The Bismarck tribune., 1925-04-07
THREE CLUBS
HAVE CHANCE
IN AMERICAN
Senator's, Yankees, Detroit
Favored Trio in Sizeup
BY Billy Evans
RY RJII,Y EVANS

In making the rounds of the spring
training camps Of the American
League and talking over the pen
uant situation with the various man
ayers, the consensus is as follows:
Three teams, Washington, New
York and Detroit, stand out IN the
American League, with the Philadel-
phia Athletics as the dark horse,
liable to upset the pennant hopes OF
all three.
Miller Higgins of the New YORK
Americans figures his club will do
a comeback and win after being
frustrated in an attempt to capture
four pennants in a row.
Urquestionably there is a hustle
to the New York club this spring
that was lacking last season. The
Yanks feel that they should have
won in 1924 and are taking their
work far more seriously.
Cobb Fears Yankees Most
An idea Of how Ty Cobb views the
Yanks can be CLEANED from the state
mcnt he made to me in the south,
that New York was the only club
he feared in the American League.
Most Of the managers while euiog-
izing Stanley Harris and the mast"r-
ly manner in which he drove his
team to a pcnnant and world
championship. do not believe that
he can repeat.
There is an insistcnce that Wash
ington got all the breaks to win
last year and that it is foolish to
think that Dame Fortune will be SO
kind to Clark Griffith and Company
for the second time.
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task that confronts him and makes
was ultra conservative in his sizeup
may not win, but we will be in there
fighting for every ball game"
While the consensus favors Wash
ington, New York and Detroit as
the win, place and show trio of the
American League, Connie Mack s
club is. everywhere regarded as the
big IF team.
There is wholesome fear of
Mack throughout the league. Every
manager is we'll aware of the great
possibilities of his club. For two
years it has lacked consistency be-
cause of certain weaknesses th2,.
cropped out. These, Mack believes,
he has remeded.
Lefty" Groves, Connie Mack S
frenzied finance pitcher, is the big
if of the If team. Everywhere the
opinion prevails that the showing
of Groves will largely determine the
chances of the Athletics.
Jack Dunn. who developed Groves
at Baltimore, says the southpaw will
win 20 games for the Athletics. That
is a large statement. If he turns
the trick Mack's club is going to
make it very embarrassing for the
trio of teams most favored to win.
The st. Louis Browns have much
better ball club than the play Of last
season made it seem. The team has
punch and better than the average
defensive play However, the col
lapse of the pitching staff ruined the
chances of the team to be anywhere
Up To Pitching Corps
Manager Sisler is hoping that his
pitching will be more consistent, de.
spite the, fact that the talent is much
the same. If he gets it, the Browns
will make trouble.
Under Eddie Collins the Chicago
White Sox are certain to show g
great Improvement The White Sos
are not ] last place club and Collins
hopes to prove it.
There will be spirit on the Chi
caRo club this season that has beer
lacking for several years. | am will
ing to venture the opinion that the
team as' a whole will be 90 per cent
moren16icient.
The Boston Red Sox are rebuild
ing and. have no pennant thoughts
Manager Lee Fobl. with characteris
tic modesty, says that inside of three
years he may have some views tt
express on the pennant possibilitie:
of the American League