Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-12

year and learn from watching such
stars as Bender and Coombs.
Practically the same situation OBJ
tains in the camp of the Cubs. Man
ager Chance has added Pitchers
Toney and Grinen and Outhelders
Doyle and Shean but they will prob
ably be for emergencies and fall of
regular berths. Toney looks to be
the real goods and Chance Is certain
he has uncovered another wonder
like King Cole. If Toney and
Grifen make good, the oft-repeated
cry hal Chances pitching staff was
cracking may be found unfounded.
One thing in the Cubs favor 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 oldtime form and
Chance says he expects 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 a place In the
outfeld at the last moment, in place
of Snodgrass. The Giants got a
miserable start last year, to which
fact Manager McGraw attributes the
loss of the pennant. This PEAR he
counts ON a better beginning and has
fortified his team against reyerses
as far as 1t Is possible for human in
genuity to do 30.
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ed particularly good this a be-
OF the belief that Mathewson
Is as good as aver and that Pitchers
Raymond and Vanguard will be Of
tremendous service to the team.
Marquard has found the thing he
needed most-control. II these two
moundmen meet specifications, Nc
Graw will have about the niftiest
pitching stan In the National League.
The only change In the Pittsburg
lineup Is the placing OF Hunter at
flrst, In place OF Flynn. Hunter Is
the umptyumpth man who has tried
to play first for the Pirates since
Kitty Bransheld quit smoketown.
Some of these days Manager Clark
Is bound to and a good man for this
bag-on the law Of ehances-and
those who have seen him, say Hunt
er IL 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
CASTOR, Is showing great form. That
Cincinnati has = good team-eyen a
dangerous team nc n will deny
but the team has blasted hopes SO
often that 1t Ia next to impossible to
consider Grifith's men as anything
more than trouble-makers for others.
In Fromme and Gaspar, Griffith has
two men who should win a big ma
jority of their games il their arms
remain intact.
There is the usual talk of Brook
Ign and st. Louis breaking into the
first division this veal but If either
of them does, it will be the surprise
of the season. AS for Boston, the
verdict of baseball writer's is almost
unanimous that she will win the
BOBBY prize hands down. There
doesn't seem a chance for any other
team to rob her of the dishonor. If
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-
lions.
Manager Chase's New York High
landers, runners-up last year, are
generally picked to repeat this trick,
although 1t 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 well at second and Johnson,
Hartzell and Elliott are fighting 1t
out for the positions of third and
shortstop. 1t Is divulging no secret