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Show INTEREST IN BIG GAMES Although There Is j Two Months More to j Play, Fans Are Al-ready Al-ready Preparing to See the Great Championship Cham-pionship Contest H New York. Aug. 11. Although the B concluding games of f ho major league H baseball season are still two months H away, interest in the pennant races H Is already overshadowed by the posst-H posst-H blllties of play in (he world's series This unusual situation in the camp of H the national sport is due entirely to the runaway race helng made by the leading teams in the National and B American leagues. Not in some years H have such wide margins separated the H first and second clubs in both major H associations at this stage of the pen- nant races There have been several H examples of the so-called runaway race In one or the other of the two H big leagues, but simultaneous and sustained spurts like these uncovered by both the Giants and Athletics aru H A glance back over the records of J the clubs in both leagues during the fl past few years shows that as a rule J where one league had a leader well out in front the struggle for the other h pennant was close and the outcome uncertain at this period of the season. 1 While the Athletics and tliant3 are H leading their respective leagues by ap-proximately ap-proximately a hundred point margin over the runner-up, the L913 records show the Boston Red Sox had but half B that advantage and the Giants about 1 three-quarters of their present margin L In the National league New York had -von Beventy-two and lost twent;. - - . H en games for a percentage of 727 on August 9. The Chicago Cubs ' traillnp Ei-rond. eighty-seven r1 dnts m the rear with Pittsburg and Phlladel phla holding third and fourth places The American league standing showed Boston to have won seventy-one and lost thirty-five games, with Washing ton second, with sixty-five and forty, giving Jake Stahl's Red Sox a lead of fifty T-olnts. The Athletics were still in the race and the Chicago White Sox had an outside chance from fourth pla e The 1911 races were far closer, for the Athletics had but twenty-two points over the Detroit club In the American league, and Chicago was Wu lending Pittsburg by just nine points in the National. But fifty points sep-arated sep-arated the first four clubs in the seni-or seni-or association, while the New York team holding fourth place in the American league was 13r points In the rear of the Athletics, with Detroit and Boston between it and the lead-ere. lead-ere. The races of 1910 as viewed at j this date showed conditions more closely resembling the present sltua H tlon. The Athletics were traveling at J top speed, with a clear lead of eighty points over Boston. The Detroit T"i-ger8 T"i-ger8 were third, thirty points In the rear of Boston, and New York vm fourth, but nine iolnta below the Till Ti-ll gers. In the National league Chicago I was seventy points ahead of Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, with the New York Giants third, I ten points separating them from the Pirates Philadelphia was a poor I fourth. PittBburg and Detroit were the pe- makers In 1909. but neither team had anything like the margin of safety that the present leaders possess Th! Pirates had won slxty-elRhf and lo6t twenty-seven games for a percentage of 71fv The Chicago Cubs were right at their heels, less than thirty points separating leader and runner-up The New York and Cincinnati clubs were third and fourth respectively, but far below the percentage standing of the first and second clubs The American league race was even closer. Detroit with llxty-tWO games won and thirty-eight thirty-eight lost had Just twenty points over Philadelphia, which club had won six ty and lost forty games for a percentage percent-age of .600 Boston and Cleveland were both within striking distance of the leaders, for there were but eov-entv-flvc points between the Tigers In first place and the Cleveland club In fouri h Despite the dire predictions made for the present year. 1913 has proved to date far from being an unlucky period so far as American athletics are concerned. In three International contests the United States has successfully suc-cessfully defended both the polo and the canoe cups and regained possession posses-sion of the Davis cup in tennis. Three other international cup contests re I main to be decided In the Harnsworth motor boat race the Palma rifle shooting contest and the sonder yacht competitions. Should triple defeat be j the portion of the United States In I these remaining matches -which is j unlikely the recollection of the ster ling victories In polo and tennl6 will ' go far to compensate for the loss of J i repines during the autumn months. The return of the Davis cup is par-ticularly par-ticularly gratifying to American lawn tennis followers, and the prediction Is freely made that the bowl Is not likely to be won away again within the next few years The faith In the future of the court game in this coun try is not without foundation. With the possible exception of baseball, there are more tennis players wielding wield-ing racquets than followers of any one other sport In this country Grass, clay and asphalt courts are Increasing Increas-ing In ail parts of the states and the number of players doubling almost yearly One of the most encouraging signs Is the fact that the youngsters are taking to the game and learning early the technique, skill and stamina th;U goes to make ranking contenders at the leading tournaments. No other nation where tennis Is played can show a number of young players of prominence and promise .-.iutii io me united siaies. .no ten nls authority here or abroad will admit ad-mit that either M cLoughlln. Williams or Wallace Johnson has reached his limit as a recquet expert Yet this trio were pitted against England's best players, whose ages ranged between thirty and forty, while McLoughlin at twenty-three is the oldest of the trio which leads In national ranking They are not. however, the only youngstera who are playing brilliant tennis. In Clarence Griffin, John Strachan and William Johnson the Pacific coast has sent east another trio of players, still In their teen . I who have proved their ability to hold their own and win titles In the biggest big-gest tournaments, aside from Newport. New-port. Ranked but a few strokes below be-low these embryonic state champions, who are constantly Improving both In speed and form of their play. From this youthful tennis talent there will be developed during the next r.-y, years worthy successors to Lamed, Whitman, W right and Wrenn GRAND CIRCUIT Detroit. Mich.. Aug. 12. Some 0j the fastest so-called green pacers j that ever met In a race were entered In the Chamber of Common e $5000 stake for L' 13 pacers, the main attraction at-traction of today's grand circuit can! Leata J, with a mark of 2:08, stake winner at Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Kalama-zoo, was pitted aaginst Frank Bo-gash Bo-gash ,Ir whose last, race gave him a mile In 2. OS 1-4, Stetbrlno Lad a speedy contender, Princess Margaret, whose real worth had not been developed, de-veloped, Edith C. and Tom King. A noteworthy fact in connection with this stake was the absence of a Geers entry The veteran driver has won the event five times, no other driver ever captured It more than once. Other events on the program were the 2:10 trot. $1000. In which the wonderful colt Etawah was entered against aged horses, the 2.16 trot for a purse of $3000 and the 2.08 pace $1000. |