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Show Tiger Fence Buster Eager to Co i -V' ,f Hank Greenberg ... He think Yankee are due to crack. Detroit Slugger Thinks N. Y. HasTrouble Ahead By GEORGE KIRKSET United Press Sporta Writer LAKELAND, Fla., March 29 World champion baseball club frequently fall apart without anyone knowing what the trouble is. The Tiger did it after their 1035 triumph, the Cardinals after their 1934 and 1931 victories and the Giant after their 1933 ascension. dog fight they alway crack up. If the race ia close this seaaon ths Tigers will win out." Know They're Good The records show that the Tanks won last year by 19 Vi games and in 1932 by IS games. In between they finished second three times, cracking up in close races. The Senators best them by seven gamea in 1933, the Tigers by seven games in 1934 and by three game in 1939. "Those holdouts and salary arguments argu-ments won't do ths Yankees any good," ssys Greenberg. "It takes a philosopher, magician and a miracle man to handle a ball player who thinks he's good, and the Yanks can't help but think they're in a class by themselves after their complete com-plete dominance last year." As for Greenberg, who played only IS games last season, the best answer an-swer about whether his broken wrist has healed Is furnished by pitchers In the Grapefruit league. They throw Hank nothing good. In a pinch they walk him. In a game the other day, Greenberg walked three times in four trips to the plate. "I don't even know I had a broken wrist," says Greenberg. Thus no world championship team In the past four years has been able to even win the pennant the succeeding suc-ceeding year. Will the aame thing happen to the Invincible Yankees? Hank Greenberg, Detroit's first baseman, who la in the throes of a comeback, thinks the Yanks will go the way of the Tigers a year ago. "Things happen to you when you are on top that you haven't any control over," aay Greenberg. "I know our club In the spring of 1936 after we had won the world title wasn't the same team which reported re-ported for training In the spring of 193S after we had been beaten by the Cardinals in the 1934 world series. Annoyance Occur "Jealousies crop out Salary arguments ar-guments take a player's mind off hi job. Outsiders Interfere with you. A thousand other little annoyances annoy-ances creep In and all together they hurt a team enough to keep it from playing up to its standard. The Yanks are on top of the world now. That's the danger spot Before they realise it they'll be In a battle they're not ready for, and then it's too late." "Do you mean the Yank won't win?" "Ths only way the Yanks can win again ia to get out in front fast and stay there. If they make a runaway run-away race of it from the start they may repeat but if the race is close they'll blow the pennant." "How do you figure that. Hank?" "Did you ever check up on how the Yanks only win when they can run away with the race? In a close |