Show 2 I THE SALT LAKE TELEGRAM FRIDAY EVENING MARCH 31 1922 1 TiGERS SHARPENING PAWS FOR OPENING GON II 6 M m O lOr 6 JEW I NEW YORK YORK YANKS BOAST OF fl FINEST EST PIT PITCHING H NG STAFF IN B BIG IG SHO X SHO S EVE N GOO 0 Ii HURLERS ON ROSTER I With Vit Any Kind of Luck I j Jy Yankees Ought to Breeze Through With Title i tL I e. e I I i uy cy i r i. r Chances Chanc s of the New eW York Yankees in I i h 1922 pennant race might be acquired by by twisting that old adage to read Tell Tel me me your o r pitchers and I will tell you yot ou what you ou arfe arCe SOME SO E STAFF I The Yanks Tanks have o the pennant wi winning winning- team tem of 1921 together with just about th the pitching staff that has ever bee been assembled Carl rays Mays as WaIte Walte Hoyt Sam San Jones Jones Joe Joe Bush Bob Shawkey Harry Harr P Harper Lefty Letty ODoul and maybe a i rookie That combination backed by a heavy r bitting hitting offense and good defense looks look like It ought to be good for almost a hundred games and no team In the league Including the dangerous Browns the the Improved Senators or the fighting Indians can beat heat that mark With any kind of luck in avoiding bad accidents or tremendous reversals In Inform form fonn the Yankees ought to go through In Ina a breeze Perhaps the Yanks haven't the best In Infield Infield In- In infield field in the league but they have a a. good one Scott at short wont won't make it an any better than It was last year and Baker at third is an uncertainty with bad legs Ward ard Is a good second baseman but he is out of place and lp is Just an arr ordinary r ng first base base- bt man However r it l is a balanced n C combination combi combi- nation and It has worked together With Mike lIke McNally and Johnny Mitchell as reserves tho team is in a fair way OUTFIELD ELD STRONG The rh regular outfield of ot Ruth fluth Miller and cannot compare with the great old Red Sox combination and It Is far from the best in the league but It gets along With the pitching that the club should get perhaps there wont won't be so soman man many drives to the outfield that the fat Babe or Lazy Bobby cant can't get Both of these prima donnas ought to be better this season after they get into the game Huggins believes that he can get alon along five weeks with a makeshift outfield There is no reason to believe he is wrong With Wally Al Devormer and Fred Huffman Hurtman doing the catching there I is no worry about that end Babe Ruth is captain of the club now and anti the responsibility of the game may serve to make the slugger take his work more seriously With the passage I of the club may work better bet bet- I ter with Huggins also not also not that Peck was a 8 disturber but the anti antl faction on the team always maintained that should do the boss- boss Ing |