| Show Look Like Cinch for Seventh Spot in American League Classic I I Senators Boast More Speed But That's All By LA TON LAWTON wrON CARVER International News Sports Editor ORLANDO Fla Mar 15 Man 15 Man Manager ager Bucky Harris squinted into the sunshine that poured down I on Tinker field where his WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington Senators were scampering through a workout today and in reply to the observation that his club lacked pitching and punch said But weve we've got speed This tacit admission of his clubs club's weakness might be interpreted to mean that the Senators have enough speed to run out-run the Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Athletics in the 1941 American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean league pennant race as they did in 1940 and thus make another seventh place finish leaving the theA's theAs theAs theA's theAs theA's As A's back there in the cellar With the Detroit Tigers the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Yankees Boston Red Sox Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox fighting for first divisIon division divi divi- sion slon berths and the St. St Louis Browns seemingly about to cash Inon in inon inon on their rebuilding program it will vill be left for lor the Senators and Athletics to put on a spirited scuffle scuffle lie to determine which of them will avoid going back the farthest The Senators ought to score a victory in this two-team two battle Itis It Itis is conceivable that they can be 10 10 games worse than they were last year or that the As A's can be 10 games better That was the margin by which the Senators out out- footed the As out out-I Briefly it looks like seventh place for the Senators and that thatis is the one spot in the league that can be thus filled almost arbi arbi- The Senators have gone a long ways in reverse since 1924 and 1925 when Harris the Boy Wonder Wonder Wonder Won Won- der of that era managed them in pennants Since then they have climbed so high only once in 1933 under the leadership of Joe Cronin and since Harris' Harris return to the r i A 5 4 t w rat h 7 4 L vI 4 I t rt r- r S 5 i S Dutch Leonard left Kendall Chase center and Sid Hudson assure respectable pitching team in 1935 the Senators have never been better than fourth In Inthe Inthe Inthe the last three years they consistently consistently consistently have dropped from fifth to sixth to seventh leaving only eighth place next to complete the sequence This is no reflection on Harris one of baseballs baseball's better people and better managers He does not have and hasn't had a club Anyone can manage locker room attendants attendants- but not to a pennant Harris views his teams team's chances as follows There is no telling where we will finish There are five or six tough teams In this league and I II I really think we have a first division division division divi divi- sion chance with a little luck Only Only the Athletics can be counted out of the first division entirely Asfor As Asfor Asfor for the pennant I wouldn't be surprised to see the New York Yankees Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees bounce back in front with their abundance of material but that is no admission of ol defeat on our part Since last season the Senators have acquired Outfielders Ben Chapman who hit for Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land and Roger Kramer who hit for Boston and they with George Washington Case will make up the outfield Another newcomer is First BaseI Base Base- I man George Archie a 32 hitter with Seattle last year and most valuable player in the Pacific Coast league He will play first Buddy Myer yes Myer-yes yes hes he's still around around and and Jimmy Bloodworth will play second Cecil Travis first and Mr John Lewis a hitter last year will be back at third Rick Ferrell will head the catching catching catching catch catch- ing staff and Emil Leonard Sid Hudson Ken Chase Walter Masterson Masterson Masterson Mas- Mas terson Danny MacFayden Alexandro Alexandro Alexandro Alexan- Alexan dro and odds and ends gathered in the meantime will dothe do dothe dothe the pitching Harris admits he needs some pitchers Obviously he coul use a half dozen of them I |
