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Show SCENES OF 190! 10 BE RENEWED Boston and Chicago Forecast as Next Year's Big League Pennant Contenders. (By Monty) New York, Dee. 19. Fourteen years have passed since Boston and Chicago have been the principal actors in a big league pennant battle, but those thrilling scenes of 1901 will be duplicated dupli-cated next season unless all indications indica-tions fail The events of the present winter off-season have made the Red Sox and White Sox loom up as almost certain to dispute the ownership of the 191.", American league flag. When Plank and Bender jumped to the Federals and Eddie Collins was sold, the champion Athletics were broken up beyond all possibility of re-i re-i air before the season starts. The acquiring ac-quiring of Collins by Chicago just rbout makes Cornisky's team, which otherwise is formidable chiefly because be-cause of a powerful pitching "staff. The Red Sox, a balanced club without with-out any new additions, cannot be figured as other than outclassing every ev-ery rival with the possible exception of the White Sox, for the Detroit Tigers, which made more or less of a noise last year, are too undependable to be counted as a pennant factor This impending battle between the Lose of white and ihose of red will lecall memories among old timers of three Chicago-Boston high spots on the road of baseball history The teason of 1901 was the last of these. Chicago beat Boston that year for the American league flag. Looking farther back, the Ni'tiotKil league oilers ivvo instances of the Hub and the Middle West metropolis mixed up in a clinch fur the championship. Boston won both those scrape, which were In 2891 and 1SS5, Chicago being second ( ach time Thus the count is now two to one in favor of Beantown. |