The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-04-14


founded. One thing in the Cubs IA
vor is the improved form this year
of Big Ed Reulbach, who was out
of the game the first half of last
year from an attack of diphtheria
Reulbach is now hurting in his old
time form and Chance says he ex-
poets to use him In at least fifty
games, counting the pieces, this
year.
The Giants are still another team
that take the field just as they left
it last year, with the bare possibility
that Becker may find place in the
outfield at the last moment, in place
miserable start last year, to which
fact Manager McGraw attributes the
loss of the pennant. This year he
counts on better beginning and has
fortified his team against reverses as
| far as it is possible for human in
genuity to do SO.
New York's chances are consid-
cred particularly good this year be-
cause of the belief that Mathewson
Raymond and Marquard will be OF
! tremendous service to the team.
Vanguard has found the thing he
needed most-cOntrol. If these two
moundmen meet specifications, Nc
Graw will have about the niftiest
pitching staff in the National Lea
que.
The only change in the Pittsburg
lineup is the placing of Hunter at
first, in place of Flynn. Hunter is
the umptyumpth man who has tried
to play first for the Pirates since
Kitty Bransfield quit Smoketown.
Some of these days Manager Clark is
bound to find good man for this
bag-on the law of chances-and
those who have seen, say Hunter is
the man.
Cincinnati and Philadelphia will
show the most changes of any of the
leading teams, due to the swap of
four players. Eddie Grant, accord
ing to reports, is playing a bang-up
game at third for the Reds and
Pitcher McQuillen, another Quaker
castoff, is showing great form. That
Cincinnati has a good team-even a
dangerous team no one will deny,
but the team has blasted hopes so
often that it is next to impossible to
consider Griffith's men as anything
more than trouble-makers for 9TH
ers. In Fromme and Gaspar, Crit
fifth has two men who should win
big majority of their games If their
arms remain intact.
There is the usual talk of Brook
Ign and st. Louis breaking into the
first division this year, but If either
of them does, it will be the surprise
OF the season. AS for Boston, the
verdict of baseball writers is almosl
unanimous that she will win the
BOBBY prize hands down. There
doesn't seem chance for any 9TH
err team to rob her of the dishonor.
Ii any team other than Chicago, New
York, Pittsburg and Cincinnati en-
tiers the first division, the dope all
points to Philadelphia, but Philadel-
phia is a great deal like Cincinnati,
In failing to measure up to expecta-
tiOns.
Manager Chase's New York High
landers, runners-up last year, are
generally picked to repeat this trick,
although it will not be the same
team this year. Austin at third and
Laporte and Gardner at second, are
gone from the lineup this year. JACK
knight. who played short last year,
Is doing we'll at second and johnson.
Hartzell and Elliott are fighting it
out for the positions of third and
shortstop. 1t is divulging no secret
to say that many New York fans
doubt the managerial ability of Hal
Chase. They say that a man who
once deserted his team and brought
about his own elevation through the
medium of disorganizing cliques, is
not the man to hold team together
throughout an entire season. The
Highlanders look strong, especially
in their batteries, and have lot of
pepper, but it is feared that a hard
row Is ahead of them.
Already the word has gone down
the line that Comiskey's White Sox
must be watched closely this year.
Duffy's men have done wonderful
work in practice and there is a feel
Ing abroad that this is the White
that his team should be we'll forth
Comiskey seems to have picked up
a wealth of good new material, SO
that his team should be well foati-
fed at every point. Corhan, at
short. looks like he would create as
much talk as the harem skirt.
Hughey Jennings at Detroit says