New-York tribune., 1922-04-08

Giants Oppose
w hite Sox at
Polo Grounds
Yankees and Robins Will
Continue Their Spring
Series at Ebbets Field
By w. !. Macbeth

A couple of baseball championships
encourages drill back into this BIG
town this morning about the time the
''eman is rubbing the sleep out Of his
eyes In the long ago Of last October
they fought manfuily throughout one
Of the most thrilling, heartbreaking,
touch-and-go series in the history OF
baseball classics. Nc refer to the
worlds champion Giants and the run
ners-up OF the classic of classics. the
Yankees, who had won their pcnnant
through the drill Of tre-swept drive.
Father Time has turned several
leaves of his book since then. 4
dynasty or so may have fallen. But
dynasties come cheap these days. For
New York the main idea that holds is
whether or not last Octobers brilliant
and liquld pageant may be repeated
Seven million citizens are pulling that
Itmsy.
Choose your Weapons of arguments
The worlds champion Giants will be
seen this afternoon and tomorrow sf-
n battle array against Kid Gleason's
White SoX, of the rival league. At the
same time Miller Huggins's Yankees
will be appearing at Ebbets Field
against Uncle Wilbert Robinsons re
constructed Dodgers.
Giants and Sox Tied
As q sporting spectacle the Polo
Grounds affair seems 70 have the call
The proudest club of baseball, the
champion outfit of the world, has been
able in it's spring games only to tie
in eleven combats contested with one
of the sorriest aggregations of the
will--or should be-for blood.
By the same token there is room for
speculation in the proposed doings at
Ebbets Field. Huggins's Yankees, the
team that gave McGraws Giants such
fight for supreme honors last Octo-
Der, returns crestfallen, whipped and
apparently disorganized. Brooklyn
added insult to injury by winning its
fifth consecutive triumph on the final
relay of the joint tour northward at
R:Aamond Va, yesterday afternoon.
eleven games played. New York's
Yankees can only hope to save some
thing from the wreck in the three re-
manning games to be contested at
Ebbets Field Perhaps in pity, Man
ager Wlbert Robinson Of the Dodgers
sidestepped the Richmond battle. He
turned the team over to outfielder Zach
Wheat. Squire Ebbets threatens to
submit the Rupert Huston minions to
further humiliation. He may use the
ancient and honorable Nap Rucker in
may do so with impuhity, for the
Yankees haven't chance to square &C
counts. Ebbets and his two partners
Steve and Ed McKeever-might pitch
without affecting the final sum total
of result in the matter of series won.
Ruth's Vacation at Hand
Direct contrasts are our Giants and
Yankees. McGraw to-day has just
about the least formidable array he
will be able to present within the next
two months. Higgins, in Brooklyn,
will have the biggest punch he can
possibly hope to muster until after
Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel are rein
stated some time after May 20. For
McGraw, frankie is hors de combat
He cannot possibly hope to appear
he will be lucky to be in harness then
Heinie Groh and Bancroft are both
cripples; if they play it will be under
severe handicaps.
Babe Ruth has been the big noise Of
the Yankee encourage. His presence
made the joint tour of the Yankees
and Dodgers one of the richest circus
stunts ever perpetrated on the sticks
But Ruth, to date, in his spring stunts
has been g gigantic bust. He will be
allowed to play in the games at Eb-
bets Field Afterward he must step
down and out until after he has been
reinstated by Commits saioner Lands
Out at the Polo Grounds this after
noon John ], McGraw and his equally
vigorous foeman, Kid Gleason, of the
White sox, will strive with might and
main to break the existing tie to as
sure the spring laurels to his own
club. Red Faber is due to heave the
spheyoid for the Chicago Americans;
Phil Douglas Is ripe and ready for the
Giants.
In Brooklyn, too, there will be q
battle for blood, for Huggins and hia
clan are desperate. Sam Jones and
Waite Hoyt are both primed for ac-
| ton, with big Jim Jolley and Murray
recruits, champing at the bit. Rob
bie--if he does not call on Nap Rucker
or Ebbets or one OF the McKeever
brothers--can shoot either Burlegh
Grimes or Leon Cadore against the In
nocents. 1t looks like a big day to-
day.