El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-09
Age Begins to Tell On Some
of the Athletes Who
Have Been Long
In Harness.
CINCINNATI IS
EXPECTED TO Do
MUCH BETTER
New Managers for Philadel-
phia, Brooklyn and Bos-
ton May Meet With
Greater Success

Without the responsibility Of carry
ing the championship on their shout
ders which they carried in 1909, and
which they tried with such zeal to de-
fend, and with Chance and Evers both
In condition and ready to play from
the first game OF the season Chicago
may play with more freedom and greater
vim than they did last year And that
is about as far as one can go in making
prediction as to their probabilities.
The New York club enters the cam
paign of 1910 mixture of young blood
and old, as was the case last year It
will not do to underrate the strength
or the club and il will not be likely TO
be overestimated-
Some are inclined to settle upon
MathewsOn as it's greatest asset II is
true that he is wonderful pitcher But
Mathewson is not the greatest asset Of
the team
Its strength lies in its run getting
ability It was in existence last year.
With pitching which was not always Of
the standard which had prevailed in
New York. the players batted and ran
well enough to pull games out Of the
fire which had been lost with less de-
terminatioD at the bat
More uncertainty attaches to the
team in the pitchers box than anywhere
on the field Mathewson can be set
down as certain winner unless in
jured- Wiltse may be accepted as a
fixed factor for success in the majority
Of games in which Re takes part Raw
mond should be one Of the best pitch
ers in the league. and Ames. while win
nlng more games. as a rule, than he
loses, varies in form like his wide
curves There are a host Of young
pitchers in sight, one or two or three
of whom may prove to be successful.
If they do the team has overcome its
most evident weakness
Cincinnati Improving.
Cincinnati Is an improving club
That's one Of the best qualifications
TO be attached TO any baseball team
1t was an improving club all of last
year Though it played some games
"a Wretched form. IL played some games
ers with an intelligence which showed
far deeper insight into baseball than
had been possessed by some Cincinnati
clubs of the past
The younger players of the Cincin
natl club are helping to make il. Hozlit-
zell at first base has steadied a posi-
ton which needed class Egan has
proved far better second baseman
than was expected Downey at short
and Lobert at third, while perhaps not
the greatest combination PLAYING on
that side OF the diamond. are a safer
pair of fielders than experiments used
by Cincinnati in the past.
The pitching staff is not over strong
In its members, however there are foIr
willing workers who can stand abund-
anee OF effort Should Spade prove to
be better man than ne was laSf wear
Cincinnati viii profit by having one
more pitcher who is likely 20 be ahra
10 take a regular turn in the hoy Or
the younger pitchers there is a story
TO be told similar to that of every otber
club In major. league baseball-thev
may be great and they may be released
before the summer is out
"PhiIIiess and Their Wenkne
The ailments of the PhiIadeIDbia clrh
In 1909 were little of everything. II
is scarcely worth while 10 enter into
a diagnosis of them. for It is not wbat
allied Philadelphia so much as what
Philadelphia may do this year which
bears on the case
Unless radical changes are made In
the team the Philadelphia will place
on the infield the same PLAYERS who
made up the infieid of 1909 BransfieId
first base. Knabe second base. DooIan
shoTtstop and Grant third base will
hold the fort for the Ouakers. II isa
aticve. hard working infield, but not
one of acute perception Even Doom
with all of his sprightliness. will FIND
1T as hard to get the players to in
terest themselves in the tactics of their
opponents as Murray did
Philadelphia can bat and can field
The team should be able to make rms
and TO teach the players how 10 make
them is the task before Doom. It is
to that with which Murray
commended There are not few who
believe that more than a change OF
managers Will eventually be demanded
in Philadelphia
Not a Championship Team.
Brooklyn also begins the season with
a new manager and with no claim OF
championship aspirations. William
Dahlen is TO handle the team IF can
make the players play ball well IL will
be as much as I shall hope to do in the
first year." said Dahlen. Il think that
they should make a better showing than
they have made in the past I don't
know that Brooklyn will even get into
the first division. and I am not pre-
tending that think the team is strong
enough to do so. but I do think that
the players should win more games
than they have in the past. and that is
to be my aim throughout the summer
to put more winning games to orr
credit than we have had in three saa
sons"
The greatest strength which has been
added TO the Brooklyn team. except in
the batteries. Is Wheat. He is a fine
young player OF much promise. Behind
the bat. Erwin gave such good sc
-ount Of himself for Rochester last VEN
that he IS expected TO be able 10 hold
MS own in National league CITY.
Changes at st. Louis
The St Louis club, by judicious trade.
md systematic arrangement, is a aat-
Ter looking nine than il was in Tho
middle OF the winter. 1t is experiment
al because Bresnahan is still at the
ask OF trying TO reconstruct a team
which had been fairly well shattered
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