The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 29, 1953, Page 7

Wednesday, April 29, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page7 Brooklyn Pitchers Suffer From Lack Of Mound Work . BROOKLYN, N. Y., (?—Imag- ine a team losing because it has too much pitching! That’s the situation that faced the _ defending National League champions, the Brooklyn Dodgers, today and Manager Chuck Dres- sen is the first to admit it. “If we ever get to play 10 games in a row,,” said Dressen, “I'll get this thing settled, I'll get the pitch- ers going good and then we'll be okay.” Dressen knows his hurling has been spotty, but he attributed it to @ lack of action on the elbowmen’s parts—not a shortage of men. Bob Millikin, Clem Labine and Joe Black all have been suffering from a lack of work, and Dressen is convinced that once they can get into action more, he'll have the pitchers going smoothly. “P’ve got to work Black more,” %e said. “He’s got to keep working er else his control goes bad and be gets hit. “Our pitchers aren’t walking many but they are still making those bad pitches. Like Russ Mey- er, for instance. He hasn't really been wild, but every so often he grooves one and that’s been his trouble. I guess I shouldn’t kick, thovgh. The pitching’s been better than last year so far.” On the subject of bad pitches, Preacher Roe tossed a home run Dall last night, put it came in the ninth inning with the Brooks five runs ahead, so they beat the Red- legs, 5-1, Ted Kluszewski hit it. Dressen still hasn’t made a defi- nite decision on his regular lineup, and for the moment he is going to alternate George Shuba and Dick | Robinson. “Cookie Lavagetto (Dodger coach) told me to go out and catch a few flies, I don’t know who’s idea it was. I’m willing to try anything if it will help the club. I’m just there to play ball any place.” If Robinson were shifted to the outfield, it would answer the ques- tion of finding a spot in the lineup for Billy Cox, last year’s regular third baseman, who currently is warming the bench. Cox reputedly is the best glove man in the league at third, but Dressen is willing to sacrifice defense for power, Sport Shorts Even if you spell it backwards it’s still Glenelg Stable around the racetracks. The most home runs ever hit by a Boston Red Sox player was 50 by Jimmy Foxx in 1938. When Tom Grceenwade recently signed a new scouting contract with the Yankees it was for two years, Michigan State had two boxers go undefeated through a seven- match 1953 ring schedule. . They were welterweight Herb Odom and middleweight Tom Hickey. The student manager of the Hel- ena Mont. High School basketball team didn’t have to look up to the tall players on the starting five. They averaged six feet two -- but Williams in left field. If that| he was six feet three. doesn’t work out, Jackie Robinson could wind up with the job. Robinson has been fliés in the outfield recently, but Dressen denied he toid his third baseman to practice hawking. “T didn’t do it on my own,” said Another work-saver yak — e inesinini G LO . ¢C OAT ot See we Nat 8. etna aoa Ravn, a ee During the spring of 1899. the shagging | Boston Braves (now the Milwau- kee) trained at Trinity College (now Duke University) and played four games with Trinity during their two weeks’ stay. 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Dirt disappears— but the bright hard shine stays on. Get Johnson's wonderful new ? Hard Gloss Glo-Coat tomorrow. Sports Roundup By JOE REICHLER (For Gayle Talbot) NEW YORK (—Are the Phila- delphia Phillies, currently enjoy- ing their perch at the top of the National League standings with a record of nine victories in 11 games, really that good? Or are they playing far over their heads? Manager Steve O'Neill says he is not surprised by his team’s tre- mendous getaway. He realizes the club cannot continue at its terrific 818 pace, but he is more confident than ever that the Phils can win the pennant. “I’ve said all along that we had! the best team in the league,” he said. “I kept telling all you fel- lows we had as good a chance as anybody to win the flag.’ We're! winning because we have the con- fidence and we're in wonderful condition.” Managers Leo Durocher of the New York Giants and Charlie Dressen of the Brooklyn Dodgers, | as expected, do not agree with O'Neill. They are among those who | think the Phillies are playing way | over their heads. “The Phils are hot right now,” | said Durocher, “but they'll cool | off. True, they've got two of the | best pitchers in baseball in Robin | Roberts and Curt Simmons, but they need more depth. Karl Drews is a good pitcher and so is Jim! Konstanty, but O'Neill may find | he'll need more than those four, | especially when the weather gets | warmer, { “The Phillies are winning right now because guys like Johnny Wy- rostek, Connie Ryan, Earl Torge-| son and Granny Hamner are wear- | ing out the pitchers. They must all be hitting around .500. Obviously, | they’re hitting up in the clouds. | Look up their batting averages a month from now and I'll venture | to say they'll be fighting to reach 300."" Durocher conceded that O'Neill probably will have his club “up there” all season but stuck to his preseason prediction that the Dodg- ers were the team to beat for the flag. Dressen had even less respect! for the Phils. “Aw, they're just hot now,” he said, “but it's a long, long season. O'Neill has been fortunate in that the postponements have permitted him to pitch Roberts and Simmons Sports Mirror By The Associated Press TODAY A YEAR AGO—Judge Saul S. Streit gave suspended sen- tences to Alex Groza, Ralph Beard and Dale Barnstable in a basketball fix and lashed at Uni- | versity policy of Kentecky’s athletic FIVE YEARS AGO—The Cleve. | land Indians defeated the St. Louis Browns, 5-2, for their sixth straight victory TEN YEARS AGO—Secretary of War Henry Stimson said the Army would sot permit a heavy. weight championship fight between Joe Lovis and Billy Conn. TWENTY YEARS AGO—Jack’ Quinn, veteran spitballer and aid- yest pitcher im the beg leagues, was jreleased unconditionally by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bee Arr, 2 380 to ond shet ts the Kentucky Derby fetare book, }was named after Branch Rickey genera. manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, 's Handicap trophy; Mrs. Wallace almost back to back. Wait until the hot weather and those double- headers come around, He won't be able to pitch those two every game.” LIMITED ‘Appear OnTV KANSAS CITY (®—The college |football teams that attracted the greatest television audiences last season may not appear on the net- works next fall if the program pro- | posed by the 1953 National Collegi- jate Athletic Association Television | Committee is carzied to the limit. The new plan, reteased yester- jday, has been sent to the NCAA member colleges for approval. It will go into effect when it gets a * | two-thirds majority by a mail vote. || With a few: exceptions, it is much the same as the one-game-a-week } | television program of 1952. In drawing up the conditions, 4j|the committee specified that “in |} the selection of games, preference | will be given to colleges which did |not participate: in network tele- ‘| casting in 1952.” | That would seem to rule out }such top-flight teams as Notre | Dame, Oklahoma, Michigan State, | Alabama, Princeton and Southern | California along with the others | which were part of the 1l-game ge! program last fail. |, The sponsors, however, have the |last word about what games they want to show-—subject to the com- | mittee’s approval and the prin- | ciples laid down—and it is hard to |imagine a sponsor passing up the | |Notre Dame-Oklahoma game for a lesser attraction on the same day. The principal difference between the 1953 plan and the one followed in 1952 is that the new one calls for a “panorama experiment” on two or three dates. Instead of tele- vising one game in its entirety, parts of four games at widely sep- arated geographical locations would be shown. Probably one quarter of each game would be aired, Another change is that at least one of the 10 or 11 complete games televised must originate in each of the eight NCAA districts. Lack of facilities made it impossible to | Best Football [Frick Orders ‘Teams May Not Gambling Ban NEW YORK &—A combination of alertness and innocence is being professed by. club managers and officials in reaction to Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick’s official warning against high-stakes gamb- ling among major league person- nel. Frick incorporated his warning in a bulletin which he ordered to be posted in all clubhouses. It em- Phasizes the evils of permitting card games among players “where the stakes are high.” The commissioner also said in an announcement in New York yesterday that players would have to stay-out of gambling places where, he charged, some have been seen frequently. Frick commented that an in- creasing amount of gambling in connection with baseball games prompted the bulletin, which he insisted was a routine notice. The team managers, held re- sponsible by the commissioner for Manager Al Lopez were quick to respond that their teams rules against card playing for anything but minor stakes. Feeney arid Managers Lou Bou- dreau of the Boston Red Sox, Phil Cavaretta of the Cnicago Cubs and Eddie Stanky of the St, Louis Cards stated there was nothing but penny ante and inoffensive card Playing going on in the clubhouses and hotel rooms they occupied. Cincinnati General Manager Gabe Paul said he knew nothing of high stakes gambling among the Redlegs and Marion indicated there was no gambling by his players on road trips. Navy Orders New Type Of Fighter WASHINGTON @ — The Nayy said today it has tentatively ord- ered an attack version of the twin- jet F7U3 Cutlass fighter and will call it the A2U. The Cutlass bas been listed by the Navy as among five new stamping out gambiing, generally j fighters “better than the Russian- agreed that (1) Frick was right in | built MIG15, stressing the point, (2) they were calling the attention of their play- ers and staffs to the bulletin and to the penalties and (3) there was no such thing going on on their respective squads, Manager Marty Marion of the St. Louis Browns and New York Giant Vice President Charles Feeney, speaking for team officers and Manager Leo Durocher, made it particularly clear they were in complete agreement with the ed- ict. Brooklyn Vice President E. J. (Buzzie)" Bavasi and Cleveland put on games played in the South- west and mountain states areas last fall. The 1953 program calls for net- work television on 12 Saturdays— probably from Sept. 19 through Dec. 5~—and Thanksgiving Day. Postseason games aren't included and games played on other days are affected only in that the one- appearance rule shall apply and permission must be obtained for telecasting such games. The Navy authorized the Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp., Dallas, Tex, to pro- ceed with preliminary plans for the A2U. The announcement indicated the A2U would be used to bomb and strafe surface targets while F7U3S engaged in air interception and patrol duties. BOYS HELP FORESTS MOBILE, Ala. us — Future Fa.- Rookie pitcher Miguel (Mike) Fornieles of the Chicago White Sox hails one eens bm 5 Pade a his major league hui Sept. 2 by pitching a one-hitter against the Philadelphia Athletics. 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