The Washington times., 1922-08-20
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REDS AND CUBS
OUT BUT LOOK
GOOD FOR 1923

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Babe Ruth Thinks These Clubs
May Furnish Fireworks Be-
fore Present Seasonls Done.
BY BABE RUTH.
His first ~ games this year,
~ home runs.
His Erst ~ games last year.
~ home runs.
This date last year (iis)
games, 46 home runs.
Anew YORK, Aug. I19.-
Though probably out Of the
= running for this years PEN
nant and the rich financial re-
wards awaiting the winners, the
Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago
Cubs are attracting almost as
much .expert" attention around
the National League circuit as
any Of the three clubs now rated
as contenders. They are the
clubs which the critical observers
expect to furnish the fireworks in
next seasons race and the indi-
cations are that both will be well
equipped to do this little thing.
Neither the Reds nor the Cubs
were expected to play prominent
part in the present campaign. They
were figured in their league about as
the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago
White Sox were in the American
League, which is tantamont to say.
ing that they were generally picked
to finish way down in the second
division. Both were regarded as
Joke" teams. and II Is only within
the past couple of months that the
reluctant critics have revised their
preseason opinions of the killifer
and Moran combinations.
As matter OF fact, the critics
were amply justified in consigning
both clubs to the ranks Of the also
rams. For one reason or another both
were compelled TO entrust important
positions to young and comparative
ly. untried players and clubs 80 con-
stituted cannot be expected to tear a
major league apart. 1t happened.
however, that Killifer and Moran had
builded better than their rivals sup
made more trouble for the Giants
and the Cards than any other two
clubs in the league. ~
Reds are Promising.
or the two, the Reds appear TO be
the more favorably regarded os'1923
pennant possibilities. Their pitching
staff still Is in a formative stage. but
Moran already has acquired a very
promising nucleus for a powerful
hurting corps and his tnfieId and out.
field departments leave but little to
be desired. sasz H E
1t was in the infield that the Reds
were expected to be hopelessly weak
this season Moran had traded
Shortstop Larry kopf and Third
Baseman Heinie Groh, and had only
q couple of minor leaguers-Jimn1ie
Cayeney and Babe PineIli--to re-
place them. Caveney came up with
q reputation as q bad actor" and
Rinelli had been unable to make the
grade with the Detroit Tigers, 50
that neither was expected to prove
of much help to the Reds. w.. a.-r1
Pinelli, however has shown him.
self to be one OF the most efficient
third baseman In the game, and
Caveney has done almost as well at
short. Between them they have
made" the Reds a formidable foe for
any club to tackle, and they are still
, young men, with their best years
ahead Of them. a... Le.. &c.
Pinelli Makes HIT.
Pinelli, especially, has made ire
mendous hit with the Cincinnati fans.
who now declare that he is better
man for their club than Heinie Groh
ever was. Before they really accept
cd him, however, they gave him a
''razzing" that would have driven
a less determined youngster out of
the league. .. s."
Resenting the trading Of Groh, they
vented their animosity on Pineln and
never missed q chance to ride" him.
They rode" him so hard, indeed that
the Italian fans Of the Rhineland H.
nally sought to soothe his injured
feelings by organizing Babe Pinelli
Marching and Chowder Club and CIV
ing him a. dinner. To this dinner he
was accompanied by Caveney. whose
somewhat swarthy complexion led
the italians to mistake him for their
compatriot. They were hugging him
TO their breasts and showering kisses
upon his blushing cheeks when Pinel.
Ii rescued him from his embarrass-
ing position by revealing his own
/ identity. t ~
The Italians made practice,
thereafter, of attending the Reds
b home games en- masse and shrieking
encouragement to Pinelli from the
standa Their enthusiasm for the lit
lie Californian proved contagious,
and Il wasn't very long before the
fans who had "razzed" Pinelli were
calling him the greatest third base
man in the world. ~. Ra
- (copyriEht, asa2. by Christy walsh
~. -, Syndicate.) A."