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Show CLOSE PLAY EXPECTED IN MAJOR LOOPS Supremacy of Yankees and' Giants Is Threatened By-Other By-Other Clubs BY GKORGE CHADWICK Special Correspondent of The stand-ard-Kanilner (Copyright, 1922, by The Standardly Standard-ly u miner. ) FORK, June S. First place in both major leagues Is no longer a see -"n permanent fixture for either Ni w York club. Beginning Monday. June r as likely as not first placo will do more trembling in tin balance than a plate of aspic Jell carried by a l- i ii il waiter The hauchty supiem- I acj of tho Yankees and the Giants Is threatened. j Thi- finish of the second east and west series to bo completed Bun day J will bring western clubs of th Na-I Na-I tlonal league to eastern soli while the eastern clubs of the American league will tread tho prairies of the west i That means much to the champion-j ship races. It was tho western clubs i of both the big circuits which checked check-ed the runaways after the New York I chilis had smothered the seat, for the Giants caught a tartar in Pittsburg I Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis and the Yanks corns up with an abrupt Jerk when Detroit and St. Louis faced them on the Polo grounds although they ran riot against Chicago and) Cleveland. To defeat Chicago wlthi ease was a novel experience for thet Yanks as the Sox In 1921 were asur- 1 edly thrir Jinx. r.eeaufe the Yanks and th- Giant--1 made such a terrific splurge at thej beginning of the present season, du" to the suffocation of Desdemona . Washington by Othello New York, and! !the seml-annlhllation of Brooklyn by I tho Giants, the Impression gained: J ground uith all fans that the cham-j I plonship race of 1922 was a paradi of I the Broadway Mulligan guards. But it Isn't, fs a long was trom, I it and before the end of the next Bast land West chapter It Is as like that some other club may be In the lead as it is that the Giants and Yanks will ' lead It Is a good test to compare teams, i ' not on the immediate moment but as I they stand on u. seml-monhly rating. In 1921 when the month of May finish-; ed. Cleveland led the race In th' American Am-erican league and was 7 4 points ahead of the second team which was ew j York. Those teams made the fight most of the year exactly as the figures fig-ures Implied at that time This- vi-nr, at the close of the May period the, Yanks are in the lead for the cham-i plonship over St. Louis but by only 41 1 j points. CLOSE RCF In the National league in 192 1 Pitts-; BuYg led the circuit. In Ihe May end of the semi-monthly settlement with 718. New York was second with 659 ; This fear New York led with 634 and' the Plttsburgs are an even 600 It now remains to be developed what kind of toad teams the eastern' lubs of ihc American league are to I prove themselves and what strength I on the mad will he held by the wes-; tern clubs of the National league. Miller IlMKRins of the Yanks is viewing view-ing the coming expedition with some I trepidation. He realizes that his team' 'was over-pacing itself against Ihe eastern clubs of the league and Is I j fully roepjxant of the fact that Si J Louis and Detroit Rave him a 1 . 1 1 1 . ! , His hope In in finding ("hieap,, HJ ,,M as the Sox were In New York and Cleveland weak because of the general : slowing up of the team, for It is the ' lethargy of age that has hit Cleve-j Cleve-j land both as to Its pitchers and its' ( general team players. i The Giants ar. shaky. There is trouble on the team Pitchers who are not up to championship standard jrannot give championship values. oo I 1 |