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/ ^iÄBP^r A / \:| \ / » i \ 1ml A.4AA * * l ^ *^ Sp* *fea >* i jJ/W » LU Wúxk STribimt SUNDAY', APRIL 10,1921 _... er-. Millions of Fans Await Opening of Banner Baseball Season Next Close Races Are Predicted Wednesday In the Two Major Leagues; __Heavy Artillery and Pitching Aces of Yankees Huggins, With Strengthened * Interest Is at Line-Up, Expects Yankees Highest Peak To Be in Grantland Rico Looks for Three-Cornered Race in Fight Throughout Each Circuit; New York Has Three Midget Believe American Candidates in Strong iManager League Permit Giants« "Yankees and Dodgers Race Will Resolve Itself Into a His Club and the Struggfe Retwc u By Grantland Rice Champion Cleveland India «« The tumult and the clouting starts, . The captains and the arrive- By Miller Huggins camps Manager 'Neiv York On of this week an Yanlc&e* Wednesday explosion will take place affecting the Baseball being so uncertain, I will not make the statement that ti <. destinies of 10,000,000 members of the human (at race \ ankces will win the this times) in this1 pennant coming- sçason, hut Í will say that if impassioned tlie best team I have ever commonwealth. managed in New York, and, given an This will be r-hare of the breaks of the game I explosion the first base hit that opens the two major thin!; that the prospects of rg- ing out on top are league pennant jousts where, for the next six months, the atmosphere wfll very bright indeed. I am i well satisfied with the results shown on be rife with the roar of the bludgeon and the battle howl of the the clan. I recent training trip, and I am convinced that Exuding- pink from every pore, the long parade of earnest . athletes the club is stronger than it was last season. with sun-blistered necks is now forming for the of It lias shown inspection the4fanati- considerable improvem ni u cal array. many ,¿^ai§IÍɧ|&, departments, «-specially the catching 44 Here they come.-"Babe" Ruth, the Big Blooie; Tris Speaker, Ty pitching staffs. The team has more speed than ^^^^J^^^tjÉ^ last year, not so much on ^^^^BÊS^Sk^ÊS^^si Cobb, Grover Alexander, Ross Young. Eddie Collins, Buck Wheat, Rogers the bases, but both ? Sisler.an ^^Ä Hornsby, George unending line of talent comprising more than as base running is concerned, there 47 no team four hundred entries who will unfurl their wares beneath in the Jy#.T*| W^*' "¿J- daily the American * *" i Big League that is oaiticularly 'V of the game. in this " W Tgnt , good respect and the Yankees will fl. On more than flash as much f^^f» \ Wednesday two hundred thousand beauty and chivalry speed on the basts as most of "* ^» \\ in our rival clubs. < will sit on the eight opening contests that now forecast the greatest .' «»SA****** It is my intention to start season's attendance in all baseball history. I Pipp, Fewster, my infield ofT with ^y$mm..r The hope that springs eternal in the baseball Peckinpaugh and Wati!. Baker breast may begin to j will be a very valuable to «¡fo&tW' I > ¡lumble and fade out in ten or twelve player have o.u hand cities by June.but this is still ! in case of and ^^^^^ß^ '¦¦¦ \ where all start emergency, will help no con- I í Young April, they from scratch and the big thrill has I as ...¦¦.'' to be yet siderably to my club, but I am not y^^^ß.} nipped by the frost of numerous defeats. on figuring 1'. using him at the start of the " -1Z^^^^^^~~~~~ least. Chick Fewster season at Big Moment in Life of Nation is playing a good article of ball, and seems to show no ill effects from his accident of last v' .'¿r. The start of the baseball season is one of the big moments in the life Ward's experience last year has made him of the In the. one of the best second basemen nation. It may seem unimportant to a number of league. It would be very hard to unimportant cut of keep either of these youngsters highbrows, but any event that adds to the weal and woe of from ten the line-up. I am well fortified with million to million souls with the reserve matorial for the »field twenty is no part of a minor mç'ier. acquisition of young Johnny Mitchell and Mike "A nation's wealth."- Adam I believe that McNally. says Smith, "is" measured by its happi- Chiefs the pitching staff will prove and and as the League able than 'stronger more depend¬ i,ess," arriving adds to last campaign vastly the happiness and year. For the first month or two of the 1 intern! !t*creation, although of a passive type, to at least one-sixth of to work campaign the popula¬ Predict Shawkey, Mays, Quinn and Hoyt in regular rotation, and I will tion of these United on States, the country at large is that much richer from Close icly these four to stand the brunt of the Apr\l to October, whatever the at least. mound work for that period money market may have to show. Sr Harry Harper is a late and Î am mere is no fake him starter, not figuring on overproduction of the gay and giddy,, hip-hip whicl Pennant Races regularly until the season well using the gets under way. Shawkey. .Mays ;:rt ;>ccompanies oj»ening of the two big races and the countless minoi Quinn have rounded into good shape, and ones that bubble up in almost every hamlet and state. season of his Hoyt ought to have the bos' -, young career. Hoyt and Collins will For six weeks now Heytller Says Fans Have far more than ¡offset sixteen managers have been grooming theii the loss of Thormahlen and The « Not Mogridge. relief liaiges for the big assault. have' now Lost Faith; Johnson show pitchers also shoui'i They brought their sun-bakec up better than last year, for I now have hired men north for the main test Also Has four very promising you»; which in addition to gold and Optimistic View l'A eV twirlers in Piercy, glorj /OCA Ferguson, Clifford and Sheehan. I Would like 10 hav< ihrough the year, has a World's Series reward of ,$5,000 for each to Hor9 ; the services of another reliable uf the victorious This is mçmbe By John A. southpaw, but I am satisfied that the fit« cast. something to shoot at beyond the acclaim Heydler 'ing staff as it now stands will fulfill all requirements. lug racket of the fickle hordes. President National League The make-up of the outfield still remains more or less of an The coming baseball season tainty, on tinccr be should account of the injury to Bodie last and Sixteen Clubs Face the Barrier interesting and successful. The Ruth will most year, the injury to Koth fans have not lost likely patrol left field, and the choice for the other tw. Sixteen clubs" will face the faith in positions in the outfield lies barrier on Wednesday, but from this fielt the hon¬ not among Bodie» Roth and Meusel. Meus«al hai « niy five or six are a chance to win. esty and integrity only displayed tine form at the given The American League face of the sport. The ment in bat, but he has also shown improve ;« warm thTee-eornered race o il m the field. I would like to among Cleveland, New York and St. Louis p e r attend¬ make use of his batting power if I cfii ances I find some to with the "first two favored. at the ex¬ way get him into the but of course hibition games in have had line-up, Roth and Bodi The National League is in for another the inore experience. three-cornered affair with Ne3 South prove, I all the York, Brooklyn and Pittsburgh looming a few notches think, that interest Giving clubs their just dues. I am of the opinion above the other.« is as final drive that when ti* Of the four contenders in quite keen as cnnips. it will hr> bet vvppn leading the two leagues greater New York i at any time in the Oî/ez /^K-s- í''.lpv<díind and MV ball rlnli. favored and flavored with three strong candidates in the th h i s t o r y of the Giants and the if Yankees, sport. Dodgers, who, Cleveland can only be stopped, have The chance an game funda¬ ! striking to hold exclusive World's Series right here at home. mentally is in 'Babe' Ruth and Other On this account, baseball interest in greater New York splendid shape ami Senators Slugger? has surpasse under inspiration Bolstered the interest of all former April operitngs. For, after it is of that lures all, the winne independent semi-public control it is For Counted On to the. fan from his accustomed haunts and starts his bound to retain the confidence and good Coming Season Bun jumping sidewise. pulse t will of the American public. By George McBride- Capture tin«? The National League will begin its Greater New York, for Bi*r season Manager slang Town, has never luid three sue forty-fifth next Wednesday with I Washington Senators leam Owned Two pennant chances before. Last fall she the brigthest prospects for a race. believe wo have the best by Colonels to had one winner and two clubs a goo«! in the race chanc« Expected J'ae. as Keports from the ''South are this year we have ever had Hard in high second place, but these two clubs have that our agreed o u r team Fight at been bolstered and strengt! clubs have, uncovered a num¬ will Holding Place the ened, and to-day they look fit to rise on their ber of players of unusual again be »ne of Top up hind legs and go sonn some of promise, the li e s where.