain Danny Murphy and Amo ( Btrunk as other outfielders, this department de-partment should not rank far below the r;ardoninc trio of the Red So. The hundred thousand dollar Infield -Stuff v Mclnnis. Fddie Collin .lack Barry and Frank Baker will far outclass out-class any other in the fiame. and the catching department should witness) rejuvenation with Ira Thomas in chape to do his best work In a ma i lority of 'be pi.nus Flank. Bender. Coombs, Pennock Houck and Brown' form a truly great pitching staff with Hi" first three named veterans hypnotizing hyp-notizing rival batw rs as of old Senators Lock Next Bsst. The Senators look next best to the Athletics, riding largely on the cock-sureness cock-sureness of Walter Johnson to win practically every important game he pitches. Cushion, Groom, Hughes and several youngsters are showing great , form in the box o)?o The infield1 is a top Qotcher with Laporte back i In form ami s-harlnu with Morgan the i work at second base, the crack Geo McBride, oing great gun- at short-J s'oi. Eddie Poster continuing to be ensational third and Gandil d ii-ering ii-ering in great chape at first, and the OUfield is admirable with Milan.. Shanks, Moeller and the sensational, young i tibane, Acosta and Calvo, to draw frcni. The R"d Sox won the pennant last , year, but to yourc truly they will fail1 lo how the ability to beat out the j Senators after the latter tcam'f I youngsters have an estra year pi seasoning, sea-soning, which the hae now With the possible exception of young Har-1 old Janvrin at flrct base instead of Manager lake Stahl. the Bostonian?j will be the same as the champions i of 1912, and It looks from here as if I thej will have to fight hard to Btave ; off the threatened ruh of Frank! I Change's New York;- The latter havo ' shown much more than ordinary form In Bermjda, and with their individual i Improvement under Chance's coaching 'added vo the asset of his dire tint I genius to fight, they should squeeze Into the first division Hard to Pick Toil Enders It Is hard to pick a tall end club of one year for higher than fourth place the next year, but we would not be at all surprised f they should fight their way up even higher than that. Chance is such a canny Individual Indi-vidual that the world ould not ho totally astounded if he should repeat i his remarkable first year success with the Cubs and take bis team clear to the zenith His material is much better bet-ter than mediocre Ford McConnell, i Caldwell, Warhop, Fisher. Keating and I Hoff are regular pitchers, and don't I you forget it ( bancs has come back at first, and his former ability in thai capacity is so well known as to need uo comment Chafe should star at cecond. Derrick should be dependable at short, and Hartzell ;;t third Sree Wolter, Daniels and Lllivelt are a star bunch of outfielders and Sweeney is B catcher of "be front rank The White Sox seem to stand about even with Cleveland leaving Kd Walsh out of consideration, but counting count-ing him they should nose out tho Naps easily for the head of the first division The Browns seem due for seenth place again and poor old Detroit, De-troit, only four years ago a pennant team, seems doomed to a certain last place. The Pirates were our pick for the National league pennant of 1912. but they are not now McGraws men showed more improvement than that of Clark's last vear and the Giants seem te have accomplished more in the way of recruits and otherwise this spring so that we now pick the New Yorkers to lead the way The Injecting Inject-ing of the peppery Shafer in the place of Fletcher at shortstop and of Burn in the outfield to make Devore and Snodprass alternate on the bench ap pear to revr.il admirable use of the Little Napoleon's judgment. Al Dema-ree. Dema-ree. Ted Goulalt und Fred Schuppj should bo winning pitchers, which, j with Mathrw. nn Marquard and Tes reau as first stringers, gives the Giants Gi-ants a wonderful mound corps Also Ames. Wiltse and Crandall are available avail-able and Jim Thorpe is likely to come in handy as a pinch hitter und base runner Chief Meyers and Wilson rank behind only Archer and Bresnahan of the Cubs as a catching pair The Pirates' pitching staff, with CamnitZ, Hendrix. Adams, O'Toole and Robinson as head liners, is maybe a little more valuable lhan the Giants' irlnc Byrne at third nnd Wagner at short are masters, but we cannot figure the other side of the infield otherwise than weak with Miller at tirst and Butler or some other young-ster young-ster at second Hofman. Carey and Wilson make up a good outfield but not a marvel However, the Pirates should have no trouble finishing second sec-ond to the Giants. Eliminating once more the possibility possibil-ity oi injuries which put them down last year, we pick the Phillies for third place. Alexander, Moore, Sea ton and Chalmers are stars when right for duty in the box. and Rie; Who will rejoin the team shortly, 5s one of the most efficient jounpsters In the business Luderus at first, |