The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-08
INGRAM MAKING NO CLAIMS IN
 l922 RACE

Graw is sitting pretty behind a worlds championship ball club plus the off-season addition of Heinie yet he is making no rash prediction yet he is making no brash prediction that might be construed as mention ing the Giants and the 1922 National League pennant in the same breath John wants it pretty genally known that he is not that kind of monkey wrench. ...
 Ask any baseball man what he thinks of the National League race this year and he'll crook his index finger in your buttonhole and begin to tell you in confidential shout that the Giants will cake walk to the flag. Not so Me 1 Graw.
 On the subject of pennants he has become as wary as a tax dodger and not without reason. In all, McGraw has won seven pennants as the head of the Giants. starting with the 1904 championship outfit and ending with the team that came from the sur-ep- titious rear to nip the Pirates at the wire last year. .... .: THOSE SOUR TASTES
 But sour as tenor's falsetto lin- gers taste in the region of his soft palate a constant reminder of the fact that he started the 1914 and 1919 seasons with prospective pennant winners and finished with much the same. They never got beyond the prospective stage, in spite of the fact that they were supposed to be the class of the National League. It was merely a case of the records proving otherwise.
 Wherefore. McGraw has decided to win no more pennants in mid-winter and if approached on the subject will do quite a lot of talking with his mouth shut.
 1 He discouraged all talk of pennants during the off season while he was waiting around New York for the rae ing season to get running start in 1 Cuba; he avoided the issue whenever expedient if a conversation of the sort started in Havana and before he left to meet his players at the San An | tonio rendezvous he confided to Q | fpin fnf hn nj fn a | among his men.
 ADMITS FINE INFiELD If pressed for an answer he will ad init that he has, perhaps the greatest infieId in baseball with George Kelly, l Frank Frisch, Dave Bancroft and Heinie Groh ranging between the bags and Johnny Rawlings, worlds series hero, available for utility roles. Furth- ermore, he does not deem it necessary to enter a strident objection if ref erence is made to the fact that Phil Douglas, Art Nehf, Jess Barnes and Fred Toney constitute something of pitching staff, particularly with the addition of Virgil Barnes, who pitched a nohit game for Milwaukee last year, and Claude Jonnard who came up from Little Rock late in the 1921 campaign to fan seven of the Phillies in three innings by way of making a major league debut.
 Nor does pathetic tear well in his eye at the thought that he must bear up bravely with Frank Snyder, Earl Smith and Alex Gaston as backstops. Somehow, John just can't make the rifle here, but he will tell you that George Burns leaves an aching void in center field between Meusel and Young, althought Bill Cunningham and Ralph Shinners, the much-advertised young man from Milwaukee, are sup, posed to be ready for the job. All in all the club seems fool-proof Hence the McGraw reticence. There is such thing as winning the pen nant in March and losing it in Sep