South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-30
SCRAPPY CUBS OUT
TO FINISH BETTER
INPENNANT CHASE
killifer Has Plenty of Pep,
per Instilled Into Club if
Nothing Else.
BY LUTHER \. HUSTON.
1. y. =. stan Correspondent.

CHICAGO. March 29.-About the
most pleasing prospects that stretch
ahead Of Bill KtlHfer's CUBS in the
1922 baseball season are some love
U.s. summer days and a schedule Of
154 games. so pennant flaps at
the finish Of the loug grind that inn
Douds before October.
The hope OF the cubs is not the
gonfalon but a niche higher IN the
percentage column than they
achieved last year. Their determin-
alton is not 20 win the flag them
selves but 10 make the going rough
for a few clubs who have cham
pionship aspirations and 20 keep a
firm foot on the necks or the Reds
and the Phillies who already have
made threats about what they in
tend 10 do 20 the Bruins.
Cubs Have Pep"
Every scrap Of news that has
. trickled back from Catalina Island,
where the Cubs performed their
vernal training stunts indicates
that Killifer will have just one
I thing this year that his outfit did
not have last year That is pep"
I If there has been any great access
Of playing talent among the Cubs
\ il has not been particularly notice
able in early season performances.
a new spirit however. has been
+ noticea BILE and the laCkadaisical
manner that marked the Bruins
/ endeavors last year seems 10 have
faded The young men who toll
under Killifer's direction already
are fighting the umpires-which is
an indication that they will not be
walked on during the pennant gam
Dol without seeking reprisals.
Mr.. william Wrigley's Los An
! geles ball club has very liberal
ideas Of how Mr. William Wrigley's
Chicago ball club should spend its
money and playing talent. There
fore when the Cubs sought Arnold
STATE an outfielder, ana Vic Al
bridge. a pitcher from the Angels.
one of Mr.. Wrig,eys pockets had
to stand quite a drain to meet the
demands of the other.
To obtain STATE and Aldridge the
. Cubs gave third baseman. a catch
er, pitcher. two outfelders. a
bunch of cash and some players that
are vet to he named So far as
STATE is concerned the investment
shows signs of being profitable. AL
bridge has yet to demonstrate his
value i'm the big league.
Max Out of Game
1t is certain that Kilifer will
start the season with an outfield
comprising Turner Barber i'm right
field; STATE in center and Hack Mil
Ter. the Oakland strong man, in
left Barber falls heir to the right
field berth because Max Flack stop
ped fast ball with his Uranium,
sustained a fractured skull and left
the team 10 recupcrate. Flack will
not return. il is expected. until the
/ season is pretty well advanced. Mil
Ter may not make the grade but he
will he given the chance. In re-
serve the Cubs have George MaiseL
who thumpcd the pin for an aver
age Of .312 last season and Mary
/ Canaghan and John Weiss, two
clever youngsters who probably will
be sent 10 the bushes at the end OF
a string
For the inGeld Ray Grimes appar-
ently has won the first base job be-
cause of his ability 10 hit. He is
rot a fast fielder but he is a de-
pendable one and he can pcstlc the
pin Golvin. a youngster. from Mo-
bile. will be carried as reserve first
baseman
Until Marty Krug was pried lose
from Seattle at "A cost of $500.
second base was a problem EruS
seems 10 have filled the bal. how
ever. and will start the season at
tie keystone sack Charlie Hol-
ICcher is a fixture at short and
Johnny Kelleher is the undisputed
heir to Chuck" Deals job at third
base Zeb Terry and Joe Klug-
mann probably viii stick around
for utility infeld duty
Mex Leads HurIers.
kilifer is the titular head OF the
catchors but is not expected to do
/ much receivig Bob O'Farrell
ranks now as the first string catcher
with Dody" Hartnett and Kettle
Wirts as his assistants Hartnett
shows signs OF becoming a star.
The pitching problem centers
largely around the no longer youth
fUl arm OF Grover Cleveland Alex
arder. If the great Alex tolls with
anything like his quondam skill the
Cubs may get somewhere. In
4 Cheevcs. Stueland. Kaufman. Os-
borne Freeman. Aldridge. Keen and
Jones, the cubs have a bevy OF
Youngsters about whom Killifcr fire.
quently wakes enthusiastic. They
should be To; of help to Alex in
his attempts TO pitch the Cubs out
of seventh place where they Ian
suished At the close of the 1921
/ season