San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-13
Possibilities in Almost All
Teams Of That Circuit
This Year.
THREE in NATIONAL
Nobody Seems to Have
Chance Besides Giants,
Pirates and Reds.
By GEORGE CHADWICK.

Copyright. 1924, by Consol. Press Assn
New York, April 12.-Opening o.
the major baseball league this yeal
finds the American League better sat
isfied with itself than il has been al
any time since it became a competitor
of the National League for public
favor and patronage. A more agrees
sive outfit never passed more joy
GUS season in Information and now,
with some of the weaker clubs of the
circuit strengthened, it believes that
il is ready to offer TO the public
such a championship race as it has
never seen before.
Let the summarizing of the winters
work begin with the Boston end OF the
circuit. There, poor, lost pup that
had been kicked and booted around
until it lodged its own shadow, has
been taken in. fed and rcjuvenated,
so that now it feels like a new dog.
It may be many years before the
Red Sox win another Championship,
but this team is no longer the under
dog of the American League.
Next come the Athletics, the team
which has been fitted with a punch.
The baseball doctor examined Con-
MES boys in 1923 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 paced up and
down the country looking for the
mailed fist and he thinks he has found
1t.
Washington Is Peppery.
Ever since there has been an Amer
lean 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 bantam
rooster that has won every fight in
the neighborhood in the last "a hours.
In the champion New York Yam
KEGS you simply see a diamond tiara
with three or four baby diamonds add
ed to it.
In the West there is little change
that is not for good.
Begin at st. Louis. The baseball
portion of the Mound City is all
aflutter over the future of George Sis
Ter. the man with the eyes that are
TO come back. If they arrive and hi
is the Sisler of two seasons ago. st
Louis will be golden oriflamt
against the western sky at night.
At Chicago there is great mystery
the team all spring without man
ager. When the season begins thu
manager begins with it and the home
opathic powders of Johnny Evers will
be supplanted by the allopathetiC
doses of Frank Chance.
At Cleveland and Detroit there are
two lines of shock troops fairly rear
ing to get each other on the diamond.
There has been a lettering to both OF
them.
Boston Most Improved.
In the National League the greatest
improvement apparent is in the Bos-
ion team. Here is a team that has
all the ambitious hope of great one.
even though it realizes that it is not
great.
Then there are the Giants, the
fighting. energetic peppery Giants. For
whatever may be their chances, Nc
Graw's men keep going until the fate
of things has been irredeemably set.
fled. 1t is a team that has been
cbagrined. but its spirit is the same
1t may like the smoothness of the
machine that has run two years with
out change in its parts, but the Giant
machine needs only shop work to be
gin to show its unison of purpose.
The Brooklyn club is notified with
good ball players, but the "divilment'
of the thing is to get the good players
together in a united fight.
At Philadelphia there is the resigna
ton Of team. that knows itself al
well or better than the other fellow
The Pills will fight, win or lose, but
the smiles Of the championship blonde
will be as remote from them as {
Ziegfeld Follies beauty from pool
guy working at forty per.
Always Just Too Late.
In the West there is ST. Loui
where the Cardinals play ball b,
chart and are always just too late t
get some of the lemonade when tn
party is held in the fall.
The Cubs in Chicago are as expert
mental as they were last year an,
no more likely TO win. They are
fine baseball family but not fin
championship team.
The Cincinnatis. old, stolid, soil
and stubborn. without doubt realiz
that il they don't bring home the bs
con this year they will never brin
il.
At Pittsburg, all depends on wha
is realized from that collection of pos
sibly great infielders who should rul
the baseball world this season if the
have had proper training.
So. summing it all up. it appear
to be anybody's race in the America
League. with the odds, of course. FAY
oring the present champions, while j
the National. no team appears to hav
a look in outside of New York, Pitt
burg and Cincinnati.