The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-25
IRIS SPEAKERS
INDIANS APPEAR
TO BE SLIPPING
His Veterans on Down
grade and New Blood
Very Scarce
uy DAVIS J. WALSH


DALLAS. Texas. March 2i--"A
good old wagon but It's done broke
down"
Roforonce IL made In these dopre-
eating terms TO the Cleveland In
dl1nA In 1920 they won the cham
pionship OF the world; In 1921 thcy
were tunucrs-up to tho New York
Yankees, In 1922--2
tandldly, no ono knows at this
ttnso OF the proceedings. iris Speak
cr not excepted.
"lf YOU asked mo at this moment
I wouldn't bo able TO name the men
! will keep Speaker admitted this
morning ''Nono Of tho players have
boon lot out; therefore. I have no
definite Idea Of tho relative value of
tho new men"
or the vctcrnu8 Speaker appeared
moro concerned. Larry Gardner?
fine. Larry was In great shape.
'Dustcr' Mnils2 "DustCr" should
have big year. Bagby2 Much the
same, only more 80. And go on
down the line. 10 Speaker, they arc
tho same bah players that carried
the club 10 u championship In 1920.
Gardner Slipping Fast.
And yet the prevalent belief is that
| they arc nothing of the kind.
Gardner is slipping. Ho may last the
/ fun campaign at third base or he
/ may not. Bagby had an indifferent
| year In 1921 and there Is no guar
nntco that no will do better now.
Mails b. lofthandcr both of and
| on tho battlefield lie had ono
| strcak in 1920 whom no won seven
| straight games nt tho finish of tho
| season ana two moro IN the worlds
| series. Then he came to a fun stop
] Al a
| Mails probably has spoken his little
| piece no far as consistent pitching
! Is concerned.
Tho whole bali club has be-
! como aged and infirm ON Speakers
/ hands, IN fact tho regular lineup
| contains but two players who can
/ lay claim TO youth, namely, Joe
/ Sowcll at shortstop and Jameson in
loft field. Tho rest OF them have
been around long, long time.
speaker. Too. ON the Border.
speaker himself 10 not far from
| tho vague border. According 10
I presont specifications, the infield will
start with Mclnnis on first, Bill
| Wambsganss on second. Sewell at
short and Gardner on third. Riggs
| stevenson, n fine hitter but crude
In tho field Is being iockeyed along
as possible third baseman in the
| event that Gardner does what is in
elegantly known as n FLOP"
Walter Hammond. who pilotcd
! Plttsficld TO an eastern league PEN
nant last year and who hit $3.50 by
way OF encouraging himself is an
! other possibility.
Louis Guisto from the Coast
| League, may be carried as an extra
| tirst haseman and pinch hitter
II will be tho samo outflold, minus
| Elmer Smith. Jamlcson In to star In
left; iris Speaker I'm center and
/ Wood I'm right, with Evans and
Grnney 10 be used against right
handlers. PatMcNulty, captain OF Ohio
state, has caught the popular fancy
down here with his talent for rang
| Ing far and wide, for fly halls. but
| thus FAR Pat has been neglecting 20
| do much in the way OF hitting.
Pitching outlook Il Drab.
A youth named Jeauess has been
| knocking around without getting
anywhere In particular steve
! O'Neill and Lus Nunamakor will do
the bulk of tho catching as OF yore,
with Shinault and possibly Luke
/ Sewell, brother Of Joe, in reservI.
Tho pitchers are many in number
! parsimunlous In quality Coveloskie
| carried the staff last year and prob
| ably will be required 90 repeat the
| effort IN 1879 Baghy may or may
| not come back. Malls. Sothoron
! uhlo ana Kccfe are nothing to write
| home about,
A few recruits who may or may
not come along IN time are jim
Lindsay, a right-handcr from New
| orleans, Burton, somipro from
| Kentucky Del Bissonnette, n left
handler whom the Yankees failed TO
exercise their option upon, and one
| Potts who held Kansas City to throe
hits in four innings recently. II will
he noted that the provisional "may"
Is used 20 the exclusion OF all others.
The Indians are that kind OF ball
| club.