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Show 'that new baseball season V.oomlng asain 01610 are L number of clients who a to be carried from the "into tlie closing days of fcrr. T'e maln PurPse of iri voyage will be to see the g of the clubs on closing jt opening day. is your correspondent's pto tli future, as the future ' 'I IMEBICAN LEAGUE jfjeW york Yankees, by a fnuch Closer margin. Eostoa Red Sox, with a fighting fight-ing chance. Cleveland Indians, with Bob FellerJ Detroit Tigers, the powerhouse power-house Jribe. Chicago White Sox, may finish fin-ish fourth. Washington Senators, slightly slight-ly Improved. Philadelphia Athletics, still pa green side. St Lou's Browns, In the old homestead. NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis Cardinals, by an eyelash. Cincinnati Reds, Just about ai good. Brooklyn Dodgers, improved over last year. Chicago Cubs, due for better luck. I Pittsburgh Pirates, may finish fin-ish higher. New York Giants, hardly ready for long route. Boston Bees, not enough puncli, Philadelphia Phillies, the day's best bet. ' i It Figures Yankees have been good to win going away, by kill-rgins kill-rgins year after year, and if e slipping so are the Rockies, lave the pitching and the are great defensive team, 1 needed replacements, have md experience, lud Sox will be stouter chal-. chal-. Give them Dickey and ' you'd see more 1 h trouble. But who is going to give them Dickey? Cleveland should I finish third with 1 Bob Feller facing I probably his greatest great-est year. Sheer power should carry De-, De-, troit Into fourth . place. It will be a ickef rough outfit for any i set of pitchers to :juit8 a bit here will depend ringer's condition, one of the aH players of all time. iy Dykes may swing his to ieto the first division, but take' a gallant thrust to ac-:h ac-:h this. tlack's Athletics are still an in quantity. He has some nma.talent, but it still needs basoning. His team may ip a1 notch, but I can't see men higher than the seventh ' I Jrowns will be a better ball 5ut they still have a long way 't'er League tion in the National are oosr, much more tangled :ertin than they are in the ani '-.'finals and Reds are close Bill McKechnie needs '"i lulp for his two star 'ftin lie got last year. Der- wjipValters are two of the Useball, but Thompson, "Vioore and Vander Meer, 'ej rookie, must come to arrfin.ils, a young team last aff from 14 games back w start to make a pen- jf late September. You nif t!ley have been none too 1 Wir g. But a big league SQiBething different. f fli pile In and give the T njv, the net result should to win. They have a :oinb, nation of youth and ex-8 ex-8 n their pitching staff and 'cilize and Medwick. fgre any other pennant f from the other six W'lyn, Chicago and Pitts-"'! Pitts-"'! be well bunched. I hide to choose here. make the Pirates dan-1 dan-1 t'H like the rating I sug- , Ure e Giant infield get-vUx. get-vUx. Nor the Giant out-Glants out-Glants may get away t i J are quite apt t0 d0 I don't believe they can ij"1 Pace after June or "e are too many weak J Terry's club-too many 'eter.ir.s. "A c,in happen in this w? the first few weeks. expect to see the Reds als gradually pull away r' but far enough to carry f teams into another Its. i |