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...promising new infielders, a capable pitching staff headed by Mel Harder and the best outfield in the league. The Boston Red Sox, still in the process of rebuilding, are likely to get into the first division. The prospects of the Philadelphia Athletics will depend largely on the success of 72-year-old Manager Connie Mack's experiment of turning his star first-baseman. Jimmy Foxx, into a catcher. Probable tail-enders: the aging Senators, the dispirited St. Louis Browns, the consistently feeble Chicago White...
...National League's weakest team last week appeared to be the Cincinnati Reds. Their owner, Powel Crosley, spent the winter pouring $200,000 into minor-league treasuries for new players, of whom the most promising, First-Baseman John Mize, cost $50,000. But the team will start the season with an infield of four rookies, a weak pitching staff. Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston are likely to finish in the second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak...
...favorites again this year. Ninth pennant-winning team of Philadelphia's lean 68-year-old Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), the Athletics are handicapped by an injury to hardhitting Centre-fielder George William ("Mule") Haas. They still have a powerful offense, headed by Catcher Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, First-baseman James Emory ("Jimmy") Foxx, Outfielder Aloysius ("Al") Simmons, and the best pitching staff in either league. Best right-hander is George Livingston Earnshaw, Swarthmore graduate (1923). Best left-hander is Robert Moses Grove, who last week won his 30th victory of the season, an American League record. Pitcher Grove...
Edmund Lowe was captain and first-baseman of a Santa Clara University baseball team which included Artie Schaeffer, Harry Wolters, Benny Kauff, all later big leaguers. He graduated from Santa Clara at 18, became a Master of Arts and member of the faculty at 19. College dra- matics had made him interested in acting and after a part in The Brat with a Los Angeles stock company he went to Manhattan, stayed there six years playing leads on Broadway. On his big ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains he breeds hounds and recently burbanked a new vegetable, a combination...
Meanwhile Andover had scored twice more off Puffer in the fifth on a pass, a stolen base two wild thorws, and two hits." Nash relieved Puffer in the sixth and was scored on once in the eighth An error by Rice and a two-base hit by first-baseman Prior did the damage...