The Minneapolis journal., 1906-04-24
DOPE OF THE DAY

DOESN'T 1T MAKE you feel as If some one
had turned the standing Of the clubs upside
down when you see Boston at the ton of the
pile?
SIX OF THE MANAGERS in the American
league, in interviews, concerning their chances
have claimed the penant Some one is going to
be disappointed.
ANOTHER DUSTY RHOADEs has broken
into baseball The giants have new catcher
named Fitzgerald who has never tasted liquor
or tobacco. He complains of being lonesome
COM1sKEY thinks his Chicago team will win
the American league pennant, with Cleveland.
Detroit and Philadelphia following IN the order
named.
JACK POWELL. the browns, big right
handler, weighs thirty three pounds less than he
did at the close of the 1905 season.
''YoU CAN NEVER TELL said Jimmy
Collins who has been reading Bernard Shaw.
I'VE have won the pennant twice running.
when many people thought we could not and
perhaps we will do it again this year. There's
10 use making predictions in baseball"
eff WE FINISH in seventh place we'll be
one notch ahead of C1eveland,'' is the shot Clark
Griffith gives Lajoie.- e..
THE WORLDS championship pennant to be
given the New York giants will have inscribed
on it "Champions of the World, 1sO5,'' If
President Brush's request is granted. AS the
title belongs to the giants during the season of
1905, and did not in 1905. it would seem more
In accordance with custom If the "1eO5'' were
brought up to date. -.
lOVERALLS SIZE would indicate that there
are plates with which he is more familiar than
the one over which he could not get the ball.
Exchange. %. I~... .-.,Sr. r-s"" -" {. l.
MATHEWSON IS rapidly recovering from his
illness and should be all right in day or
two with warm weather. r.- s. ..s =. IL
BROOKLYN is having hard time to show
that the team plays faster than it did last
year, but it does, for all that. .s-s" g.
1.-THE GREATEST handicap we had during
our spring work was inability to get much
batting practice" said John. McGraw, "and
it looks If Of the other teams might
have encountered the same experience"
EVIDENTLY the Boston Americans are agree
ing that the 'hoodoo" which ''summered' with
them in 1905 has found quarters in the same
lodging house. E,s
McGRAW has plenty Of backstop material
Besides Bresnahan and Bowerman there are
Smith, Fitzgerald and Marshall.
| MAYOR WEAVER unfurled the American
| league pennant at the athletics opening game
| in Philadelphia s-s.s
"IF WE CAN report back to Cleveland June
in the first division, don't think it will be
any great while before we are hanging around
the top" remarked Lajoie. I'VE should break
even the western trip, anyhow, and pull
down twothirds of our home games in May
| McALEER believes that in young Spencer
| his ranger recruit. he has the best backstor
| In either league. "By the time this Texas LAD
has picked up few Wrinkles says the ST
Louis mogul, there won't be anyone in ths
| business who has anything on him."
] NEALON, THE new first baseman acquired
4 by Pittsburg. made an immediate appeal to tn.
! smoky city fans when he slammed out lons
4 two-bagger In the twelfth inning of the open
i ing game with Cincinnati. This opportune binglt
scored the winning run in most sensati0na
4 contest. Nealon made three hits altogether ant
in the field had sixteen putouts. one assist an.
one errer.