The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-04-13

!. Cleveland has the strongest team N
the American League. The G"p SAY :
this is true. and we must acHcfe tAe
. dope. However, the I"7" also S2ES ina:
are right on the heels OF the Indians N
team strength. and indicate that IA.
race this season IS 70 be tr:partIte ana
fie1cer and harder than we have known
" DO ' not imagine tina, the fact that
Cleveland figures 10 De the StroaEcS;
team In the league means neIcSNNt.:
that the Indians WI W. snS .'", W. cav,
figure that the strouEes; team viii w.n
but not always. We have saIS .aI
discovered only the strength OF me
strengths we may find different coHdi-
lions. For, In working out the ma.
| solution OF this problem OF the MAJOR
: other team OF known strength.
Form Works Backward
But In baseball We find certa IN teams
equipped with certain styles OF pltche'S.
that can beat much stronger teams, IL. -
strsnrths we Will lind that the team
with the greatest strength cannot Ee@.
weaker clubs which have ptcheFS I"aS
can offset tho superior strength p the
what FOR instance, would be New
Sork's chances x tho Yankees had 10
hit against ChicaGo' . weak CUB up "I i5S-
season. The Yankees won last SSSSC"
by defeating Detroit, Boston and th'!I.
delphia. Had Cleveland Won as many
games from those teams rs New fO:H
did the Indians would have ~a.Acd IN
The problem becomes = bit comph-
Gated when you take into consideration
the changes in teams. Las season h- toE
instance, Washington could only oreah
even with Philadelphia Last sea son
Cleveland had a terrible time beating
Boston. In examining the games play :
fSat cleveland would have swampeG
Boston but for the hitting os Nclnn!s.
who won i've games for Boston. Chang"
NcInnis 70 Cleveland. and what can we
xanks buy own Jfn1ss
We and that Boston beat the Yankees
seven times and that Bush and Jones
were the chief Ingredients or tnoSc
overturna So we have to figure what
wording against the other club. II
would seem that the team getting a
player who has been q particular STUN
bling block out OF their way. ana work
ing FOR them. is net gain. but 1t Is not.
Sor the reason that pitcher ~ao has
been particularly effective FOR one team
nav not DO at all effective for another.
TO me the chief problem q the ne entire ,,
for Cleveland If he IS interested and
> rets back to his old-time form. and
atarts playing bail for Cleveland as he
did for tho Athletics and Tor Boston
An the pre- Frazee days. Cleveland ough'
TO walk In with the championship; :
~ doesn't, there may be an entirely
different story to toll
Fnrse Leaders Are Bunnhsd
IN, arst three clubs in the American
YEA quo are very closely parked But
We and that Washington is not 50 far
behind. washington has real chance
Of pennant. OF course. great dsa
depends upon tho breaks, We must
study Washington against Cleveland
and washington against New YORK es-
pectally. Washington can be depended
upon to take = sreat dea out OK *.
IVA shlngton has been FOR a great many
years the special Cleveland jinx ana
is moro liable 10 be again than Il has
been IN the past
second division OUTFIT with the onY
chance OF getting into the higher cur
cles depending upon tho deyeIopnen,
OF new pitchins strength ReSroS wa wa
II il certain that tho Tigers will win &
least two moro games from the Yam
= ices this season than they did last.
Figure that the Athletics will I'M
prove even ono game per series over
last season. and We cut tho dope all 10
pieces
strengths Of tho other teams CT'c"E"
has a chance to upset the DOPE on se'-
eral teams by using Kerr and tanHr
d!screetly. In fact the White SOY are
IN position to upset tho chances OF any
team they want to attack. X the" dH-
\ sire TO do so. II they decided 10 save
NO their star pitchers and use 'he:T'
either TO help or 20 hurt other team $;
they can do Il. beyond a douot--aao
also upset all tho dope OF the season.
Athletics Can Do Little
Philadelphia, with one star .pitcAHr,
ran hardly do much beyond using him
Uhen the chances favor winning gam
That the Athletics are set 10 GET Gu.
OF the eighth position IS certain; uuS
IN, fact remains that the t2Sk OF Gimp
Inv out OF the cellar ts harder right
now than Il has been In several Er~'S'
and they have not been able 20 DO much,
The added strength % the ta'l-end
clubs Is In fact. 6.S menace % t9c
leaders. The margin OF s:TeHG'a 90
tween the three leading cinoS IS 50
ANAL that two or three uneNpeCtea
shots from tail-enders Is liable 20 "FeI"
Ithsir chances Of the pennaat
In the next article We WI Stuoy (,.a
team strengths OF the Nato3aI l,eat. -
cans after which VIII Apply the
Srnres 10 the different clubs and hHh
nSt how the teams will finish the sea-
son