The Washington times., 1922-01-31

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= the thing that they do best, II
yUu know what wee mean.
& However. testing aside. although
h hard to be serious when talking
ubout our hopeless affairs In the big
leagues. the PhIls will take better
BALI club into Florida than the one
With which they journeyed into the
Land Of ths Everglades last year.
II would have been impossible to
have taken anything worse-it didn't
Snist.
- Wilhelm, Of the last named, for
That reason, will have 1t all over
Wilhelm. Of the first name, in this
respect, n the Pills have some
They haA Was n l0tta men-able
70 vote and draw breaths and sal
-arios, but rather. q trifle minus
when Il caine to ball playing.
This year. however, there are sew
sfal toilers who should make good,
and II Wilhelm gets a little hitting
and q little pitching and little field
Gar work than the other teams. why,
he'll have . pretty good ball club.
Which IL the same thing as stating
that II John ID. should loss his money
he wouldn't be as rich as he Ii gen.
orally reputed to be. q,
However. tbs the gloomy winter
season now, and the Phillies start
even with every team in January.
and look a. good AZ tn, ,Siants--in
TIE winter But with all due respect
% everybody IL does seem as II the
chances for handling the national
y6stime was q bit better the coming
season than for several past.
First, there In the catching staff.
Henline ought to make q fair receiver
and good thrower, and IL he develops
. knack Of handling hurlers, ought TO
BE- the f1rst-string catcher and the
bsst gent In that billet since Paw
Paw Bin. alias Killifer, was In the
The pitching staff il one trrn 81 those
fhings that depends. First. there is
Ese Meadows, the be-spectacled young
nabob who can twirl and do 1t Ella
borately, II he hasn't been tempered
with and doesn't let his longing to
70 to q major league ball club like
the Giants ruin him entirely.
McGraw wants the Tarheel Twirler
and what Jawn J. wants he usually
leaps out and secures. But Baker
says that he will not sell Meadows,
and that Lee will remain with the
Phillies until he has whiskers caun.
tGing down to his knees.
- But ut this stage Of the game We
want to say that Meadows remain
ing In this city depends on how the
Books balance about August. IL
Mister william r. Baker finds he
cannot turn Q dividend in for the
bosses, why he will just naturally
gohble q cash offer for the North
Carolinian, say $50. 900 or more.
But at the present writing Meadows
=. the ace of the corps. He is aided
} By Jimmie Ring, George Smith, Hub
bell, the Bouncing Boy; Hald Baum
gartner and, host Of youngsters.
At first young Leslie, purchased
from New Orleans, will be found a
good start II he plays as well as
his agents herald he should be a
good man In the place. On second
Jimmy Smfmth will do business, with
young Parkinson at short and Goldie
Rappcn on third.
Parkie stepped from semi-pro
IN q single year and his experience
last year, should help him this sea.
son. He In q good fielder and a fair
hitter but, woefully ignorant in base.
ball technique, a thing that afflicts
al juvenile ball players and which
only experience can cure.
This season he should be bet.
tm. Rapp Is . good ball player,
VINO docs not flt into the McGraw
scheme Of things because Mac
nocds tho finished product to win
pennsnte and has not the time or
tho fncIination TO deveIope 'em.
:. This lnfieid should look fairly pre-
sentable In April anyway.
:. The outfield is all right. Cy vii.
1ans In center, is as good a man as
Ihere 10 to be found In the nation,
n he could only get his mind away
from the: lowing kline and the hay
crop In Three Rivers, Wis, and pin
his concentration on the 154 games
That appear on the league schedule.
).Aside from the longing of the life
OF . bucolic sachem, Frederick Is all
the goods.
Curtis Walker, secured from New
York, looked like one Of the best
young outfielders who busted into
speed company last year and
should make good this year.
Lee King. the other regular. = q
trst class 'outfielder, hits like a tor
nado and and can throw 'em and
set 'em. The Phillies would be some
outfit IL the other departments OF
the game measured up to that gang
Of suburban sentries.
However. the Phils have been
three years in the cellar. and they
still have Q long way to go to equal
the record Of those birds a little
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