New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-17
Comment and Gossip
on Sports of the Day

experience up TO last season. says: fiaI
! Chase could play second base, Shortstop
o. third base If the diamond was pitchc"
on the top of Washington Monument
/ Frank Chance appears 20 have much the
! same confidence mat one of the Gr"s test
first bascmon i'm the history of baseball
will plug up the gap at second base even
though he may be handicapped for the
position 10y being left handed one good
Judge in Bermuda writes that Chase sill
has a lot To learn i'm blocking off and
! touching base runners at the bag, nut
this ability is almost sure To- come with
more experience. and that Is another
reason why his carly return Ia the dla-
mond is cause for COngratulation.
Speaking Of the Yankees. ] am IN re-
. ,cipt OF a letter asking my opinion OF a
wager made at : 10 that the team would
win twcnty-one of its first forty games.
r. be frank think 4 is poor wager al
the price and for the reason that the
Yankees must begin by meeting three
Of the strongest clubs in the league
Boston Philadelphia and Washington
and that one of the wcakest-St Louis
is not included in the first forty games.
, Surely the odds ought to be reversed or
so il seems to me.
Much is expected of Frank Chance this
ycar-too much. no, doubt. He has a
mighty strong pitching staff, with Rus
sell Ford. Ray Fisher. Jack Warhop, Kay
/ Caldwell and George Mcconnell, To say
nothing Of Heating, Davis and two or
three others who may be available a
strong catching corps IN Sweeney. VIII
Jams ana Stcrrott and a hard hitting
outGeld. with Birdie cree. Harry Noier'
Jack L~livclt and Bert Daniels. hrt prac-
tically new Infield must be constructed
II Chance is able to play first base and
Chase lives up To expectations at second
the problem may no; be so hard OF solu-
ton. as reports from the front indicate
, that Derrick at short. Midkin at third, 10
say nothing of pep" Young and Hart
zcll. are playing M sensational style.
II takes more than individual skill. now
ever. to make up a finished iniicld. and II
is "a grave question whether Chance can
give il the necessary polish ia 80 snort
a time that the team may hold It's own
with such strong opponents a. the world $
champion Red Son. the Athletics ana the
Senators 1t viii not be easy, then. FOR
the team 10 more than break even IN It's
first forty games
This from the fertile brain OF Charles
Webb Murphy. What wonderful thing
is baseball enthusiasm, Why has the
game such a hold ON nearly all red
blooded Americausc First because it IL
honest: second. because il is superlatiVcIy
scientific: third. because II IS progressive
and develops some new and interesting
phase almost daily
1t sounds almost like an echo from the
Fogcl case. and leads The Sporting
News" TO say. 1T must be evident that
some one las been doing Nj. Murphy a
great injustice We hasten 10 proclaim
! him a. champion defender Of the faith
! chief standard bearer of the only Game
/ Yale men Interested in swimming have
reason TO take exception to the someW hat
/ misleading reports which went out nom
Princeton on March s. following the inter
] collegiate swimming meet for the indi-
yidual titles The impression was given
I that the Tigers carried OF the chief hon
{ ors and in a way perhaps they did, but.
a. matter Of fact. Yale won with %
points. while Princeton and Pennsylvania
were tied for second place with II points
each The freshman relay race. won by
the TIGER cuoS. did not count in the point
total Princeton was hardly responsible.
however. for trying to make capital out
Of the freshman race" as was charged in
one letter which reached my desk Rather,
there was lacking full understanding OF
the conditions on the part Of the CORE
spondent. Much credit belongs 10 the
! Yale team this season II won the team
championship without the loss Of single
dual meet. and +, won the individual
: ena mpions hips with well rounded squad
The high cost Of baseball may limit %
cent seats these DAYS. but Charley Ebbets
/ is bold enough 10 put I'm a stock Of
umbrellas AT his new park TO loan - the
.unwary VINO may be caught in "A shower.
Better sell them at bargain counter prices ,
an umbrella has come to be public prop
! crty
IcHlEN now bpb> "p VII" d" ""3''' a.
most whole hand in the basketball PIE.
4 loyal roOter writes: we have won
| twelve out Of fourteen games this year.
! beating Cornell. among Others Again
who shall decide when so many doctors
/ disagree in considering the Navy. Union.
| Wesleyan Cornell. Lehigh syracuse and
we'll. that's enough until more letters
arrive.
! MERRY WAR AT THE TRAPS