Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-27
OLD MOTHER LUCK STILL
! RULES BASEBALL DESTINY
Changes in Lineup Do Not Always
Run True to Opinions OF
Dopesters.
SURROUNDINGS CHANGE STARS
Chase Was FIivvcr for One Club.
but Bloomcd for Reds-Baker
Swatted for Boston, but Broke no
Fences for New York.
nv JAMEs +. CoRBETT.

BY JAMES I. CORBETT.
Uncertainty OF result is the life OF
season Sc a' is so fui, OF IFS" and butts Il
promises 10 he the greatest in the his
In all other years. tandom could get
a fair sort OF line OF the strength o.
each club. Trades and sales during
And past performances served as a
basis for measuring strength. But so
pcst Few months that the whole aior
league geography has been changed
and radically. New--ye; oid-faces
Viii players in their new uniforms
perform as they did in the years gone
by: Will they execute plays in more
stead OF 6cine towers OF strength -
as hoped FOR. become useless coss IN
machine?
has affected players. Some shine even
more brightly III new surroundings
and some fade into the minors.
Random Watches Hal Chase.
What will Hal Chase do in 1892
but the Whole baseball world. for
1 1ns and Tn how ma as su an nfice buidins
elevator, is a national agure.
Chase was wizard perfosnerr re- :os
he he slipped pi lie was ,raded to the
White SoX-and still he slipped. The
change OF uniferns hadn't helped him;
forth again as star. But skeptics
declared tina: Chase really hadn't come
back; They insisted that any old dub
could perform like wonder OF the
When the outlaw organization dis
solved. Chase WAS taken over By the
Reds-lsl6-he startled baseball by
hammecinS his way into the batting
leadership Of the circuit. lie repeated
1918 rows With his manager and with
the club owners became frcquent--ard
Chase just dubbed through the year.
1918!
Yankees Hank on shore.
The Yankees arc banking heavily on
Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis. secured
ihem ai ia ihe p 5ne hta sc T9n a
the pair disport in the Fashion OF their
Red SoX days, they surely will do
heights Bu Min ihe aSs play az fne
form:
IA, A. M Mar was pitching wonder
the other hand, Burleigh Grimes, who
lost something like sixteen out Of
Joined tho Dodgers in 1918 and won
nineteen out OF twenty-eight.
Dave Shean wasn't success in the
out OF it into the Boston Red Sox line
up. There he helped Boston TO win a
TGTdS Sh @I,R G ,hs Lee an, Mafee
with the BrownS--but he became n
most valuable member OF the 1918 Reds.
Ban Hamilton. who couldn'; win a
game in the American League while
with the 1917 Browns. didn't lose one
in six trials for the 1918 Pirates.
Walker blossoms Under Connie.
Clarence Walker was only ranked
The Browns and Red Sox. Connie
Mack got him and immediately after
ward Walker became noted buster OF
famed for long distance clouting while
with the Tigers. but as soon az lie
climbed into the Mackian livery, he
n neare e sns9 lnS extra base column
The Athletic rooters are rather en-
ja1fed te oyer ihs aIcHu;si,iGH OF BOBBY
records. Why" We'll, because half OF
me circuit swats Roth has delivered
Shibe Park. It's figured that playing
half ;hc season IN that playground will
be jus; 10 his liking.
Far sort OF reasoning. But wait,
as a home-iun artist III 1911 when.
during the wort1 series duelling. he
the right field stand OF the Polo
Grounds, New York. When Baker be-
came Aank and was privileged to
held, his admirers rcckoned he would
hi; out four bases almost every day
or so. But Baker has lost caste as a
home-!un manufacturer and only on
the rarest occasions has he been able
10 deliver the ball into the stands.
Fans Displeaned over Changes.
Fans in some cities are not AZ all
happy because of deals engineered bv
the club owners. On the surface OF
things several clubs got decidedly the
never can tell" The ";ruIy E-ea y9""
mat go away frequently skid into the
dub class IN Il Few months and the
incoming "dubs' STAR in luminous
way.
Cincinnati rooters were yery unhappy
few years ago over the dea! with
McGraw tnat tool, from 1he Red line.
up many seemingly great players and
drought III e%cnange--anonS others
Z youth named iieia!e Groh Nor we're
the :olEs there other than peeved :, I
me dea! thar gave them Eddie Koush
ana brought about the departure OF
SeFe!a men "Ao were supposed 10
DC CLASSY performers.
VINO is the greatest all-around third
G Caseman IN me game today? "Heinle
WI! nun! PACK az you. And how j.
Eoush batting champion OF the 1917
Sstiohal League, claesed as an out.
nne!ae. light along with Speaker
wonders, is the unanimous renly
so oascoa!l continues to DC a game
81 UNCERTAINTIES; one in which yes.
&c e'o ~ aesas cannot always be used
day And because Of that@ber,n
prayers that traded seldom NAV trus
10 .heir Ola ior,n--the 1919 season
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