San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-05
Even Higgins Of Yanks
Warns Of Detroit, While
Nobody Seems Especially
Fearful Of the 1923 YAM
KEGS.
by JOHN Ii. FOSTER.

Copyright. by The San Antonio Light.
New Orleans. La. April 5.-lt is
interesting today with the start of
the season almost at hand 10 note in
the American League the opinions OF
the managers as 10 the other teams.
Higgins says beware of Detroit. He
has squinted up and down the firing
line of the American League and he
has leveled his best squirting eye
against the front line of bludgeons
which are carried By Detroit's 300. ="
Hug always has respected batting as
factor toward winning pennarts.
He is good thinker and observes
the teachings Of experience. He will
not run blindly into ambush. Unborn
caution. rooted very deeply into the
Higgins cuticle. will take him through
thick brush where others will fail.
Higgins reaIizes that Detroit also
must carry pitching with her and so
do all others who have their atten-
ton to the presumable merits of the
team. 4
You Set That Idea.
Connie Mack is respecter of De-
troit. He SAID 81 at Montgomery.
He didn't exactly affirm that he tear
ed Detroit more than any other club
in the American League. but be was
careful 10 observe not once but sew
eral times. that if the Tigers were
blessed with some of the essentials
which 60 with first division club,
they might be further blessed by win
ming the championship.
"A very dangerous lot" said Con-
ME. slowly, and then he repeated to
himself. like an echo. dangerous lot. y
BE assure that when the Athletics
play against Detroit, Connie will be
prepared to engineer campaign which
is intended for dangerous lot No. /.
How much faith Mack may have
in third championship for the Yanks
can't be developed by any straightfor-
ward answer which hits the bulIs-eye
and rings the bell. but the impression
permeates the vicinity when he talks
about it that he thinks the Yanks
were too well extended in 1922 TO
come back again. He has more ad-
miration for the New York pitching
staff than he has for any other de-
partment of the team.
Thinks It'll BE in West.
Speaker thinks Detroit will be hard
enough to beat and thinks that the
championship viii be settled on the
| western half of its hemisphere. That
opinion was expressed. however. when
Ssler did not seem to be in such bad
shape Mt st. Louis. IL the st. Louis
| Ia t1t- orf
in the race from the stair. Speaker
may modify his opinion TO the extent
of letting New York in as more Of
a contender. because it appeared that
| Speaker believed the West strong
enough conformity TO smother the
Yanks this year.
Chance says he has had no oppor-
| tunity TO estimate the strength oi
the other teams of his circuit. becaus,
he has not played against the sever
clubs which everybody thinks viii
bury him and with good reason fol
thinking so. He respects Detroit rs
a good team and suggests that HI
had been looking the players over t.
inform himself what TO EXPECT.
81 know they can hit and there
are so many natural hitters among
them that it is unwise for any mar
TO believe they will not finish high
in batting. They have got TO stavt
off runs of other clubs. however. ant
that's where they rust have pitch
ing"
Lee Foil believes that Detroit is
one Of tho teams that will be in thu
first division. but he doesn't seem ia
be as confident as Higgins that the
Tigers will come through as one Of
the contenders within a nose of the
lead all the time.
| Gleason Likes His Own.
Foil is always reticent about ex.
pressing an opinion regarding a cham