San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-11
ASSOCIATION TEAMS
BENEFIT BY THEIR
TRAINING IN SOUTH
Look for Successful Sea-
son-Foster Boosts Ed
Brown, Ex-Bear.
BY JOHN b. FOSTER.

ICopyright by The San Antonio Light.
New York, April 1.-THE American
Association never approached sea
son with better prospects of success
th1n This year. II iccks as if the
excellent training and general fine
condition of that leagues players
which has been brought about by their
stay in the South will give them a
start that will be only a little short
of major league BASEBALL.
hold the form it displayed in Florida
remains to be seen, but, in the games
it put on at Plant City, the club looked
better than some of the major league
teams that the wrirer has seen this
spring ard rot so fsr removed from
the best of them.
There are three players on the In
dianapolis team taday who would fit
into any major league club. They
are Brown, Campbell and Fitzsim.
mons. Brown is better than a fourth
of the major league center fielders
and would hold his own in the outfield
of any team. Campbell is a coming
third baseman who will be prize
for the big league team that gets him.
He is good and sure fielder, young
and just beginning to hit his stride.
fitzsimmons is a lot better than some
that are carried by the big leaguers.
The Milwaukee club probably will
present more polished appearance
than indianapolis, but perhaps is not
so dangerous when it comes to a dis
play of strength. Milwaukee will be
chock-a-block with team work. The
players are fast and they will be in
the fight all the time, although they
probably will not hit very hard.
Columbus has team that is not so
strong in fielding as some of the
Others, unless there is change in the
infield, but It is a team that will
keep on pursuing a settled policy of
team work, because it's manager is a
team driver. II Wordsworth is per-
mitted to have his own way long
enough he should put team in Col
umbns that will bring baseball back
TO old standards there.
Mike Kelley has been busy trying
to get some players for Minneapolis
and he has had success. His infield
looks pretty strong and his outfield,
while prOblematic. may do well, too
st. Paul has had a task to build
up. She has some players from other
teams to help out, but has lost so
much of her. pitching staff-one of
her strongest points last season-that
she may not be able to make the
campaign against the other teams
that she did last year.
The Kansas City nine, with its in
field weakened by the loss of excellent
players, one of them one of the best
batters in the American Association.
IS not going to have an easy journey
to win another championship. That
is certain. Most of the experts say
the Blues will be mighty lucky if they
do win it.
The teams that are expected to
start out and set the pace are those
that have been deep into the South,
with the exception of Toledo which
has more strength than it had last
year. Jimmy Burke will manage the
team and he is hustler, but his play
ers are not quite strong enough to
pull him through to a pennant this
year. especially when teams like those
of indianapolis and Milwaukee are
to be met.
Louisville has been hardest hit of
all because it lost two high-class play
ers when Dean went to the Giants
and Combs to the Yanks. Wonder
how much they would have gone for
If the draft had not been taken on BY
the American Association? As it l.
Louisville made more by disposing of
them than any of the teams will make
that have taken players from the
major leagues on option. only to turn
them back when the show is OVER.