The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-14
Sport ,S1antS ALANJ.0oulD

There has beels some inclination even at this early date, to concede the American League pennant to
 the Athletics-perhaps also the worlds series again-but it has not yet been proved to the satisfaction of lot of old-timers that the As are a great" team. For instance Harry Davis, who was the prede- cessor of Stuffy McInnis at first base on Connie Macks famous old machine and who is around the parks enough to know something E5out the current situation.
 The As are a good team; I'll ad- init that much" said Harry, rapid ly shifting cigar from one side to the other. But they still have to show me something For one thing they don't play such smart baseball, except for Mickey Coch- rane. There is a catcher. If you ask me, say he knows more than all the rest of the club put to- gcther, outside of Connie, of course, and Eddie Collins. There's the brains of the team.
 Al Simmons is the best all- around hitter on the team; one of the best in the game. Foxx hits 'em far but not so often Haas is still young but improving. Miller and Dykes are getting old. You can't compare the infield of today with that of Mack's old team"
 Davis did not say so, but he gave the very strong impression that he would not trade Coombs, Plank and Bender for Grove, Wal berg and Earnshaw today, tomorrow or any time. . And he may be right. One pennant does not make super team, any more than few hits in the spring make for batting champion.
 Jack Moakley, Cornell's grand old veteran of track and field, will be just as well satisfied if Southern California romps through this year to beat Stanford for the Intercol- legiate A. A. A. championship at Cambridge this month. It isn't that Jack is anxious to concede the Pacific Coast arrays anything par ticular in advance or that he has any partiality on the subject. But Boakley's Cornell teams have four legs on the outstanding I. c. A. A. A. A. trophy. They need one more to take permanent possession of it. Big Red track fortunes are dis tinctly on the upgrade and the longer the circulation of the title cup the better are Cornell's chances to stage a comeback and gain the necessary fifth leg.
 California and Stanford each have three legs on the present cup, Southern California two. Thus if U. s. c. wins this spring, as many experts expect, the Far Western Schools all will boast trio of champions. One or the other may go on from there to make it five but it is about time for the pendu- lum to start swinging Eastward again. And about time for Cor nell to produce a Big Red team with the potentialities of Monkeys famous old championship squads.
 Moakley, at 66, is still one of the most active and enthusiastic fig ures in college track and field sports. His 30 years at Ithaca have been studded with the development of some of the greatest athletes and finest teams in college history. The world war broke up team that Jack considered the greatest he ever coached, an unbeatable array. Foss, Jones, Berna, Rich ards, Caldwell, Dresser, and Russell have been just a few of the better known Moakley-coached products.
 Who have been the greatest ath- letic performers at the five classic distances from 100 yards to one mile?
 This question was debated with considerable fury during the chin fests incident to the Penn Relay Carnival and this departments re-