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Show HOODOO FOLLOWS NAPS' EACH YEAR Before cutting loose on the 1013 Naps with figures and dope on how they may land the pcrihunl, let's take n las sane look at them. Jake Stahl, manager of the world's champion Red Sow expressed his opinion opin-ion of the Naps while the world's series se-ries was on. Jake felt gossipy after the third Red So,-Giaut battle. The count stood two victories for the, Red Sox, a tie game, the Giants fielding badly bad-ly and Mathewson found for siv runs in the tie game Jake thought he saw the finish of the big series Just around the next corner and he began to talk about the 1913 struggle in the American Amer-ican league He complimented tho Athletics and "Washington, predicted Improvement I for a couple of other teams and fiual- lj hit upon the Naps I "The Naps." said Jake, "will prob-i prob-i abl throw a scare or two into the i leading teams, but I don t believe they i will laud In the first dhislon, al- though they should, with all the talent tal-ent they hae. I "They will be hoodooed by injuries I to Lajoie or Turner, and maybe both I "Look over the Naps' record for the ! past four years and you will find I that an injury to ono or these two 6tars has always viven tho club a I bad backset. "Lajoie went down and out this season with a sprained back. He was j ! Injured in Chicago, just as the team !hlt Its stride. Had Lajoie played the ! season through. I believe the Naps would have finished in the first dl-I dl-I vision Larry and Turner are not I fragilo plajers. Thc aie Just hoodooed hoo-dooed " |