The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-06
FANS PONDER
SELECTION OF
CAPITAL CITY
By JOHN B. FOSTER.

NCOpSTlSuI, IJZL, DS u ne ATSuS.t
! New York, Feb. 6.-Before the
week is over the minds of the fans
will be relieved as to whether
| there is any great and unusual pur-
| pose on the part of President Ban
Johnson in assembling the Amer
lean league club owners at the ma
tional capital for the scheduled
meeting instead of in Chicago.
Not whisper has been heard to
the effect of an upstirring out of
the ordinary. The general impress
sion seems to be that Johnson has
chosen Washington because it fits
in well with the general scheme of
things, now that Washington has a
new manager and new shortstop
and also to give the capital some
thing to talk about now that the
7 armament conference has finished.
The New York club will be well
represented. Colonel Rupert, Col
onel Huston, Miller Higgins. the
manager; Ed Barrow, the business
manager, and two scouts, Bob
Connery. and Bob Gilks, probably
will be there The American league
champions have not relinQuished
their hunt for an outfeIder. They
might get a good outfeIder by
trading off a pitcher but it would
not be wise policy to do so. The
superstitious are calling attention
to the fact that Waite Hoyt, their
promising boy" pitcher. who has
just been married. is due to have a
bad season. 1t is a tradition of
baseball that a bridegroom never
f1sa ftInl Iaa
holds good, the Yankees will not be
as strong in the box as they thought
they were.
The Chicago Americans have
taken Acosta from the Athletics on
d waiver claim. Perhaps they wish
to use him in Il trade. More likely
they wish to use him as their own
little pitcher. One of the officials
of the Chicago club in discussing
the showing made by the team in
1921 called emphatic attention to
the fact that the Sox pitchers were
the most unreliable bunch he ever
saw.
Time and again." he said. "Glea-
son went to the men and told them,
Don't try to fool the batters I'd
rather see you licked every game
by letting 'em hit than see you give
every game away They couldn't
put the ball where the batters
could reach it"
If Joe Harris can bat the ball as
he did when he essayed to be a
major league player some years ago
his reinstatement may mean much
to the Boston American lea que. He
is not the most polished outfelder
in the history of baseball but he
threatened to become one of the
most powerful batters of recent
years. sHeSH
Inc st. Louis Americans could
stand another high class infielder.
Rumor has it that Phil Ball is not
very keen for thawing out the bank
roll when it comes to going after
ball players
The Cincinnati baseball club is
wondering what is to become of all
the players which it has taken from
the Pacific Coast league for 1922.
Contracts have. been sent to them
but they have not come back signed.
1t is minated in Cincinnati that
some private correspondence has
been going in which it seems evil
dent that the players concerned
having heard of the 100000 that
the New York club is supposed to
have paid for the services OF Groh,
are solicitous about getting the
most of it for salaries in 1922 At
last accounts Garry Hermann was
still zealo2sly defending the treas
ury. The combined salaries, of sec
ond baseman. shortstop and third
baseman, as asked by the players,
is not much less than 100000 and
Cincinnati is wondering whether it
would not have been as well 10 have
kept Groh after all.