Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-12
Pot HUNTING the Peunant
n s--Washingt0n and Brooklyn


r Asst season Washington, with Wal
Liter johnson at his best. finished
seventh. Brooklyn. with fine pitch
ipr staff. finished fifth. ..-
Now, for a number of choice reasons,
neither Washington nor Brooklyn is
aoinu to win any pennant this season.
p,t n Ia our firm and inf1cxible belief
,bat both are destined to finish higher
and make a much better showing than
either made last year.
This season Walter johnson has
fair infield to back him up and better
ontfeld than he has worked with. Milan.
nice and Roth are good hitters and fast
and 70 they can only give johnson a run
~ two to work with he alone will be good
for twenty five or thirty victories. When
Johnson had a fair ball club back of
him in 1912 he won something like
thirty six games.
Grif has improved his team suffi
GENTLY to make a good. hard fight for
the first division. with an even chance
of breaking through. He has the Ath-
letics and Boston stopped already in the
dope.
at two of the others.
Johnson's Chance
r Asst season johnson allowed fewer
~ earned runs to a game than any man
in baseball
But the run making strength back Of
rim was entirely too weak to help. He
had no chance to rest or drift.
This season Washington's offensive
strength has been improved and this will
mean a big boost. not only for John
son. but the remainder OF Griff's staff.
The Brooklyn Outlook
T Asst season Brooklyn had weird
IL combination for second division
club. She had a club that tied the
champion Reds in team batting. with a
fine pitching staff, a mixture that Or
dinariy is always good for /. ., 3, even
with other pronounced weaknesses.
Infeld loopholes permitted many a
game to drift through, but this season
finds Robby with a better looking club
in every way--a stronger outfield. n
more settled infield and enough good
pitchers to carry two ball clubs through
the year.
Brooklyn has a great chance this sea
son il she will only take it, if her
entries are willing to hustle and make
fight Of It..
There is no reason for hard hitting
ball club with q nne pltCnlng StaH SIP
ping back to the second division.
With the same combination The Reds
won worlds championship. The
Dodgers. like the Yanks, have generally
heen a fragile club. but there is enough
reserve material around this season for
Brooklyn to finish no worse than
fourth-and possibly higher.
The st. Louis Outlook
CT. LOUIS last season finished fifth
~ In the American League and seventh
In the National League.
There has been marked improvement
shown by both clubs in their early work
but not enough to prove either club
strong enough for the first division yet.
Some day st. Louis, one of the great
ball towns of America. will get a club
worthy of her enthusiasm and tradi-
ton. But that day hasn't come yet de-
spite the presence of two such stars as
George Sisler and Rogers Hornsby-
two, by the way, who have pretty fair
chances this campaign of leading their
leagues at bat.
It's still a question as to when Cobb
decided to start slipping. When he does
Sisler looks to be the leading applicant
for the vacancy. And Ty won't have to
skid very far, at that
st. Louis is the only club left now in
the National League that hasn't bagged