April 7, 1914 Age 23
Wray’s Column St Louis Post Dispatch
IT’S a fact, lads. Bets are being made on the St. Louis Cardinals that they will beat one team which last season was looked upon as having a fair chance to win the pennant, a club which actually made a good bid for the flag – the Philadelphia Quakers.
The Philadelphia team may have superior position players, but the Cards are looking at least their equal in pitching.
Pitching is fully 50 per cent of team strength and it is right here that the Cardinals expect to neutralize the advantages Philadelphia is supposed to enjoy in other respects.
- HOWEVER:
It is not known definitely that Bill Steele will be at his best.
It is not certain that Robinson will have a 14-9 record with a weak run-getting club back of him.
It Is by no means proven that Pol Perritt Is going to do any better under fire this season than last.
It Is not yet proven that Bill Doak will be able to take a winning trick at the wheel.
It’s the usual “IF” proposition; and the miracle seems to be that there are St. Louisans with enough faith left, after 26 years of pennant disappointment, to believe a local club CAN get the breaks in its favor.
Naming the Outlaws.
Evidently the Federal League is a permanency, as fans have already begun to seek names nearer to the heart than the formal appellations. The Chicago Federals, Brooklyn Federals etc. For example the Tinkerites are known by that illuminating term, the Chi-Feds: Brooklyn is already labeled the Brook-Feds. Following out the same line, we suggest the following terms be applied to the remaining teams in the league:
MILK-FEDS
WELL-FEDS
CORN=FEDS
UN-FEDS