San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-11
Few New York Players
Really Old but Most Of
Them Wise IN Game.
HAVE 1T ON OTHERS
No Collection Of Know
Hows in Big Leagues
to Equal Giants.
Nv GEORGE CHADWICK.


New York, March 10.-Collective-
ly, the New York Giants of today rep
resent about as much age longevity
of years and experience as any team
in either major league this year.
Their fight will be based on associa..
ton with the game and knowledge OF
its ms and outs as compared with
the cruder plays of the youngsters
who have not been out OF the wild
ivy long enough to know all the
tricks of the art.
There is such marked evidence Of
experience on the Giants, it stands
out so conspicuously against all OF
the other fifteen teams that are in
major league baseball, that for once
the season will show whether youth
can overwhelm crafty age. Should
the Giants lose, the crumbling of The
individual parts of the New York ma
chine may be like that of the falling
apart of the "one-horse shay"
The Giant infield is composed OF
men who are thoroughly seasoned as
the ash with which they try to make
their home-runs. There is Kelly,
who has played baseball until every
muscle Of his being is trained to do
certain stunts when he reaches a
baseball field.
Frisch the Youngest.
The youngest member of the guar.
tet is Frisch. who bounced out OF
college in 1919 to take up his part
in the national game.
&c 1arr mat tho rolf stage
and so is Groh. Boa are brittle bal
players, although Bahcrast held uI
better physically in the eason OF
1922 than his running mate. -,
In the outfield the Giants have
Casey Stengel, long ago given up by
some managers, but who performed
last year in such a really sensation
al manner that he should have been
given credit for being the big per
sonal item of the season. Babe Ruth
had nothing on Stengel in 1922, nor
did Ken Williams. If Casey gets
back as far this year, he will be a
living example of the most wonderful
ly restored athlete in the history Of
the national game. He is likely TO
grow three sets of teeth.
New York's catchers are not juve-
niles. Its pitchers are not all in
knickerboclers with their carefully
twisted curls hanging down their
backs. Some of them have no curls,
not even a thatch.
Too Much Discretion.
Next to the Giants in the National
League in the matter Of years and
discretion is Pittsburg. There seems
to be a bit too much Of both there.
Indeed, Pittsburg bashfully backs
away from the championship mirror
every time that it peers into the
glass. Cincinnati has age. too. but
it is Glass IA age. The Red players
are living examples of what may be
done by picking up Pacific Coast tai
ent when it is in it's prime. Gin
cinnati is essentially a Pacific Coast
team in many ways and if. incidental
ally, the championship should .all to
the Reds this year, it will be used
in San Francisco's argument in fav-
or Of the classification of the Pa
cific Coast League as a major or
ganization.
Other clubs of the National League
have a springkling of gray hairs. but
they are not in excess. Brooklyn has
a few, but mostly among the pitchers.
Age in the American League seems
to be parceled out with more i'm
partial hand. All Of the clubs have
a little share. The Yants are not
without it. Pipp has been on the
long enough to see more
than one presidential administration
come and 20. Scott is so staid that
he is called the deacon" Dugan is
not exactly lacking in experience and
there are others. especially among |
the pitchers, who are not young |
bucks.
Collins Daddy OF All.
Chicago has one player who is al
most a daddy to any of them when
experience is reckoned and yet he
wears the face of a boy-Eddie Col
Inns. st. Louis is about $3.50 in the
matter Of years and Detroit has pow
srful players among its veterans.
Philadelphia is young but not
bit giddy. Washington has youth
md climate to keep youth in stew
Turing the campaign at hand in which
Clark Griffith has a notion that he
will have a soaring team. Boston is
lust Boston. It will plug and. when
, team must plug all through the
summer. it matters little what its age
INV he