Evening star., 1920-06-20

dugout at the time and Morey simply
said. Come out of that and Mac re-
Piled. "All right and away he went to
the showers. You cant fool with the
jumps these days.
jimmy O'Neill pulled off brilliant
but lucky, fielding stunt on Speaker
in the sixth that probably saved Eric
considerable trouble. Two were out
and Jameson on first when Speaker
soaked a grounder a mile second
right through the box. Jimmy had
dashed over to second to cover on an
intended steal by Jamie and the ball
came right into his hands. It's speed
was SO great as to handcuf the short
stop. but he managed to regain the ball
in time to get it to the bag ahead of the
runner for the third out.
The Griffmen boarded the steamer
tonight for Detroit, where they open
four-gafne series with the Tigers
tomorrow, As forecast in the Star
and prayer from home may help out,
as the Tigers have been playing fair
ly good ball recently.
MOST. Players Pick Yankees.
The almost unanimity of opinion
among the ball players that the New
this year Is noteworthy. I have
spoken TO at least forty players and
they with that many more and 95
per cent Of them favor the Higgins
tribe lin the race for the flag. They
will, tell YOU that the Yankees are
not there with, inside base ball. have
no base runners to speak of and are
only fair on the defensive, but they
carry tho punch with which no other
club in either Of the big leagues can
be compared. They liken the Yanks
to a slow breaker in horse race,
poor at getting away from the bar
rier:. but once under way down the
back stretch. cannot be headed.
A brilliant fielder will get mild
praises from the average ball player,
but a hard and consistent hitter is
their idol. The Yankees have not a
weak hitter in their lineup and woe
faces them. The first-string pitchers.
when they go into game with the
Yanks, understand that they cannot
afford to loaf at any stage of the
nine inning journey and for this rea-
son are always using their greatest
a twirler gets through working
against the Yankees he is ready for
at least a four-day rest. and for this
reason it is figured that a pitching
! staff cannot be too numerous or too
strong.
Il
| players dope out the success of the
Yankees against their two ultimate
| adversaries. the Indians and White
Sox. The Indians are better fxed
than the Sox. as they have Coveleskie;
BagbyA Morton and Caldwell, the lat
the former two. The players say that
; these pitchers have problem before
| them when they journey east the next
time that will most assuredly put them
on the shelf through many double head
ers. They will have to go at top
lieved possible for them to do it. The
White Sox have only Cicotte and Will
| liams to depend upon. as Kerr and
| Faber are not the pitchers to stand
a gruelling race.
With the Yankees only good pitch
| brilliant. Hold the opposition to five
| runs and We'll do the rest" is their
| slogan, and they can come pretty
near turning the trick. at least eight
out of ten times Quinn and Mays
belong in the steady class. the for
mer more SO than the latter, and the
remainder of the staff are punkerinos.
! But punkerinos. bushers or any other
class of twirlers with any ability at
| all can face the opposing batters
with unusual confidence when the big
| contemporaries are back of them
to drive CONSERVATION into the ranks
| of the enemy.
This Is the dope Of the players. The
| Yankees are bound to improve as the
! season advances. hot weather favor
| Ing the veterans more than the kid
| dies, and their race down the stretch
| to the pennant wire next fall can be
| likened to a steam roller under full
| power. But everybody knows little
David killed Goliath and history may
| repeat Itself in the base ball strug-
| giles for pennant glories and mazuma.