The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-17
YOUTH BEING SERVED
IN MAJOR LEAGUE
BALL THIS SEASON
BY FRANK G. MENkE


The old order of things is changing
IN major league baseball.
Age, at last, is yielding to youth,
lust at a time when it seemed that
the veterans were forever to dominate
It's Junetime now-and the batsnen
have had time to strike their strides.
What they will accomplish with the
mace through the first six or eight
weeks of the campaign is a fair ba-
rometer of their personal effort.
And with this month of roses one
finds that beyond Ty Cobb and Iris
Speaker who, like Tennyson's brook,
seem able to ripple on forever, none
OF the grizzled, grazing players is
doing much with the bludgeon They
have. after years of amazing effort,
surrendered the heights to those in
the springtime of their careers.
Sisler, eff st. Louis, Stephenson, Of
Cleveland, Witt, of New York. Miller,
OF philadelphia, Clark of Detroit,
Blue, of Detroit-all, in the main, are
comparatively new ones. Yet they
are old enough in the matter of abil-
/ ity to crowd back the old-timers who
| held sway for so long on the top
runss of the American league batting
| ladder.
What is true in the American is
| equally true in the older circuit.
| There, new faces peer forth and new
| names stand out in the world of hit
| ting.
Younger Htters.
Torpercer, bespectacled youth,
practically unheard of until he forced
i attention this year, is the nominal
whang leader. And back of him comes
| the youthful Hornsby, the young Robe
wer, of Pittsburg, Bigbee, of Pittsburg,
Ems, of the same team. O'Farrell, of
Chicago, Hargraves, of Cincinnati,
Mokan, of Pittsburg, and others filled
with the buoyancy of youth.
Far down the pitching lists can be
found the names of many of the fling
ing stars Of yesteryear; crowded there
by younger arms and younger hearts.
Stoner, of Detroit, Pruitt, of st.
Louis, Rommell, of Philadelphia, Pill
lette of Detroit, Hoyt of New York,
Kolp Of st. Louis, Heimach of Phila-
delphia, Robertson of Chicago, Hasty
of Philadelphia-these are the names
which stand forth beyond those of
Johnson, Mays, Morton, Bagby, Soth-
oron, Quinn, Coyeleskie, Ehmke,
Smoker, and the others
Sherdel, of the Cardinals. Yellow
horse, of the Pirates, Aldrirge, of
the Cubs, Donohue, of the Reds, Carl
son, of the Pirates, Morrison, of the
Pirates, North, of the Cardinals,
Cheeves, of the Cubs,-those are the
conspicuous names in the singing
records of the National league; names
l7r-Ii oh ri
Meadows, RiXey, Galore, Grimes,
Smith, Marquard. Toney. Mitchell,
Oeschger, and a legion of stars of yes
: terday.
, And so the time has about come
| when age, even though seasoned and
-nellowed with experience is yielding
to the irresistible onrush of youth
Youth Being Served.
For the last few years the club own
7 ers have held to the oldtimers, fear
4 full to permit them to drift out be
cause of the greater fear that mex
5 perienced youth might flivver and
/ bobble and lower the standard of the
! game.
e But this year managers, made des
perate because of the way age hac
slowed up the play, had. in many in
q stances, no other alternative than tC
/ give youth a chance-not workout
S for a game or two and then long per
e iods of benchwarming rather, Z
real chance that endured through
: many weeks.
e At first, the kids, due to nervous
ness, bobbIed a bit-failed to delivei
n 100 per cent fashion. But quickly
i as is the way with youth, the boys
# gained in poise, and began to play
} their real game.
/ The era of veteran domination II
n baseball is passing; youth is beins
: served.
Copyright 1921 BY King Features