Show YANKEES ANKHS Y GIVEN 1 EDGE AGAIN IN AMERICAN LOOP Connie Mack Picks New N cw Champions to Yin Win in ill 1928 and 1929 nr sly GEORGE GEORGR CHADWICK Special Correspondent CO of The Stand Stand- ard Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association NEW V YORK Oct 22 Connie Connle Connie Mack MackI I looked up intently to w the stars In Inthe Inthe inthe the cool October sky shook shoo his head sadly and remarked Yes it will be some job to w lick the Yankees In 1928 some some Job Six other managers of the Amer Arner- American AmerIcan ican Scan league are arc thinking the same saint une thoughts as the veteran leader of the Philadelphia Athletics They know at this moment that the Issue of the campaign In the American league In 1928 will mil be seven se clubs against one the rest of the league against the Yanks The American league fears that this team of excellent ball players un under der the mental leadership of Sillier diller HuggIns not only will win the pen pen- pennant pennant pennant nant In 1928 for the third year car in succession but that It will win again in 1929 If II I these seven seen rivals of the Yankees are really anxious to know the intentions of the New York play play- players ers that is exactly what they are arc striving for The Yankees would like lite to establish the fact that If the Giants can win four pennants In succession succession- as they did In 1921 to 1924 1924 so so too can the New York American league team StIR SEEK RECORDS In fact the tise Yanks arc are on the war warpath warpath warpath path to equal every record that has hu been made mado the In-the In the National as well as asIn asIn asin In the American Of course they will be sure to surpass some National league lealue records since there are ore no home honse run batters in the National like Babe Eabe Ruth and Lou Gehrig If the Yankees suffer r no physical Injuries and If additions arc made to w the team with the same degree o of success and good judgment that has has' been manifest under undu Huggins this powerful combination will as likely as not take its third pennant in sue sue- cession Its fourth and mabe maybe its fifth It depends upon the endurance physically and In playing skill that tha the team possesses In all of its post The first threat of lack o of endurance Is at third base the nex next is In the pitching staff and behInd the bat there can be a change which would be helpful Every Esery club In the American league Is set et to beat New York in 1928 bu but if they are to succeed there will have to w be an Increase of strength to w corre cone correspond spend pond with the probable Improvement of the Yankees There was a time when they were wont to w say in the American league Will the Yankees never win mn Since Miller Huggins was lifted from the National league l guc all that has changed And yet jet ct If K one of f the owners of the Yankees Colonel Huston Heaton had been permitted to ha c his way Huggins would have been lopped of off from the New Nest York club In short or or- or der Hustons Huston's Idea of o a baseball man man- manager manager ager aier was wa one v who ho had a a. voice like Ite a roaring lion or a braying braving donkey donkey- donkey I It did not matter which just so there was plenty of voice olce By winning again In 1928 the Yanks will have twice won the Amer Amer- American lean ican league pennant three years jears In succession They w will be the only team except e Detroit which has won the pennant three times in succession I Iwas It was during the Yankees' Yankees first winning streak that Colonel Huston Hutton became vigorous In opposition to Huggins but the managers manager's success success success' forced Huston hutton Into the background Eventually he retired from front the club THREE IN ROW now The Chicago team under Pop P p An- An Anson Anson son son was the first to w win a pennant in major league baseball for a period of of three e years jears ears In 1880 1881 and 1882 The next team to do doIt doIt doit It was Boston under Frank In 1891 1895 1892 and 1693 Baltimore won I three times In a row under Hanlon In 1894 1895 2895 and 1896 Pittsburg had three successive winning years In 1901 1902 and 1903 Chicago came again In 1906 1907 and 1908 Then the Giants took up the laurels In 1911 1912 and 1913 and later on the Giants set a s. new record for their league by winning four years straight In 1921 1922 1923 and 1924 It may be testified that the other club owners of the National league grieved and were sort In spirit be because be- be because because cause the Giants won four times Umes In succession The national league be became be- be became came canto affected with four dry rot in three or four clUes cities because of the Giants Giants' success and the stagnation has not all been overcome even een today What fate Is Li La store for the Amer Amer- American AmerIcan ican league If the Yankees continue their winning ways |