The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-21

Chance, Stallings, Carrigan, Rckey and Robinson
Will be on Trial Before High Court of
the Game Next Season.
By Tad


they are expected TO do next year
Chance, chief of the dowu-trodden
Yankees, is expected TO lead ap up
lift movement next summer that will
cause heaps of troubles for all baseball
persons who aspire to places In the
first division. Chance took over the
Yankees last year when they stacked
up as about the worst aggregation ever
given the title of baseball club.
The use of the pruning knife enabled
Chance to rid himself OF lots Of excess
baggage. and the wide.open purse of
Owner Farrell enabled him to get to-
gether a fast infied and speedy out
field The Yankees Just now look
weak IN til pitching box, but some OF
Chances recruits may develop into
finds. IL they do the Yanks will bear
watching.
Carrigan, at the head of the Red
that grabbed the American league PEN
nant and the world IS championships in
1912. Perhaps the team has disinte-
grated; perhaps the old fire and spirit
that carried them to the crest of base
ball in 1912 is gone. Without it, Car
rigan cannot be expected TO cut very
wide swatb in the American league.
even though he has some of the great
est stars of the game on his roster.
Red S0X Contenders.
But the 1918 slump, which finally
caused tho canning of Jake Stphl
and the appointment of Carrigan may
not carry through into next wear Per
haps it came only Ill the nature of q
reaction, a relaxation, that usually fol
lows all terrific strains II the Red
Sox do "come back = next summer,
they Il be up around the top all the
year, giving the Athletics, Senators and
Maps, looked upon now as the three
merry little tussle for the piece OF
bunting and slice of the world series
melon.
Robinson. the new Brooklyn man
agcr, fell heir 10 mighty good ball
club-one of first division caiiber If IL
can get good infielder and another
pitcher. The Dodgers last spring
aged championship ball, but the lack
OF one reliable pitcher TO assist Rucker
and Ragon proved their undoing As
soon as Rucker and Ragon, worn out by
working almost every other day, were
forced to give way TO the younger and
less capable slabsters the Dodgers falt-
ered--and fell
Robinson is regarded as one OF the
great developers of young pitchers IN
the country. Perhaps he can tote his
NuutDiUj SlaDUeu io iHc tidniue S@hl
next spring and develop them into
steady. consistent workers, but
.eBobbyH would feel much easier IN
mind If he could secure by trade or pur-
chase iust another seasoned twirler. lf
the Tanner deal stands, Robinson s IN
field problem is solved.
Branch Rickev will lead the 'tstreak
busting Browns next year. He stepped
into the managerial shoes after George
Stovall was lifted out of them late In
the summer. The St. Louis outfit never
has been dangerous factor III any
pennaut race since 1908, but they are
something of an uncertain quantity this
wear, although is 100 TO | bet thar
they won Il grab the bunting.
The Browns drew about thirty
PLAYERS in the recent drafts, and some
of them were among the best men that
cavorted in the bushes last season.
Most of them will show IN as hlvers
in big league company, but Hickey may
be able to pick about live or SIX good
men from the bunch.
May Brace Browns.
Given some new blood. .Riekey may
weld together team that will furnish
moro trouble than the Browns ever
have given before. The Browns, as
many may remember. have for many
years possessed the happy faculty OF
broaking winning streaks- Ball clubs
can go along amassing great records,
whipping every other team in the
league, and then when they come to
the Browns they go down and out. It
the same with record-breaking pitchers
Stalings is the most feared manager
in the National league. He took hold
of the Braves last year after they had
doundered for yenrs in and around the
cellar position, infused some of his own
fighting. spirit into them, fred few
''has heens'' and ''never wussers,'
and built up team that played Won
derful baseball throughout the year
and fought TO the bitter finish in every
battle.
Stallings next season will be
strengthened by a few young pitchers
ard some fielding recruits. One or two
may develop into good ball players. II
they do. StalIings will have team that
will give fight ali the way to the
best in the league. In Tyler and Pqr-
due he has two great pitchers. La
Maranville he has one of the greatesf
shortstops in the game. He has
schooled his men thoroughly IN team
work and they arc due to demonstrate
its effect next season.