New-York tribune., 1919-05-22

Pat Moran out of town with what is
a merciful rain intervenes for Bra
will be fed to the Giants for three
afternoon. The Cards do not appe
1919 has started, and it is highly
them much opportunity for reflection
then a series with Brooklyn. Folloy
with the Phillies, and the Giants hit
AT the present writing it looks as
though the Giants would start their
journey with the lead of the league
cInched for some time to, come. AS
John Thomas Doyle, the sage and
philosopher of Forty Street, fig
ures it out, at is comforting to
bird who has got so that he doesn't
care for travel to know that at least
half of the worlds series will be at
the Polo Grounds"
OF course, the Reds, the Cubs and
the Dodgers will cause the Giants con-
siderable annoyance for some time to
come. The Cubs are not nearly as bad
IS they looked when they played the
Giants here. Their pitchers will show
much better than they displayed at
the Polo Grounds. Those two battling
managers, Wilbert Robinson and Pat
rick Aloysius Moran, are far from con-
ceding that the Giants will stay where
they are.
NIcGraw Ready for Emergency
There always exists the anxiety that
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pieces, though it looks formidable
enough at present, as a lot of man
ayers in the National League will tes-
tify. McGraw does not expect to have
to meet any such contingency, but he
is preparing for it. Already he has a
serviceable young shortstop who can
be called upon at moments notice,
and third baseman who already has
been able to report.
That inheld hardly will go to pieces
like the Zone Hoss Shay" Infelds
don't crack with one long, loud deto.
nation. There is d whole lot of un
necessary alarm about this inield of
the Giants. 1t probably will finish the
season intact.
In the matter of pitchers also, there
exists some more or less well-founded
skepticism. But McGraw already has
acquired Toney, Perritt and Oeschger
since the start of the season, and he is
in position to do some trading to
strengthen the pitching staff to still
greater extent.
The Yanks are facing one of those
"croocial" periods as soon as the rain
quits in Chicago. SO far they have lost
one game on their Western trip. The
White Sox expect to give them some
earnest opposition. Perhaps the first
Sox pitcher they will face will be Ci-
cote, who always has hurt their eyes
more or less.
The Yankees have been getting plenty
of pitching, but their hitting has not
been what "Murderers' Row" was ex-
pected to produce. To the amazement of
the baseball world in general. Ping Bo-
die has been doing most of the consist
ent hitting and is up with the first five
batters of the American League. During
the spring series Ping at the bat was
terrible spectacle, but right now he is,
Es he puts it, crashing the old apple"
with frequency and violence
Riveting Course Profitable
Before the war Bode was of more
or less frivolous disposition. But when
the call to arms came Ping put on his
overalls and dashed TO the nearest ship
yard, where he riveted the Kaiser into
q hole. II Ping continues to hit Man
ager Huggins has decided to send all
OF Murderers' Row to the shipyards
for course OF riveting during the off
season.
The Yankees are going to be ready
for the hard work when the accumulated
double-headers begin to pile up. Mil
Ter Higgins has formidable array Of
hurlers for this job.
The early optimism concerning Con-
ME Mack's Apathetics seems to be wilt
ing already. For the last four years
the same bunch of sages has been as
serting at the start of the season,
"Watch Connie Mack's Athletics this
year"
In compliance with this urgent re-
quest the writer has still further COM
plicated his astigmatism by watching
Mr.. McGillicuddy's Apathetics, and it
hasn't done his eyes the least bit of
good. The Apathetics always finished
where they started. Consequently the
writer refuses to impair his vision any
further by watching the Philadelphia
Americans. They are his idea of moth
Ing TO watch. Let those optimists hurt
their own eyes.