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Thursday, May 11, 1950

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SPORTS COMPASS

National Press and Radio Sports Commentator

~ Boston, Mass.—With Joe DiMaggio and Tommy Henrich in the twilight of their great careers, the man who will have to supply most of the Yankee power over the next decade is Lawrence Peter Berra, better known as Yogi. But Yogi doesn’t have to wait for anybody to bow out of the picture before he can claim the distinction of being the most colorful baseball player in the majors. He’s it—in spades. A throwback to the Neanderthal Man, Yogi stands a mere 5-foot-8, with low hanging arms, rounded shoulders, bushy brows, and a frequent beard. I’'m often tempted to i mrmmeeee make him a SRy :::;*fr‘:f::f:: .. &% = | present of an . @ 3| Schick Razor \, smooth, shave. | g e His speech is a 1 ¢ | littered with E e ) | dose and his w 4 4 naive cracks ?’iﬁ are like a Ring Stan McClane < Lardner character come to life . . . but there’s no denying his tremendous baseball ability. ‘ Any player or aualified fan will tell you that Yoei is tlie best allaround catcher in the world. . Sure, the Dodgers ran wild on} the bases against him in the 1947 World Serics, but when that ailtime catching great, Bill Dickey, rejoined the Yanks as eocach the next year, he conceairated on polishing Yozi’s raw talents, so that the gnome-like regtlsr is now more than adequate behind the dish. : As Berra put it,“Dickey learned me his experiences.” Yogi was sidelined more than a month last Summer with a broken thumb, yet he drove home 97 runs to lead the team. He batsed only 277, but smashad 20 homers. He drives his corcb~z ard man. |

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agers crazy by his insistence on reaching for bad pitches. A wonderfully phlegmatic personality enables him to turn a tin ear to the merciless “jockeying” from enemy dugouts. The first time Red Sox Coach Mike Ryba saw Yogi, he shook his head and said, “I’ll have to see you tomorrow, kid. You must be sick today. Noi?o,dy looks so bad when he ain’t sick.’ Or the Detroit Tiger bench yells when he’s at the plate, “How do you like sleeping in a tree?” Berra laughs it off and philosophically explains to writers, “In this racket, it don’t matter if you’re ugly. All you gotta do is hit da ball. An’ I never seen nobody hit dat ball wit’ dere face.” One evening, while pouring through a comic book, Yogi noticed Infielder Bobby Brown, who is a medical student, turn to the last page of his physiology text book, then finally put it down. ‘S‘{HO'W did it turn out?” asked ogi. There are flocks of other Berraisms which baseball folks delight in recounting., Like these: (1) Upon receiving a load of handsome gifts at a special “Yogi Berra Night” in Sportsman Park ,in his native St. Louis, Yogi stepped up to the mike and blurtlcd, “I wanna tank you fans for makin’ dis oecasion NECESiSARY.” } ~ (2) When his batting practice feats impressed the manager of the New London (Conn.) Naval Base Daseball Team so much that the :nentor barked at Yogi, “Starting tomorrow, you play varsity,” the future Yank replied, “I don’t tink I ever seen one, but if you explain it t’ me, I’ll try my best.” (3) Chiding an absent-minded teamm~ate, Yogi once said, “You ack like you wuz in a transom.” (4) At the height of his holdout last Spring, he threatened, “If I don’t eet the $22,000, I'll quit basehall and go to work.”

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» BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET | An Old St. Chri Mec n t. Christopher Medal And a Bashed-in Pullman C — By BILLY ROSE s Ordinarily, knowing what editors expect of me, I don’t devote much space in this column to stories of faith, devotion and other such unhep subjects. However, I bumped into a yarn the other night that did nice things to my spine, and here ‘tis, even though it’s as corny as a chorus of “Hearts and Flowers. ...” Some years ago, a dancer named Jean Armstrong (note to Ed.— that’s her square monicker and she’s given me permission to use it) came down with a ruptured appendix, and by the time they got her to the hospital, peritonitis had set in and the doctors didn’t give her much chance.

The following day, the nurse handed her a string of rosary beads. “A Utthe . girl tried to get in to see you this SR " morning,” she ?5;)4‘3;32% said. “Her name was Sylvia, and g,m she said her moth- 4 x er was a friend of 2o yours. When I told F& =55 her you couldn't E& &if be disturbed, she EESL &8 asked me to give gijy Rose you this. It has a St. Christopher medal on it, and the kid thought it might bring you luck.” ; The dancer wasn’t a Catholic, but she was touched Ly the present anyhow. And six weeks later, thanks to faith or the new sulfa drugs, she was out of the hospital. * ® * FROM THEN ON, she kept the rosary in her make-up box, but a couple of years later, after a succession of cheap variety houses and even cheaper hotels, the beads no longer seemed very important. And one day, when one of the girls in her vaudeville unit asked about the St. Christopher medal, Jean said, “It’s nothing at all. Just a piece of old junk. I don’t know why I keep on carrying it.” That Sunday, when the troupe checked into a Baltimore botel, Jean put the make-up case on top of ber valise and signed the register, but when she reached for her luggage the case was gone. She notified the desk and, when that didn't produce results, reported the loss to the police. But when the unit pulled out of Bailtimore on Saturday night, neither case nor beads bad been found. In Pittsburgh the next week, the show got bad’' notices and folded, and as if that weren’t enough, the manager skipped with the salaries. A few days later, down to her last three bucks, Jean considered herself'plenty lucky when a local agent offered her a job in a Miami night- ‘ club. She was given a ticket—car

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16, berth No. I—on the 7.22 out of Pittsburgh. At 7 o’clock the dancer left the hotel, but a couple of blocks from the depot she noticed something on the sidewalk and picked it up. It was a string of rosary beads and, attached to it, a medallion of St. Christopher. - ® .};' s - JEAN DIDN’T KNOW then, and she doesn’t know now, whether it ' was the same rosary. She did ‘know, however, that it looked exactly like the one the little girl had sent her, except for one thing —the chain had been broken. As she continued on to the station, she got to thinking of the beads—how sick she had been when she first got them, and how her troupe had been stranded when she had referred to the medallion as a piece of old junk. And suddenly it seemed important to get the chain fixed. Up the street there was a combination bock shop-jewelry store and, forgetting the 7:22, she walked in. The jeweler worked as _fast as be could, but when be banded the rosary back to ber the clock said 7:30, and the dancer knew she was out of a job again, With less than a dollar in her purse, she went back to the hotel, and a few minutes later the phone rang. It was the stage manager of “The Student Prince” which, for the umpteenth time, was playing the Nixon theater. ‘‘Heard your troupe was stranded,” he said. “One of our dancers is getting married tomorrow, and if you want to fill in for a few weeks—"' - And now for as corny a finish as ever found its way into a so-called hep column. When Jean picked up a newspaper the next morning, she read that the 7:22 out of Pittsburgh had been side-swiped by a freight car. It wasn’t much of a wreck—nobody had been hurt because the two berths which were bashed in happened to be empty. One of them, of course, was berth No. 1, car 16. § 4

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can start at home in our limited daily intercourse with our fellow beings to show the way. Its duplication appearing manifold could change the course of events. If you do not believe this, read back in history and prove the point.

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