The evening world., 1922-03-23
Ydnks and st. Louis Cards
Look Winners To Critics
Watching Teams in South

| they'll beat the Giants out them
selves and the next series will be
between Babe Ruth and Hornsby."
but they've got to have the pitch
in'-an' there amt no tellin' about
that"
"You said it-Look!"
A younGstcr, Mcmillan, caught a
curve ball on the nose and picked It
for three bases. Ten thousand nc
in their shirt sleeves arose to cheer.
the Yanks being the home club here.
Fast as lightnin, aint he2 That's
the fellow who's gon' to play right
aeld til Jedge lands let's up on Bob
Meusel and the Babe. oh, know
it aint been decided. but anybody
who's been settin' round here for
week can see that.
81 see 'em tryin' out n lot of fell
lows out there observed the other
fan, resuming his seat, but | reck n,
Stars | kin see, that skinny fellow
Fewster, I think they call him-wil
play left field for the Babe and that
fast fellow, Miller. will git in centre"
them young piayers-them recruits?"
"Oh, sure, but to my way of think
in they don't mount to nothin'."
Neither of these fans, it developed,
has ever spoken to New York
player personally, but for an hour
this discussion went on. Gathering
up the important details, | laid them
before Miller Higgins.
81 don't know how they do It," he
| said, laughing. But you can put
them right down as my sentiments to
dot. or course, wouldn't go so far
as to say them young fellows don't
| mount to nothin',' but | don't see
much chance of any one of them
| rousting a regular out OF MS job, a,
that. Wise birds, those old guys
| back there"
Just as these observing fans had
decided, the vital problem of the
Yankees is to get the pitching staff
off to n good start, Fewster, Miller
and Mcmillan will take care of the
| outfield until the Babe and Bob
| Meusel get back in harness. That
! seems certain. For six weeks the
rest of the club will stand pat. with
| the maulcrs back in line and the ad-
| dition of Jones and Bush to the pitch
| ing staff nothing but accident. fire or
pestilenCo can keep the Ycnks from
| repeating. Even though unremcm-
! bered as American Lea~ue cham
pions of last yea" they are-on
paper-thc pennant winners of 1922.
The wisdom of Miller Hugg'ns IN
Il ,,N fol
calibre and of replacing Peckinraugh
| with scott, instead OF depending on
the rise Of n youngstcr becomes MGR
evident every day The Youngsters
don't apepar to be rising at a rapid
rate.
The team that Is expected to win
the pennant will be made up -,
trained veterans, the only addition
and that temporary being McMn-
Ian, the young outnelder who SCI
the woods atirc for George Stallinge
up in Rochester. Though newcome,
to the big league Mcmillan Is n,
spring chicken. lie won his spur,
some time since. His name Is in tn,
Class AA records with ID batting aver.
age well above 800 and even a bet
ter reputation for speed
The or ming lineup OF the YanL.
should enpcar on the score card q
S the Polo Grounds like this:
I Outfield -- Fcwster. Miller, McMu
2 Ian.
Q Infeld-Pipp, Ward, Scott Bake
@ Cor McNally),
Catchers - Schang, DE Vormel
| Hoffman.
4 Pitchors-Mays, SNawkcy. Hoy
Bush, Jones, Harper, O'Doul.
= Much concern is being exprcsse
- hereabouts, and may De thcrrabout,
over the present and future Of Glen
Killinger, the football star, declare
y by Hugh Rc2dek 10 I've so.on
r. Frank FrlsCh. There are Other foot
II ball stars hcre-alI kinds of young
II sters. in fact.
e A discussion of thcm viii he cor
tinued In our next