The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-06
YANKEES AND SENATORS
LOOK DANGEROUS THIS YEAR
THE YOUNGSTERS OF CHANCES
TEAM APPEAR TO HAVE THE
GOODS-SENATO IN RACE.
OTHER MAJOR GOSSIP
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New York. April 5.--(SpeciaD Only five
more days now and the crash of bah
against bat. or the catchers mitt, will
resound through the land.
If was called on to pick the game
which will have the most general interest
for the fans of the country. l would
have no hesitation IN picking the game
between the New York and Washington
clubs of the American league. 1t is here
that Frank Chance viii receive his bap-
tism Of fire in the younger league and
It's going to he mans Job for him
at that Flushed with the wonderful work
Of last season. with Walter Johnson in
the box Washington is no easy pick
Ing for any mans club If Chance with
last seasons hopeless tai-enders is able
to make amy sort OF a showing against
Ciriffiths team, it Will be a feather in the
cap OF the Peerless Leader.
Chances entry into American league
society will be a hot, II not cordial one
all the way through After Washington
and Johnson finish up their engagement.
he viii be called on to meet the cham
pors and Smoky doe Wood and then the
Athletics and Eddie Plank. It's a cheer
ful prospect for a tail end club with a
II Chances men come amy where near
breaking even in the struggle, they will,
have To he reckoned with when the dope
artists begin to hgure on pennant win
ners.
The fact that "Rube7 Mar .luard is ap-
parently ready to pitch winning ball is
good news to New York fans however
it may strike the balance OF the circuit
1t means that McGraw has about as pret-
IS bunch of pitchers ready as man
ager ought to have TO start big league
season
1t looks very much as though j. ].
would repeat his old tricks aud get off to
running start.
Wonder how Mordecai Brown is going
to show UP this season Reports indi-
cate that the miner is in fine condition
and is effective If these reports are
borne out as the season advances. 1t is
going TO have a big effect on Joe Tinker's
chances. With Tinker and Brown going
good, 1t will take some ball team to beat
the men from over the Rhine.
Joe Tinker is considering taking a..
Reds on a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii, mex;
winter Fred Church, an Alabama ma.
with business interests in Honolulu, has
popped the question and as answer h9-
received a promise from Tinker that the
trip will be taken if he finds that all de
tails can be worked out satisfactorily.
Baseball is the most popular game
played In Honolulu" says Church. The
game now Is being taught to school chill
dren. Six leagues have been formed and
the game has been developed to a high
point. Natives of the island learned the
game from American soldiers and like II
better than any of their own games.
Grown boys and men play all the time
op ba ettf at a nj ff
especially the league contests The popu-
lation is big enough to insure large
crowds Honolulu people never have seen
a regular club from the United States,
hut are more than anxious to get look
at one The Reds would not need to
carry enough players TO make up two
teams for there are enough good players
in Honolulu to give the big leaguers
strong opposition
After hagglng all winter for salary
Of $500, catcher James Archer of the
Cubs secured o four years contract from
Charles Webb Murphy the other day at
$1,000 a season Archer then announced
that he was in fine condition and pre-
Gicted that the Cubs would win the pen
nant. Archer and Bresnahan, therefore,
win compel Murphy TO pay $4,000 for
his backstopping department this year. 1t
is now in order for Murphy to insure
Archer for $4,000. or perhaps more
tured the game. He gave up only three
hits and struck out six men. Both Hem
derson and Williams, who pitched for
the visitors, We're hit hard Mobile se-
cured 13 hits, seven of them two base
hits.
At Annapolis: Amherst 0, Navy 5.
At West Point: Army 2, Dickinson l.
At Wichita. Kan: Pittsburg, second
team, 9: Wichita, Western, 5.
New York; Columbia 8. Rutgers Z.
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