The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-04-26


ayers Will Try to Produce the Vic
tors.
Stand pat and fight it out on the
same lines as last year." apparently
is the motto of practicallyevery club
in both the National and American
leagues for the coming summer. Few
changes of Importance have been
made from the forces that were align
ed in 1906 and the battles will be
much the same as last year, for the
teams, with one or two exceptions,
will be of about the same strength.
| The battle will be fierce one to
the end, six months away. Which
, clubs will come out on top Is hard
question to answer, but a glance at
the conditions of the various teams
in the two major leagues will con-
vince most fans that repetition of
last years pennant winners is not be-
yond possibility. Stranger things
have happened than that the two Chi
cago clubs should again win the flags
,, in the National and American leagues
and again meet each other in the con-
test for the championship of the
| world.
In each league there have been
changes in the personnel OF the man.
ayers. Three new managers appear
in the American league and one in
the National. Billy Murray, late of
the Jersey City club in the eastern
league, has been secured to manage
the Philadelphia National leaguers in
place of Hugh Duffy.
At Detroit the American Leaguers
lave new leader in the person OF
Hugh Jennings. long known as one OF
the most famous ball players of the
country. He was playing with and
managing the Baltimore club OF the
Eastern league, and the American
league drafted him to give him the
job with the Tigers, which w. r..
Armour filled last year.
Joe Cantillon, another class A man.
ager to step up. will be with the
Washington American league club. He
was manager of the Milwaukee club
| in the American association last year.
Who the third new manager for the
American league will be has not been
determined. Boston is the club lack
ing leader.
Cast up the chances of the National
league first. With the exception of
the New York Giants no club in that
organization looks, on paper. strong
enough to beat the Chicago Cubs out
i of first place.
Aside from this club there appears
| f~ he Notiouo1 ~ m h1a of
| maintaining the gait the Cubs can set.
| Pittsburg is scarcely as strong as last
year, while Philadelphia appears
| stronger. Duffy has the nucleus of a
good club and with another good
pitcher or two would boost the Phil
lies into championship rank. Murray
has three good box artists now
Sparks, Duggleby and Pittinger. Lush
! and Richie are good men. too. and to
alternate with the regular trio ought
| to make that club a contender with
the Pirates for third place at least
Where the other clubs will finish
will probably be matter of baseball
luck Accidents might change the
face of things generally. Brooklyn.
with a pair of heavy sluggers like Tim
| Jordan and Lumley, looks good now
| for the leadership of the second divis-
ion. with Cincinnati, Boston and st.
| Louis trailing, in what order is imma.
| terial.
Three clubs in the American league
| look good for the pennant next fall,
and with luck favoring either is capa-
BILE of carrying off the flag and meet
| ing the National league champions in
| the fall for the worlds championship.
! These three are. Chicago, Cleveland
and New York. Chicago is the cham
pion of this year, and Comiskey has
practically stood pat on his team of
1906 that beat the Cubs and won the
worlds flag. A few youngsters have
| been picked up, but most of them will
soon be back in the minors again
from whence they came. Team work
and the pitchers are depended on by
Manager Jones to keep the White Sox
at the top, and when they strike a
winning stride they are one of the
hardest teams in the country to beat.
for they can turn hits into runs better
than any other club in the country
| Cleveland has all the earmarks of a
champion. but can't quite attain the
mark. With five regulars batting over
800 and good string of pitchers
there is no logical reason why the
Napoleons can't win the flag this sea-
son, nor why they didn't last year.
Lack of team work is apparently the
trouble and until that is strengthened
the Maps are sure to fall just short of
the premiership.
Grifith's Highlanders appear to be
the most dangerous team, the White
Sox have to face this season. Griffith
has won championships in the Ameri-
can league and knows the essentials
needed to put club at the top. He
has gathered bunch of good stickers,
good fielders and base runners, but is
a trifie shy in the box. The battle
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