Show CAN PUT NAPS IN RUNNING Cleveland Fans Hope for Near Pennant Team This Season LAJOIE FREE FROM CARE FORMER MANAGER MANAGED SHIFTED TO INITIAL SACK Can Jim TIm McGuire arid and rid Larry Lajoie make a winner out of the Cleveland club for the e season of ot 1910 There is one point in n favor tavor of ot this combination This spring their team being touted as a sure world beater t For several seasons past I Ithe the Cleveland club has haa been een looked look d upon as the tho team that had to be figured against by anyone who w o had real f al designs on the American league pennant A few years ago Cleveland was feared as a team of sluggers and had to be counted on As a general thing the club would go along until July 1 I and then would come the slump caused by injuries to a great ex extent extent extent tent that would put the club out of the therace therace race But this year Cleveland is being overlooked o chiefly etly because of the miserable miserable ble showing of 1909 when Lajoie threw up his job as manager In disgust and Deacon Jim McGuire took the helm Un Under Under Under der these will the rule work theother the theother theother other way Far from being peeved at the tact fact that he did not make a success as a manager Lajoie is jumping in with greater ep e ergy than ever Because Terry Turners arm is hardly strong enough to allow him to play short and because George Stovall is going back somewhat Lajoie is being played at first this season Some Borne of the wise ones are making cracks that Lajoie is too old to switch positions and learn to play first But as a matter of fact he broke Into big leagues as a first sacker with the Philadelphia Nationals With Nap at first and Turner at second the right side Bide of ot the infield is well taken care of Nicholls at Short Nicholls Is the player who now seems favored for the shortstop position with Bill Bradley at third Neal Ball the hero of ot the unassisted triple play of ot last sea aea season son con ia ls sure re to ba bo retained in the role of ot utility man Ball has bas a way of ot playing I sensational ball when put in n for short stretches as ft l relief while be ba falls down on the tIM long hauls haule In the outfield there er are many rella relia I bles Elmer Flick and Dode Birmingham and Lord hold over Art Kreiger se secured secured secured cured from Columbus Columbua has baa the rep and has haa maintained it during the training season On to make him worthy of consideration tion for a place and probably will beat be t Lord out for tor the regular job There is la a 0 good pitching staff in Ber Bar Barker Berger Berger ger ker Joss Jose Falkenberg and Young from last loot year with Koestner as a new right hander bander Moreover the Naps are to have havea a good southpaw That is assured by the way Linko LInke and Mitchell have shown up for these youngsters youngster leave have ave been good all spring Nig Clarke is a grand catcher while Bemis and Ted Easterly make mako swell understudies Somehow pennants dont come coma the way of There Thera were some great teams there In the old days when Pat was the leader In National league races moss Three Managers Fall But with the exception of 1908 1903 Cleve Clave Cleveland Cleveland land has shown but little form in the American league In the ten years of the I organization four managers have been tried Jimmy McAleer Bill McGuire Nap Lajoie and Jim McGuire McGuires chance Is coming Will he go the way of ot othIs his predecessors predecessors It If you can answer that question you will win b have strength figured But look leek for f Cleve Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land to cut some figure this season much more than the club did last year |