Evening star., 1927-04-11
MANY STARS OF DIAMOND
TWINKLE In NEW SETTING
Luminaries Whose Affiliations Have Been Switched
Include Speaker, Cobb, Collins, Wheat, ROush,
Hornsby and Frisch-W Weather. Is Uncertain.

of base ball players who have gone.
Perhaps the brightest glow will
come from the Philadelphia Ameri.
cans. where such satellites as Ty
Cobb. Eddie Collins and ZaCk Wheat
will beam after long years in other
places. For more than a fifth of a
century Cobb was the fixed star
which to all baseballdom meant
Detroit.
Addition of these Iuminaries to the
McGilliCuddy constellation have made
it the favorite of the pre-statisticians
in their guesses on the American
League finish.
Other transplanted stars will he
found in the Giant group in the Ma
tional League sector where Rogers
Hornsby and Eddie Roush have been
moved from ST. Louis and Cincinnati
respectively. Down in the st. Louis
Cardinals constellation is frankie
F'risch, 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 base balls greatest.
has new patch of blue behind him
this year-the Washington Club.
oOlIlSOH anu GNutH EAtus
Walter Johnson at Washington and
Babe Ruth at New York are fixed
satellites that beckon again from the
teams they have helped make famous.
/ If managers are to be believed. there
will be three or four pennant winners
in each league. and no teams in last
place, the Athletics in the American
look especially good to the wiseacres.
with another Pennsylvania team. the
Pirates OF Pittsburgh, getting the call
in the National.
The Detroit Tigers, who have been
the dark horse of the American
League for several season, look even
darker with a new jockey George
Moriarty, the erstwhile umpire. The
Yankees promise much. with youthful
punch and the always threatening.
George Herman Ruth, Cleveland has
virtually the same team as last year.
with the vital exception of iris Speak
err, whose transfer to Washington
gives the Nationals one Of the leagues
strongest outfields.
After being picked by many last
year as pennant contender-a proph-
ecy that was rudely smashed-the st.
Louis Browns are almost friendless
this April, except in their own baili-
wick Few have been bold enough to
see the Browns as threat, although
the management of Dan Howley. Who
led the Toronto Leafs to a champion
ship in the International League last
year, has led many to believe the
Browns will be no pnsh-over.
The Cardinals, too. have not been
| accorded the prophetic respect that
usually is accorded world champions.
although in this case, too. new man.
ager-Bob O'Farrell-may cause a
change in fandom's viewpoint before
Midsummer.
Ray Schalk has had plenty of trou-
BILE with Chicago White SoX, what
with injuries and failure of his talent
to flash as smartly as he had hoped.
McCarthy's Cubs, the Chicago entry
in the National League, are a doubt
full quantity, too.
Boston Clubs Show Little.
The Boston clubs have shown little
| to make the prophets see anything
but second division for them. and the
same may be said of the Philadelphia
Nationals. The best base ball seers, in
fact, suggest that Philadelphia will
have a first and last place team-the
Athletics coping in the American and
the Phillies sleeping in the National
League cellar.
Weather predictions are more or
less uncertain. although the word for
the West was that rain would hold
off until about sundoWn tomorrow
The temperature will be moderately
cool, the fOreca Ster said