San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-04
Woodworking and Look
OK. When Opposition Is
Not Too Fast But Cinches
for Second Division and
Leading Candidates for
the Cellar.
BY JOHN 3. FOSTER

Copyright by Inc san Antonio Light.
Leesburg. Fla, April 4.-With re-
luctance the Phillies packed their bags,
loaded their uniforms into their trunks,
broke the last sprig of orange blossom
from the tree and turned away from
Lcesburg, bound home for work and
their fate.
Only the baseball oracle knows what
it will be and the oracle fled for the
next county before giving an answer.
Ungenerous National League managers
say the Phillies have the tail-end un-
der double wraps.
Bill Shettslinc. business manager
of the Phillies, declares the team is
better than it was last year. Manager
Fletcher. whose spirit is indomitable
no matter what destiny brings him,
believes that he has better club than
he had. All that maybe true, but
were it better by two fried eggs in
stead Of one, still there might be left
horribly aching void if that was all
there was for dinner.
May Pass Brooklyn.
In time Philadelphia may turn out
better than Brooklyn. If it should so
happen. Brooklyn would be the tail
ender instead of Philadelphia. Such
seems all that is to be CLEANED out of
| watching both teams in action. The
Phillies play rugged baseball. Theirs
is no child's game and if they could
run over the baseball world roughshod
| they might be more than rivals to any.
| thing in the second division.
| With what he has, Fletcher has done
well. To say what he has is not to
ditcredit all of the Philadelphia pay
ert. A better effort no team could
make than the Pills have been making
but natural skill is less in evidence
than in the case of the Boston. New
York and Cincinnati clubs. The first
two are far more uprightly and if tn,
Reds are not as fleet of foot as other
mines. their team work is admirably
excellent as it goes.
When all the Phillies hit together
they smash hard. They are line driv
ers. But they cannot all hit together
when the pitching against them il
good. Judging by their play, it ap
pears that their greatest success mus
be with the bat. Easy fielding game
they will handle well. Games of diff
ficult chances will make them guess.
Ring Is King OF Staff.
Ring is the king pitcher of the team
The others are 7orkers. Hubbell give
all his energy to every game in whicl
he takes part, and is n patient deter
mined man il there ever was one.
| The club win do well enough behin'
the bat, but the catcher must nurs
pitchers not Of a high grade and VIII
lack the curves, twists, bends an
shoots that makes the Cincinnati
bunch formidable. Ford at second i
faster than Tierney, but never vii
will bat as the latter does. If Tierne
fits into the Boston team as he ma
with Bancroft to insist on bis best
! Philadelphia may have lost on tn
I swap. Sand came TO Philadelphia las
! year a stranger. He started poorl
+. and that discouraged him so he ~
given a rest. Later he got back mt
: the game and played better. fhi
j. year he will start with more conf
dence in him and more than likely vii
\ show some of the speed he had on tn
: Coast. Ford. playing alongside him. j
] n faster fielder than Tierney an
j more accurate. He ma help Sand
i WrightstoBe seems booked for third