The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-22
YANKEE FANS
 WORRIED OVER TEAM'S SHOWING

Jacksonville, Fla, March 22-WiIl the Yankees ever get started? is a question that has been asked on sev- eral thousand occasions here since the close of the game Saturday in which the Brooklyn Robins knocked out the wearers of the New York uniforms for the third straight time.
 The team's admirers are beginning to worry When the first game was played and they realized that the Robins were fit and the Tanks were not, they didn't worry; but another week has gone by, two more games have been played, the same result is seen, and the Yank fans are in a deep blue cloud of nervous anxiety.
 In the interval between the first and second games with Brooklyn the Yankees dropped down to Miami and Palm Beach and played three games with the Reds, winning two and los 1 ing one. That they won was not due to any improvement in their own con- | dition; they were simply against a | team that was more uuready for the stern, hard work of a big league race l than they are themselves. As a mat 1 ter of fact. the Yankees should have won three straight from the Reds, in
 such poor shape are the National League champions.
 But the soft opposition did the I American League team no good. They | came back too full of confidence, and
 the result was that when they faced
 the midsummer pitching of Marquard 1 and Mamaux on Thursday and
 Pfefer, Smith and Galore on Satur-
 day they suddenly awoke to the fact
 that they are only about half trained
 This may be a good thing. If the
 over er-confidence of. a team numbering
 some star players in it's lineup can be
 overcome and the players made tc
 work before the real playing seasor
 arrives it may save a ruder awakening
 at a time when the cost will be fa1
 greater. --.-
 Huggins professes to care nothins for. the result of the practice game: here, and he says he wants his tean ; to start slowly. But he read the rio , act to the Tanks on Friday, and o1 Saturday he took Tn ormahlen out O the box when he was being. punishe by the Brooklyn batsmen, somethin:
 that is very, very rarely done in sprin, training contests.
 7 It is safe to say that more real worl will be done in the coming week thai in all the time so far spent in Jack T sonvil1e. There will be. mornin praCp1ce, TOT the manager COld In l players in their conference the othe : day that they have not been fair5 tha $ he had excused morning work to tn f regulars only to find that they don s appear for breakfast till near tn = noon hour. So that is changed ant 3 the players will go back to the olt 9 training camp basis.
 3 Huggins s~ys he isn't alarmed a i the frequency with which Babe Rutl has taken the count on strikes il
 these early games. Dutch Reuthe1 Rube Bressler, Sherry Smith and Leol Cadore all have f'whiffed" the bi
 hitter, but Huggins says this doesn'
 mean that they have discovered Ruth
 groove Rather, he says, it show = that Babes eye isn't trained fo - sharp. fast curve pitching yet or h wouldn't stand at the plate and le
 strikes be called. Galore put thre l blenders over on Saturday that Bab f never offered at.
 ,. Duffy Lewis reached here late Sat }, urday night. He is lighter in weigh e than when he quit playing baseba |. last fall, and says he will be ready [
 jump into the game at once, as 500 a as his salary differences with the clu , are adjusted. Lewis has a bandage