Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-06-28
Feel Certain They VIII Be Able to
Make Better Showing in Base
BAH Than in Past Years.
BOSTON RED SoX ALSO TALK
ABOUT NEXT YEARS WORK
Detroit Hopeful That Navin Will Sign
Cobb Early Enough to Get
Start in Big Race.
By Hal Sheridan

| LbNAIAD FhLSo EAbLD NIkE.l
Next year there II be laughter and sun.
shine,
Next year there II be hopes for the
crew,
Next year Wen have pitching and
fielding,
Next year there II be batting, too.
Next year wen keep going and climb.
ing,
Next year we II pull out from the rear;
We've failed in the pinch, but we II
fight every inch
When we once get to going next year.
New York, June 2s.-Have they
started talking about next year in your
town yeti That is, baseballicly speak.
ing. We know all about the old chat
ter of how next year everybody is GO
ing to save some money and lift the
mortgage on the old homestead or the
watch or the overcoat, but those are
tragedies In the "merry month of
june now fading rapidly away into
July it is right and proper. as some
perspiring solon in Washington might
say, to be merry. Therefore-also
hence-in looking over a field for pos
sible merry-making just take up the old
home team as it stands, place it upon
pedestal-if there is enough of it left
to place-and look it over. Then pro-
pound a question Say it so each word
will sink in, like this:
"Whatcha gonna do next year!"
Then will come the answer: "Next
year theren be laughter and sun
shine" but what s the usei It's the
same old story the country over. Out
of every league, whether bush, merely
minor or major (and there are several
hundred in the cOllection) there are
now all the way from four to seven
teams singing the raises of next years
chances. They have fizzled, flopped
sprawling, and now look forward to
the winter months wheIathey will pre-.
pare to get back on their feet again,
and, lashing their trusty ashes to their
sides. stride forth to do battle once
more.
Invade the sacred precincts of the
two big leagues and you will hear the
same song that is being warbled in the
bushes. Some of the teams still have
hopes for this season and are too busy
chipping them to chirp about next year,
but as the dog days approach and the
setting sun daily falls upon a parched
field on which the trailing clubs are
slowly curling up and begging for frost
and football, the chorus will increase
in volume.
In the American league there will be
one town that will not pull the next
year tango until the last man is out in
the last game of the league schedule.
That is Cleveland. They may suffer
a slump or they may head the Athletics,
but in Cleveland they have decided
the Maps are going win the pennant.
That's all there is to it.
Yankees Makes Promises.
Where the next year song sounds
sweetest and really rings with one of
those "ever lovin tunes" is in New
York, known in some quarters as Got. |
ham. The Yankees have a real hope
That's easy remarks the boy in the
first row. They (meaning the Yam.
kees) having inhabited the cellar for
so long, it would be a big hope for
them even TO hope TO hope they could |
soar far upward to seventh place. But |
that is not the answer. Chance has
brought the erstwhile chaotic Yankees
to where they show as much baseball /
per cubic cerebellum as any other team
in the league. He has brought out
some, and chucked ont others of the
men who were with the team when he
arrived, and his new blood looks pro.
missing. Washington has had eight
players on the hospital list at one time,
and there is hope down there that the
ink may be lost next year. Smokey
Toe Wood failed Boston in its attempt
% be a two-time winner Of the Ameri.
an league pennant and Stahl was out
much Of the time with a bum ankle.
By next year the Red Sox hope to have
worn off the demoralizing effect of
iaving catured the World s title, and
,lay ball. stovall in st. Louis has had
much the same work to do as Chance in
Sew York. He improved this year and
,ut there they are certain he will i'm.
'rove next year. Detroit is hoping
President Navin will be able TO sign Ty
'obb early enough in the season to give
hem a running start. Chicago hopes
"a Walsh won I 60 back and that an.
'ther one like him will develop.
II is a peculiar situation in the Ma.
ional league. McGraw has been in.
listing that Pittsburgh was one of the
cams he considered most dangerous in
he pennant race. But the Giants took
hree straight from Pittsburgh on the
asst visit Of the Pirates here, and the