Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-20
ny wcstbrook rcxier.

NEW YORK. March l9-lt ever a
ball club was showed OF to n run
ming start for tho championship.
that bail club is the Yanks, OF New
York, with Ave right-hand pitchers
in good working order. a gang OF
sluggers well up on their early
Spring slugEing, AN all-but- holeproof
infeld, and ii crowd OF bright young
men clamoring for early season
work in the vacant positions OF Babe
Ruth and Bob Meusel. beyond the
inner defcnses.
But even If the Yankees should
stub their toes and skin their pro-
bosci during the race of 1922. the
Colonels Twain. RUPERT and Illus
ton, who own the club, may know
that the team will repeat at the
box office rs the greatest drawing
card there is or ever was in base
ball. The Yanks are what an editor
would call news and news that
leaps out and smacks the populace
in the eye is the Kind OF news that
keeps the circulation department. at
work. Any ball club whose almost
every within, gesture. ache. sprain,
defeat or triumph is news for the
papers Is bound to pack IN the spec
tators at every ball park In the cir
cult, including the one in Fhiladel-
phia. where patrons enjoy seeing
the contrast between ball club and
a drop the ha ndkerchief squad.
Ruth Hns Fine baseball Iirnd.
Ii was characteristic Of the Ianks
To pick Babe Ruth as field captain
of the team. He was the great Babe
Ruth in his own right as the cham
pion of all sluEGers. but Babe Ruth
as the operating toss Of the squad
is an attraction just that much
greater. The BABE has great
noodle for baseball. too and, there
fore. his appointment cannot be re-
garded as IA box office play. And II
his behavior in the past has been
lacking in scholarly restraint. he is
the. type OF man TO feel his responSi-
bility in setting an example for the
rest OF the club. which should
operate for the Improvement OF the
Babe and the club as whole.
Everett Scott, the shortstop ac-
uuired from the Red SOX during the
winter in exchange for Roger Peck
inpaugh, the Yankees old captain,
But his steady. plodding career
through record number OF con
secutive scheduled games now lifts
him to the status OF personal
drawing card And Frank Baker,
who retired in 1915, thinking that he
was Just heading off senility. Is re-
ported to lie the Frank Baker OF old
in the Yankees workouts at New
Orleans. leaving no question as 10
his superiority over Mike McNally,
who helded Bakers post at thlrn
through most of last seasons games
and in the worlds series.
mixer Failed Ia Deliver.
New York fans. whether addicted
TO the Yanks or To the Chants
Eulped Il few sentimental Suips IN
Tint last inning OF the last worlds
,.l To bal
In a do or don't effort to win the
game and didn't. This was the last
stand OF the inveterate iaimcr anu
third baseman. New York thought,
and it's always a thrill 10 watch ii
man fail ii he fails big.
The FIVE right handlers who viii
do the Yanks' pitching this year.
carl Mays. Waite iioyt. Bob shaw
key, Sam Jones and Joe Bush. won
total OF 1903 games last year and
lost just ffty-ninc. But Jones anc
hush who won between them thir-
ty-nine games and lost only twenty
five. were playing with the Boston
Red Sox, q cub that finished in htlh
position and stood seventh in club
batting They certainly should do
better with murIercrs' row behind
them. -
Carl MAYS -"DiGcrcnt."
People pay money TO see Carl
Mays work. not only because he II
an effective pitcher, but Lecausc he
has that uccuiiar undcrhand style
Of hurting Like any fellows girl,
Carl Mays is different" Waite
Hoyt last fall was the realization
OF all the hopes OF all the Kinds ihat
ever p!aycd on the vacant lois-he
was a recent recruit from hiSh
school, winning two worlds series
games from the great New YORK
Giants as his NAV and his paw and
his sweetheart and his old teachers
looked on from tho grand stand
1t is long time since The cubS
Of Frank Chance and the great com
bina,icn OF TimKers-to- ENcrs to-
Chance. It was one OF those box
Office ball clubs with Johnny Killing
suuatting under the bat and keeping
himself in the public eye, ana Win
Miner Brown shooting mat ban
from his three fingered Hst.
Here is another team that can't
lose money whether IT wins or loses
i.I ,.,r,.g The YaukS OF lS2-