Col. Jacob Ruppert of Manhattan has something in common with the groundhog and the katydid. Even as they foretell spring and frost, so does he regularly punctuate the calendar with his annual statement: "The Yankees are stronger than last year." Last week Col. Ruppert so stated, and its followers throughout the land then knew surely that Baseball was at hand again. The season opens April 12. After their month of limbering, exercising, exhibition games in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and California, it was possible last week to cast up a rough account of...
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