The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31
file Outlook for the
Present Year on the
Diamond.
.lJ WILL ATTEMPT TO
|EpEST VESTS SUPREMACY
|, This End Everything Posi-
|bIs in National Sport viii
Be Done.
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sy HARRY c. PUIliAM. =


4 rpt,sIden, of National Leasue)- =.
An Indications point TO the most =
xorsssful season Tor the Nation r
4 ,IJeacuc. and for baseball in gen. -
.,l IN the history of our game =
mG organized pastime. So far as =
. n, league is concerned of which =
am the head, I believe that we =
4 sssl BE- able TO regain the worlds =
tksnponship from the American =
4 Itsgue at the end OF the year. as -
10 my mind the clubs OF the Ma 4.
! ltrol organization have been =.
. rreag,hened by tile changes which =.
A ave been made during the winter. -
! Icok for closer and better race =.
\ M The National League pennant !.
! tsn for the last five years | am !.
lso OF opinion that the baseball =.
\ 4 this summer VIII be the most y
a r.stlc that the patrons OF the :.
4 EoTi have ever witnessed. =.
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5y John B. Foster.
hghall during the season OF 1907
||h richer promise Of pleasant enjoy
II than II has since the initial year
=. National leagues organization, and
Il Is going back TO the beginning OF
II 30 far as We know baseball as the
LES greatest pastime,
1He three possibilities, gathered from
Pc observation OF conditions every
N ere most likely TO be demon
I'd.
|kcas.
|h
asfaetlon.
4. otter is presumed ~ be the happy
the baseball enthusiast. Condi-
esyc so shaped themselves by the
t'u Of the two clubs Of Chicago last
oas In the National league, and the
w 10 the American league, and the
~ victory OF the American league
@ inot OF the National league
2. Hords championship. that all The
~ indulgence OF the East is 10 be
s0 Into The struggle TO wrest supre-
III tho national sport from the
e are ncartbreakings among the
~ managers. and for that matter
he ball players who constitute
,.aps ol The East, that III two cam
Mey could not hold their own
western teams, and fell. If not
%usy al least very dejectedly.
uiso a feeling OF resentment on
~" ~. !" INC Eastern enthusiasts that
nh"u should ruthlessly grasp two
~. ~ wnhants in It's gigantic fists and
"a ue East even q league cham
es''p over which 10 make merry and
~ question Of sectional supremacy is
~" Feeble sentiment as some may
s,ask ask the commercial traveller
bIs ys from one ocean TO the 9TH
n.on ms occupation and nc will tell you
d. p'n slt and argue by the hour as
tive neative merits of the baseball
'.n represent their half of the
arc enu ne VIII tell you. too, that
1sn, a,ouSed 10 such pitches OF re-
ii ,,a, ano such outward evidences of
teaca, tometimes It needs the VIII
= an ;ah9r orn;nr 10 come along and re-
- aillcable understanding.
5.,Ve move which has been made bv
|.Srsn clubs OF the National and
a ib,r iesgues to strengthen their
tnmrh Sedr mas been with the idea
IN IN ny reaching some weak
'ie afnlor of a Western adccr-
ri,S iS".S nave shaken up their in
INC r u, me hope that they may cut
lzInr nose chop groundcrs" that
- hers lated by the Chicago Ma
indcr. i1a. year in close games. Tho
s1pnosssd nave added pitchers who
ma fha, De proficient in curved
pa The s Tyis may fool the weaker bat
|n'cago Americans this sum-
casJ non. american league club has
f3 Of taGe money than 1t did in the
layentinS' and All for the purpose of
=. who the Chicagos. of that same
Boston !Vunu the weaker spots In
|,A for nainerlcans last summer and
thana tnem steadily.
leai les,o,, y, ownership in the Boston
ksngcd e u club to a large extent
y Ii STAT e personnel of the team,
than 1, rs To-Day II is more forrni-
n n e. was In 1906. and for thai
rs e expected To win more games
pa 20 f.sh fsn.sh adverasricg that beat
9 pbIIaNe trouble a year ago.
'sihsned MT TSliphla clubs have been
sao ses,, me addition of new PLAY
" tat,Is1n TO 10 be OF merit, predicts
~ when ,h Ior The present league
lanpoenn they face the Quakers In
ttlphia naip contests. and thereby
e club club hbGpes boIs TO pull down the lead
Satiyn tatking ntckiding the pennant'
Hag rnoroes .a5es the field confident of
Mhan ~ games from Chicago I'm
,llrou@gfsrne,, @fre Won in 1906. and titus il
States mhia, all the section Of the
IL the way " ~ car can boast Of moth
@/s feIS Which VIII be made on tine
= With .his summer Incidentally
tpeclally d purpose by each team
" ma,on among the Eastern teams
al any @ organizations. to beat the
\, irue cost, VIC
euiiyss il Nei this has always been
ping tha, n baseball, but ii happens
"a IN 'rat v1authe the feeling is doubly in
'hnera '%W OF the fact that both
u'e beyond the AIleghenv