| Show Cubs Not a as Strong as Believed Too Many Ball BallPlayers BallPlayers Players ers Says J B By CHRISTY MATHEWSON l S I 3 Copyright It has been generally pred predicted ted that the Cubs Cubs' should be the strongest COI co COI tender for for forthe the pennant h in in the National league race this next seas season n. n JIT I Chicago club club may maybe be the strongest on paper but it has been the history baseball dont don't find the paper champions of March winning flags September II I am not afraid of the Cubs Tinker Cubs Tinker has too many ball bail players is e McGraw just before he left for Cuba I agree with McGraw as usual If Tinker wins the pennant next year yearl will have proved himself to be one of the greatest managers in the history baseball The limit has been taken off especially for him and he lie is carry carryl seventy men He will hii have e. e to do a lot of thinking to decide which means the greatest strength I think he will lie awake nights trying to fig it out an and he will have to do considerable experimenting The experts figi that Tinker is going to take his seventy men and get the maximum from the collection He ic wont won't be able to do this this not not for some time after ti se season s no opens ens anyway 81 I I Privately it is my opinion that many of oC the Federal leaguers are overrated Tinkers Tinker's team Is made mad UP up largely of Federal Federal league talent p md-he md is counting counting counting count count- count count- ing on thi this part of the hc clu club I I. I dont don't figure pitchers In the outlaw org organization or or- g were as strong g as on the big bg circuits and I base ase this opinion on the fact that like players Steve teve Evans Joe Tinker himself and some more old oM National leaguers ers t turned up with such corpulent batting averages Joe know knows the Federal FE-deral league lea players that have been with him recently ell eli will have to do considerable sifting to find out how m much ch some lout s me of ot his other me men amount to Tinker has heVer never pro ed Iii In in the big leagues that he is is- isa a winning manager He lie failed with the Cincinnati Reds and some of the the- ball players on that that- club when Joe was running gunning it or IV-or QI tr trying ing to run it with the the assistance of ot the directors of of he the club c the Cincinnati baseball writers rs and the vox of Ile Redland fo that they the did not think Joe w s l n great shakes as a manager manage E But But- tJ this this may be du due to Jealousy jenIous Fe all players think a a. new manager knows knows' any more more- abo about t baseball than theY do do or as much especially es especially es- es es- es if it a club Is not is-not not winning A friend of mine on n the UIE St St. Louis Federals is responsible for th tile the statement State state- ment mont that he does not ilot think Fielder Jones is a great manager manar r. r Ot Of C course urse Jones pot results Jand l you ou cant can't n e-n o h he- he hind returns for it looks as ifa if it a a. worlds world's championship in 1906 with wIth wit light hitting ball club that didn't serve the decision the hardest ach ment meat in the world Jones may h hb hr l i r b become com a a. little rust rusty tuning his la lafor lam ai for ba baseball eban changes rapidly as r idly and a a. man must ke jf l to d date t Here is what the player aw worked under Jones last year had say ay ar ab about lt it J f j r 4 don't dont nt think so much of ot Jon JOE Matt Matty H He doesn't look to me lik lika a gr great at manager comparing him w the ma managers ag rs I have worked fo for may be rust rusty S A AThis I This comes from a a. player who s Is nr inclined l to knock and for that reas rea reasI I t take ke some stock in it In Tinkers Tinker's case cast castI I believe it will the old stor story of a collection oft that have not grown up together ing The old Cubs and w stars star but they became stars and were not collected after their ri had nad ad been made But theE the Phillies with Delehanty Lajoie andrest and an rest and n last season th the with Eddie Collins Eddie U r Joe Jackson and some more fh pricer talent failed to win pennants If th the Federal leaguers fall down v 1 fast company this year I know oriEl oin who wont won't shed any tears and t Jl mourning over It His name is Ban Bar Dreyfuss of f Pittsburg He ha fused to do any bidding for for forn Federal league players claiming it they are not of the caliber to n mi m good in th the National league j jI I 1 will be laughing at all alt you folio eHo wh who are being trimmed for big for these bl bloomers he said to an t magnate when the auctioning was a aIts a aits its he height They wont won't be he worth worth worth-re to toon on your b bench Wait Vait and see see seeS seem m S Jm There will be a lot of miss missing In from ball p players ayers this we Guys that want to hold their jobs jobs jobs-ca eM afford it I think you yo will find 1 handed batters getting their blow sl I left handed pitchers and a a. general all along the line It lUJ 1 I always seemed to me mo that the idea ta t t. I a left handed batter baiter cannot hit alia aU handed pitcher r was the bunk X T Ti dont don't excuse a a. rl right handed handed bt-handed bat bat batI I when when- he lie falls to connect with a a. ri handed pitcher But I suppose the thelt t. t I ory prevails that all left left-handers c er lr batters or pitchers are they would not bo be left handed m I How However ver Speaker and I Doyle oyle I Ty TV Cobb are so somo sonO no of ot the left han bust southpaw pi li I batters who can log In If Jt I w were ra a manager I 1 would 1 I yank ank a left-handed left batter hand pitching This encourages hi hIt hid tho the notion notton that he cannot hit a sf SOM soi paw Often handed len b get a n. chance to swing awing on left left left-h left left-hj h I Of left handed batters 1 good right-handed right pitch There are a lot of hands in this of ot the Article But thEY the handers have to bo be JC good against 5 so I 1 rEd Clarke Clarko was one r no m could never pitch to He lie could kill and I have ha figured out outrE rE reason ealon son or this He lIt TV was wafa a- a aa a left left- left leftha ha batter hatter iU ind lId l hit late at thE ball therefore would crack a It fast Dal ha left leU field When the slow fades fade came camo up up be he wO I d hit it in tn front ther and amI bust it to tu i right rig i Ut field t tor for or three thieo bases s. In oth other words 1 Ih His iha style you could not fool him hint a It change of pace 4 Yes sir J-ir ir That ried 1 l 11 W V tou tough h bird hird for forme m me IA to pit h to lO an anju and ju Just joist t as Rind glad n he 1 i iH out of the leHe heHe le lc He ma may help lidi me to still stick in Ul it |
