Evening star., 1935-03-27
nmen Will Break Camp Cereand Hasa MAKING
Scribes, Batting for
Pilots, Surpass EN- as
Pennant Optimists.
BY FRANCIS z. STAN

Shaver Of the Detroit Times, who
modestly admits he alone picked the
Tigers to win last season, winds UP
his Introductory spiel on the champs
with: %" /" 1t Is the same club which
proved the sensation Of the league
last year, more experienced, more as
sured and with better reserve strength
where it was most needed-the out
field and pitching staff"
This is very distressing, to put it
mildly. The Tigers walked home last
year, winning by seven games. It
wasn't race; 1t was a rout.
To make matters darker, Tom
Meany Of the New York World
Telegram ups and debunks the
ruthless Yanks. "Marse Joe
Mccarthy" he pounds out,
"opens the 1885 season with
darker prospects than ever have
been his lot since he took
charge Of the Yankees"
Then Meany Iaments the passing
of Ruth's punch, regrets that Red
Rolfe and Don Heffner did not pan
out SO we'll and finishes with: 80
summing up, the Yanks seem weaker
than last season"
Ed Bang of the Cleveland News Is
next. Plus one important addition
Bruce CampbelD, the Cleveland In
dians comprise the same team that
many figured, except for injuries,
was good enough to win the American
League pennant of 1884" 1t Is not
pleasant to recall, injuries or not,
that the second-place Yanks finished
nine games ahead Of the Indians.
With Knickerbocker in the hospital
and Pytlak doubtful, the Tribe seems
no better than last season, when they
finished Is games behind the Tigers.
Thompson Banks on Bucky.
DAUL SHANNON of the Boston Post
tries to be cheerful about the
Red Sox and the S250000 SON.
in-law, but between the lines it sounds
as though he figures the Beantowners
short of pennant caliber. II so, he
has plenty of company.
1t is hard to get excited about the
Athletics. who finished 81 games back
of the Detroits. and Jimmy Isaminger
Of the Philadelphia Inquirer doesn't.
Jim Gould of the St. Louis Post
Dispatch is in much the same po-
sition as Isaminger. The Browns, like
the AS, are youngsters with lots
OF promise, but not so much balance.
Denman Thompson-the boss,
y'know-does the hOnors for
Washington. His is tough job.
The Nationals are not a sew
enth- place club, minus injuries,
but how good they are is some-
thing like answering how high
is up.
Thompson is stringing with Harris
/ to build fires under the Hadleys, Stones,
Schultes, Weavers and Stewarts and
reach the first division. Verify, Bucky
seems the big hope.
! From an unexpected source comes
the most optimism. Ed Prell Of the
Chicago Americans is the source. After
| IA years in the second division" he
writes, there may be hopes for the
1885 White Sox after ALL Prell likes
| the Sox's II minor league stars and
points out that outsiders s"-Wash-
/ ington and Detroit-have captured the
last two flags; that first-year man
agers-Cronin and Cochrane-have
been at the helms; that Dykes is start
ing his first full year at the head of
the White Sox. 1t is optimism in the
highest degree and refreshing after a
month Of managerial mouthings to
the effect that: But you can bet We
will be fighting team"
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