The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1953, Page 9

—--- Sports Roundup [Richards Works On Tommy Byrnes’ Control | By BEN OLAN Richards said yesterday. “We're , in 1949 and 1950 but slipped to 611 By GAYLE TALBOT | Associated Press Sportswriter trying to pick out something that| with St. Louis in 1951. Last season IX, Ariz. — Young; Manager Paul Richards of the | might help him—maybe stiffen his | he won seven and dropped 14. + who come to the big|Chicago White Sox, the patient | delivery or slip a slider into his} While Richards was working} 2S sporting brilliant minor | president of Pitchers Anonymous, | repertoire.”’ | with Byrne, Ferris Fain, Chicago’s 4° records and yet have to be | has tabbed control-wobbly Tommy} Byrne, obtained from the St.|new first baseman, took time out zack down perhaps two or| Byrne as his No. 1 project for | Louis Browns last fall, always has | from his first workout to predict times before they finally | 1953. |been on the threshold of success | the White Sox will “rip apatt the said the American League’s 1952 batting champion. “‘We’ll have one of the best defensive teams and our pitching also will be good. As a line-drive hitter Comiskey Park at Chicago is made to order for me and I should do all right there.” Another pitcher, Joe Coleman, was the big news in the Philadel- phia A’s camp at West Palm seasons, reported he was in good shape and ready to help Bobby Shantz, Harry Byrd, Alex Kellner and the rest of Jimmy Dykes’ mounds corps. “My shoulder seldom bothers me,” he said. “And besides I’ve learned how to pitch.” Coleman won 14 games in 1948 and 13 the following year. He pitched, without much success, for Monday, March 2, 1953 serious casualty of the training season when he pulled a tendon in his left leg while sliding. He will be sidelined for 10 days. Another medical case was re- ported by the Cincinnati Reds at Tampa. First sacker, Ted Kluszew- ski, out for some time last year with an ankle injury, was spiked THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 an southpaw pitching ace, worked batting practice for the first time and announced his arm is in fine shape. Arm trouble handicapped the Preacher last year. Keith Little, 23-year-old rookie infielder, walloped five over’ the fence in the Detroit Tigers’ batting drill. Manager Freddie Hutchinson under the main tent are in| « cases victims of the “dimi: Richards, who did an effective | job of converting Saul Rogovin and H Beach, Fla. Ottawa and Savannah in 1952. jon the right hand. His injury is|also was impressed by the long- Coleman, hampered by a shoul- ‘ Outfielder Archie Wilson of the| not serious, however. range hitting of catcher Matt but his wildnes: reaching the heights. He won 15 ept him from | pennant monopoly of the Yankees.” “I believe the White Sox have a ishing strike zone,” Says Frank | Joe Dobson into front line hurlers, | sames for the New York. Yankees | fine chance to take the pennant," \der ailment the past couple of! Boston Red Sox became the first! Preacher Roe, Brooklyn's veter- | Batts. Shellenback, pitching coach of the | New York Giants. Like the average fan, we had | bee nunder the impression for! man yyears that the strike zone | was a fairly stable article, extend- ing from the arm pits down to the knees and taking in the width of the plate. This, says Shellen- back, is true only in theory, and it takes some pitchers longer than | it does others to find it out. “The difference in ball and} strike umpiring between the low minors and the big leagues is/| tremendous,” he explained. “It gives us one of our biggest head- aches. Yet we understand why it! must be that way and are by no means critical of the minor league umpires. We know why they must call a game much more loosely than it is called in the majors, where we expect something close to perfection. “A young pitcher in the lowest minors expects to get a strike on anything across the shoulders or the knevs. The umpire has to give it to him or too many games would develop into farces. The fans don’t come out to see bases on balls, and the umpires konw it... . “We try to.prepare him the best we can in the short time we have, but even so the chances are that he will come back to the bench | after the first inning and complain | that the umpire is calling balls on what he always was given! strikes before. All we can do is| remind him again that he’s throw- ing at a smaller target now. “Afew of them catch on quickly, | but mainly they don’t. Every sea- son you'll see a dozen or more big | winners come up from the minors, | apparently set to help their parent } clubs, but by cutting-down date | they are back where the umpires | are kinder t) them. . . . | “It is not only the pite herswho suffer from the difference in um- | piring even in the highest minors. | Knowing that a high curve across | his shoulders more than likely will be called a strike anyway, the | batter gets in the habit of swing- | ing at it | “Pais isn’t too bad in the minors, | beecuse the next pitch might be rivht across the middle and he can pickle it. The average minor lee “ue elub doesn’t have more than or~ or two pitchers with good con- tro|. But it's different when this batter brings up his .3350 average and begins trying to hit men who can throw a dozen straight balls into a spot the size of a catcher'’s mitt “He is immediately spotted for what we call a ‘bad hitter,’ and he'll very seldom get anything except a bad ball to hit at. He can’t break himself of swinging at them. ... .” ANYTHING CONCERNING AUTOMOBILES SEE THE TWINS 1130 Duval St. Dial 2-240 is going about the business of correcting some of the southpaw’s mound flaws at the White Sox’ camp at El Centro, Calif. If he sueceeds, Byrne may well spark the Chisox to their first American League pennant since 1919. “T’'ve had daily sessions with | Byrne since we began training,” Fishing Tournament News By THOMAS L. KETCHINGS, | Chairman | Of the five Crevalle Jacks en- | tered in the first month of the | tournament the most outstanding | ‘one of these was the one caught | on board the Wasteena whose cap- | tain is Douglas Trevor. This Jack was 29 Ibs. in weight, 4142 inches | in length and 24 inches in ee The fish was caught by Hugh Mc-/ Millen, Jr., of Broomoll, Pa The Sailfish eniries amounted to | 5 but the winner for the month was the one caught by E. L. Wort- | ley of 69 D Arthur Sawyer Rd. in this city of ours. 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