Judge — May 19, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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quickly you wonder whether he’s © wish Pat Moran would decide to use Rube Bressler, actually thrown it or whether it has he pitcher-outfielder, more often. Rube is the most slipped out of a greased glove. N: practical ball player we've ever met. And a man who has even the proverbial cake of soz this rare quality, if given a chance, would become a star, slipping out of wet fingers and we think. If you doubt that the Rube is a practical young catapulting through space, gets man, listen to this: When we were at Camp Merritt one of started more rapidly. Jack may the men in our outfit was this same Rube. One evening some carn his whole season's pay by one handed him a copy of Cooper's “The Spy” to read. Rube, picking a runner off first ba: an important—no, series. Another thing: Jack is line hitter. Except for the addition of Bent- ley our hunch is that the middle of summer will see the Giant team practically as it was last year. We'll bet a pair of 1923 World Series tickets to a last year’s rain check that Cunningham will sup- plant the $75,000 Jimmy O’Con- nell as the regular center fielder of the Giants. Cunningham is poten- one of the greatest outfielders as no one doubts who convert the longe: of the last World Series—a tre- mendous clout by Ruth—into a put out by as great a jumping catch a ever made) and even the expensive O'Connell won't Solid concrete—not a keep him out of ajob. McGraw’s knot-hole. champions, with Bentley strength- ening the pitching staff and Cun- ningham playing regularly in center field, should win the pennant by at least fi ‘ Pat Moran's Bolsheviks—the Cincinnatti Reds—should finish second. The acquisition of the rejuvenated Benton and the return of the temperamental Roush should insure this. With Burns and Duncan playing to the right and left of Roush, Pat has a dependable outfield. What Pat needs most is a pair of real infielders. He needs ‘em as badly as the mark needs purchasing power. Bohne and Caveney at second and short are mediocre. First Baseman Daubert is still a He earns about $2 every wind-up. good hitter but his legs have gone back on him and he moves around with the speed of the Toonerville Trolley. The rest ot the team is good. On the whole Pat has a capable outfit out of the book. Then he read on. In a few minutes he tore but it isn’t good enough to win a pennant. Like a blank car- Ot some more pages tridge pistol, the Red Club will cause many a scare but it nae What are von ‘ioing, Rub won't do any real damage. “Improving the book,” he replied as he serenely ripped out another chapter. “Whaddya mean—i vi we asked him, “I'm tearing out th E id Rubs. “It will be a better book when I through; and the next guy will have an easier job reading it.” With which the Rube proceeded to rip out another chapter. A young man who has sense enough to tear pages out of Cooper is too good to warm a bench; he ought to be tearing out base bits We think the other National L cague t will finish in this order: Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelph i We hope Christy Mathewson, now presi- dent of the Boston Braves, won't want to choke us for not rating his club higher than seventh, It was a fine feed that Christy bought us recently at the Copley-Plaza in Boston, and we ought to have the decency to rate the Braves higher. an has his price—and ours is usu ] or a cigar. But even a good feed can't make us forget that Boston—the home of the Braves, as the author of the national anthem called it—has'a rotten team, If Matty weren't there to toss in some ti gerial ideas we'd rate the club The Baseball Grandmother—I ain't dead neither! a certain tailender, 1 after reading for a few minutes, was seen to rip some 4 comicbooks.com