Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-08

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know a training
camp is a training camp, no matter
how attractive the surroundings or
how many points of interest and it is
always with a tingle of pleasure that
the BOYS pack up and make ready to
go away.
Especially is this true in Texas this
year where the Saints got snow in
Fort Worth and Dallas and the Mil
iers shivered in New Braunfels, only
IT'S miles from the Mexican border.
Then perversely enough. the weather
cleared up and the Millers are hop
ing that they will strike it warm in
their tour through Beaumont. Galve-
ston and Houston which are down
near the Gulf.
There are no really sore arms any
where in the Association this season
and that fact is quite remarkable.
But neither are all the teams at full
strength and we believe right n w.
that Kansas City is the only club ac-
tually set to open the season. The
Blues last pitching worry was wiped
away when southpaw Ted Kleinhans.
formerly of the Yankees, signed his
contract and decided to report.
1t is strange but true, that every
season finds the experts casting an
eye on Kansas City and remarking on
the pitching strength of tie B ues.
That is because of tie huge park
n I'm iS nifphar'S
delight, that huge Muehlebach field
and it makes fair hurlers out of poor
ones and coed ones out of fair ones.
A home run ball such as you have
seen thrown at Nicollet by Vanden-
burg. HOlsclaw, Mccullough and 9TH
ers becomes merely long flyhall
at Kansas City.
We believe the Blues will be tough.
especially when Lee Slime and Ted
Kleinhans round to form. You re-
member Slime with the Saints. He
has one of the best fast balls of any
hurler in recent Association years.
DOME Bush has said more than once
that he fears Toledo because of the
help the Hens are to acquire from
Detroit and indianapolis and st. Paul
makes them look like first division
outfits. If this keeps up. we'll have
to make that first division include
five or six clubs.
Isn't it relief to be shed of all
the fuss and hullabaloo concerning
Dizzy Dean and his contract worries?
We thought we were clear of all that
when Babe Ruth passed out of the
picture along with Eddie Rousch of
Cincinnati. basebal's hardest peren-
fans can settle down to enjoy their
baseball and never mind the side is
sue tripe.
A lot of the boys are picking the
Cardinals in the National and may be
you join us in asking "whatll they
win WITH" For their infield is hard
ly better than American Association,
the outfield very good but the CATCH
ing borne on the shoulders of two kids
Can the Cards get along without the
old dependable Davis back of the
plate? And will Paul Deans arm
come back? And can Dizzy make good
all his boasts about winning 80 games?
Well. 25 anyway.
We give a lot of credit to Branch
Hickey, for once, who said recently
that the Cards, as now constituted,
are about fourth place club. War
neke and Dizzy Dean look great, but
they've got to have some help. And
some critics still are knocking the
magnates for their treatment of Ed
Heusser. Heusser has been a relief
work-hOrse for more than a year with
the st. Louis outfit. He has toiled in
and out of turn and done very we'll.
So this season they rewarded him by
shipping him off to Columbus.