The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-05
CONNIE MACK IS STAR AT GIVING
 AWAY PLAYERS
Walsh Says He Might Have Had Cream
 of League
BETTER TEAM THIS YEAR
Breaking Up of 1915 Outfit Dissipated Fine
 Group of Corners

NEW YORK, March 5.--For the first time in nine years Connie Lugu- brious Mack can be favored to finish higher than eighth in the American League because ,,e is deemed to have mustered sufficient strength, after seasons of experimenting, to outlast the Boston Red Sox, if none other
 Cornelius has tried more combina- tions than Monte Carlo gambler since breaking up his worlds cham pionship outfit before the 1915 sea- son, but his efforts have been un- productive. On the other hand, he would have had a real ball club to- day had he stood pat and allowed his original bets to ride. Suppose, for example, neither trade nor pur- chase had tempted him. He would then be able, barring accidents, to announce the following as his lineup for the opening game of the 1923 season:
 They Were Released
 Pitcher, Joe Bush, one of the lead ing right handlers in the game last year; catcher, Steve ONeill, still one of the topnotchers; fire base, Stuffy McInnes; second base, Eddie Collins, who tops them all at thirty six; shortstop, Larry Kopf; third base, Joe Dugan, the best in base ball. outfielders, Charley Jamieson, Amos Strunk and Whtey Witt.
 So much for the opening day line up. For the next game he could call on Bob Shawkey, Herb Pennock. Stanley Coveleskie, Roy Moore, Rube Bressler, Dana Filingim and John Watson to pitch and Wally Schang, Walter Schmidt, Val Picinich or Gleen Myatt to fill in behind the plate-surely the finest set of bat tery strength in the land.
 In case of injuries to his front line forces Cornelius would only need to
 
 George Burns, first baseman and out fielder; Doc Lavan and Eddie Foster, infielders, and Larry Gardner and Frank Baker, pinch hitters.
 Quite a ball club, that So good, in fact, that it would figure to run one, two three in any mans league. Yet it was given away virtually by man who gives only until it hurts, therefore gives nothing.
 Cornelius must have been painfully injured many times during recent years, for he now has nothing to show for all his trades and deals with other major league clubs unless it is the solace of an increased bank balance Of the lineup that probably will take the field at the start of the next season only lilly Walker and Bing Miller, outfielders, went to Philadelphia in intra-league trades.
 Look Them Over
 Ralph Perkins, said by many to be the best catcher in baseball, was developed at Shibe Park. So was Eddie Rommel, who won twenty seven games for a seventh-place club; Joe Hauser, the first baseman pur- chased from the American Associa- tion; Jimmy Dykes, who was picked off the lots around Bryn Mawr, a Philadelphia suburb; Galloway, the shortsop; MeGoowan, the outfielder, and Hasty, Harris, Heimach and Yarrison, pitchers.
 Hale and Riconda, the recruits who will battle for the open job at third base, were purchased the former from the Pacific Coast League and the latter from the Eastern League
 Of course, many of the men Mack let go, including O'Neill, Schmidt, Coveleskie, Lavan, Kopf, Foster and JJamieson were undeveloped at the time they received trials under him. Yet the deplorable fact is that Cornelius cut loose from Eddie Col line, Joe Bush Bob Shewkey, Stuffy Mc1nnes, Amos Strunk. Wally Schang, Larry Gardner, Joe Dugan, Frank Baker, and others while they were at the pinnacle of their ability, and the men he got in return are either out of the major leagues or out of circulation, depending on whether they were iron men or merely hu- man. The iron men were retired from circulation automatically.