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Show OVERCONFIDENCE IS LANNIN'S ONLY FEAR Tribune Special Sporting Service. XL'W YORK. Fo. -7. Joe Lannln, who ;' owns the Boston Red Sox, v.vie confident that the Sox wouli win fhe 10 IS American J 3eae;ue pTjnam. until the sport-writing l crowd be-sra n to chare Llis tame fe.eiing j a.nd to voi'jfe it. i "And now I'm afraid th-it I've, hcn j Jinked,' declares the serilal Joseph, "l iie ! newspaper boys d'dn't know tlify wer jinx in me, out I've g't a little feeling I that tnev have. You know, they unln- ! tentlonally Jlnxed the Giants In VJH; they j ; Jlnxed the Athletic?. In V.tl2. and they've i 3lnxed a lot of other teams by picking them as 'sure winner?.' " i Lannln Is of the opinion that a feellnff of overcoiitvJcnce may prevail arr.on the Red Sox because so ir.'j ny sport writers nre picking them to tfrab the American a u e b ; : r , J n thin y e a r . "f think I've got the tal'.nf. tliat I" riecHary for- a pennant dinner," paid Tannin, "and If the boya wKI :o out and fiht all the way there Rms to be a u-ood r nance of tholr landinc,- on top. i;ut they rnUHt H?ht. I don't want, rny ooy to ! yf:t the i'lea that they ha-'o an easy task, jf th"ry do, the penria'nt ohanes fr.re gone, find tsj I want to keep rnv rnf,n from be- 1 romlng a : Hlcfd wit h overconfi deuce a fieifntc that mhTht come to them from readjfisf hM the nice things the n-wspa- i ;er hya ha.v tj ray about rny 1 '.) 1 Z ' earn." |