New Britain herald., 1927-04-11
OPENING DAY WILL FIND
STARS ON VARIOUS CLUBS
Baseball Season Starts Tomorrow in Majo Leagues
Philadelphia Americans Shine Brightest With Old
Fayorites-Managers All Predicting Pennant Vic
tories-Weather Predictions Are Very Uncertain
With Rain Coming at Shutdown

by the Associated Press.
The baseball heavens, swept clear
Of winters clouds and uncertainty
brightly. exultantly, into view again
tomorrow.
Some of the best known stars will
twinkle from different patches Of
the blue. after long seasons OF per-
manency in other consultations. A
diamond astronomer who slept
through the winter would be dumb
founded at the change. There will
be some rev lights up there, risen
to the first magnitude from the
milky way Of the minors. and there
Will be a few OF the brilliant ones
right back in the same old place.
Then, too. there will be, as always.
the comets that streak across the
sky, shaking pyrotechnlc tail, only
to disappear into the void of base
ball players who have gone.
Perhaps the brightest glow will
come from the Philadelphia Amer
leans where such satellites as Ty
Cobb. Eddie Collins and Zach
Wheat will beam after long years in
other places. For more than fifth
OF a century Cobb was the fixed
star which to all baseballdom meant
Detroit. Addition of these lumn-
aries to the McGillicuddy constclla-
ton have made it the favorite OF
the pre-statisticians in their euesses
on the American league finish.
Other transplanted stars will be
found in the Giant group in the Ma
'ional league sector, where Rogers
Hornsby and Eddie Rousch have
been moved from st. Louis and Gin
cinnati respectively. Down in the St
Louis Cardinals constellation is
frankie Frisch, shining from
Hornsby's old spot. Close by is the
mighty star, Alexander, right where
he was last year.
Iris Speaker. whose name is most
often coupled with that of Cobb and
Collins as one OF baseballs great
est, has new patch of blue behind
him this year-the Washington
club.
Walter Johnson at Washington
and Babe Ruth at New York are
fixed satellites that bcckon again
from the teams they have helped
make famous.
If managers are to be believed
there will be three or four pennan,
winners in each league, and nc
teams in last place. The Athletics il
the American look especially good
to the wisoacrcs, with another
Pennsylvania team, the Pirates 0,
Pittsburgh, getting the call in the
National.
The Detroit Tigers. who have
been tho dark horse of the Amer
lean league for several seasons. look
George Mioriarty, the erstwhile UNI
pire. The Yankees promise much
with youthful punch and the always
threatening George Herman Ruth
Cleveland has virtually the sam,
team az last year, with the vital
reception OF iris Speaker one of the
leagues strongest outfields.
After being picked by many last
year as a pennant contender
prophecy that was rudcly smashed
the st. Louis Browns are almos,
friendless this April. except in thei,
own bailiwick. Few have been bold
enough to see the Browns as q
threat. although the management Of
Dan Howlcy. who led the Toronto
Leafs to a championship In the In,
i ternational league last year. has lee
many to believe the Browns will b,
no push over"
The Cardinals, too, have not beer
accorded the prophetic respect thai
usually Is accorded world cham.
pions, although in this case. TOO, 8
! new manager-Boh OFarrell--ma,
cause a change in fandom's view