New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-07
That Is, if the Predictions OF
April Come True IN
October.
CHANCE FOR THE YANKEES
Likely to Finish in the First
Division-Superbas Look
Stronger than
Year Ago.
By Herbert.

Year Ago.
By Herbert.
Picking baseball teams I'm April III 'he
order in which they may finish IN Octooer
,s \ joyful little lob. The best part OF 1t
is however. that everybody forSets III
october what the Nould-be prophet pickeu
in April. which has its advantages 20:
The last six or eight years l have sald
IN myself This is the last, Never
again" or words TO that effect, put IKE
New Year resolutions. they are never
kent. The fans" or at least some oil
them, must wager. and TINS IS the u'"e
when the crop is most plentiful furtner
than that the fans for something e's'
IN talk about insist upon getting mo
controversies over this team or tha', anu
then baseball writer's and sporting eui'o'
are bombarded with letters. with reQues's
for opinions. FOR the purpose. no 0ouo'
Of getting little moral support 80 II -
that / am plunging once more INTO Tue
whirlpool Of IFS" and "andS' and puts
and getting lot Of fun out Of it. too IN
an effort to pick the teams Just eAac"'
as they will finish. and TO satisfy some
readers. at least. that they know qul'e
as much as any paid critic.
ON Wednesday the hOarse cry oil INC
umpire will be heard in Brooklyn wien
tho Superbas and the Philhes ENJOY
little special opening all their own Oh '''
National League season. rms COURTESY
was extended. and rightly. to CharleS H.
l.bbots and his associates i'm the broohiH"
ci,,b because of his enterprise IN Uuiiu''7
nov mark which is credit TO greater
Vow York and to baseball ON the iollo"-
inc day the six other CLUBS IN 'he y"
,ioral League and eight clubs IN inc
American League will jump OH III
long gruelling races which VIII iedu w ~
another worlds championship series ""e''
the DAYS ar beginning to get snort anu
gray. some time in October.
LAYING aside all prejudice cf'u'
and prophet starts that waN-the e's"'
teams i'm the National League Will pi"hse
o,d 6qbt their way through loi games
and finish as follows New YORK 'Oldh'S''
pittsburgh. philadelphia. Chicago BROOK
,vn Cincinnati. 81. Louis ana boS'o"
This is a little bit hard on the bos'oi
provos hut then some team has TO hhiSh
,,st II is understood. OF course tnat no
ororantee goes with this bold raced pre-
aio,ior everybody : welcome TO MS
o,, oniniop. and anyway. II plunge y
60 no made one might as we'll go lh an
o,.er as m only wet his toes The reasons
n,v,. .hore arc nlenty Of them--that 49,
olontv with which to satisfy myself anu
am Just in the humor I" 90 some 'o''
fding.
The Giants Won the National League
pennsnt last year. leading the o'"eI
climbs i'm base running. hitting anu iD
getting. They were none too sUohs ue
fensively. or. in any case there "eie
many lapses in the fielding. Dut inc"
sneed and aggressiveuess overcame '"IS
bapdicap and landed them on the TOP
The team is no weaker this season !"
fact. If looks a little stronger II Is quite
..o.sib,e that Rurns will be an asset IN
The outfeld. and that THY shaier Al
short will bolster up the inner works a
bit. but in any case the newer men WI"
have In be on the jump every minute "
keen such veterans a : Devore OF Shou-
GRASS and Fletcher out Of their oid places
and this will inspire a rivalry that shouid
make for good Then, too, the pitching
STAFF appears stronger and better bal
anced. Big Jeff Tesreau did not come
into his own until late last year whereas
this season he should be power from
the start. Leon Ames is said 10 have
developed a splitter and 70 be better
than ever. while Demaree and Goulait
may turn out To be the "hnds that their
work on the training trip would indicate.
The dependable Matty and the brilliant
if at times cratic Marquard, also can
be counted on, so that there is every rea-
son TO lie optimistic John J. McGraw IS
al the helm, which means much, while In
passing It may be suggested that few
managers are so well fortified with capa-
bic substitutes as an offset TO accidents
which are bound 10 happen.
on paper the Pittsburgh Pirates look
like the contenders. They can boast OF
one Of the best pitching stats in the
country with Hendrix, who led the league
last year: O'Toole, Camnitz. Babe Adams
and Robinson; while the inheld, with one
exception. and the outfield, appear to be
well up 10 the standard. Pittsburgh has
long needed a first baseman, and while
Miller is a good man, he cannot be rated
as a star incidentally, the players are
lacking I'm that speed and aggressiveness
which have marked the work of the
Giants. and everything else being equal
This is sure TO count against them in the
long race. The Phillies. II they can keep
ont OF the hospital, will be hard TO beat.
With everything running smoothly Char
lev Doom would have mighty power
frl machine, as il is well balanced in
every particular. 1t is hard TO place
Fogers Fragments, as somebody has
called them. but barring accidents they
should be up fighting in the van most Of
the way
Charles Webb Murphy says the CUPS
will win the pennant and maybe they
will: but 2 team that is going through
the reconstruction with a clever and willy
PLAYER. but an inexperienced manager, at
its head. does not inspire me with much
confidence Frank Chance will be missed,
Joe Tinker will be missed. Miner Brown
will be missed, even though he was not
,nIch use TO the team last year. The
Cubs we're fighters under Chance. and 1T
IS possbie they will be fighters under
robppv Fvers Further than that, there