The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-12
WRITER'S DOPE
BOTH N'Y0RKS
To Win AGAIN
Opinion on Outcome of Major
League Races Determined by
Popular Vote.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER

Copyright. 1922, by The Argus.)
New York. April ia consensus
has been based on queries adj
dressed to leading baseball writer's
of the United States asking them to
name their first, second and third
choices for the major league cham
pionships. In the National league
New York leads with a four-fifths
vote. st. Louis is the only club
named outside New York for the
pennant. St. Louis is second choice
by a wide margin. Pittsburgh IS
not holding up as well as last'year,
which is somewhat surprising and
probably due to the fact that the
Pirates cracked in 1921. Pittsburgh,
however, is a clean third choice
with a scattering vote for Boston
Brooklyn polled two votes for
third and Boston four for second.
Cincinnati was mentioned once for
third place.
In the American league New
York received a majority vote to
win the pennant and the majority
was scant, a margin of two. St.
Louis was named to win by five in
the middle west and Cleveland was
second to New York in the total
vote cast. Washington received
three votes for first place, two from
the east and one from the west. The
conspicuous feature of the vote was
that New York was rated so closely
to the field. There are many who
will not repeat their victory of last
season.
Voting Is Close.
For runner up st. Louis, Cleve-
land and Washington were selected
in the order named, although the
vote was so close that one team
appeared to be about as highly re-
garded as the other. For third
place Washington led both ST. Louis
and Cleveland. rather odd shift
in the vote as compared with that
for second place.
A vote was asked on the Pitts
burgh darkhorses. In the National
league Boston had two-thirds and
Brooklyn the remainder, with the
exception of one or two scattering
votes. For the darkhorse in the
American league race Boston was
the choice of nearly all. The scat
tering vote went to Detroit and Chi
cago.
For last place every vote was
polled for Philadelphia in the Ma
tional league and in the American
league Philadelphia drew all the
ballots except four. These were di-
vided, two being for Chicago as tail
enders and two for Detroit.
For the most probable leader in
the choice in the National league
lean league.
FriSch Is Injured.
| The Yankees will not be the only
New York tNm to begin the sea
son without their star players. Ruth
and Meusel go into retirement be-
| ginning today until some late day
| in May. By that time the Ameri-
can league race may be sad look
/ ing affair. The Giants will not
have the services of Frisch, their
second baseman. 1t will be a week
| before his foot, which was spiked
will be in condition for play. Mean
while Rawlings will play second.
| Reports from the International
I league camps indicate that Balti-
more will start the season with a
display of strength which will re-
quire the best kind of a fight to
beat the team out of the pennant.
| Newark, Jersey City and Reading
need bolstering up. Buffalo looks
improved. Rochester and Toronto
are about where hey were and SYRIA
cuse is expected to do better than
in 1921. Rochester is expected 10 be
a leading contender against Balti-
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