Evening star., 1922-02-10

estimated things little.
"An of them seem to forget that
New York just managed tc nose Cleve-
land out Detroit helped to do that.
Almost at the end of the season, when
the Yankees wanteds Cleveland beaten
as often as possible, we got out the
old pudding stick in Detroit and rode
roughly over Speaker and the Indians.
You could hear Iris groan inwardly
every time that we scored run. Ours
was mighty handy victory for the
Yanks They weren't going SO we'll
themselves that you could call them
visitors on Easy avenue, and the more
frequently they were indirectly helped
by having some other team defeat
Cleveland the better their prospects
for winning.
Size Up the Situation.
Toward the end of the season it got
In the air, as such things do, that the
Yanks were coming through. Ball
players began to talk about it, and
every time that a National League
player saw an American League play
er the first thing he would say to
him would be: Well. looks like the
Yanks have got it copped all right in
your league When players hear that
sort of thing coming from the outside
they begin to figure that maybe they
haven't got things sized up well in
their own league and then everybody
gets nervous"
"You figure on the closeness of last
years race as an argument for the
closeness of this years race, ire.
spective of any changes in players?'
was asked.
, , That's just about it. Tip four or
/ five games the wrong way for New
, York and Cleveland just when things
, begin to warm up and see Where theE
. land this year. They'll be fighting for
J chance as hard as they We're in 1921
and some of the other clubs are likely
to come along and give them more of
a chance as hard as they were in 1871.
don't say that Detroit will do it. but
IN bet that we play better ball this
coming season than we did last.
Knows Tigers Weakness.
NO one needs to tell me where the
let Donie Bush go from shortstop last
summer. after the long term of years
that he had been with Detroit. that was
the beginning of the breaking up of the
1T was just in the order of things that
I had to do it the first year that I
tried to be a manager. If I hadn't
been manager, the man who filled the
job would have had to do the same
thing.
They have been trying to get Veach
away from me. New York is not the
only club that's after him. New York
wants him because the Ruth suspen-
sion hangs heavy and menacing over
the Yankees. I need Scott as badly
as they need Veach, and I'm not CIV
ing players away. What l mean by
that is that I want players for play
z ers. The Detroit club is not hard up
end cash will do it no good if it can't
get players.
= 4I'd be foolish to let veach go for
cash, and. leaving hole in the team.
find 1t impossible to fill it with
player. That would cost me more
! than what I could get in money.
Probably Dugan would fit in pretty
well for the Detroits. If Boston can
let him go Detroit can try him at
-shortstop as well as Boston, but I
!. haven't heard that Boston is permit
ting any shortstop to get away after
: dropping Scott to New York and
EPeckinpaugh to Washington.
{ Says Yanks No Stronger.
: IF the Yanks have no more in
Scott than they had in Peckinpaugh
an even keel. because the champions
are no stronger. If they are no
stronger I'd like to see how any one
figures out that two pitchers are go
ing to carry them through against
the handicaps that they will have in
other team in the league will be after
them.
Don't tell me that they don't go
after the champions. I've been on
championship teams and I know I
can't tell why. unless it's human ma
ture.
I'm talking for the second division
teams" added Ty. grinning as he
finished. you see they've put me
down there already and I'm not going
to see our end of the league lose out
for the lack of a little verbal encour-
agements And honestly I think that
It's mistake always to be too sure
about the outcome of a pennant fight
when pennant is won in the last
four or five days of a championship
race.
You know one injury or one week
Of bad luck is likely to stick the
champions six or seven games, and.
believe me. when club is out six or
seven games in these days of cham
ptonship base ball it's just loading up
the old horse until his hack hends hir