The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-29

BIZ JOHN B. FOSTER
Copyright 1922. by The Argus.)

New YORK, Aug. ~. Inc 81.
Louis Browns are not going to lose
the American league champion
ship in the layt week of August, or
the first week Of September, or the
second week, or any week il Lee
Foil, their silent manager has any
thing to say about 1t. They will
not funk before the elder berries
are of the bushes as their city ri
walls have done.
The Browns left New York say
ing the Yanks would have to come
out to st. Louis and stack up on a
st. Louis field before they could
even hear the flap Of the flannel in
the wind.
I'VE have been behind the Yanks
more than once this esason," said
Foil. land We have caught them
again. We will catch them again.
They are as likely to get into a
winning streak as we. They
have got to play the Detroits, the
White Sox, the Clevelands and our
team. That's a tough pathway at
the end of the season because all
of those teams figure that they
have a chance to finish on two or
three and they want the world
series share that goes with it. 1t
may not be whole lot, but it will
buy little sugar and syrup for
the winter"
The players of the Browns feel
that they have something to work
for in behalf of the city. Now that
the Cards have dropped back to
third place with little indication of
recuperating between now and the
finish OF the season-of course they
can but it doesn't look probable
the Browns figure that the fight
for western supremacy in baseball
has fallen ON their shoulders.
They won't concede that they can
not pull through and decline to
admit a single weakness in COM
parison OF their nine with that of
the Yanks except the fact that the
New York outfit has larger sup
ply of high class pitchers.
Browns on Mettle.
The spirit of the Browns is COM
1t seems as il the
dropping back of the experimental
and much experimental with Car
dinals has put the other st. Louis
team on their fighting mettle and
they are not going to surrender
their share Of the baseball posi-
biiities Jof 1922 until they are
fought down to the last base.
st. Louis left New York with the
series against them but they gave
the Yanks a fight for the same and
1t was not SO certain that any great
perponderance of strength rested
with the champions if they did win
the series. 1t put them a game and
a half ahead Of St. Louis but they
have been that far ahead before and
dropped back and it is not going
to be an easy task for them to con-
tlnue to win because the other
teams Of the American league are
after Yankee scalps.
Even the ball players have be-
gun to catch the phrase New York
has had too much" and they are
out for one pennant in the west if
the west can earn it. That means
in so many words that the other
teams in the American league win.
make both st. Louis and New York
fight the championship up to the
limit of the schedules duration.
There has been seasons when the
players became respondent on nom
winning teams and played ball
slovenly and with no heart in their
work.
1t seems to be pretty we'll con-
coded that the Giants have the
championship won. That is unfor-
tunate- because it will deaden all
the month Of September for the Ma
tional league. Not a team in the
east will draw enough to fill the
top OF a tea<cup except New York.
1t is a serious handicap to the cir
cult as whole.
Draw Poor Crowds.
Brooklyn. Philadelphia and Bos-
ton are hopelessly out of it. st.
Louis has been counted out even If
the decisive game cannot be played
for some time. Now st. Louis as
might have helped a lit
tie in. Boston, Brooklyn and Phil
a. delphia but as a non-contenderi
there will be little interest even
in going out to see if Hornsby can
bat homeruns.
The result will be that the Car.
dinals will go through the east
on their next trip with their games
attended by corporars guard as
compared with the crowds which
they would have drawn had they
been up in the fight. The eastern
end of the National league needs
to take nitroglycerine pills, dyna-.
mite solution and gun powder
powders for about four months to
not pnoA~v e., 1nnO