The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-03-19
EVANS FINDS
STRONG TEAM
IN n. Y'.GIANTS
Team That Beats McGraw'S
Men Will Win Pennant.
Hornsby Claims
(By Billy Evans)

Sarasota, Fla, March l9.-(NEA)
THE ball club that beats the
/ Giants will win the National League
pennant."
i That was the reply Of Rogers
Hornsby to my query as to how he
liked his new berth and what he
thought of the team.
+ He answered the fag end of my
question first and then finished
thusly:
"Best break ever had in getting
with the Giants. have always want
ed to play for McGraw. I'm playing
for o wonder manager on great
club.
|; "You can't make it too strong
about what l think of our chances.
repeat, the club that beats the
Giants will win the National League
pcnnant.
"That goes for Pittsburgh, St..
Louis, Cincinnati and all the other
clubs that think they have a chance"
Evans Agrees
After watching the Giants perform
for couple of days in practice, also
real competition against the Philadel-
phia Athletics, am inclined to agree
with Captain Rogers Hornsby. That's
his title with the Giants.
As usual, New York looks like q
great ball club. McGraw's clubs are
always impressive, particularly in
the spring, for no manager drives
them harder for condition. They are
up at seven bells in the morning
and darkness is coming over the field
when they quit.
No team can be considered strong
pcnnant contender without q good
inficld. McGraw has the happy facs
! ulty of welding together an air-tight
inner defense. That is one thing his
club Of this year will have.
Jackson, at short, looks great. His
knee isn't troubling him in the, least.
If his legs hold up, one of McGraw's
biggest worries will have been elm
mated.
Hornsby in Fine Shape
! have never seen Hornsby look in
better shape so early in the spring
Although they have played together
only q few weeks, he and jackson
work together like q veteran com.
bination.
| Freddie Lindstrom at third has
definitely arrived. Always great
prospect, he has rounded into a bril-.
liant performer, both in the field
and at the bat.
Bill Terry at first is not the field.
er George Kelly is, but he is a most
capable performer and a constant
threat with that big black bat of his
/ New York's inner wall is a regular
big league affair in every respect
comparing very fayorably with any
other quartet Of infielders in thu
Ilmajors.
McGraw is very frank to admit that
in all probability he will miss thu
l.knew he must strengthen his outfielt
and felt he could best part will
Kelly.
Eddie Roush is pulling his annua
holdout act. Perhaps he likes to mis-,
the rigOfs Of spring training. Thu
Giants need him badly in centel
field and there is no doubt but tina
he VIII be there when the season
"opens. s't
Il is a rather peculiar cojnc idenc,
that two of Roush's running mate
, are former members OF EAil-en,
Philly combinations, George Harpc
and Dewitt LaBourveau, calle,
| "Revo" for short. Heinie Mueller 1
also a strong contender for an out
81 field berth. I.
AT Tyson, who cost the Giants
lot Of money one year ago, has dis
J appointed and at this time is playin,
: the part Of utility man. Poor health
!. as well as several serious injuriei
have handicapped Tyson ever sihc
he Joined the GiaHtS.
i Il strnck me that pitching W
|: McGrsw's biggest problem. Il "a
II Ciants get It, then 1RpGers Hornsb
q isn't ,S16in6 Is bs sfxf from wrong i
tIhis belief that the team that beat
Itthe Giants win win the pennant. I.