Evening star., 1924-03-13

looking for for more than five years.
team that gives promise Of being
able to hit the ball
1T almost seemed as if / had got
it last season ne said with d sigh.
For a while we went along as if we
were going to be in the fight at the
finish. Then the players began To
get hurt and after they were injured
they never came back. Our boys were
not recuperators. once physically in
capacitated they lost their pep
Both Rockies Can Hit.
Strand can hit and Simmons can hit.
For the moment simmons Is not mt
ting because he has boil on his knee
and cannot move about with any ease.
When he tries TO run something tells
him what Job said when he had to
run for his chariot. 1T is queer
thing about boils and ball players
the latter always have the former
where they are the most effective.
Bishop can play second base. He
has had practice and has been taught
we'll. No matter how good he may
have looked at Baltimore, he looks
better now with Galloway on one side
playing short and Hauser on the other
side playing first. Bishop pivotS as
if he were on roller bearings. Gallo
way tosses the ball. Bishop doeSn I
receive it. but simply hands it along
to Hauser at first base, and while the
umpire is still looking at Galloway
the double play is over at flrSt. 1t
will take two jumps to watch the Ath-
letics play this year. The average
umpire's eye will never be able TO
follow this lightning combination Of
Galloway to Bishop TO Hauser.
Bishop to Play Second.
Mack has definitely settled on
Bishop fer second. just as Ty Cobb
has settled on Pratt for the same
post There are other intielder. with
the SIS outfit but the starting COM
bina ton, which may unlock another
nennant for Phiiadelphia- is Hauser.
first base: Bishop. second baSe; Gal
Ioway, ahortstop, and Hale. third
base That is speed to speed TO speed
to speed.
Strand and Bishop are not the
same size, but they look enough alike
that they might well be called Little
Joe and Big Joe if their names were
Joe. But Bishop is Max and Strand
is Paul. Bishop has the beaming
face of a boy of eighteen. combined
with the grip of Il man of thirty.
Strand is more mature. He is wind
burned and tanned with good health.
and when he stands a the plate with
his left-hand swat stick in the grip
lie has both feet we'll apart and looks
at the pitcher out of the corner of
his eye. Bishop stands much the
same way. Funny that Connie caught
came from SO far apart.
Simmons Is Popular.
Simmons doesn't hit like either of
them. but he hits the ball over the
fence if the fence is not sufficiently
removed from the back or center
field. 1t is evident that the large
delegation with which the double )
is surrounded is completely taken
with Simmons and that Simmons is
quite as well taken with his boil. But
he limps out to the ball field every
day to suggest that the center field
fence be set q little farther back
Connie has no end of young pitch
ers scattered around, but the old fell
lows look SO we'll that they are most
likely to stick. Perkins wants to
catch every game during the season
and Bruggy says he objects. But
they didn't think very much about
pitchers and catchers around this
ranch. They've found-a punch.
Mack left Philadelphia last June
looking for it He'll bet any man he
has got it. 1t looks as if it is an
odGls-on bet, and it also looks as if
the Yanks are to face two infields-