The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-04
White Sox Have Flag
Won Before Campaign
Ever Gets Under WAY
General View Of All Clubs Shows Chicago Team Has Best
Prospect Team Was Least Affected by Draft and
Has Retained Best Players,

.ur stock M tho league last year. the
IIpN ulrH HIo being duped tu make a
.ilt nEht against all opponents This sen
SON urd finish iu the first four.
Lie the He'd SoN. the Browns have an
excellent pitching staff. with GnIlla
pat export. huihoron. Lowdermilk and
Nullup available as the first string
There are several other fair tWirlora
Win tho team, too
Nevertheless. the Browns must be con-
sldgfod experimental Sisters ability Ia
known. Ito IL close 20 being tho best
player Nv organized baseball today, but
hiH teammates fall far below him I'm
rluHH. II In possible that Jones Will turn
ont H working combination that viii be
u winner but N he does II Will be large
lF on account Of his excellent mound
rorps Tho rnnk and file Of the Browns
are cast offs, with one or two men new
10 the blk show. There IL such a like
ness among hlh players that he II hav-
Ink his troubles cutting down his squad.
and he may decide 10 carry them all. at
least for n month or 80 after the season
Ia under way.
No Improvement In Indians
No Improvement IL seen In the Cleye-
land Indians. They have lost Joe Har-
rio. n most promising young first base
btHemau. will not ho available until col
leFe ends. Whatever new men arr with
tho team. not one Ia n star. Even at
best the Indians DO not look better than
In 1911 From some angles they look
worse.
Ray Chapman IL In class ia OF the
army druft, aud mn" be taken from the
lineup ~ any moment n be IL lost. Lee
luhlH hopes Of being n contender will
vanish Chapman N the best man In the
lntcld. barn one, and Is vitality nccoH-
Htf} 10 the success ~ the ball club.
HI.NA NNI. UHa.a# .LA N".LN ~ .a..U
ordinary outfit, even with the great iris
Speaker out IN center field.
The Indians supporters. always rabid,
believe that FOhl may fool everybody
and slip across with the pennant vic
torD. but they are alone In this belief
Most Judges around the circuit pick the
indians 10 hc %contcuders for ~ few
weeks, and then crack under the strain
orl'fth's Chance Goes.
Clark Griffith was figuring on showing
his team I'm ahead ~ some NJ the others
who had been hit hard. An unkind fate
steps In and hands him a kick In the
A woeful lack OF reserve strength is
apparent to every fan NJ he reads the
names n the Washington players TO
make matters worse. young GNss looks
Ike a possible big league OutIelder. and
emit he kept because he IA In class IA
In the draft Clark Griffith has the sym
paihy Of every Washington rooter, but
sympathy gets one little.
Had Grinith been able IN present nm
unhrokru front all down the line, his
team might have crossed tho line In sec-
ohd place. To be sure. they might have
finished lower. too, but second place
would not have been impossible. Nov,
however. the skies are dark.
As for the Mackmen, their pitching
staff consists OF Vean Gregg and Elmer
Myers, an experiment with a weak arm
and the leagues widest wild man. No
team can be consistently victorious with |
out pitchers. Connie knows this, but
hopes Shlbo Park fans will forget II.
NSh the campaign two weeks away,
\ looks all white SoN. with a grand
little fight for second place, and that's
all