Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-03
AMERICAN LEAGUE
EXPECTED To WIN
1922 LEAGUE FLAG
Chadwick Points Out Weak
Points in Lineup of New
York Giants.
By GEORGE CHADWICK
spsciai csrrespondent Of The Great Falls Tribune.
Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune

Copyright. 1929. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York. Sept. 2.-If the American
league ever had a chance to win a
worlds series, 1t will have one in the
month to come. This is sure unless
the mental and physical assets of the
American league are reduced to a con-
dition of voluntary bankruptcy. Here's
why
Unless all that has gone before in
the present baseball season is grossly
| misleading and a trickster to prediction
the chances of one team in the major
leagues are such that it will be possible
to discuss what team may be able to
throw into the duel for the 1922 world
| series title.
The team to which reference is made
Is the Giants.
Last year there was no early Sept
| ember assurance. The Giants by this
time last year had their heads above
the ground and wore vigorous sprouts,
but Pittsburgh had by nc means been
removed out of the line Of battle. Even
after the mauling received from New
York, Pittsburgh had a chance to win
a p~ennant. 1t was not until well along
in the last melancholy days of Septem-
per last year that the Giants were
actually winners.
~ oOhhSt h1t rs
First of all the question will be asked
by many as to whether the Giants as
a team are a better team than they
negative. Their catchers are unchanged
i and no better. Sunder seems to have
had a good season, yet it is remember
ed that he ushered himself out of
St. Louis because he fell off in his
work.
The first baseman is the same and
just as much better at first base as
a young man could expect to be and
who tries. And a right hand first base
man Kelly is as good as any right hand
first baseman playing. When Pipp is
at his very best he is as good as Kelly.
At second the sturdiness of Frisch
makes up for the bad under pinning of
Rawlings. The latter has not been
troubled so much this year. Frisch may
do better than Rawlings did in the
world series of 1921 but he will have
to go much further than simple Solo
men went in quest of the silver spoons
at the end of the rainbow.
Bancroft About the Same
Bancroft is quite like the Bancroft
of last year but a little worse for the
wear of 800 days.
When Groh is sound the Giants
show they have improved at third base.
The trouble is he is not often sound.
He has been out a great deal this year
and he is not Il player who has to be
| coaxed to take care of himself and his
muscles. When thoroughly adjusted,
physically and mentally, with piston
rod working smoothly in its cyclinder
and each little thought tinged with a
crimson sunset of happiness, Groh
plays sensational baseball. but on other
days he doesn't.
The Giant pitching staff is made up
of q combination of merit and mediocr-
ity. The fact that a major league team
should let Nehf, Jess Barnes, Virgil
Barnes. Scott, McQuillan, Ryan and
Jonnard go and compel it to put its
seven headed neck through the yoke
is the saddest reflection that could be
placed on 1922 baseball.
Though there is Toney and the dumb
and pitiful Douglas. They helped some
but they are gone. Douglas was the
better of the two although when rated
as a wonderful pitcher, as he was by
some, one pauses to ask what superla-
tives those who judge him so would
have needed to describe a Mathewson
or a Brown.
Ryan is a hard working boy who has
not been discouraged when bitterly
criticised. Nehf is as near the best
left handed pitcher of the National lea
que as any one else, Barnes is good
when his frail physique has had time
TO recuperate. The others, except jon
nard. are hardly likely to be discover
ed among the stars with an opera glass.
One would need a telescope.
Those are the players who will be
declared eligible to compete for the
world series. Six former Giant teams
can be named off hand that would have
threshed them until the dust arose like
a cloud.
Cunningham will be added to the
world series roster but he is not con-
sidered to be good enough for a re-
gular outfielder in a team that while
it has had star individuals. never has
had a star outfielder since the ancients.