Evening star., 1924-04-15


Next come the Athletics. the team
which has been fitted with a punch.
The base ball doctor examined Con-
ME Mack's boys in 1928 and said they
would never be able to burst a paper
bag inflated with atmosphere because
they couldn't smite the bag hard
enough. So Connie chased up and
down the country, looking for the
mailed fist, and he thinks ne has
found it.
Ever since there has been an Amer
1can League, Washington has had an
entry that either played quite well, or
not at all. There is so much that is
different on the Washington team
this year that it resembles a bantam
rooster that has won every fight in
the neighborhood in the last twenty
four hours
In the champion New York Yam
KEGS you simply see a diamond tiara
with three or four baby diamonds
added to it.
Improvement in the West.
hat is not for good.
Begin at St Louis. The base ball
portion of the Mound city is all -fut-
Ter over the future of George Sisler,
inc man with the eyes that are to
come back. If they arrive and he is
the Sisler of two seasons ago st.
Louis viii be golden orifiame
against the western sky at night.
AT Chicago there is the great mys-
tery-the team SO far without a man
ager. When the season begins the
manager begins with it. and fbe
homeopathic powders of Johnny
Evers will be supplanted by the allo-
pathic doses of Frank Chance.
At Clevelandaand Detroit there are
two lines of shock troops fairly rear
ing to get at each other on the dia-
nond. There has been a bettering to
both of them.
In the National League the great
est Improvement apparent is in the
Boston team. Here is team that
has all the ambitious hope of a great
one, even though it realizes that it is
not great
Giants still Are Factor.
Then there are the Giants. the
hghtinR. energetic. peppery Giants
For whatever may be their chances,
McGraw'S S men keen going until the
fate of things has been irredeemably
settled. 1t is a team that has been
changed, but it's spirit is the same.
q, 1t may lack the smoothnesS of the
machine that has run two years with
out change in it's parts, but the Giant
machine needs only shop work to be-
gin to show its unison of purpose.
The Brooklyn club is mottled with
good ball players, but the "divilment u
of the thing is to get the good players
together in a united fight
At Philadelphia there is the resig-
ndClOn Oh a team lfdI KNOWS ltSelT
as well or better than the other fell
low. They will fight. win or lose, but
the smiles of the champion ship
blonde will be as remote from them
as a Ziegfeld Follies beauty from a
poor guy working at forty per.
In the west there is St Louis.
where the Cardinals rlay ball by
chart, and always are just too late
to get some of the lemonade when
the party is held in the fall.
The Cubs in Chicago are as ex-
perimental as they were last year,
and no more likely to win. They are
a fine base ball family, but not a
fine championship team
This Year or Never for Reds.
The Cincinnatis, old, stolid, stub
born and slow, without doubt, realize
that If they don't bring home the
bacon this year they will never
bring it
At Pittsburgh all depends on what
is realized from that collection of
possible great infielders, who should
rule the base ball world this season
if they have mad proper training.
So, summing it all up, it appears
to be anybody's race in the American
League, with the odds. Of course,
favoring the present champions, while
in the National, no team appears to
have a look-in outside of Now York.
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.