New Britain herald., 1921-12-22
YANKEE RIOTERS
ARE OVERLOOKED
Recent Deals Will Help Club Win
PCnnant Is Belief

New York. Dec, 22.-As result Of
the accession of strength in the box
gained in the startling deal with the
| Red So',, the Yankees are being al
ready somewhat prcmaturely hailed
| in some quarters as two-time cham
/ pions Of the American league. The
/ process Of arriving at this conclusion
| Is simple enough, IT being necessary
merely to concede to Huggns ana his
merry crew the pennant which will be
at stake in 1922. However, rumblinE
voices from Cleveland and st. Louis
| introduce the unpleasant element of
protest.
With Bush and Jones added to
Mays Hoyt Harper ond Shawkey in
the Manhattan fold there can be no
doubt that the far-famed "murderers
row of club swinEars is now yoked
mp in arm swinEers. The two recruits
from the Hub we're credited last sea
son with thirty nine Victories between
them as against twenty-five defeats.
and this with a club behind them that
was always an also-ran and that stood
next to the bottom of the list in team
batting Mays and Hoyt stacked up
forty-fv victories during the 1921
campaign, And there you are--or, at
least. you seem to be.
As against these four stars--with
the added possibility that both Har-
per and Shawkey will turn in some OF
the high grade work of which they are
known to he capable--the Indians
have at present lined up Morton.
Sothoron, Uhle and Mails, all erratic
last summer; Bagby whose hurting
wing failed him in the course of the
close tlssIe with the Yankees. and,
last but by no means least, the
eminent Pole. Stanley CovelesEie.
Shookc. a Tartar
Looking over the pitchers on other
teams Urban Shocker is the high light
of the St Louis Browns twrling staff
Dixie Davis, while rather Tartar for
Higgins troupe was not so fornida
bit aga inst other teans. Dave Dan
forth, for whom the Browns Just sent
host of players to Columbus, and
for whom they will keep on turning
men over to Manager Rowland for a
couple Of years yet, has been tried out
=
wanting. Both the White SoX and the
Athletics returned him to the bushes.
AS for Everett Scott. he has certain
y been the most coveted shortstor
in the game for some months of sun
days There was not a CLUB in the
younger major circuit which would not
gladly have given most anything but
it franchise for him. Some critics rate
him .ss having attained more nearly
mechanical perfection in his play than
any other short fielder in the annals
of the pastime.
Boston gets a great shortsop and
three pitchers who may be mighty
men following the transplantng to the
shore of Massa chusetts Bay, for all
of them have been most highly tried
and touted. Nevertheless, for some
reason orother none of them was able
to give New York of his best.
Boston Not Ovcrjoycd
The Hub failed entirely to go into
spasms of Joy over the transaction.
Several fits were thrown. to be sure
but in no instance did the motive
power appear to be Overwhelming
ecstasy. The story of one newspaper
critic on the matter was headlined
"I1razee ,Iunks His Ball Club " Another
we'll known baseball writer begins his
tale of woe with the words The
7craning of the great Red SoX armada,
which won three worlds series in the
four years from 1918 to 1918, reached
the Junk stage last night" One Boston
newspaper gives the top Of four page
columns to a cartoon captioned Last
Night Was the End of the World