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(Editor's Note—George Kirksey, United Press baseball writer who spent a month in the spring training camps looking over the major league clubs, today makes his annual prophecy on the American League race. Tomorrow he'll discuss the National League race. Last vear he picked the Reds to win and forecast the downfall of the Yankees.)
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, April 8.—The New York Yankees, a new streamlined outfit loaded with speed and power, will win back the American League championship this season. And there's a chance they might win it by such a wide margin that the old, familiar cry, “Break up the Yanks” will resound again. Whether the Yanks just get under the gun or win going away will depend on two things: (1) Pitching, and (2) Bill Dickey. Those are Manager Joe McCarthy’s biggest problems. There is every reason to believe that the rebuilt Yankee pitching staff will measure up. With Dickey, who's caught over 100 games a season for 12 years, it's just a question of whether Father Time has caught up with him.
pair of ballet dancers around the keystone sack, are likely to be the sensations of the season. They can hit, throw, run and field in major league style. They may ve the greatest pair of keystone rookies ever to come up. Gordon's shift to first has proved a great success. Rolfe, although bothered by a bad leg, definitely is on the comeback trail at third. ” ” ” THE YANKEE OUTFIELD is likely to be the league's best with Keller in left, DiMaggio in center and Henrich and Selkirk in right Keller's hitting has been one of the Yanks’ brightest spots. He definitely is headed for a big year The Yankee pitching staff shapes up with Ruffing, Russo, Gomez, Breuer, Bonham, and one of the rookies in the first line. Ruffing and Gomez have looked great. Bonham has been bothered by a back ailment but is slowly rounding into form. The rookie star may be Hank Borowy, or it may be George Washburn or it may be Charlie Stanceu. All definitely are strong possibilities. They are the cream of the best crop of young pitchers in Florida this spring Cleveland is the team Yanks have to beat. With the
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irksey Picks Streamlined Yankees To Win
As Kirksey Sees 'Em
NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P.) —Here's how George Kirksey, United Press baseball writer, predicts the outcome of the American League pennant race: 1. New York—"Break up the Yankees.” . Cleveland—Second even without Vitt, Boston—Give away too many runs. . Detroit—Not a chance even with Greenberg. . St, Louis—Might be tough with pitching. . Chicago—Dykes could use a miracle . Washington—Already crying for help. Philadelphia—Just in for the exercise,
BUT THE INDIANS have Bob Feller, baseball's greatest pitcher, and he is certain to keep Cleveland somewhere close if the team shows any punch. Gerald Walker
is expected to take up some of the slack in the attack but help must come from some other direction too, if the Indians hope to match the Yanks’ run-making machinery. Cleveland's second base combination of Boudreau and Mack is another one of the club's strong departments.
power, the Indians rank next to the Yanks. There is no question but that Cleveland has the pitching to win the pennant. The question is do the Indians have the spirit and the punch? With Oscar Vitt gone along with such highly tempermental players as Ben Chapman, Johnny Allen and Frankie Pytlak, the Indians are turning over a new leaf under Roger Peckinpaugh. But there are some old scars left from the Tribe's rebellion of last June.
the team still looks shoddy defensively and the pitching certainly is no better than a year ago. Rowe and Bridges may not be as good, and Gorsica and Newhouser may not yet be ready to replace them,
The Red Sox have made some progress toward improving their pitching staff but they have other problems which are likely to keep them out of the serious contender class. Frankie Pytlak probably will help their catching but Jim Tabor's deportment, Ted Williams’ broken ankle and Joe Cronin's age combine to keep them from making a serious pennant battle, However, the Red Sox's chances look better than the defending champion’s
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AS USUAL the White Sox are unpredictable. They play better than they look on paper but they seemed doomed to second division. The Browns may furnish a surprise. If they get any pitching from the veterans they bought during the winter (Allen, Caster, Galehouse, Ostermueller) they can lead the second division Washington will have to battle to save seventh place with Buddy Lewis heading for the Army any
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Everywhere else the Yanks are terrific. The new infield of Gordon, Priddy, Rizzuto and Rolfe bows to none. riddy and Rizzuto, who work as smoothly as a
The bovs Frankly, the Tigers’ cause looks
hopeless, with or without Greenberg. With Greenberg the Tigers can generate a lot of power but
day now. The Athletics haven't shown anything to indicate that they can do more than throw a couple of scares into the Senators.
Indians Sign Tall Pitcher Ben Wade, Brother of Jake
Jake No Longer a Holdout; Tribe Ties Maple Leafs, 7 to 7.
still talk about it and they may hear more than they want to about it from the rival dugouts during the season.
champion Tigers likely to lose Hank Greenberg to the Army and the Red Sox still having trouble finding pitching to match their
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Times Special FAYETTE, Ark, April 8-Ray Alshury, a sophomore, has begun
| | Rex Again to Drive | Bowes’ Entry WE nF } |
Once more rapid Rex Mays, popular hero on the halo of haste, is| long-awaited | the Speedway |
By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor BARTOW, Fla, April 8.=The Indianaplis Indians invested in a new pitcher today when they signed Ben Wade, 18-year-old brother of Jake Wade, the lone southpaw member of the Tribe staff turning Butler University track rec Young Wade is a right hander, tall and rangy, and is built along o.q¢ vellow with age before their the lines of his older brother. He accompanied Jake to the Indians time training camp the second week in March and has worked out with | The St. Louis lad has picked up
them almost daily Xx on the mound in b wractice duting Ul what he started in high school=that Young Ben's work on the mound in batting practice during the of being a one-man track team.
few times he was used impressed | " 2 Rain-soaked tracks or drizzling
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(and Field Aig ade een | {leading the Butler track team to two Until today Jake [consecutive victories. Last Saturday TORONTO AB
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coming back a victory shot this May 30. Already the unofficial lap record holder and three times fastest | cualifier for the 500-mile race, Rex | Mays again has been named to crive the speedster entered hy Robert M. Bowes and engineered, built and managed by the still [voung retired veteran, Lou Meyer, | three-time winner. | But more important news is the (information from California that | | the combination of Mays, Meyer {and Engineer W. C. (Bud) Winfield | have revamped last vear's runner- | [up to give it even more speed than [it produced last year in setting an 40 miles per
NEW Hutch excites no comment. to him as the $70,000 Detroit. Ask Giants the league MceGraw’s York In due time, of course, Marquard came and when he did he came fast. He became one of the outstanding lefthanders of his day. Hutchinson, still young, may come, too, but most baseball men don’t give him a chance. They say he hasn't enough natural stuff. Thus he may be known to posterity as the most acidulous lemon of all time
YORK, April 8 ~The Tigers send Freddie back to the minors for the third time and it Times do change. Nobody refers lemon. That's what he cost
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t, it w revealed. althou h| Sg ey Gos with the Re | |he captured firsts in the high and skins and pitcheq in exhibition low hurdles, Bl ‘oad jump and 100games There had to be a show- yard dash against Lineolh Univer= down, however, ahd in a last con- sity at Jeferson Je: on a ’ [ference with Leo Miller before the track literally soaked by rain Tribe business chief departed for Yesterday Alsbury repeated in Indianapolis, the veteran left these four events and placed third hander capitulated and also agreed in the 220-yard dash for 26 points to permit his brother to join for a against the University of Arkansas. tryout. Butler won, 69 to 53, and it rained {during the entire dual meet, Young Wade is not far enough entire d lalong in baseball to step into Class The Hoosiers §col ed a grand slam AA company for a regular job but in tne quarter-mile race, Earl Cumhe looks every bit a comer and will mings, also of St. Louis, winning in be farmed out with strings attached 50:8 and followed by Morris Nahunless he pulls a surprise and eases mias and Captain James Stewart, himself into a starting or relief both of Indianapolis. Butler's relay te TORT te 0 obert Dreessen, - Craig Wood, whose seven under part won the $1500 Masters open assignment this year. A Aen ai TS Ra golf championship at Augusta, Ga., shows his wife the winning score | Offered Ticket Home the meet against the Razorbacks. Tt
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a deal for himself and this Was The Butler team will conclude its Aleno Two-hase hits—Tipt Last year's race, ev ke st year's race, however, marked National League Playofs
|granted. Failing in this personal spring vacation tour tomorrow aft- | business venture he called for the Rabeling. Pasek 2 Gala ernoon, running in a dual meet Three-base h Starr the first time in six tries that Mavs ay v " \ sS - ) — had completed the 500 miles al-| BOSTON. April 8 (U. P Ba)
| Papers and signed when it looked as | Three-ba eS [though he was going to be ordered Galatzer Pasek. Double play—Zientara to lout of camp. He only won tW0 Mack Left on bases Indianapolis 13, American League Playoffs [games with Toledo last year and the I $ A Bal 2S ae ar ay By UNITED PRESS {Indian chieftains decided they were Eaves 2. Hits—Oft Starr 10 ii pi nes | a 1 in Hit by pitcher—By Starr stered hv the return of Center Milt The Cleveland Barons meet the offering him as much as his record Gil though he holds the unusual record) Hershey Bears on Hershey ice to- | justified. In addition Jake has been of having qualified for the pole posi- | § Schmidt, the Boston Bruins en-| : hor tion three times in a ai vee | gage the Detroit Red Wings tonight starts. lin the second game of their bestIn 1939 when the old master, Lou| or coven final series for hockev's Mever, spun himself out of victory | Stanley Cup. : : with but a few laps to go, hisspeed| The next two contests will be
Ompires—Boyor and Murray night in an attempt to break a sea- wild in his few appearances on the masterpiece was clocked on the | paves at Detroit on Sunday and
son-long Jinx on the Barons and mound this spring. take the American Hockey League| yes Miller still is in the market | championship. for a couple of experienced hurlers | Without a win on Hershey iceland promises to deliver them before | this year, Cleveland needs tonight's {ne American Association cham-back-stretch making a straightway | Tuesday with alternate games, if | speed of around 168 miles per hour. | necessary, scheduled thereafter at| Word from the coast is that inno-| Boston and Detroit vations troduced in the car over Schmidt suffered a charley horse the winter have increased this [in last Sunday night's opening
game to take the League title and | pionship race gets under way. He | the Frank Calder trophy, having! will reach Indianapolis tomorrow | straightaway speed by several more | game here which the Bruins won, miles per hour.
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8 4 r WE MET HUTCHINSON the first time he came up. It was at Tampa. He had his workout and was sitting in the wooden grandstand watching the Tigers play the Cincinnati Reds. With pencil poised expectantly we asked him to tell us his life story “I don’t like to pitch,” he began. “I'm really a catcher.” And this was the bird the Tigers, desperate for pitching, had just shelled out $70.000 in cash for. We suspected then he'd never make a shambles of the American League Joe Medwick is having his best spring start in four years. His its have been leaving shell holes and craters all over the Southland His bat is confidently expected to be a vital force in the Brooklyns' drive for the pennant. Despite the fact he is going Into his ninth vear as a hig league regular this may be one of his best F or the past three years Medwick was a problem child. He didn't like the St. Louis people and they didn't like him. Specifically, he didn't like the Cardinal owners. He didn't think they paid him well enough. He was hard to sign and usually missed training. This may explain why he's been hitting so well this spring; he didn’t miss training
Hunt “patted for Starr Indianapolis Toronte Runs batted in—Latshaw 3 Starr, Mack, Blackburn Tip
t= against Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg, Kas. The 13-man squad and Coach Ray Sears will return home Friday from their 1500mile sisal
Silent Hoosiers Win College I Baseball | | A run-scoring hit in the eighth
(inning gave the Silent Hoosiers an {8-7 baseball victory over Franklin | Township on the latter's lot yester|day afternoon Previously, the Silents had plated a pair of markers in the seventh to st, John’ s 3: City Coliege New Lie the score Alexander HanyzewYork, ski, Silent Hoosier pitcher, fanned
Rrooki Coll 9% L Island t= om 1 versity, Vleet enk Island UnI- 17 batsmen while allowing nine hits.
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Indiana, 4, DePauw, 3 (11 innings). Virginia, 12; Randolph-Macon, 4. New York U.. 1: Princeton, 3
Southern Methadist, 5; Texas, 2. Villanova, 8; Vermont, 2 Newberry, 11: Preshyterian, 4,
#” Duke, 12: Virginia Tech, 2
# won two of the three games played and resume combing the baseball thus far in the best-of-five series. world for talent Cleveland won the first two| The current Tribe staff as a whole games on its home ice, 4-3 and 3-1, lis far from readv to enter a hard | but dropped the third game at campaign and the club directors | | Hershey Saturday night, 4-0 know they cannot hope to meet the! American Association pace unless |
they come up with a better grade |
Flatbush Fans’ Cups Are Overflowing; arin A RE (tance. Only one member ylenn | Dodgers Are Quarreling, 'Play Berl’
Fletcher, has lasted the full route, By HARRY FERGUSON
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IF HANK GREENBERG winds up shagging flies for your Uncle Samuel, as seems more than probable, the Tigers will need all the outfield help they can get. One of their most promising youngsters is an outfielder named Bob Harris, who started in the Texas League last season. He can do everything but throw; at least he wasn't throwing when we were in the Tigers’ camp and there was considera= ble doubt whether he'd ever throw well enough. The Tigers already have one weak arm in the outfield, Barney McCosky, and they could scarcely go along with another
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HARRIS THREW HIS arm out in a foolish way. Some one said he couldn't throw a ball over a high building; he tried and the arm
this spring Lakeman Hurt
snapped. You'd be surprised how foolish some ball players can be. without a stout arm no ball player is worth very mich, yet we could name vou instance after instance where ball players, even veterans, have taken the most insane chances with their arms. Goose Goslin threw his arm out trying to outdo a group of cellege javelin hurlers. He had never had a javelin in his hand before. We once saw Walter Johnson, of all people, stand at home plate in Cleveland and, on a dare, throw a ball over the right field wall. That same day, Sat Summa, a Cleveland outfielder, tried the same stunt, hurt his arm, and was through as a big leaguer. “That's nothing,” remembered Steve O'Neill, now a Detroit scout. “T saw Joe Bush throw his arm out and it was on a bet with Ben Shibe, president of the club. (Bush pitched for the Athletics: Shibe owned the club). Shibe bet Bush he couldn't split second base with a hall two feet high, or something like that. Anyway Bush had to get down low, make an unnatural delivery and it was the same old story something snapped. So when you talk about foolish ball players don't ov erlook the owners. They can be foolish, too
Indiana Nine Downs DePauw
| BLOOMINGTON, | (U. P).—Taking advantage of Tiger errors, Indiana University’s baseball team opened its home season yesterday by defeating DePauw, 4 to 3, in 11 mnings. Outhit two to one, Indiana |snatched the game when Wellman, (who got on through an error, romped home on a long fly by
Schumaker. Don Brunner, third Hoosier hurler to take the hill, got jcredit for the victory. Line score: Indiana 001 001 100 01—4 3 1 DePauw 000 100 020 00—3 8
Dunker, Boehm Brunner and Wellman, | | Johnson, Schussler, and Nieman
A. B. C. Entrant Rolls 11 Strikes
ST. PAUL, Minn, April 8 (U. P)). —The first perfect score in the history of American Bowling Congress |
Ind., April 8
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MA rket 4455 rolled into fifth place with a but his eighth ball left the 10-pin | standing, robbing him of a perfect
total. ] NEL | 300 as he rolled three more strikes,
Ray Ockerman started his last game with seven successive strikes, EOE LIT] jor Lith tng icrvidiul score of the meet
United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, April 8—All danger | of the Brooklyn Dodgers getting | into a rut passed today, and the
club broadened the smiles of the fan of Flatbush.
For a few tense days this spring it seemed that the Dodgers were going to let the customers down and turn into a well behaved group | of athletes, sending out waves of sweetness and light. It looked desperately like Manager Leo Durocher and General Manager Larry MacPhail were going through spring training without a controversy, and pitcher Van Mungo was so well behaved that there seemed only one chance in a million that he would fall against a door knob and come up with one of his classic shiners. But the dark days have passed. Robins wheeled and twittered above Ebbets Field today; sunshine turned the sludgy Gowanus Canal into a shining river of optimism; the tough guys in Greenpoint slapped one another on the back without | benefit of brass knucks. ‘The Dodgers are fighting among | themselves and spring has come to | Brooklyn. No spring can be official across the Brooklyn bridge [until Mungo has been suspended, {fined and reinstated. That formality has heen taken care of now, and most of the Flatbush fans) would have been satisfied to open the season a week from today without any additional fireworks. But, 10 and behold, their cup of joy was filled to overflowing when they learned that Durocher and
[team competition was missed by a | MacPhail were in a controversy. |
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news of each new quarrel on the |
Suspended and fined, Mungo has | been doing penance with the Mon- | treal club of the League. Then, with all the fury and suddenness of a
Some of the more optimistic of {the Flatbush fans even expressed a cautious opinion that this year’s team had a chance to equal the [classic outfit that featured Babe | Herman—only big league outfielder | ever to be struck on the head by| la ball while attempting to catch | a pop fly and only man ever to steal second base while it was occupied by a team-mate.
Here and there a gray bearded | codger, who remembered the good | ‘ol, days when Mungo was fined | | £1600 a lick, complained about the! {paltry $200 that he got stuck for (breaking training this year. But | with most of the fans it was the | When A double- header was sched- | principle of the thing, not the uled. MacPhail sent a telegram to money. Good old Mungo wasn't | Durocher announcing that Mungo |
letting them down and that's all had. been reinstated and was en §§
[rs mattered. | route to the family fireside.
What warmed the hearts of the | Durocher, chin deep in plans for fans was the direct approach tech-|a pitching staff that did not necesnique that Mungo used in breaking| sarily include Mr. Mungo, blew training. None of this subtle stuff|higher than a rookie southpaw with of staging a celebration in the pri-| men on bases and Mize at bat vacy of a hotel room. Mungo “If I ever catch Mungo taking a | simply stepped into the bar of the! drink again, either he leaves the ball | | Nacional Hotel in Havana, made a club or I resign,” Durocher said in| | sweeping gesture with his pitching| the first communique of a war that arm and called for drinks for every-| threatens to continue all summer, body in the house—Mungo included.| Yes, spring has come to Brooklyn, Among the interested spectators|the faithful are gathering at the were Manager Durocher and Coach | ticket windows and all's right with | Charley Dressen, who took sarsapa-| the world. rilla and umbrage. | Play berl!
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as a patient today [overtime to get the rookie back on his feet. camp is Johnny Pasek, who caught [the full game against Toronto and paced the Indians at bat with two
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