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Show BrmvnsTopAmerican League Pennant Contended I THREE CLUBS FIGHK FOR LEAGUE TITLE ' Browns Leading and May Be Winners; Other Teams Furnish Opposition BY GEORGE CHADWK K Special Correspondent or The Stand- .; ii-1 ixa miner i Copyright, 192S, by Tho Standard-H Standard-H Examiner.) H JLTETW FORK July I. It nearly IT nild-M-aeoii inlay Id both major H lianii'"'. It Is also within three days H of the Fourth of July which has come H have some .sort of mysticism about 1 it. booaii.se once upon a time a Bellow H discovered that the team which was H first in the loacuo on the glorious H fourth w.' also first when the season H Tho hunch or the omen, or wii.it- H over it may b 'doesn't work out. H Barney Dreyfusa and George Gibson fl will tell ou ao on July 4. 1911, they H were basking in tho smiles of for- H 'nnc, as the good novel writer would H and when it canio October there H .isn't a 80ul hi l'lttsbiirg would do H them reverence. One fan was so all- H fired mad that ho thought Harney's H grounds should be shut up becaUSl the B team had fooled the Pittsburg popu- H lace so outrugeously. H When it comes to tho middle of the B reason. howeier. the manager begins H in cast up. He knows the value of H everything that ho had on hand and from then until the lust hour of grai n B which dawn a for him he plans to M inuke the best of every player on his MAN AGERS COOL. There is not a manager In tho Nn- h m'pu'- ii'iiuj w no i.s realty mii- H guinie of much of anything except the H manager of tho Giants. He will not H say that he will win even with the H lesson half beiilnd him, but he knows Jj that ho has a better chance than any m of the other clubs if this pitcher lasU H long enough H Branch Klckey is optimistic. He still 1 thinks that hiS St Louis Cardinals will H mon a spurt similar to that which H they exhibited In the closing days of H 1921 , He seems to forget that th nurt which they made then really hud no bearing on the outcome of tho Chicago Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Bos-H Bos-H ton and Philadelphia, have nothing to B WhlOh to look forward. Brooklyn isn't giving up yet, but tho Brooklyn club has too much weight and too little ed to have little moro than a dls-1 dls-1 tant hope that it will beat New Fork, There Is enouKh hitting among 1 the Lirooklyn players to help, but they H started sluggishly. 1 No manager In the American league is: sanguine that he will win tho pon-mt. pon-mt. Hoggins, with hLs stars and his men of prcsumablo Individual ability, . Bailees the uncertainty of the group LLW of which he Is tho head. There Is I no stability. Never mind what Ruth hrta .tone or whal happened to him. It is a debatable problem whether he has hurt or helped the team this year. H There ure players who are as uncer- lain as he. and moro than all the rent therq Is that feeling which pervades those who follow baseball that the Yankee players are factional and no-tiOnali no-tiOnali Tho pitchers are not the best pitchers this year, whatever they may ' ive been last season and tho tactlturn Mays and tho headstrong and egotlstl-ll egotlstl-ll Hoyt are not carrying the Tanks to I glory on their shoulders llko pack bearers taking a load over the moun- Leo Fohl is too cautious lo sav that 'ne will win with the St Louis Browns. Part of his team Is playing better th'jn II Old laet year and part of It Is play-ng play-ng worse. His pitchers are mote helpful and his infield ); not the por-I por-I mis plaster that It was In 1921 but I his outfield Is sagging. COUK SHOUTS. Ty Cobb openly declares that he will Win the championship and his team1 needs but a Uttlo to come through narchlng with the head of the pro-: .esrlon right up to the last day of the race. It has enough In It to be n front if the luck of the game breaks: its way. Were Cobb possessed of one! pitcher who could win one In every i -erles from now until the last dav o: the year, he could handle his other Pitchers no that ho might be a pen-j nant contender. Griffith has not given up with Washington Wash-ington yet. The Senators, as has so ftn been the case, are standing outside out-side the wall waiting for the apples 'hat fall when the wind blows, Instead Ol bHng insldo and picking them from he trees. What Clevoind will do is proble-natlcal, proble-natlcal, although CIe eland does not il the moment look like a pennant ntender. They hung a year too long on the old machine The Tanks i racked It In 1921 and instead of trying try-ing to fill the cracks, a reconstruction 1 was needed. Just rocrtly Chicago has come from ' j tho bottom up The American league I (' has boon full of that .sort of thing all 'he season hut when the clubs that make their rush from the depths gel ; " tho surface, something happens and they submerge again Philadelphia and Boston will mosev along as best they can and thev will I r-tain thMr franchlf.f when it is all t over, if they arc fortunate. r,Q . |