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Show Another Ruth? Rudolph Preston . York, . Detroit Tiger catcher who hails from Atco, Ga., hag two ambitions this season. One is to break Babe Ruth's record for home runs. The other Is to help bat the Tigers to the American league pennant. If Rudy accomplishes accom-plishes the first ambition, the second sec-ond may automatically take care of itself. York is hoping for the greatest season a ball player has ever had. Fans who saw him in the South this spring marveled at the way he bashed balls out of the parks. He wasn't establishing any new marks as far as his average was concerned, con-cerned, but whenever his bat met the ball, it was good for a non-stop trip. Rudy has no illusions about being a great catcher although Cochrane says he is a very much improved receiver. But he does know he can hit the ball. He also knows it is' possible to break Babe Ruth's rec- Speaking of Sports Baseball and Hockey Keep Stewart Busy By GEORGE A. BARCLAY Bill Stewart, manager of the Chicago Chi-cago Blackhawks, could give you a personal testimonial concerning the veracity of the old saw that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Compared to Bill the one-armed paper hanger, the Swiss bell ringer, and the perpetual motion mo-tion man are pikers. You'd think a man would be entitled en-titled to a rest after accomplishing accomplish-ing the miracle of winning the world's hockey championship with a team that people tittered at when the play-ofTs began. But not Bill No. sooner was the Stanley Cup series over than he donned his spikes, mask and chest protector and began calling balls and strikes as a National league umpire. When the world's series was finished fin-ished on October 11, last year Stewart Stew-art grabbed a plane in New York and flew to Muskegon, Mich., to take charge of the Blackhawks in his first year as their manager. Bill had been a referee in the National Hockey league in between baseball seasons for several years. He developed de-veloped ideas on how hockey should be played as a result of his observations observa-tions of the various teams. How successful those ideas were was demonstrated when the underdog Hawks bagged the cherished Stanley Stan-ley Cup by routing the favorite Toronto To-ronto Maple Leafs. Hockey Student FTM ft . . 1 1 ' 1 J 1 i ''4 L ( I ' ' 2f J l' ' I- y i.ysSf ssvJ The Hawks had finished sixth in a league of eight teams and barely bare-ly edged into the Stanley Cup finals. First they took on the Montreal Canadiens. Everybody said they'd be a pushover. In the first game it looked as if the prediction would come true. The Canadiens won. Then the teams moved to Chicago and the Hawks captured two games, winning the right to meet the New York Americans, winners of the series between the second-place teams of the league's two divisions. In the series with the Americans the Hawks repeated their winning performance. That put them in the finals for the Stanley Cup which never before had been won by an American team managed by an American. Their opponents were the admittedly superior Toronto Maple Leafs. The Hawks were on the spot. The first game was at Toronto. Late in the day of this contest, Stewart regretfully decided thit Mike Karakas, his star goali, would have to be left out of the line-up because of a broken toe. Rudy York ords, because he has crashed one down already. He drove out 18 home runs in a single month-August, month-August, 1937 which was one more than Ruth ever recorded for a similar sim-ilar period. His total home run production in 1937 was 35. York had been tried out around the infield ani found wanting. Detroit was desperate for catchers after the accident to Mickey Cochrane, so they put Rudy behind the plate. When Cochrane told him he was to be the club's regular catcher, he began a batting stampede that made history. The season was then about two-thirds over, but he socked the ball at a clip that sent his average up 60 points. When the season closed he was the only batter in the league to average better than two bases every time he connected for a hit. 'Polish 'Behemoth Stanislaus Zbyszko, ancient Pole who was formerly king of the heavyweight wrestlers, is back in : i v x f f ' the United States, not as a wrestler, but as an Impresario. Somewhere in the hinterlands of Poland he caught up with a giant named Wladyslaw Talun, who is first cousin to the "missing link" and who, Zbyszko believes, will be the next heavyweight wrestling champion. Talun, towering six feet, eight Inches in height and weighing 278 pounds was a lumberjack in one of Poland's vast forests. Zbyszko took the youngster to South America Ameri-ca with him several years ago. This modern Gargantua didn't wrestle with any of the Gauchos, but spent hours each day learning the fundamentals funda-mentals of catch-as-catch-can from the old master. Two months ago Zbyszko brought Talun to the United States. The pupil had apparently learned his lessons well, for he has had 20 matches and has yet to lose. None BiU Stewart Confident that they would have an adequate defense man in Andy Kerr,- a reserve goalie of the New York Americans, the Hawks were dumbfounded just before game time by a maneuver of the crafty Connie Smythe, the Leafs' manager. With the connivance of league officials "English Alfle" Moore, a castoff veteran, vet-eran, was foisted on the Hawks although his afternoon had been spent in a tavern and his orders for more ale had been frequent But by some magic, Alfie played a whale of a game, made himself a hockey hero and held the Leafs to one goal while the Hawks were scoring three. League politics again intervened and Moore was declared ineligible for the second game. Paul Goodman, Good-man, an inexperienced recruit who had never seen a major league hockey game, ' was substituted. Goodman was easy for the Leaf marksmen. Red Horner, the Leafs' bad man, contributed to the rout by breaking the nose of Doc Romnes and cutting Hawks Roger Jenkins and Louis Trudell to the skull with his stick. The Leafs won 5 to 1. Back they came to Chicago for the third and fourth games. Mike Karakas was back in the nets, his broken toe protected by a special steel guard. With the score tied at a goal apiece late in the game, Doc Romnes, who earlier got retaliation re-taliation from Horner with his stick, gave the Hawks the win with a long hard shot In the final game the Blackhawks who couldn't possibly do it, won easily, taking the now demoralized Maple Leafs by a score of 4 to 1. So Bill Stewart is a happy although al-though tired man. And if he misses a few close decisions in the early days of the National league season, maybe it will be because he's thinking think-ing of hockey instead of baseball. of his matches have gone beyond 12 minutes. The bald-pated Zbyszko is enthusiastic enthu-siastic about his young charge. For sentimental reasons he would like to see another Pole grab the championship, cham-pionship, for Zbyszko is a great patriot. During the war when Poland Po-land was making a bid for independence inde-pendence Zbyszko, who had gathered gath-ered a large fortune through his mat career, tossed practically everything ev-erything into the treasury. Like his famous compatriot, Paderewski, the elder Zbyszko is a brilliant pianist. pi-anist. Here and There For the fifth time in the 38-year history of the American Bowling Congress a perfect 300 game was bowled during the meet in Chicago. Mike Blazak of Conneaut, Ohio, was the bowler who entered the hall of fame along with Billy Knox of Philadelphia; Phil-adelphia; Charlie Reinlie, Kenosha, Wis.; Jack Karstens, Fort Sheridan, Sher-idan, 111.; and Carl Mesenberg, Scranton, I1L Approximately 1,800,-000 1,800,-000 games have been bowled in the tourney since 1900,. so the chances of getting a perfect score are one in 360,000 . Ray Schalk, Jr., son of the greatest of White Sox catchers, catch-ers, is a starting pitcher for Hyde Park high school, Chicago. Young Schalk, although weighing only 140 pounds, is still growing and by graduation time two years hence may get a nod from organized baseball. base-ball. Rogers Hornsby has finally landed land-ed another baseball job, this time as coach of the Baltimore Orioles in the International league. The Rajah is also to be a pinch hittei The club managcaent emphasized the fact that he had been signed solely in a coaching capacity and not with any idea that he woulc succeed Bucky Crouse as manager 9 Western Newspaper Union. |