The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-02
SAYS PIRATES WILL
HAVE GOOD SEASON
Worlds Greatest shortstop Is op-
timistic, but Expects Hard
Going.
WEAK CLUBS STRENGTHEN
Wagner Lays Poor Showing by
His Team Last Year to Over
confidence. :,
WEAK CLUBS STRENGTHEN
BY JOHN H. t"HoNus'D WAGNER

BY JOHN H. WHoNUS'') WAGNER
HOT SPRINGS. Ark. April Never
since have been playing professional
oall have the prospects for a great sea
son been better than now. Reports from
all sections OF the country indicate that
interest in this grand game of ours is
at IeYer heat. and everywhere fans are
predicting great things for their home
team.
This predicting business. however. is
bad medicine. 1t has ever been the policy
OF the Pittshurg management to side
step anything that might be construed
into being boast. Both President Drey-
fuss and Manager Clarke are. and have
been. ultra conservative in their talk
anent future possibilities; and ! believe
they are 10 be commended for their
stand
Time after time have been impor-
the other one. Writers have written me
asking for an opinion concerning this
thing or that. and newspapers have Of
Tered me large sums 10 write accounts
oi games or something OF the kind.
Takers Eat Grow.
But It has always been my, aim 10
Keep out OF print, You will usually notice
that the fellows who are always talking
for publication have lots of crow TO cat.
They make suesses and they criticise;
and very often they get in wrong.
The result is that they have to make
apologies. retractions. etc. and their
popularity suffers by reason OF this very
fact.
There are times when l would like 10
consider for a while with the result
according to the sage. and / believe lie
made homer when he said II.
The man who talks concerning his own
club some other club. himself or other
stance. that discussed players on the
New York team. Whatever l would say
would. be read by the very players |
talked about, and then whenever the
Pittsburg team went 10 New York TO
play / would be in wrong. The fellows
concerning whom I talked about would
talking about us. Let's go out and get
him; he's suffering from A swelled head -
That's why l try 10 mind my own busi-
ness and leave the other fellows affairs
alone. Every man has enough 10 look
out for himself; none OF us is perfect,
and we all slip up al times.
know Plttshgrg has a strong team
up exceptionally well. II is also plain
TO me that this talk about we "old fell
lows going back is balderdash.
oesyg anG knaW avn 67sn g99g 70 npe SaEe good
cling fast as ever he travelled Tom
my Leach has shown that he isn't slow
ing up. This means. then, that the ''old
fellows" are still on the job.
/ said some time ago that our worst
fault last year was overconfidence; in
fact l believe twas that which lost us
the pepnant. This year l am certain
things will be different. There will be
no overconfidence and every player win
have to be on the jump all the time.
Tie so-called weak clubs have strength
ened and they Will make the going hard
for all pennant contenders. Cincinnati
has rafting good club and the Reds
may be in the running. | haven't seen
any of the other teams In action. but
from what ] can learn from the news
papers they are all just a little better
than they were last year
This means, then. that the race is
going 10 be warmer than the one last
year. 1t means that the team which
hopes to land out in front Will have TO
be going all the distance. There will be
no time for halLs--no time for "slumps.'
The Pittsburg boys are all showing UP
well here and their condition is simply
fine. Hot Springs is a great place 10 train
and I am certain that I. as well as every
other man on the clubs roster, will be
by the stay here.