Evening journal., 1913-06-26
CHICKS, TOO,
ARE CHTRPING
OVER CHANGES
Everybody in Town Jubilant
Over Possible Pennant
Winning Team
NEW WORKERS SET
EYES ON THE FLAG
BY HAL SHERIDAN
written for the United Press)

(written for the United PressO
Next year there1l be laughter and
sunshine,
Nest year theren be hopes for the
crew
Next year ven have pitching and
fielding.
Next year therell be batting too
Next year Wen keep going and climb
ing
Next year ven pull out from the
rear;
We've failed in the pinch, but wen
fight every inch
When We once get TO going next
year.
NEW YORK. June &C. Have they
started talking about next year IN
YOUR town yct7 That is basehallicly
speaking We know all about the
- old chatter of how next year every
body is going 20 save some money and
left the mortgsge on the old home
stead or the watch or the overcoat. but
those are tragedies. In the merry
month Of June. now fast fading rap
IDLY away into July. IL is right and
proper as some perspiring Solon IN
Washington might say. 10 be merry.
Therefore also hence in looking
over q field for possible merry maxi
ing. Just take up the old home team as
. stands place SC upon a pedestal
e there Is enough OF it left to place
and look II over. Then PROFOUND a
question Say it so each word will
sink IN. Ike this:
"Whatcha goin' do next yearg
Then viii come the answer. Next
year there1 be laughter and sum
shine but what's the use? rs the
came old story the country over. Out
. Of every league. whether bush, merely
: minor or major (and there are several
hundred in the collecuonl there are
now all the way from four TO seven
teams singing the praises Of next
tyear's chances. They have izzled,
Popped sprawling and now look for
ward to the winter months when they
will prepare TO get back on their feet
again. and lashng their trusty ashes
TO their sides. stride forth to do battle
once more.
Invade the sacred precincts OF the
two big leagues and you win hear the
same song that ie being warhled in
the bushes Some Of the teams still
have hopes for this season and are too
gthusy chirping them to chirp about
next year. but as the dog days APP
proach and the setting sun daily falls
upon a pnrched 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
he 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 i'm Cleveland they
have decided the Maps are going to
win the nennant. That's all there Is
to IT,
Where the next year song sounds
sweetest and really rings with one of
those "ever loving tunes" Is in New
York. known in some quarters as
Gotham. Tho Yankees have real
hone That's easy. remarks the hoy
in tho first row. They (meaning the
Yankeesl having inhabited the cellar
for so long II would he a big hope for
them even 10 hope TO hope they could
soar far upward 20 seventh place. But
iNiii rs NIl AIi NN0Nfit 'HdNNt HiN
brought the erstwhile chaotic YAM
KEGS 10 whore they show as much
baseball per cubic cerehellum as any
other team in the league. He has
brought out some, and chucked out
others Of the men who were with the
team when he arrived, and his new
blood looks promising Washington
has had eight players on the hospital
list al one time. and there is hope
down there that the ink may he lost
next year Smokey Joe Wood failed
Boston in its attempt 20 be a two-tim,
winner Of the American League pen
nant. and Stahl was out much Of the
time with a bum ankle. BY next year
the Red Sox hope TO have worn OF
the demoralizine effect of having cap
tured the worlds title. and play ball
Stovall. in St Louis. has had much IN,
same work 10 do as Chance in New
York He improved this year and ou
there they are certain he will improve
next year. Detroit is hoping Presi
dent Navin will be able to sign rl
Cobb early enough in the season tg
give them a running start. Chicago
hopes Ed Walsh won't 60 back and
that another one like him will develop