The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-26
Red SOx Afraid Of
 Tour With Giants
Loss of Rabe Ruth and That McGraw Has So Many Stars Makes American Leaguers Think They
 Will Get Worst of It On Trip

b1tton trip as arranged up to date by Red Sox and Giants. looks like the best transforming tour put on by major league clubs in many years. A few seasons ago the Red Sox and the Dodgers, contenders for a world cham pionship, engaged in quite an extend ed spring series through the Middle West. But, while the tour was a profitable one, 1t was only half as ex- tensive as the one that McGraw and Barrow have mapped out for their teams this year.
 AS far as the Red Sox are con cerned, this trip will be for the most part in virgin territory. Not until last spring did this Boston team ever perform much in Texas, and in 1919 a. few games at Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth was the extent of their show there. Away back in 1911, on returning from the coast, Patsy Don ovan's men, splitting up in two sec- tions, made flying visits to Fl Paso, Abilene and Dallas, but they never got any real territory to show at their best in the Lone Star State. Now, however, they are to play at San Antonio for the first time; they will visit Austin. the State capital. Wichita Falls, Houston. Dallas and other places; while, in shifting to the i Atlantic coast after finishing up in I the Southwest, they will make Nor l folk, Chattanoga, and other cities where a Red Sox team has not been ] seen in a decade.
 If Ruth were still a member of the 1 Red Sox outfit, Barrow's aggregation 1 would be a tremendous drawing card upon this trip. While Hooper, liar ] per, Scott and some of the others will 1 be new to the Texans, the fact re- mains that the stands would have l been packed to the see the Big Bat i terer perform. For exhibition pur- | poses he would have been the big ace in the hole.
 i However, by playing with such a i we'll billed outfit as the Giants the Sox ; ought to find this tour a very remun- erative one. All games between these
 two condeners sI Iould draw big at
 tendanoes and as the Giants are, daily expecting the advent of one of the biggest stars in the National Lea que, McGraw should have a lot of head liners to bill. In Frisch, Burns, Chase and perhaps Jim Cooney, not to men, ton Bennie Kauff and one or two
 others he will have quite respec-
 table assortment of real talent to show the natives. And if Hornsby
 and Maranville are corralled he will i have a lot of top notchers to conjure with.
 It is hardly necessary to add that
 the Giants are destined to secure one
 big shining star whose acquisition
 may help to take away some of the
 limelight that now surrounds the
 Yankee team through the purchase of Babe Ruth. The Giants have al
 ways been the prime favorites in New
 York, and this city Is really the bull
 wark of National League strength
 The older organization can not af-
 ford to have the American League
 rivals outshine McGraw's team.
 In spite of the unfavorab1e criti-
 cis1n that is sure to follow some team
 will be virtually compelled to 1ooser
 the string gs on a real shing star. Every
 thing will be done to make that New
 York team practically invincible
 Suffice to say that the Giants vii
 start South with a tremendous for
 midable outfit, and it behooves the Red Sox to go through as promised
 and get that needed strength. A
 least two new stars must be secured
 and while Frazee and Barrow insiS
 that all pending deals are held up or
 account of that meeting which takes
 place early next month at Chica go
 the Boston fans are very apt to lose
 
 management if the club owners dc : not make good their promises before that time.
 No Boston fan will care to see fht Red Sox start Southern trip te become a veritable catspaw for th'
 Giants. The Red Sox have never got
 ten the worst of any brush in
 spring exhibition trip or in a world!
 series, and this is not the time to make new and less agreeable baseball his : tory
 , The Giants will be well fortified and the Red Sox should be eruall. ] so. Even if that entire sum that Fra
 zee obtained for Ruth should hav' to be paid out these badly wanted new men must be secured. One of the main reasons why Rutl was let go was because it was under stood that his retention on the payrol made the Red Sox a one-nan team But without Ruth and without thes
 badly needed new stars the Sox won 1 be much of team at all. So it be
 hooves the Red Sox management t
 get busy, and if the business canno . be done with one eeam, there ar ? other clubs in the league from whicl good men may be purchased.