The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-01
RUTH HOPEFUL
FOR YANKEES
Says Team Pinned for Western
Trip-bamblno Wants
Hot Weather.
By BABE RUTH.

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BOSTON, Mass. April 30.--In
Just q few days from now, the
Yankees will 90 out over the West
ern trip, and then we will have a
real opportunity to appraise. the
strength of the other half Of our
Cleveland seems to be going we'll
and evidently IL making the most Of
every chance, which, in the parlance
Of baseball, is called getting the
breaks" The splendid way in which
Riggs Stephenson and Joe Sewe'l
have come through for Speaker has
made it possible for the tribe to &c:
on with the best foot forward, which
is indeed q fortunate circumstance
1t has always been my contention
that the games that we win in the
early spring will stand by US in the
late autumn.
YANKs WILL IMPROVE.
Better things are in store for the
Yankees, as we will show from this
time on. We have about purged our
systems of the bad baseball. and the
real major league stuff will mark our
games. 1 can't see where we have
anything to fear from the Western
efs. We won the season series from
the Indians by three games, led the
White Sox and Browns by two games
each. and won ffteen games against
the Tigers while they were winning
seven from US.
1t is generally conceded that our
Club Is better equipped this season in
every way than 1t was last season.
and please don't forget that we had
one giddy succession OF accidents last
summer.
The breaks of the games will count
heavily one way or the other, but
very often q team will make its own
luck. The spirit Of night, plenty of
light, will make q team that does not
hture to win rise superior to it's phys
ical Qualifications.
The st. Louis Browns last year
fought their way through to the first
division because. In conjunction with
their ability As players they had that
spirit which would not down. Jimmy
Burke never quit for minute and
the boys were right In line with their
leader.
WANTS FARM DAYS.
For my own part, I am praying for
some real hot weather. when the
thermometer hovers close to the 30
degree mark. The pitchers are, then
In clover. The fans may welcome
the cool breeses. but give the hurt
ers the good old back oven tefnpera-
pitching I wanted It to be hot, then
II lost had no alibi. And the
other pitchers feel the same way.
What some managers call spring
tftchsrs." or those who are at their
lest In the cold days of the early
season, who come on again to shine
in the early fall are In the minority.
We need the heat now and need II
quickly, for there are several of
the boys who are not really ready to
give OF their best.
Bob shawkey, Rip Collins, waite
Hoyt. and Jack Quinn will do bet
ter when the summer rolls around.
No ball club that hits the way we
can hit has anything to fear. In
the hrst twelve games we played
this year we were held to one run
Just once. The rest OF the time we
or up to eleven. That kind Of scor-
ipg} 10 all that a pitcher should
want. 1t Ia all he can legitimately
ask Of n club that Is sitting in be-
hind him. I think that IL the old
Senators had ever mace that sort
of showing for Waiter Johnson that
the big boy never would have lost
a ball game.
THREE RUNS ENOUGH.
I know that I never asked the old
Red sox to get more than three rifus
for me. In fact, I was tickIed to
death IL they made three runs for me.
/ remember the year i pitched eleven
shut-outs. l. won seven or eight of
them by one to nothing counts.
have pulled through many a game
with the club behind me making two
and three runx and so say that