Evening star., 1933-04-11
HORNSBY, JACKSON,
CUyLER ARE HURT
Ruth, Foxx Also Doubtful
Starters-FIag Race in Old
League Is Open.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

AsSoClateu fIeSS Sports WRITER.
n JEW YORK, April 11.-An
M unprecedented number Of
/ Y the mightiest players in
the game will be on the
sidelines when 16 clubs, base balls
upper-crust, open the major
league season tomorrow in eight
cities.
Through injury, illness, or some other
cause, such famous figures as Kiki Guy
Ter OF the Chicago Cubs, Travis jack
son OF the New York Giants, Del Bis
sonette OF the Brooklyn Dodgers. Don
Hurst OF the Phillies, Rogers Hornsby
Of the st. Louis Cardinals and Dick
Conman of the st. Louis Browns will
De conspicuous by their absence when
the firing begins.
And four others, Glenn Wright of
the Dodgers, Pinkey Whitney OF the
Phiilies, Jimmie Foxx of the Philadel-
phia Athletics and even the great Babe
Ruth himself were listed as doubtful
starters.
But despite the impressive toll the
injury jinx already has taken, every
club in the National and American
Leagues faces the new campaign with
optimism and hope-and q few with
The greatest shuttle of PLAYER talent
IN the history of the game has left
both leagues with apparently justified
prospects OF the closest pennant fights
In years.
THE world champion New York
K Yankees, with their varsity" un-
changed and their reserve power
poistered by such promising players as
Brennan, Van Alta, Werber and Walker.
remain the club to beat for the Amer.
ican League bunting, but Washington.
tne Athletics and Cleveland Indians
ers much greater competition than thew
got year ago. Washington, led b.
the youthful shortstop, Joe Cronirs.
Dartered players with reckless abandon
curing the on season and emerged with
wnat may be the best balanced club
In the loop
The AS, though they traded Sim
mons, Haas and Dykes to the Chicaco
white Sox, have discovered hard-hit-
tLng repiacements and still can depend
upon the great pitching duo Of Bob
Srove ana George Earnshaw.
cleveland, the Indians fail tn
nniSn IN the first three, should be able
70 salvage the last st-diyision berth,
although Detroit and the White Sox NAV
nave q few pertinent remarks to make
IN reDuttal The st. Louis Browns and
6osson Red Sox seem slated for the last
TWO petitions.
a FREE-FOENAIL involving per-
A maps as many as six clubs looms
In the National Iea01Ie wIere A..
champion Cubs, despite the injury to
Cuyier, and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
strengthened by the addition of FREDDY
Lindstrom, seem best. The PhiIlies.
with great all-around sluQeinp cast
headed by Chuck Klein: the BROOKLYN
Dodgers, with new pitching talent. and
Joe Judge at flrst base, and the Cardi-
mails, with the greatest pitching star in
the circuit, cannot be counted out.
Neither can Bill Terry's rebuilt New
York Giants, provided Memphis BiII..
can juggle what looms as q mediocre
ntnging crew into some kind Of effec-
tiveness.
Neither the Boston Braves nor the
Cincinnati Reds, on paper at least,
look impressive enough to worry the
leaders.
As for the injured players and those
who for other reasons will fail to get
into the opening games, Cuyler's case Is
by far the most serious. The fleet Cub
outfielder Is suffering from q broken
leg and won't be back until July;
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