Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1920 — HUGGINS PICKS REDS TO COME BACK AGAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HUGGINS PICKS REDS TO COME BACK AGAIN

Yankee Chief Says Champions Should Win Another Flag. Manager Moran Has Well-Balanced Pitching Staff, Most Important Facto r on Bal I Team—Can Wait Out Opposition. Manager Miller Huggins, of the New York Americans, believes that the Reds are going to repeat their success of last season and win another pennant Hug’s team played the Reds a series of games in southern Florida, and, at the conclusion of the engagement, the clever leader of Colonel Ruppert’s team did not hesitate to say that the champions should come back again this year. This is pretty good dope, coming from Huggins,~who Is naturally of a reticent disposition and seldom expresses himself strongly In the way of making predictions. After looking over Manager Moran’s men Hug declared himself as follows: “Pat has a fine pitching staff, and we all know

that that is the most Important thing on a ball club. In fact. It is* absolutely essential to success through a long season. “I have seen enough of three pitchers to feel sure that they will deliver the goods, just as they did last year. Moran has a well-balanced staff,.with a goodly number of right-handers and southpaws of class, and he has shown that he knows how to handle pitchers as well as any manager in the business. The excellence of his pitching staff enables him to -use the best and most scientific methods at the bat. With weak pitching a manager must depend on slugging and getting over as many runs as possible. But the Red pitching Is good enough to allow the use of the waiting game and the one-run game. *1 noticed that Pat has taught his men to wait out opposing pitchers, and I have no doubt he profits largely by their ability to do so.”

Manager Miller Huggins.