Show NING fi- fi FLASHES II By Dr The Associated Press Frees Gloom and nd optimism are run run- running running run ning neck and neck In the th base base- baseball baseball baseball ball training camps The Philadelphia Athletics and the start northward from their Florida retreat next Wednes Wednes- Wednesday Wednesday day with the manager managers ot of bot both 11 teams pretty well discouraged But Dut the gloom registered from the Quaker city c camps was bal bai bal bal- balanced balanced by an On aggressive optimism I expressed by ROb Hornsby Hornby who bid the world 1 sit up and take of ot his St Louis Cardinals The Cardinals Cardinal have hav Just chalked UP their twenty second straight win by drubbing the th ort Fort Worth club of ot the tho th Texas le league leacue gue 7 I to 4 Manager Speake ot of the Cleveland Indians Is another pilot e satisfied with the th condition of his hi men menTh The Indians leave leav Lakeland Flor Flor- Flor Florida Florid Ida ida id Tuesday for tor New N w Orleans with every ery man In shape for the tho tb seasons Masons openIng The Boston Braves Dra also continue to show Improvement as J the th perIod nears the end at St St Pet Peters burr rs- rs burg The Th team Is elated over It I victories and spectators say y the tho outfit looks strong Although the St St Louis Louii Browns Brown hue have m made madea mada e a poor showing In la In the lh south Manager Man Man- Manter Ian Ian- aler ager ter Is l not dIscouraged Critics see sea re great creat possibilities athe 1 in inthe 1 the t team am and believe bellev that It hu has bitting ability although not much ot of it has hu been b en displayed so o tar far The Th Philadelphia pilots made madeno madeno madeno no bones bone about telling of ot the shortcomings shortcoming of ot their teams Connie Slack Mack of ot the th Athletics tlc said the American leaguers were er far farbelow farbelow farbelow below the th standard we w must h have ve The record ot of the Phil Phil- lies nom seems to o speak for itself They have hav lost lort all their exhibition g games mes Hornsby believes his team m mate tn Would offer far more mor formidable competition In the th National pen pen- pennant slant nant r race rac ce than a II year ego co when thy they finished fourth The Th success of ot our club de d ponds on pitching and I believe bellev our pitching staff will wl be b vastly superIor to what It had been he said Hornsby Horneby also alo said mid h he believed his hi Infield compared fa ta favorably with any Infield McGraws McGraw's Giant Giants resume their bat and b ball controversy with the Washington Senators at Tampa today RIng will wl fling for tor the New Yorker Yonkers while Washington will end send Reuther Ogden and nd Marberry to tho the mound V Vance nce of at Dodgers showed YorkI up welt well against the th New York Yankees Yankee Y yesterday at Montgomery Ala Als allowing the th Nei Ne Yorkers Yorker one hit In tn the th four tour innings h be pitched The Th Chicago Cubs Cub di dl divided vided a set of ot games game on the coast cout losing to the th Oak Oaks and Oakland 3 to 1 in the th morning and trim trim mine ming tOte the th San Francisco Se Seals ls In InI inthe the tho afternoon S t to 2 Z Their tel tel- tellow tel fel fellow I low townsmen the th White Whit Sox Sex also took the th measure of ot the Dallas Texas Teza league leacue club 13 tos to s 6 In the th Texas Te a city with Lyon and Cox In the th box The Th clImate at New Orleans has bas not been very vry kind to Boston Boton Red R Sax Box They have only been able to work York 13 IS of ot 16 days day In the Louisiana city rain yesterday causing a postponement of oC a tilt with New Orleans Orion They moved mond t t tod today The rho Th Pirate after trimming Los Lo Aniel Angele Angeles 14 to S 6 left left the th California city last It l t night with every member m mb r of ot the th squad accounted for tOr and wll wit resume baseball ball operation operations at Wichita Kansas Wednesday and nd Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday day dar The Browns Brons will be b Idle Idl at Clearwater for a few days dan day while the Cardinals Cardinal take tak on the White Sox at Dallas tomorrow tomorrow- The Th De- De Detroit De Detroit troit Tigers rested at Augusta Ga 01 Sunday Sundy before a final IloUs week eek of ot trainIng The Th Cin Ciri- Ciri Cincinnati Red lied are ar stilt limbering UP at Miami Luque who pitched I two Innings In Iii a colt regular colt game me yesterday said salol he felt fett no ill III effects from his appendicitis operation lie He H left the th team last lut I night for tor the th bedside of ot his dying mother mother at KaYana Haya |