The evening world., 1921-03-28
NeU Training Methods
Put Yankees in Best Form
Reached in Many Years
Strong Every Department HuggnsS Team Awaits Opening
of Season With Great CondenceHOW the Players Compare
Physically and Mentally With Other Training Periods.

success of ball team, and it is
thing the Yankees lacked last year.
In 1920 the New Yorkers played
under the impression that it was
nothing short of impertinence for
Washington, Boston, &c, TO win a
game from them-that the Sox and
Senators edged in and won quite a
good batch-enough to force the
Yanks into third place.
The Hugmen will start their season
against the same clubs this year but
with a vastly different spirit They
now look upon the other Eastern
teams as things rather TO be feared
at least until the Yanks have pitted
up an insuImoun lead. The Ath-
letics are next team after the Yanlks
in early spring favoritism, and this
choice probably will prove accurate.
Higgins will face this aggregation in
seven out Of his frst eight games.
He says he Will drive his men at top
speed-will get every ounce of "feath-
erS' he can collect before he strikes
the hard board beds Of the West
Huggins's only problem from now on
is to decide wisely just how to line up
his strength. His reserves are so
nearly the equal of his first line and
some reserves and some first liners
are so versatile that the midget lead
er never knows just how to play his
pawns. He won't know either until
the very minute the umpire in chier
asks him for his batting order for the
opening game.
With the release last Saturday OF
| Eddie Grassick, catcher, and Bruce
| Hit. pitcher, the squad was reduced
to thirty men. Only five more win
have to go, and these not necessarily
until May Is.
SKINNER MAY BE RELEASED
SOON.
Camp Skinner, an infelder is the
only player likely to be released be-
fore the team starts North next FRI /,
| day. He is the only one, too, whL
! will go without a string attached.
Ray French and Jack Clifford will be
cut from the list at some future date.
but will be sent out under optional
| agreements. The four -cornered ba4-
| tie among Wingo, Hawks, Connolly
and Christensen for two second
string out1eld berths is the only fight
undecided. Although the race is close,
| Wingo and Hawks have something Of
an edge. The whole quartet though,
probably will struggle until the time
limit for pruning expires.
The only weak feature about Hawks
Is his throwing arm. If Higgins can
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field star is ready to begin writing
brilliant history in the box score.
Hawks played three startling games
against Brooklyn over the week. end
On the base lines and in the field he
is a veritable streak OF unleashed
lightning. He runs out infield taps
and takes extra bases on regular
ticks with unbelievable speed. and he
gathers in drives on every side OF him
in centre field.
Rockies shine in the spring, but
they don't run any faster than at any
other time. To accomplish the feats
of Hawks one has to possess almost
unlimited speed. and that is Just as
telling an asset in the American
League as in the Western Canadian
Just as effective in July as in April
As the spirit OF the Yankees rises
that OF the Dodgers falls. Uncle Rob
bie's crew gained unbelievably in
morale when the Yankees fell in the
first OF a three game series here. All
of the good work was undone and
more, though, when the Yankees
slaughtered the Robins on Saturday
and Sunday. The scores were l6 to ?
and II to 3 respectively.
Exhibition games don't count in the
standing of the clubs, but they do
help a poor club think it is good. Ana
this thought sometimes produces
good early season spurt, as the case
( Of the 1920 Robins proved.
Carl Mays and Bob Shawkey
worked with machine-like precision
yesterday. The Robins got three hits
and as many runs or Bob in four
frames and obtained five safeties and
no runs Off Carl in five.
Uncle Robbie's disrupted pitching
staff was rem asunder even more
, yesterday. Clarence Mitchell got by
for an inning, but stepped into
double, a triple, home run and three
singles in the second. These, with
three bases on balls, netted Huggins
, eight runs and Robbie sent for Miljus
The former Toledo wonder was
greeted with crashing blows on all
! , sides. The Yanls netted five runs
! from six hits in the third, but eased
! up bit thereafter and let Miljus I'm
! ish. The total on him was thirteen
! hits and nine runs in six innings
The Yanks got twenty hits, which
= we're good for total OF thirty -seven n
= bases. Ruth and Schang ran a race
for home run honors and tied at two
=. each. Ruth got no bits other than his
: homers, but scored a third run after
working Mitchell for a base on balls.
: Pete Kildun knocked the ball over
a the fence in the fourth for his third
= homer Of the series, and third, prob
: ably, of hiS life,
/ The series now stands six games to
= one in favor of the Yanks. The only
A wonder is how the Robins got that
! one,