New York, June 17.
Something has come over the Cleveland Indians. They've lost that old defeatist complex they used to wear and are talking pennant this season. What's more, they're talking it in a way that makes ihe listener believe they mean business.
In the past the Indians have had the reputation of being a club that wilts under fire and just plays out the schedule after mid-season. Last year, though, they finished like a bill of fire, winning something like 21 cut of 23 game:
The big improvement this year is in their infold where Ray Mack and Lou Boudreau have plugged up the gaping holes at second and short and made the Cleveland inner cordon perhaps the classiest in the league.
Mack is a big Bohemian boy (his real name is Ray Mackovsky) who seems to have made good in his home town. Mack was a fullback at Case and was so good that the Chicago Bears wanted to sign him to a professional football contract.
It was Mack's good fortune to team up at Buffalo last year with another collegian—Boudreau, of the University of Illinois, The two clicked together like a Tinker-Ever combination and the Indians brought them up together.
Boudreau is the Indians' sparkplug. This spring when he hurt his leg training he was out on the field every day with it in a cast, getting his batting and fielding practice even though he couldn't run—United Press,
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