The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-17
PRIVATE SERIES
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GOTHAM UNLIKELY
Novelty Worn OFF; Ty's
Tigers, White Sox and
Browns Loom Up
w DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK. oct lc--To whom
30 may concern. ana oli others s.
may bo mentioned that tho chances
~ tho ull.E.w York nuisance bee
ing repeated for tho worlds OAom-
pIonshIp in 1923 nro 1bout ln 90.
Iur this. Allah boo pfl.. .,d
The IDEA Uf private ltiio world
.Urios has about worn uut lia VOL.
come. here and everywhere. No
one. except tho club owners and
players concerned. ptc fut 10. In two
YuHtH the novelty uf the thing has
died lingering death and even
Scw York fans would Doc pleased to
see some outsider break through.
Barring the mid-wiutrr iuEglory
~ players f0r which both Now York
entries arc noted, tho outsider iu
question should rido through on the
following reasons. cited in tho order
of their importance.
l. The growing strength of tho
Tigers ana white SuK and possible
Improvement or the Browns.
@ Few clubs have boon nblc 90
win ucuuaut three years in Sue
DcFsiou.
3. The morale ~ tho Yanl,s re- nt
low chb us tho result ~ tho tor
rlfio manhandllug given them by the
GluntH
Having dcnuded the Boston Rcd
SON OF everything worth their
trouble. the Yanks cannot look to
the other clubs lu the league for as.
Firtuncr next year. They viii be
strictly on their own and that may
not he enough. II is by uo means
u young club.
Tho Tigers ma White sov. on
the contrary, wcre just coming at
the finish ~ the 1872 campaign
cobb needed Just one more reliable
pitcher and he may get the man ne
is seeking before next spring. I'm
amy case, the Tigers should be M
or near the top All season.
The Gleason entry lacked third
hasom1n laat year but is getting
While kamm. the 500. 900 Kid. for
1879 Baseball men assure us that
l(nmm viii gp over very big. and II
he does the Sox are made. DicS
Kerr viii he back and his addition
10 the pitching staff viii make tho
White SoN "A noar-ChAmpiunshlp
OUTFIT nt the very least.
Further than that. the Browns
chased the Yanks right into tho
wire this year and. given another
day or two. might have beaten them.
They viii be In there swinging again
next season, and the browns are
quite some swingers.
Tho odds against threc-plv pen-
nant winning ~ another Yankee
handicap. since 1900 only two clubs
have been able to repeat for three
| years tho cubs In 1905, 1907 and
| 1908 and the Giants In 19ltn 1879
and 1913. Since tho latter year even
/ repeating for tho second year has
/ become u prccarlOus pastlme.
>hc old Athletes, something ot n
| hail club couldn't do n They won
In 1910 ana 1911. flopped In 1912,
ana wore back again In 1913 and
1914 ~ was tho same with tho Red
SoN, who came through I'm 1919,
didn't come back again until 1913,
won again In 1919. hut lost out IN
1919 and won again for the last time
in 1918.
Tho OLD third year hurdle was
too high for them, IL win be no
| lower for the present Yankees, who
are not as good n ball club as either
| the Mdcks or the SoN never were
and probably never will hc.
Only one element might revive the
! outlook, to-wit. n now Yankee man
/ aEer. 10 is not conceivable that they
can win again for Miller Huggins.