The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-26

owner to break up or change a team
that has Just won worlds cham
pionship? can't.
Any team that was good enough
to take the measure Of tho Tigers
and the White Sox. not to mention
the Philadelphia Nationals, is good
enough to 20 right back there and
repeat, barring accidents. The most
ridiculous move that n manager
could make would be to shake up an.
outfit that had Just won the big title.
There have been teams like the
Chicago Cubs, the Giants and maybe
one or two other clubs, that slipped
badly In the year following the win
ming OF d Championship, but the main
these teams had reached the top OF
their form before that and were real
ly starting to go back. But this ID
not the case with the Red Sox.
barring Heinie Wagner and my
self, doubt II there is a man on
the team that has reached his thir-
tieth year yet. Gregg may be COM
Ing to that point. but take Hooper.
Speaker, Henriksen, Lewis. Hoblir-
zell. Jnnyrin, Gardner and Scott OF
the regulars. they are well under
that age and capable OF playing
tchampionship baseball for long
time yet. Cady and Thomas. not to
mention Haley, are we'll below the
thirty-yenr mark Mays, Ruth.
Shore. Leonard anu Foster are prac-
ltically kids. while Collins and Wood
have yet To see their twenty-seventh
birthday. So IL can be seen that We
have not started to 90 back yet, In
spite OF dreams Of some Of these
dopesters.
A Regular Habit.
Every now and then someone
comes out with tho statement that
Larry Gardner Is to be traded. Can
you imagine any club In the Amer
lean league that would give UP
player that would be anything like
an equal exchange? Take Gardner
day In and day out, and he ia n
pretty dependable third-sacker. The
records will show that his long
drives annually put lot OF games
on the winning side for us.
Granted that now and then Card
ner slows up bit In his fielding, and
that Scott fails to hit as expected.
This is only something. that happens
In all great ball clubs. Cobb had 4
bad batting slump last season: MS
hard a hitter as Crawford is, he ran
for long spell without doing any
thing with his bat. slumps over
take every player. for the strain Of
q Championship season Ia so grent
that unless a break comes now and
then . player is apt to go bad alto
gcther.
There were plenty to criticise
Scott when he failed to do much hit
ting during the world SERIES yet at
different times during the regular
season he delivered many timely
blow. The critics didn't yell then.
have seen and heard Janvrin scored
by Boston fans because OF an oc-
casional error or failure to hit, yet
these same people must have for
gotten that II was Janvrin who won
about four OF the six straight de-
feats that we pinned on Washine-
ton In three days. Everybody was
talking about his batting and field
ing In that series. but there were
still plenty to criticise the next timo
he failed TO make good.
I'm not mentioning this. to you
to show that even a world Champions
ship team cannot have everything.
II any one team could have an az
gregation of the best fieIders, tho
best hiters. the most effective pitch
ers and the cleverest base runners
In the game baseball would soon lose
It's popularity. for the games would
be too one-sided to attract the fans.
But this stun about trades and
swaps as far as we are concerned.
Ia all bunk. No team would let any
player come here that might
strengthen us. We could soil or
trade lot Of players, but we could
not get what we have for them. So
! an willing 10 let these dopoctore
do all their tradlng now. Al <hoy
can do Is to make paper tr16cs>
When the time comes President Lam {
min and myself vii. look after what
ever shifts they have left FOR Us Ia