Show TT T IS becoming evident that the yankees of 1910 1940 are not going to d do 0 as much league wrecking this season as they did the last four our years in ahe the first place Joe DIMagg lo in may ay be a doubtful quantity for some time to come and joe Di Maggle means more to the yankees than one might imagine when you remove a hiti hit I ter one of 0 the leading home run punchers and one of the best of all defensive outfielders you are losing something no team loam can afford to I 1 lose oae not even the yankees the odds are that dimaggio DiMagg lo will be as grantland good as ever ln in a nice hice short while but he will still be a gamble A wounded knee Is always a gamble ask any good trainer another angle here Is another angle one of the rival managers gave out recently for the last tour four years he said most of us as have taken it for granted that hat the yankees be stopped they were just too good partly for this reason too many of our teams were beaten before a yankee game started but you get tired of taking too many beatings they begio begin to leave a deeper sting this ibis season find most of the teams out to beat the yankees hustling bustling harder than they ever have before this can make a lot of difference especially as the yankees after four big years wont have the same keenness they cant have it human nature 1 I remember hearing ty cobb say once that three or tour four years of success was about all any ball club can carry this mean the yankees cant win again but it does mean we should have a real race this season spirit and the dodgers this matter ot of team spirit brings us alongside the dodgers I 1 asked larry macphall MacPha tl how he accounted lor for that wild and woolly getaway the dodgers put on this season hustling and spirit larry airry said 1 I honestly think we have 25 per cent more spirit than any team la in baseball we a great team as tar far as playing personnel goes but we have a hustling manager and a hustling bunch of fellows who keep on their toes from start to finish As you know from the old days at camp sevier in greenville larry continued ive been around quite a while looking things over officer maclarry macphall phail around 1917 and early 1918 was stationed in the next sno snow w covered lot with colonel luke le leas as JIM FA and he happens to be one of colonel colnel leas crack 0 officers willing to try anything including a kaiser yes ive been around quite a while larry continued but I 1 ai avent seen any better spirit in either cither baseball or football than brooklyn has this year we have a great city back of us one of the greatest baseball cities in the history of the game when you ou can braw more thin than a million people with a team trying to finish third and just making it you can lin understand der stand the type of tans fans we have on our side dont forget that ancans a lot tops ire in team spirit it if we have 25 per cent more spirit than any other team carries and I 1 think we have havethe the average brooklyn tan fan has 40 per cent more spirit than any other tan fan he may turn against us its a little it we start flopping but why he the main acain business of a big league ball club is to win ball games but it if we give hima him a chance no other tan fan can rally a as a quickly this season we ve put out tor for talent we lose from the weather we needed badly try to match that break the two best baseball citi cities esin in the country are brooklyn and detroit they win winghing going away they know baseball and they love baseball they are well ahead of new york and chicago whose topless towers surrounded bounded by nearly people are overshadowed they want winners ars but more important still they love and know the game in this respect they have taken the play away from Boston the real cradle of baseball knowledge and interest some years ago there was a time when boston was th the e main bi baseball citadel ot of swat boston is still till a great baseball city but it a brooklyn or a detroit in a four month tour lour ot of some miles through winter and spring ive found that about 70 per cent of the outsiders are pulling for brooklyn oto to win the national league pennant and for boston to flythe fly the Ameri american cali league pennant at the red sox rampart |