Show vex ti nw now york rot root service lc flag race future shows few shifts in second guesses guessing the season IS SECOND DETROIT the tigers have been socked hard by injuries they have lost at least four games which probably could have been won with hank greenburg in the lineup there has been some acrimony between mickey cochrane and the baseball writers but most opponents continue to believe the team will win its third straight pennant CHICAGO opponents do not esteem the cubs as highly now us as before the start of the season although they admit the ricilly deal improved the national leaz league ue title titleholders holders they whisper that the arms of lou lon and curt dais have not been improved imp by age tile team to date has not shown championship class 1 but ut at least they should continue better than the white sox sos no matter what happens YANKEES one of the most interesting teams of the year in rival dug outs players say this Is the club the tigers must beat also that jo joe di maggio is by far the best rookie 0 of the year BOSTON siai be grove and ferrell can carry the red ked sox pitching burden all the way to the wire american league athletes do not think so and neither do they believe that the club has enough consistent power to make up tip for occasional sloppy defensive days luck and tony cuccinello have kept the bees up tip so far still they seem destined for last place though GIANTS another team which might do well to prepare for dire visitations from fate players believe that terry is overworking his pitchers and that only a new starting hurler or a top notch relief man will save him in I 1 august ST LOUIS the probable national league winners even though they could use another pitcher and better reserves the american league entry Is by no means as bad as the standings indicate hornsby bel believes lees that one good pitcher might even now lift the browns to fifth place dod dodgers doders C ers are hard luck club of major leagues in DODGERS definitely lacking in punching power but still the hardest luck club in the rna ma jors with an 31 average amount of breaks might at least be even with the mark in stead of far below it since the breaks even up fairly well throughout the course of a season the fans are advised to stick with casey stengel a while longer he has more casey stengel than tha enough pitching talent and should be able to make at least one decent deal before june 15 PI needed pitchers before walte waite floyt went to the hospital a and nd now needs them worse than ever the pirates have power and a more aggressive aggress ve spirit than usual CLEVELAND the indians seem to have too much moxie for their own good because of their careless use of words and spikes rivals always are aiming at them home folks also have weakened on them but the team continues to haunt the dreams of joe mccarthy and M cochrane WASU washington INGTON well managed by ducky harris and always dangerous one pitcher might put them in the first division but there Is little chance of getting him cincinnati young and ambitious and may eventual eventually ty stick in fifth place in spite of their showing so far few players take the reds seriously though philadelphia the Ph lilles did well by themselves la in the cubs deal d pat although somewhat damaged klean possibly Is as good an outfielder outfield cr as athan allen alien kowalak KONval lk can take his starting turn as well as davis dails anti and may become a valuable sales item within a season or two besides but why speak ot of gold or indeed why mention that other baseball auction house bouse which probably still Is doing business in tile the quaker city for all anybody knows NOT IN THE B BOX X SCORE alex kampouris Is beset by the same trouble that afflicts frenchy bordagaray the reds second sacker Is a good little bal ballplayer WaYer but he remember well and runs against orders on the bases charley dressen Is so skilled at catching signs that most of the rival managers have taken to hiding in dark corners of their dugouts while wigwagging wig wagging orders to their athletes steve owen of the pro football giants keeps busy working for his boss bookie tim mara at local tracks during the off season INES from an overcrowded notebook L LINES which merely is another way of saying that the not in the box score dept Is working overtime this thi week gents who should know say that the U S will be knocked off in the olympics this year not enough money to pay for those who do want to go joe medwick uses the largest glove of any major league outfielder its almost a mate for the first basemann ba semans mitt hank greenberg had to discard I 1 after losing 1600 betting on jimmy jimmy kelly spent two more Cs on a dinner celebrating tony Canzon eris victory three of Prince tons best backs may bo be ineligible for football next fall study trouble some soine of the nations leading amateur tennis players are reported to have been sold at a slave market during the houston texas invitation event this spring tile story Is that hint they were put on the block and auctioned oft off to spectators in a gamb rambling liag pool the late laverne fator was tile the bost best of pace among modern riders ile he Is ranked with tod sloan and isaac murphy among the all time great jockeys in the art of rating 1 a I horse along gene moore of the boes bees Is a guess hitter ue ile stands up there and takes tile same cut no matter what Is thrown that means meana smart pitchers soon will fill his life with sorrow keep an eye on reter peter no kin bradley Cr adley the princeton meton soph half miler theres more than a chance bance that liell hell become another bill bonthron Eon Don thron stribling za was toughest To ugliest 70 foe for max alax Sch 0 max Seh says that young stribling gave him his tou toughest ghist fight which means that he has something to look forward to on june 18 artie arlle latham who won fame as a st louls louis browns third 0 baseman and as a giant coach under mcgraw A played his first game of ball at his home in lynn mass it was a game of bean w ts bag with the daughter of pinkham max sc ameling hm eling lydia fred de who still rates as one of the best after 25 years year of soccer refereeing was a belgium schoolboy internationalist the best infeld playing field in the majors Is in ID cleveland ballplayers say they rate the improved cincinnati park as the best in the national league although lie he Is president of one of the count rys largest construction companies johnny millar still finds time to be first V P of 0 the metropolitan soccer league and to render valuable assistance to the welfare island loop ills his friends say that johnny gorman german princeton frosh football coach turned down a a year offer to be head gridiron man at north carolina other tigers gossip that bill lynch pound sophomore fullback Is a cinch to be a star at nassau next nest fall in spite of irish opinion to the contrary mickey cochrane Is scotch eddie mayo newest of the giants bought 5 worth of ice cream sodas with the first money he ever received for playing baseball the looks speaks peaks louder than words department may be interested in knowing that umpire bill stewart declares that bill terry never has hurled a cuss word at him since he has been calling them in the national league joanna vischer daughter of the polo magazine editor was a winner at the cedarhurst Cedar hurst hunts hunt meet the other day betting only on horses that caught her five year old eye in the paddock dizz smiles at davis but has other catcher dizzy dean may smile at virgil davis but crusie 0 still catches him blia mrs fred Frankli frankhouse ouse wears clucky lucky dresses to ball games but tile the luck always hold bold out the dodgers being what they are unless pirate pitcher swift gets int into 0 the habit of throwing oer to first base occasionally runners will steal hi him act right out of 0 the majors according to morty mahoney Ma lioney the part parl expert 25 23 per cent ot of the horse players in florida each winter come from new angland the one point on which aich barney ross and those thos e australian promoters have not agreed Is the referee it if george blake la is picked ross will meet jack carroll young at al vanderbilt who started out in the turf business by betting ten coconuts at a time on his sagamore farms gee gees now shoves in C notes coley madden who Is back in ahe the aimont belmont clubhouse after a four year absence Is noted as one of the best of percentages among the horse players and layers he learned his mathematics at harvard manuel rodriguez famous inside right in the days when the gibraltar A C was knocking off all comers now Is secretary of the brooklyn soccer Hi in those far off days when dan brouthers was the babe ruth of basab baseball all they used to put up small flags to mark the spot where each home run left the park jack onslow dees bees coach says saya that berres and lopez are the best catchers in the national league promoter mike jacobs proved that them as has gets when he visited light fight ramp camp the other day A minimum investment enabled him to hit bit all tile the blot machines lor for all abey the had I 1 1 |