The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-14

! OLeary so braced up the team that
| ii forged ahead and won out.
AS additions TO his strong box corps
OF last year, Jennings has three good
youngsters in Jones. Speer and La
fitte Willetts and Summers. two new
stars in the American league frma'
ment last year, will shine with added
luster this season, Jennings says. So
the Titian-haired Hughie can't see
how the Tigers can be shut out OF
their third successive pennant.
Maps Dangerous, But
The addition OF old Cy Young. who.
like a city corner lot, improves with
age, TO the Cleveland pitching stan,
makes Lajoies bunch look dangerous.
Cleveland has looked dangerous so
often. however, only TO have the fuse
go out. that she Is not generally
picked for the front seat. Bradley Is
believed to be weakening at third
and with "A big question mark after
Terry Turner at short, due TO tangled
shafting in his throwing arm. the in
Ter works OF the Maps looks none too
strong.
Minus Manager Fielder Jones IL is
hard To figure the Chicago White Sox
any stronger than last year. Jones
refused an offer OF $4,000 which
shows that ball players may now
speak of their salaries rather than
wages. The White Sox bid fair to
remain the Hitless Wonders. winning
a majority OF games by brains instead
or Drawn. The personnel will be
practically unchanged, with the ex-
ception OF Jones.
The other upper berth team Of Lass
season, the St Louis Browns, IL
picked to put up the same scrappy
game and is sure to be a factor. The
addition OF Lou Criger, the old Bos-
ton catcher. TO the team will bolster
II up where II was lamentably weak.
The Others Experiments.
New York will experiment with a
team made up largely OF youngsters
and managed by George Stallings. the
Highlanders being one OF the few
teams that Stallings has not hitherto
managed. The Highlanders will only
have to finish seventh TO do better
than last year and IL you want to get
fight out OF Stallings, just hint
that the Hilltoppers won't do this.
Connie Mack's Athletics will have n
veteran pitching stan In Dygert.
Coombs. Bender, Plank and Schiller
but he has patched up both his in and
outfields with some new cloth" that
he says will wear we'll and may
bring third pennant to Philadel'
phia."
The Boston Red Sox have receiV ed
n heavy ante-seascn vote for the
cellar championship. principally due
to the fact that one of the first things
Manager Fred Lake did after assum-
ing control was 10 sell his biggest
asset. Tia famous old battery OF
Young and Criger. This pair were
equivalent to about half the team and
only In the event that the fatcs have
been kinder TO Lake than the exhi-
hilton games have indicated will their
loss prove other than fatal.
Washington is feeling so good over
having escaped her usual position az
the bottom last year that Joe Can
tillon Is making noise like the first
division. II Washington had another
pitcher like Walter Johnson, who last
season shut New York out three times
in four days. Cantillon would be taken
more seriously Many students OF the
dope sheet are picking the Senator'S
70 beat out Boston and New York
In the nine years that the American
league has been - major organiza-
tion. Chicago has won the pennant
three times and Boston. Philadelphia
and Detroit twice each.