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Show BARROW GIVES HIS VIEWS i WITH REGARD TO GONFALON CHASE FOR MAJOR LEAGUES ; Yankees Board Rattler for New Orleans Where w& They Will Commence Spring Training; Skipper Gives Reasons for Nam- i W': ing Fielding Club V j BYtaEORGE 15 CHAJDWICK Special to the Standard-Examiner. (Copyright. 192:', by The Standard-Examlnor. Standard-Examlnor. ) NEW YOIiK. Feb. 25. Ed Barrow, business manager of the Yankees, seized a moment today In the midst of his preparations to gei to the Yankee training camp show on the rails for New Orleans to make a sage observation observa-tion about baeball in 1922. He de-claretl de-claretl that rielUngwlll piny n big part In winning th championship tills season. That ir. a really radical stats-nunt stats-nunt )f one t;i!es time to analyze It land real Ices what Barrow Is intending ' to' convey. Every year each good little manager comet out with the announcement that I it takes home runs to win games and that If his team only bals to expectations expecta-tions It will be In the first flight of homing pigeons. That Is perfectly true, but if every club could do that little ihlng the race might result in B general deadlock-Barrow deadlock-Barrow picks on fielding because ho belli ves that some pitchers are rolling down hill In both leagues and if they I can't do any better than they Have been doing it will be necessary Tor llnflelders to come to their assistance, INTERESTING PACTS He. calls attention to some facts (Vhlch nre Interesting. .1 There were teams In 1921 whlcn ; made a better showing than their pit hlng strength warranted because they had all-fired good Inflelders. The HoMton Americans, who didn't have anythlntc tbat could bo called good battlnK. were in the thick of the fray battling for every game They could not hive done that If they had not be.;n one of the best defensive u.ams in either league. i 2. Barrow would not say a word about teams in either league but he admitted that any one could reason by analogy that the New York Nationals might not have done so well had not the pitching staff, which wavered and slipped around all season, received support which made pitchers look slurs of the first magnitude S. The chances accepted and undertaken un-dertaken In 1921 were more numerous numer-ous on the part of many fielders than in other years. This showed that the pitchers were being hammered and that they were being saved by their fielders who were gettinc: over more ground. The work of Dykes of tho Athletics an.l Harris of Washington showed how much pitchers owed to them- j 4. In Uie outfi-)d there wax more 1 1 work on the part of certain B y players and opportunities for great A on the part of others The Wk trouble with tho outfields In general jl , was that they did not develop to cor- ft respom: with the batting The slug- M gers were peppering the fences with Chances but the fielders were not there Jft compared with the days of the -g. Thi point Barrow made is thai it is fv hlgl Important thai i ti im should lr will bnlah' ed between fielding and mr batting. KealiInT that It Is out of the lie I in to combine everything how- A ever sonYe managers are proceeding Ak ii i he tlvorv ih.it they will get as fonS ninny Rood flMders as thv can, es- ReLLh ilichci- h ','pt-n to ' jftH be a little weak fM FAST NFIEIiD fi That is exactly thm play the Giants fflifH made when they got Groh They let IwkvM almost the best outfielder in the Na- j j:H tlonal league cet away In that trade fl I At least he was the best for New I Vork. and wa.s plenty good enough t ) 9 And when they let Burns get away j fl they propped a hole at third base that ' lift nei &( ti propping. WM The luck that came Frlsch's way in ' '' 1921 could not last forever and he '19 i had to improve or the break was apt jfifl to come. So the Giants took no chances ' fjfl w-ith the break and decided that the f SB best thing to do In view of the long J 119 services of Barnes Toney, Nehf Doug- If las md the rest of the pitchers, was il l to prop up the fielding. ill Perhaps the wav Barrow feels about IjL'fl the emphasis to bo placed on fielding ',' 'count for the willingness willing-ness of the Yankees to make a trad u' '- for Srott of Boston- Although Scott I m'I mav not be the best batter in the U$i2 I world, he pels over as much turf be- S 3 I tween short and third and back of K f b ith d i Itiom as n mowing machine. ' If four i Inks, reckoned as eercellent rHi B In the race, could sure of 'i 1 their pitchers f.ich would begin to - j. x i fl horv , A H ship right now. If the fielders of f 'jfl these teams fall down or have a bad Ksssil ear there will be some awful walling lialal next September LLssssl The SI Louis Cardinals are not sure liiH of their pitchers. If all thMr fielders fillfl vhowe.l the ability of Fletcher when the latter was shortstopping for the ClaH Glints St Louis would have an ace fisssssl the team does not possess now. Per- liiH haps no one knew that better than 'Jlll Blclcey when he suggested to Philadelphia Philadel-phia that Lletcher might like to play JiiBfl with St. Louis. DflBsasi |