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Show Owner of Yankees Rates Huggins as Superb Boss Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, feels the same confidence in his team this year that he did last year, and in every other year in which Miller Huggins has been pilot of the team. So long as Huggins ts at the helm Colonel Ruppert will spend few sleepless sleep-less nights, for in his opinion there isn't a manager In the big leagues who compares with Huggins. The colonel paid a three weeks' visit to the St. Petersburg camp of the Yankees and observed the players In action with his own eyes. Though he refuses to pose as an expert, he does think that he knows, with a fair amount of certainty, when he looks at a group of potential champions. "The team looks as strong to me tiow as it did a year ago, and in some respects stronger," he said. "I think that the infield is stronger with Koe-nig, Koe-nig, Durocher and Lazzeri playing beside be-side Gehrig, than with Dugnn at third. Huggins is fortified with iufield reserves, re-serves, too, and on the whole the infield in-field will be more powerful than it was a year ago, unless something goes amiss, which right now doesn't seem likely." |