Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-06
TIGERS, WHITE SOX, INDIANS AND
BROWNS COMPOSE ANGRY MOB SET
TO COP AMERICAN LEAGUE FLAG
Grandoldope Doesn't Give Eastern Clubs Any
Chance at All Except in National League,
Where There Are Odds-Atlantas Golfers
BY GRANTLAND RICE

| THE western wing Of the circuit isn't
| i likely to attach any pennant in the Ma
tional League.
The odds here are anything you like,
| the best available dope being 100 to o.
| But In the American League the West
will shoot in four fine ball clubs when the
| jubilee opens next week, and any one OF
| these has a chance to arrive on top OF
Mount Hope.
West VS.. East
In the American League the West has the
| best of IT, for while the Red Sox and
| Yankees are we'll primed for flag drive,
| Washington isn't that husky looking. ana
| the Mackmen will be extremely thankful 70
| emerge from last place.
AGAINST these two strong eastern clubs
| the West can respond with the Tlgers'
| White Sox, Indians and Browns-and there
| isn't a soft, spongy entry IN the lot
There are not many people picking the
Indians or Browns, the same oeing slans
| for Cleveland and st. Louis as pennant WIN
ners. But before discarding these two clubs
completely kindly remember this: the
| Browns played tho best ball In tho league
last summer after Jones had reorsanized
| them In July
They were away to q bad start, but after
| their first rally soon rushed to within easy
| striking distance of the first four clubs
And Cleveland, with Joe Wood in shape.
will be an entirely different matter.
| The Western Chance
The West has not INDUCED in the luxury
| of a worlds series since 1910, when tne
Mackmen came to Chicago and rumpled the
| fading Cubs into shapeless mass
| The episode took place seven years ago.
| and seven campaigns is long span Tor
| one section to go without world series
| affair.
| Now the West is fixed for fight to
the finish and on beyond. With Eddie
| Collins and Joe jackson hooked up In one
machine. the punch here ID sure to make
| the White Sox factors Last season Eddie
| dropped below his normal status most OF
| the year, but his average Is around 1895
| to 340 and with Jacksons average around
| 1865 the combination should be highly val
liable to Colonel Comiskey's outlook.
| This club Is about due to get UP and
| 20 somewhere. It has lacked something,
but that something may be supplied at any
stated moment.
More than certainly the Red Sox and
| Yankees will have their kits full suppress
ing this western combination.
Force of Habit
There must be something In the atmos-
phere of Atlanta, Ca highly beneficial to
| the golf germ.
When one community begins turning ou
one youngster after another who is a SEN
| sation chance no longer rules
Maybe it Is force Of habit Whatever II
is. no other city in America has ever pro
| duced three such young sensations in go
as Perry Adair, Bobby Jones and Tommy
Prescott. These three at one time or an.
other have beaten many of the great golf
| ers of the country.
| Two Of them were marvels at fourteen
The other. Tommy Prescott, was a star IL
| his second season at the game, which SC
many find requires years of play ant
| practice.
And that isn't all. We have In mind al
least six other young golfers between nine
and fifteen years of age now coming on
And the nine-year-old entry has as fine a
golf swing as any golfer you ever saw. HI
hasn't the punch yet, but that will come.
Remarkable Roundup
1t is a remarkable thing that Atlanta
with some 100000 citizens should hav,
turned out more young golf stars thar
New York, with 100000 persons and so,
900 golfers, or Chicago. with 5000, ,0ot
| persons and 10000 golfers.
There are not moro than 1000 golfers ir
| the Georgia capital. Yet one youngstel
after another is always popping up beating
stars and playing almost unbeatable golf