The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-11
BOSTON HOPES
FOR INCREASED
POWER AT BAT
Accounts for Trading
of Several Field
ing Stars.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER-

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New York, Feb. 1.-Changes
league club because the team was
all defense and not much in produc-
ing runs. That came as straight
from the top side of the Boston
club today as anything can come,
The consulting board of the. Bos-
tons came to the conclusion that
the team as made up never was go
ing to get anywhere in 1922, until
some players were secured who
could go out and get a few runs.
Hugh Duffy has some ideas of his
own as to what he can do with the
Bostons and is trying to work them
out. In 1921 they had a team at
the Hub that was a mighty hard
outfit against which to make any
runs, and il was also something of
task for Boston to get any runs.
Between the two the Red Sox were
everlastingly playing close games
which they couldn't win and see
ing games go that they might have
won had they possessed hitting
ability in a pinch.
More Batting Power.
The manager wants more batting
power and he thinks that he has
got it. McInnis played first base
for Boston. Yet there is an impress
sion that he was also playing for
Mclnnis. The management wanted
him to thaw out more. He was too
conservative. He should fit into
the Cleveland inf1eld like a No.
glove on No. hand because he
has fast men to play TO him all of
the time and a fast man to geep him
hustling. Speaker says he got him
because he did not want to carry
two first basemen any longer and
McInnis seemed to him to be the
best he could get to fit in well with
Wamsganss, Sewell and Gardner.
Harry F'razee says he is cogniZ-
ant of the fact that Scott is per-
haps as good a shortstop as there
is in baseball but he doesn't believe
| that he will bat any better this COM
ing season than he has in the past
and that is one reason why he let
him go. In the trading around,
FraZee figures that he can show
where Boston has helped itself
some along the lines on which the
team has been built IF we were
right where we were in 1921 what
good would it do US. If we can't
make move or two that may help
to get the team out of the rut in
which it was travelling we can't ex-
pect to win any CHAMPIONSHIPS in
1922, or in any other year. If we
could get one-third more of the
close games that we have been los
ing we might make Boston a men
ace to every club in the league"
Il don't follow baseball right
down to the last play as did some
time ago." said former Boston
manager, who was in New York to-
day. but l try to keep some line on
what is going on and If they will
only let Hugh Duffy work out his
plans of getting a team together in
Boston, l think that the American
league will soon discover that the
Red Sox are back to their old skill
and ability"
Boston had an expert combina-
ton in 1921 Some of the plays
made by that infeld were of the
higher type, but there wasn't much
ginger to the team when it was at
bat.
Miller Higgins has been told to
go forth and get an outfielder some
where for the Yankees and he may
land on Menoskey of Boston before
he gets through. The champions
have come to the conclusion that
they may as well give up complete
ly the hope that Ruth will get a lift
of his suspension.