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Show WATCH FIELDER JONES Manager cf St. Louis Browns Satisfied With Outlook. Has Shifted His Mei Around and Only Weak Spot Appears to Be Third Base Will Be Formidable Team in Pennant Race. When 20,000 funs turn out to a St. Louis hall piirk on a Sunday in the spring it's nign that the sport is popular pop-ular there. That's the number that turned out at Sportsman's park and the crowd was rewarded by a double victory over the White Sox-one Sox-one of the battles being a no-hit nlTair. Fielder Jones is getting under way again. Predictions were made before Oie season opened that Fielder had profited by the 1916 campaign, and luiu noted how the combined players from American -and Federal leagues shaped up. This has evidently been coming true. Jones has shifted his men around and now is fairly satisfied with the results. The only spot that can be called at nil weak is third base, where the veteran Jimmy Austin holds forth. St. Louis fans are impatient because Austin is kept there or at least a good percentage per-centage of them are but Austin is a crack fielder, nnd hits in streaks. He Is the best they have for the job at present. Jones, according to St. Louis scribes, would rather beat the Sox than any of his other rivals. He drives his men to do their best against his old team, and has been sensationally successful of late. Fielder Jones Is unquestionably a great manager, one of the best in the history of the game. He always gives the best he has to his men and superiors. superi-ors. He plays every game to win, at no time does he give up. In this respect re-spect he is an exact counterpart rf Hughie Jennings, the great leader of the Detroit Tigers. It's too early to do much predicting, but one can be fairly safe In stating that the St. Louis Browns wlU be a formidable team in the race this seh son, nnd cannot be too closely watched. Jones won a pennant with a less effective effec-tive team 11 years ago, and has his eyes set on the same direction in 1917. |
