Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1940 — Page 11
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1940
OF Diz Agrees To Go Back To the Minors
Thinks le Can Recover Stuff in Texas Loop
(Continued from Page One)
has a talk with Mr. now when he re-
~ As soon as he . Wrigley, we'll ports to Tulsa.”|
_« Hard Rock Johnson in Tulsa The Tulsa club is° managed ‘by ‘Roy (Hard Rock) Johnson, who served as a coach with the Cubs until this season. - Johnsen spent: two Years nursing the ailing Dean after
Wrigley bought him—sore arm and all—from the St. Louis Cardinals, Included in the Dean deal. was $185,000 in cash and three players, Outfielder George Stainback and ‘pitchers Clyde Shoun and Curt Dayis. . Davis .and Shoun still are with the Cards. It will be a far different Dizzy Dean who travels around the Texas circuit than the daffy youngster who burned ‘up the league as a Houston pitcher in the early 30s. Dean's fireball. accounted for 26. victories end 10 defeats at Houston ingl931, the year before St. Louis brought him: up. From then .on he rode the: crest in: the National League, 30 games in: 1934, 28 in 1935 and leading the League in strikeouts for four straight seasons "starting - in 1932." Wrigley Is: Doubtful
After his injury in the 1937 allstar game, Diz shifted from his overhand delivery and the strain proved fatal to his old style. Physicians™ at -Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, advised him two weeks ago that he never again would piteh overhand. “As soon as we heard that, Diz wanted to go back to the minors and learn to pitch sidearm,” Mrs. Dean said. Wrigley was doubtful what “sort of reception Texas League batters would give Dizzy’s nothing ball. “From: what I‘ hear of those youngsters “down - there, -theyre tough,” he “said. “They'll swing [at anything 'It may be a hard job for Dizzy but fhere’s no reason why je can’t learn a néw style in time.
°F Its Worth a Try’
“It may take 60 or 90 days. Perhaps he can’t learn at all, but it's worth a try and Dean is willing to gamble on it.” Diz originally wanted to return to his Texas farm and work alone, but the Cubs balked’ at paying ‘his Salary under those terms. When Dean learned that Tex Carleton, rescued from Milwaukee by Brooklyn, had pitched a no-hitter ‘against Oineln nati, Dizzy remarked: : “Maybe a “year in the minors, is what I need, t00.” The Cubs snapped at that one.
Color Bearers “ANN ARBOR, Mich; June| 4 (REA) —John Nicholson and 1land Savilla, Michigan end and tackle, respectively, will serve [as Literary College color bearers |at graduation ceremonies.
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Remember when Diz Dean pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to 30 victories in 1934, and then with Brother Paul, tamed the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Here's the big smile he showed just before that series opened.
BY JOE WILLIAMS " Times Special Writer NEW YORK, June 4.—The unconventional Dizzy Dean came to. a conventional end in baseball. All" the National League clubs waived on him. Wouldn't even chance a modest $7500 to experi= ment further with the pitcher who cost the Chicago Cubs $185,000 two short years ago. Thus a mourning wreath is placed on one of the most remarkable right arms that ever came. into baseball—and on one of the most.colorful .characters. Like him personally or not, old Diz could fog that fast ‘one through there, a phrase he in- | troduced, by the way. When he was right he was as good as they made ’em. And as game. For all his eccentricity and grousing he liked to play the game and was a fine competitor. No team ever" beat Old Diz by making him quit. He was at his best with the Cardinals in 1934 and 1935, when he won a total of 58 games. The Cardinals won the championship both years and Old Diz was the main answer. Frank Frisch had the clup in those days and he used to complain about the head-
aches Dean gave him. Holding
Highlights i
"A change in scenery, and a change in wardrobe. It's Diz himself as he put on a Chicago Cub uniform for the first time in 1938 after being traded by the Cards. Three players and $185,~ 000 went to St. Louis for Old Diz.
out, threatening to desert the club, popping off in the clubhouse. But all the time Old Diz was pitching Frisch’s team into pennants.. Looking back, it appears Frisch didn’t know what a pleasant sort of headache Old Dizz was. ” n ”
. ONE OF THE greatest games Dean ever pitched was against the Yankees when he was all through. When he had nothing’ left but a heart and a dipsy doole. pitch. This was in the 1938 World Series. Dean had moved .over to .the Cubs by then. He started the second game. For .seven innings he had the Yankee Murderers’ Row looking like fugitives from a Vassar pillow: fight. They got a couple of runs-in the second inning they didn’t deserve. Two Cub infielders ran together trying for a simple grounder, which would have ended the in-. ning. , ; For five of the seven innings Dean sent the Yankee sluggers back to the dugout in order. He didn’t have much on the ball. Still the Yankees couldn't get a full piece of it. Dean, workingly
. great team.” When ‘he could be pretty sporting.
craftily, kept" them off balance
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"But in ‘May of 1938 the arm ailment overtook Diz, and he was out:
of the Cub lineup for considerable time.
. Taking the mound in the
‘middle of July, however, Diz pitched a 3 1 victory over the Boston
Bees.
Using a side arm motion to favor his long-ailing arm in his
‘comeback appearance, Dean gave the Beantown boys only four hits
and ‘no walks. [Wrigley Field in Chicago.
and when ‘they swung they either hit on top or under the ball. . Along toward the end he began to tire. Throwing the nothing ball even takes something out of a dead arm pitcher. The Yankees got to. him in the eighth. Crosetti hit a home run to score a teammate ahead of him and that was the payoff. But: for seven innings Old Diz was the master. When the game was over he visited the Yankees in the club house. “I don’t like to lose” he said, “but I don’t mind losing to a There were times
He was always something of a kid - at heart. = He hadn't had much book. learning. He. came up from the sticks, an authentic,
“blown-in-the-bottle clod “hopper.
At first he was dazzled and bewildered but before long ‘he ac=cepted the disproportionate praise fans and sports pages showered
“lon him as his just due. This was
the beginning of the -stuffy period when -he was distinctly a pain in the neck. y ” ” ” ] BUT IS WASN'T hard to be Icharitable about that. This wasn’t ‘the first inflated ego that went
Tribe Opens 3d Stand at- Home
d (Continued from Page 10) Eastern rivals. And I still think our club is capable of producing more base hits. - “In my opinion, any kind of a
will restore ‘confidence to the boys in ‘a slump. “Of course, much depends on the pitching, too, and we can only hope it will hold up: However, in my book two of the defeats at Louisville were against the hitters, not the moundsmen.”
116 Purdue Trackmen
Get Major Awards
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June 4 (U. P). — Major letters have been
Purdue University track team, Athletic Director Noble E. Kizer announced today. Minor letters were awarded to 12 squad members while 32 | freshman numerals were given
out. Winners of major awards were:
Paul Anthony, Kenilworth, IIL; Julius Dengler, Scottsburg; Joseph Edwards, Cinginnati, O.: Dan Fisher, . Anderson;
winning streak-—even a short one—|
awarded to 16 member§ of the 1940
Pro Pointers
By ART KRENZ NEA Service Golf Writer Inability to swing inside the line of flight on the backswing and forward swing long was a fault of Gene Kunes. “This js true of at least 10 players,” says the former Canadia Open champion. “Watch the finish of the swing and see how far to the left of the line of | flight the Player | gets.” Failure tol keep the right] afm : close to the| side or lifting the club abruptly inj the backswing, are the major reasons for this fault. A golfer can take a freak outside backswing snd hit a long ball, | but for the [same player to hit his | best he has to come down inside | the line of] flight before making contact ii t je ball.
Gene Kunes
River Swimmers
Hoping for Rain
Three or four days of rain just before the Fourth of July would be
just the thing, swimmers who will
compete in the annual A. A. U. river swim agree. The more rain there is, the highler White River, and the higher the river, the swifter the current. This test, which is expected. to draw some of the state’s top dis‘tance swimmers, will be over a two and a quarter mile route from Sandy Beach to the Green City
boathouse. Women competitors will begin
‘their race at 10 a. m., July 4, while
the men will take to the water a’ half hour later. be accompanied by a rowboat or! canoe.
Each swimmer will
‘In addition to regular champion-
ship medals for the first three
places in both the men’s and women's events, in each race a trophy {will be awarded to the first swimmer that completes the entire distance in each of three strokes: free‘style, backstroke and breast stroke. The river swim will be open to
-|any registered amateur athlete liv-
ing in Indiana. Entries are to be sent to R. B. Fogle, 1717 ‘W. 10th
-the games. - Ruth. The first thing. he. did . when he heard the Babe was in
Here’s the way he looked that day on the: Bill at
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spinning through the- sports world, and a lot of the others had got a mich better start in the world. His lurid antics came naturally enough, but his great I-am stuff was studiously -acquired. Even in the bushes he was looked upon as a strange character. He wanted to get married at' the home plate in the Houston ball park, but his wife, no retiring violet herself, went suddenly conservative and
vetoed the dreamy suggestion.
Dean's character ran ‘to simple qualities, and some of them were _ decent. His self-acclaimed greatness was largely a pose. He was the greatest pitcher in baseball the year the Cardinals won their
first pennant under Frisch and.
faced Detroit in the World Series. Babe Ruth went out to see Dean had never met
town was to look him up and get his autograph on a baseball. “It’s sure nice to have this, Mr, Ruth,” he said. “You've always been my hero.”
» ” »
IN THAT SERIES Dean put himself, in one of the games as a pinch runner. Didn't wait for Frisch to make a selection. Just leaped off the bench, ran across the infield and replaced some heavy-footed guy who was on first base. Caught between cases, he was hit in the head with a thrown ball and knocked out. They: got the stretcher out, with his younger brother Paul leading, and carried him back to the dugout. You could see the two brothers were talking as the relief party moved across the field. After the game a reporter asked ‘Paul what the two had been talking about. “Nothing,” he said. “We were just carrying on a con=
‘
his fun.’
‘Diz always has loved to have Any stunt has been okeh by him. Here he is in- the garb he accepted In 1938 when an Indian tribe made him Chief Nekoosa or’ Swift Running Watet. Diz loved these stunts.
versation.” True words. When the Deans carried on a conversation they usually didn’t, say anything.
But Diz has been in trouble plenty, too. Suspended in 1937 by National League prexy Ford C. Frick for some wild statements he made at a Belleville, Ill, banquet, Dean watched a game from the grandstand in Brooklyn,
But don’t let anybody tell you Old Diz couldn’t fog that ball through there, mister. We are almost tempted to add, “And how.”
Pace Sonnenberg on
Mat Tonight
Gus (Dynamite) Sonnenberg, 215,
{the one-time Dartmouth grid ace,
who is credited with introducing the present-day football tactics to the
: (wrestling game, tops tonight's out-
door mat card at Sports Arena. Going against Gus will be Len Macaluso, 228, a performer who has heen meeting with real success since coming into this territory. He held
: [Everett Marshall to a draw in Chi-
cago and defeated Louis Thesz in
: St. Louis.
Sonnenberg, a veteran of many big grappling encounters, has been successful to date in his “comeback” efforts and has turned in triumphs over several standouts. He-is a former heavyweight champ.
A special semi-windup sends
‘Coach Billy Thom, 180, Blooming-
ton, Ind. after the “Great Mephisto,” 182, Newark. Mephisto was
|the first husky ever to beat Thom
in local action. Mike Mazyrki, 240, New York, opens against Angelo ‘Cistoldi, 221, Boston, at 8:30. Tick-
lets purchased for . last Tuesday’s
bostpened show will be honored to-
Lédene Title Goes
To South Bend Nine
SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 4 (U. P.).—The South Bend Washington High’ School baseball team| today held the championship of the east-
ern division of the Northern Indiana High School Conference after a 4-3 victory over South Bend Central for a string ‘of 31 straight wins.: Jerome Strzelecki relieved Junior Hechlinski in the second inning and held the Central sluggers in check. His mates reached Bob Colip, Central pitcher, for six hits.
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