The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-26
Cleveland Has Decided to Win the
Pennant in the American
League This
Year.
UP FROM THE BUSHES
Comes the Wall Of the Cellar Champs
Of How They viii Come
Back Next
Year."

by Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press
Next year there'll be laughter and
and sunshine,
Mex. year there'll be hopes for the
crew,
Next year we'll have pitching and
fielding,
Next year there'll be batting, too.
Next year we'll keep going and climb
Ing,
Next year Wen pull out from the rear:
We've failed In the pinch, but we'll
fight every inch
When we once get to going next wear.
NEW YORK, June octave they
started talking about next year in
your town yet? That is, baseballicly
speaking. We know all about the old
chatter OF how next year everybody is
gong to save some money and lift
the mortgage on the old homestead or
the watch or the overcat, but those
are tragedies. In the merry month
of June now fading rapidly away in
to July 1t is right and proper, as
some persipiring solon in WASHINGTON
might say, to be merry. Therefore
also hence--in looking over field for
possible merry-making just take up
the old home team as 1t stands, place
IT upon pedestal--if there is enough
OF 1t left to place-and look 1t over.
Then PROFOUND question. Say 1t so
each word will sink in, like this:
Whatcha gonna do next year?',
Then will come the answer: Next
year therell be laughter and sun
shine" but what's Inc use? It's the
same old story the country over. Ont
OF every league, whether bush, merely
minor or major land there are sew
eral hundred in the collection) there
are now all the way from four to
seven teams singing the praises of
next years chances. They have fiz-
zled, Topped sprawling, and now look
forward to the winter months when
they Will prepare to get back on their
feet again, and, flashing their 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 will
have hopes for this season and are
too busy chirping them to chirp about
next year, but as the dog days ap-
preach and the setting sun daily falls
upon 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 to
win the pennant. That's all there is
to it.
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
Gotham. The Yankees have a real
hope. That's easy, remarks the boy
in the first row. They (meaning the
Yankees) having inhabited the cellar
for SO long, it would be a big hope
for them even to hope thew
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
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 at one time, and there is hope
down there that the jinx may be lost
next year, Smokey Joe Wood failed
Boston in its attempt to be a two
time winner of the American league
pennant and Stahl was out much Of
the time with bum ankle. BY next
year the Red sox hope to have worn
off the demoralizing effect of having
captured the worlds title, and plav
ball. Stovall, in st. Louis. has had
much the same work to do as Chance
in New York He improved this year
and out there they are certain he
will improve next year. Detroit is
hoping President Navin will be able
to sign Ty Cobb early enough in the
season to give them running start.