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Show I MONTY PICKS TWO I BOSTONS TO WIN Braves and Red Sox Figure i Prominently on Baseball J Championship Horizon. 'M BIG LEAGUE PENNANT RACES 1 AS THEY APPEAR TO MONTY m National American m Group One. -1 Boston Roston w York Washington a Group Two. m si Louis Chicago 3 Chicago New York Detroit St. Louis I M Group Three. 1 Brooklyn Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati Cleveland Group Four. 1 Philadelphia - 1 Pittsburg J New York. April 10 Concensus of m opinion rates the Boston Braves as S first choice in the National league race this year and the Boston Red Sox as favorite for the American $t$9 league pennant. When the 1915 ma- :&mM or lfiaue campaigns get under way fiJSiSl next Wednesday afternoon, the two $gfH Hub teams will start with more ad OfjM V mirers than any other city's double ntry In the history of the game. Only H once since the two big leagues have BflfgB been In existence has there been a HnB case of a single town housing the BSrajK thampion clubs both the National and BB9 American circuits That was In 1900. SmI when Chicago had a world s series all SjB to itself with the White Sox battling mEH the Cubs. Boston Is dangerously llke-ly llke-ly to boast a like honor this oar f rHW however IfjlBB Both the Rod Sox and Braves prp i&jB sent well balanced Ire.ngth, without pHM a real weakness in any department of (mmI play These clubs, sized up from ev- QmR iry angle and compared with the op- jjH position they must face, seem to pos-aess pos-aess an appreciable margin of super KOH lortty over any contender in sight ESH not a large margin In either case, yet I one sufficient to assure their ultimate I triumph if an even break in luck ll vouchsafed. A large number of baseball stu- I dents expect to see two races in each of which four or five or half a dozen teams will figure prominenth YVc are unable to agree that more thun one club threatens either of the Bos- I ton teams very formidable New York s Giants may make it hot for j the Braves and the Washington Sena tors are likely to provide a stiff fight lor the Red Sox. Beyond the Giants and Senators we can t discern any other team able to press the favorites, favor-ites, barring developments of a type that cannot be guessed at such as the rapid improvements of the Bra B under (Jeorge Stallingfl last year |