The Washington times., 1935-03-25

those up.
starts from the American
League.
Now I do not arrive at any
such conclusion merely because
Babe Ruth has joined the
older loop, although his pres
ence therein will have, it's ef'
feet. Already the Braves have
attracted more people to their
Southern exhibition gam
than they have over a half
dozen years, so the handwrit-
ing of prosperity is already on
the wall for the Bostons.
But it does seem as though
the National League has cor
nered most of the star exhibits
of baseball, for once, and just
what the American League is go
ing to do about it, remains to be
seen.
Three A. L. Cities
The junior circuit will be all
right in the towns where they
have no National League op'
position; cities like washington,
Detroit and Cleveland, but in
Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
Chicago and st. Louis, the pa
rade of AL baseball wonders
will be largely in National
League parks.
Now take the st. Louis Car
dinals with the two Dean boys,
and a very personable manager
in Fordham frankie Frisch
who combined to win cham
pionship last year, together
with such colorful individuals as
"Ducky.Wucky" MedWick and
the sparkling hero of a former
world series, Pepper Martin.
There is a natural drawing
card, those 1884 title winners,
who ought to make a lot OF
money for the Cards as well
as every team they play at
home or on the road.
Couple of 1T" Boys
Besides the great Carl Hub
bell, who almost single-handedly
pitched Washington out Of the
championship in 1888, the New
York Giants have a headliner
in Fighting Richard Bartell,
imported from Philadelphia for
the sole purpose of plugging
up the only weak spot the
Giants had when they were
trying to nose out the st. Louis
club there in the closing days
Of last years race.
The Giants have at least two
"it boys" in Hubbell and Bar
tell, either or both of whom
are worth any mans $1.1O to
see of a summer afternoon.
Even the Brooklyn Dodgers
seem to be a revitalized club,
now that staid old Casey STEM
gel has changed their act from
a comedy to a serious enter
prise-tossed their clown suits
away for orthodox baseball
flannels, as it were. Brooklyn
is naturally daffy about the
Robins, whether they are a
threat or not, but with Stengel
having changed the attitude
of the team from frivolous,
swashbuckling, tumblebugs into
some semblancc of rhyme and
reason,
Other Clubs Make Bid
Pittsburgh should have
enough of a hang over from the
momentum it established last
season to keep Schenley Field
glutted with patrons and the
same goes for the Chicago Cubs,
who weren't actually out OF the
National League race last season
until the season had only a
week or two to run.
Cincinnati expects to make a
bid for patronage on the banks
of the Ohio with it's night base.
ball and even the Phillies are
hopeful they will be able to out
draw the Athletics, a club which
has poor attendances even when
1t is up there in the race.
So it looks as though the
American League is going to
have to do some hustling to
match the millions which will
flow through the National
League turnStiles, because the
aces Of the moment are no
longer with it, as they have
been for years almost up to the
present moment. We still have
Lou Gehrig and Schoolboy
Rowe, Joe Cronin, Ben Chap
man, Mel Harder and Bob Grove,
II the latter's sun hasn't already
set. But some new satellites
must come along soon to offset
that National League lure which
Is bound to feature the 1885 sea-
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