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Show Dark Horse May Cop American L(Mgufrw YANKEES ARE HAVING HARD TIME WITH OPPOSITION OF OTHER AMERICAN LOOP CLUBS Quartet of Teams So Even That All Have Even jy Chance if Favorites Break; White Sox and Tigers Loom as Trouble Makers for Yankee and Brown Outfit j BY IUM-Y EVANS, THE New York American league club was the unanimous choice of the experts to repeat. Will It come through ! The team has a gre.tt pitchlnc staff, a strong offense ami Rood defense That trio of assets should be enough to win. The New York club has lull passed through a very critical period of depression. de-pression. On Its first tour of the west, the Yankees started In fine style by winning three straight from Chicago. Then came the big slump After losing the final game to the V hit Sox an oven split was tbc bent the Yankees ee,uld do in St. LouU Then came a real Jolt at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, the loint' ''-four ''-four straight. An even split followed In the four games at Cleveland. Thus tlx- host the Yankees did on the first invasion of the west w.. win seven and lose nine games. .1 ' rather poor showing. Then camo a five-game series with the Boston Rcj Box, Ii wo i , this series would start the Yankees on te right road, as the Bostonlsnsl had been going poorly. Again thoj Yankees failed, by losing four on? of five. The series that follow.. with the Athletics helped right the ciuh, and possibly has got Ruth I h The Yankees are certalnh due to brace and hit their strM. Lt m I too strong an aggregation to be u- .1 as a doormat by cluhj much laferior i ( Possibly thero Is an inside reason I for the slump f the Yankees that ' has not been made public. Possibly the spirit and morale of the club is such that it may not get bark into its pennant winning stride. I rather doubt lt However, should the Yankees fil to run true to form and stay out In front, the present campaign in 'he Amerlean league Is mado to orde-for orde-for some dark horse to slip in and win the pennant. St. Louis, of course, is a close second sec-ond cho!' e to the Yankees, but the strength of Washington. Chicago. Cleveland and Detroit Is so nearly even that any one of the quartet has an excellent chanee should either of the two favorites. New York or St. Louis, break. Any one of six clubs In the American Ameri-can league thlt gets consistent pitching pitch-ing has ' chance. |