Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-09 | Page 16 | New York Critic Says Doping Hard This Year

I NEW YORK YO K CRITIC SAYS DOPING HARD THIS YEAR i I 4 f Early Eai arly Games Should Shoud Be BetL Better Better Bet Bet- te ter Exhibitions Than Thanin L in 1912 I i. i BY VArTER rA Copyright 1913 br by tJ s Publishing Co Col j I New York March S. S S. tt It is a matter or of days now ow when wo we will swap s spring u training yarns and exhibition games for or tho real stuff Stories of ot how this recruit outfielder has all nil that hat Cobb possesses 1 O and more more- how that one can give give Ed Walsh or C Christy rist Mathewson on pitchers and how the Hie other ono ii can cover cOer the Infield In a wa way war to tomake Intake make Huns Hans Wagner asner blush are reading leading for the home folks and will fatten att n the box office returns but with the lengthening of the d days s 's and amI the tho growing warmth Q of the sun un the fan is l getting etting anxious for Cor more solid meat Ho iLo wants to see sc-c some somo real ball bail playing lu And ho Is likely to seo see a much bet bet- It tr r brand of or April ball this year car than lie he saw last year rear for good W weather has boon the rule ruin at nt tho the training camps camp lund und alid vcr very ery team should be In position to to to- get Into Its stride without loss of at time or 01 what Is more to tho the mark loss of or or which should not be lost I Nover have o there been so 80 many dark horse clubs as fiS titers there are this year e 11 r. r In Inthe Inthe Inthe the American league thero Is hardly a club chub of ot tho the eight except perhaps St. St Louis and New York who cannot bo be doped out to either win tho the lennant Jr Jr at least bo be close up to the winner fit Jt would be a 11 daring man who would l It isay a ay that either cither Boston Washington Cleveland Detroit Chi ago may not possibly finish ono one two three and there thore are aro those in N New w York who Insist that with Chance Chanco going wood good the Yankees ma may ma not be i In better than fourth place In tho the National league It Is not Soot So BO much of ot a It looks very cry much muchas as ni thou though h tho the final fight would be b between be bd tween the Pirates Prates and the Giants but Johnny Everss Evers's Cubs are arc an unknown N. N i quantity Q and It may bo be tho the old crowd will wm fl fight ht out In the older league lEvers Is well stocked with infield mat material ma ma- t rial and he hd may yet ct surprise the wise ones Ho has decided to retain Martin Berghammer tho the youngster drafted from from th the Lincoln club of or the league as his understudy at atI I second t B Berghammer was with the White Sox last spring and mado a a. hard fight tight for the second base baBe but finally was b by Morris Rath and drifted lack back to the minors minora He Is now a groat- groat fly y Improved pla player er and is expected to shine next season Is now considered d a certainty at short Besides these to two Infielders Even Evers t I has such fluch promising players as Art rt Phelan secured from the Reds Rod Red Corridon from tho the Detroit Tigers and Ed McDonald last year with tho the Boston Bbs Bos ton Bravos C Cant Can't Ignore CuI CubR n. n The Thc Cubs cannot bo be ignored If It Red I Doom can enn keep his men out of ot the hospital he Is 18 formidable and then there Is la Joe Tinkers Tinker's Reds which are arc not to be Ignored It looks easier asler to I pick them In tho the ue but whether It will be BO so six months hence I would take a. a better prophet than I am I to tell