| Show substitute FIRST BASEMAN OF ahe CHICAGO ahlf CUBS ap ik I 1 V O 0 4 alf aw MX U 11 11 lill 01 fred luderus who has been s ened by the former cl amp ons w 11 take big bear chance a place at the in t al sack whenever the th manager doean doesn t want to play luderus has shown well in bract ce philadelphia AND CUBS 1910 CHAMPS CHAM PS WISEACRES SELECT MACK CHANCES TEAMS TO WIN THE PENNANTS DROP TIGERS AND PIRATES knowing ones think last season s W anners will not finish above second place baseball dope un certain mcgraw lauds Mar marquard NATIONAL AMERICAN chicago a pittsburg detro t cincinnati cleveland new york boston philadelphia ch cago brooklyn st lou s at louis new york boston washington chis Is the season rhen the fan be gins to pick the probable winners of the races in the big baseball leagues and the foregoing Is a con census of opinion as expressed by experts in cities where there are major league teams it may be noted that pittsburg Is placed in second position this year most of those who expressed opinions believing the bad luck that kept chi cago from winning the pennant in 1909 will not hit the cubs in 1910 frank chance manager of the chicago club Is in good tood shape thus far this season roger and neither toot foot nor shoulder seems to be bothering him as they did last year with fred luderus as his sub statute chance the fans seem to think has a fine opportunity of gathering in the laurels this year detroit also Is shoved down to sec see ond place by the knowing ones who think hughey jennings and his bunch have won their last champion ship for the wolverine metropolis the tans fans believe connie mack will haye the winner there seems some reason tor for placing cincinnati in third place in the national league as dark clark griffith has a likely bunch of young to sandwich in with nith his veterans this year As to cleveland in the american it Is hard to figure out how the naps will beat out boston the speed boys put up a rattling game last bear ear and should be better this season cleveland has some new men who promise well among them roger utility infielder but the boston bunch will have something to say about the result and it would I 1 not be surprising to see them finish ahead of cleveland reports from Call forn a have not been favorable to the chicago sox and although comiskey has spent a large sum to get new material the wise acres don t eem to have much con in his team rhe others are placed about as they finished last ye ir and the dope on them seems to be better than that on the teams that are expected to be in the top division dope on baseball Is more uncertain than that on the races and these selections may be put down as mere guess work at best manager mcgraw made the rather surprising remark several days ago that he expects rube macquaid Mar quaid to be one of 0 his best winn ng pitchers dur ing the coming season since the training season began marquard has been kept very ery much in the background he pitched in very few practice games and has done comparatively little work of any kind on the side I 1 think we worked marquard most too hard last spring explained me graw and he was so anxious to make good that he overplayed his am his ilia first disappointment at not making good after having been talked about all over the country as a 11 player took the art out of him and his nerve to a certain extent went with it if we can get that idea out of his head and make him pitch as naturally as he did at andl anapolis ana polls I 1 think the giants will have a most valuable man they may say what they please about marquard marquard ald said mcgraw but I 1 know that he Is a good pitcher he has everything that a good pitcher ought to have and no man could have done what he did before coming to new york without having been a good man marquard has been working on a curve similar to matty mattys s ball the only difference being that it is thrown from the port side As it la is perhaps well known the is a slow curve thrown by right hand ed pitchers it breaks to the outside of the plate and that Is what makes the fade away such a puzzle mar auard la Is showing wonderful progress in developing the left handed fade away and it he ever succeeds in con trolling it so that he can make it drop away avay from the batter just as matty mattys s curve drops in toward the batter he will have a wonderful puzzler the giant camp is so enthused over the unexpected pitching brilliancy of parsons the former star of Duc bucknell knell college that the annual christening ot of new curve balls has become a fad they have their sneeze balls their whiff balls their sinker balls their stop balls and all that line ol 01 stuff says catcher robinson but I 1 ain aln t giddin you when I 1 say that this fellow parsons has got a curve that is ab sol new to baseball the only thing I 1 can think of as a nam name e for it would be the fish ball it was thus recorded parsons has the fish ball and it if anybody can S stop top that tor for a brand new curve it its s just j like money in his hand parsons is already known as slim and skinny he ile is so tall that he has to low bridge on electric fans and he is so thin that mcgraw barred him from the hot baths to prevent him from evaporating |
