The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1922-12-21
RIVALRY HIGH
IN n. Y. CLUBS ] LII!
| Foregone Conclusions That
Yanks and Giants, arsto
! Have Double D, Dates
By HENRY L. FARRELL

0Unlted zffeSS Sports EQltOr.)
New York, Dec. -21:-With both
New York clubs in their own parks
next season there will be tremendous
rivalry for the patronage, of the
Manhattan FANS &. i,s5,,
While nothing is yet. known about
the schedules, it isstaken tas a fore
gone conclusion that both the Yanks
and the Giants will have some con-
fiicting dates at home. :...'
The desire for more Sunday dates
caused the Giants to, terminate the
arrangement which gave the Yankees
the use of the Polo grounds for half
the season and when the Giants
want more Sunday games, the sched-
ule makers most likely will grant
them, as one other club will profit
also. ......
The same is true of the Yankees.
New York, of course, is big
enough to support two Sunday games
but one is bound to draw a little
better than the other, if they sue
ceed in developing a partisan fol-
lowing.
In Babe Ruth, the Yanks have the
greatets drawing card in baseball
and if the big fellow does what he
promises to do this winter, he ought
to hit them again next year.
In addition, it would be no sur
prise to see Eddie Collins working
around second base. The greatest
Of all second basemen would be a
great gate attraction, and he>is very
popular in New York, and it would
give the Yanks a. .:mililon dollar"
infeld to compare with the Giants.
Erin Ward isn't the worst second
baseman in the league and consid-
ering that he has time to come along
while Collins is about through, the
deal would not seem logical, were
it not for the fact that Miller Hug
gins doesn't like Ward and Ward
doesn't like to play under him.
There is also a strong possibility
that the ranks. may have little Dicky
! Kerr to pitch for them in another
year.
One of John. McGraw's bitterest
disappointments was, the failure to
land and develop Il, Babe Ruth be
cause he turned the Swat King over
against Jack Dunn, the Baltimore
manager, so strongly that he didn't
speak to him for years.
McGrew perhaps was not thinking
! of Babe from a; commercial stand
+ point, as he would have considered
it the crowning glory of his career
if he had. been the one to bring out
the greatest hitter of allbaseball.
The Giants will be handicapped
las long as Ruth does his stuff. The
worlds champs are willing, to spend
any kind of money, but drawing
cards like Ruth come only once in a
lifetime. ~.'.'
McGraw has two good attractions
next season---Jack Bentley, $70,-
900 Baltimore star is the nearest to
Babe Ruth that has ever come up.
Bentley is a left handed pitcher,
first baseman and outfelder, great
homerun slugger and a fine hitter
Jimmy O'Connell, $4,000
youngster from the Pacific Coast, is
another good prospect. He is also a
first baseman and outfelder, a dar-
ing baserunner and fine hitter.
Bentley and O'Connell, however,
will be up against it. They will have
Ito deliver before the ultra-critical
laudience Of the type that did every
thing but razz George Kelly out of
baseball. q.
] Ruth was made when he came to
the Yanks and he stepped right into
the hero's role. If the Babe is back
ION his stuff next year, Bently an
O'Connell are bound to look poor in
comparison. =