Show I F rB i t Backseat ks t-j t S SF I Driving 1 j By Frank I K Baker 1 L Telegram I Sports t Editor t f l Baseballs Baseball's Greatest 1 Outfield Trio Notwithstanding Tris Speaker r Dully Duffy Lewis and Harry Hooper o ot the days when the Red Sox were J world champions William Henry Bill Dinneen of or the American league eague cague umpiring staff stal picks Babe Ruth Huth Earle Earlc Combs and md Bob l j t as the greatest outbidding trio in base base- 4 ball 1 j Dinneen has a high regard for the Red fled Sox trio Its members were well matched and smart They could hit I field and throw with precision bulhe but bul buthe buthe he fi figures ures Ruth Combs and could Speaker Lewis wis and Hooper Hooper Hooper Hoo Hoo- per and that they the could field equally equall as well The three ball hawks hawks- who were such vital factors in ih making the Yankees of 1926 1927 and 1923 about as great a team as baseball ever knew had few weaknesses in the opinion of ot Dinneen If there was w an any weakness he reasons it Uit was WM Combs' Combs throwing arm But for the long throws he had hadon hadon hadon on either side Ide of at him Ruth from deep right richt field with a n magnificent peg and from left leIt with an arm that was as strong and accurate as any I ever saw raw w. w Often Looked Lazy but Not So looked lazy out there sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times but that was his style He roamed around with so little effort eUort that it looked as though he wasn't trying tring Few balls got aw away y from him although he o occasionally dropped what looked like an easy chance No other left fielder in the league would have been near enough to get his hands on it Dinneen has been urn ping ball games in the junior circuit t long enough to know full well the respect rival clubs had for when the Yankees were in their prime A hit through short or third base to left field was seldom considered safe enough to score a man from second second sec sac ond base b Base runners even gave up the pretense of dashing from third on home when a ball went bounding out to Bob So many of them had been caught trying to gallop gallop gallop gal gal- lop on home that they simply perched themselves on the ba bag and let well enough alone Dob Bob has lu passed out of ot the big hi- show how however hown leaving the youthful Ben Chapman to fill till his spot In the left field garden alongside Combs I and Ruth Chapman is a dashing young hombre who did a neat job of ot handling the hot corner during his first t season with the Yanks although scarcely past put his twentieth twentieth twentieth eth birthday lie He scarcely weakens the batting power of the Yankee outfield as the trio still sUIi presents one of ot the strongest casts cuts In either cither league lurue packing a batting b punch of for one se selling point nt 1 Cleveland Hopes to Shortstop h op Cleveland proposes to keep Eddie Montague at short short- this season although although although al- al though he has failed to prove dependable dependable depend depend- able m much ch less sensational in prey previous ous trials At the same time Manager Manager- Roger I. I who was good enough as ns a s shortstop for Washington in 1925 to tobe be voted the leagues league's most valuable player keeps Pie Droubay of Salt Lake on the scene with the apparent I belief that the Utahn may yet et prove the solution to Cleveland's problem Probably not this but b by next year at nt least if he hc keeps up the good tood work Droubay will get his big chance The short field has long been a D. weak spot in fri the Injun defense Droubay could be with no better club so far as he is 3 concerned The Indians have a powerful financial backing a capable manager in Peck- Peck and a wise and most likeable general manager In Billy Evans And since is needed so badly by the Tribe Droubay y is sure to get every ery chance to make good Indians May Be Dark Horse of Circuit Should Montague show a consistent Improvement this summer the Indians may turn out to be the dark horse of the league to fight it out with the I Senators and the Yanks for lor the I leJ of the crowding As Eddie Morgans Morgan's improved fi fielding a at first and hl his revived hitting is one I 1 J. J 7 1 I i good sign Much depends upon the pitching arm of ot Wesley Ferrell and md the hitting of ot Earl Averill Dick Porter PorI Por- Por 1 I ter ter has ha long been a most valuable outer gardener whose work has iiiI nl- nl i i ways wars been stead steady but whose praises have often orten been overlooked The Indians got oft off to a bad start I last year dropping 1 12 games rames in a 1 row from May 7 It took the combination corn com com of Farrells Farrell's pitching and a barrage barue of three doubles and a home run by Averill to break the streak I against the White Sox and prevent i a thirteenth loss Two days later they thc reversed rC 1 I their habit by going oln on a winning streak that extended for ten games rames Always a dangerous club the In In In- juns pack a peculiar habit of beatIng beating beat beat- In Ing the Yank Yankees es particularly In Cleveland park and are lre often orten more dangerous to the leaders than to the second division clubs |