Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-11
RUNYON NAMES POSSIBLE
CONTENDERs FOR BANNER
New York, Brooklyn, Cincinnati
Will Lead National League,
He Suys.
ny DAMON RUNiON,
GnIversnI Service Special
CorrcnPnndcnt.

NEW YORK, April l0.--This is our
story OF the probable contenders in
the coming big league pennant races:
American Leaguc-Scw York. Clevc-
land, Detroit.
National I.caguc-Ncw York. Gin
cinnHti. Brooklyn.
That our story and we'll stick to Il.
DO not get VS. wrong. however. We
are not clccting them in the ABOVE
order We are merely nominating
those who will. in our opinion. figure
most prominently in tho convention
of this presidential year of 1920.
We have placed the New York cam
dlda,cs FIRST In the list as a matter
OF courtesy. They may not finish in
that exalted position. but ii IL our
idea that they Will both be among
the first three until the final ballot.
Lest some one get the notion that
we are mumbling about politics. let
us explain tNAt we refer to the inn
pending baseball season. II opens
Wednesday. Vi, Cowboy, Wednes-
day. This coming Wednesday. We
have put the cart before the horse.
The above is the cart. Now for the
horse. We should have arrived at
predictions only after a column or
SO OF persihase as follows:
Another year has rolled around;
another year with it's attendant joys
anu SOTTO"S anu WHAT uOt. .h1OlncF
year has trudged into the misty used
to-be.
Eftsoon'a the old Joyous cry OF
play BALI will ring out DER the
land. And so forth and so forth. -.
OF course, no one ever really cries
play ball" What they cry is less"
So less go. Presently we shall hear
the good old crack of the bat meeting
the ball, when II meets 1t. and the
In no. f,n l,n ,tf,sv IA,
Another big league baseball season
will be under way. vi. Cowboy!
Here In New York alone the sensa-
tional Chase. who rose TO famo on
the Island OF Manhattan as the great
est first basemnn the game has ever
seen. has gone from the Giants. Zim-
norman. zone OF the few native born
i To play on big town club. is among
! the missing.
! Such comparatively new names as
STATE and Kelly and Frisch now
| fSure in the lineup of the club led
by the man who has brought six
pennants TO New York On the
Yankees. ii place OF Baker and
Pratt ana Dodic an dthe other IA
miiiars OF other gears are NfeuseI
and Ward and Gleich.
Both the New York clubs came out
OF their training camps in APPARENT,
excellent condition. The Yapks have
| met with misfortunes that have re.
! duced the strength that made then
onc-two contenders all tho way, ant
the srent young player, Ross Young
.s out of the Giant line as i result OF
illness: but even SO they both hav.
enough left to keep them in tn.
! running in their respective leagues
! Chick Fewster. who promised &c
be one of the best infieiders that has
been seen In New York, has prob.
ably been lost to the Yankees fol-
the season asa result OF being hi,
on the head by pitched ball in a
| practice game. Frank Baker says
he will not return. His wife died
! during the winter and he has tho
care Of two young children.
| Cleveland is the general pick oil
! the experts for the pennant in the
American League. Cleveland Is un-
deniably very strong. but we doubt
IL its pitching will compare with that
OF the Yanks. We figure that De.
,roit too. will fall short of New York
II pitching. 1t must be remembe red
! however. that a pitching stan can &C
- pieces in mighty short order. and
the Yanks proved it last season.
| Clark Griffith has improved his
I Washington club, but it is not club
that is apt to make many runs. st
Louis. under the rugged Jimmy
Burke. might be the club to pull the
unexpected in the American League
II there is to be any miracle stun
coming OFF.
y club that has Eddie Collins
| Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch is not
ant to be sucker club" under any
circumstances. but Comiskcy's White
SoN seem to be too much shot &c
J Gees to figure in the 1920 race. Con
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