Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-25 | Page 13 | Slabmen Win Fans' Tributes in House That Homers Built

I YANK HURLERS IN SPOTLIGHT IGHT I I j I e 4 i r I AL i Eu tuft gt i 4 r 4 i 4 W GOMEZ IEZ Win il F Fans Fans' Tributes In lIt House That Homers Built By CLAIRE BURCKY NE NEA XEA Service Sports Writer Im not worried about the pitching well we'll get Manager Joe McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy of his New York Yankees This in March at St. St Petersburg inthe inthe in inthe the presence of doubting doubling baseball correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents was believed to be over- over enthusiasm The Yanks would have 0 slug their way to a championship agreed the experts A month has passed in which to weigh the Yank pilots pilot's statement McCarthy McCarthy McCarthy Mc Mc- Carthy did not fib lb His proof is in inthe he the recent performances of Vernon Gomez and Johnny Allen against the Browns George against the White Sox and Charley Chancy fluffing Ruffing and Gomez a against the Indians Verily the horse collar has staged a comeback Around the neck of a baseball team it is at nt once recognized as an effective means of choking off oft rival pennant aspirations From home runs to horse collars collars' Or from the slug ora era of Ruth Gehrig Lazzeri Combs and Byrd down to that delicate artistry worked in ln whitewash whitewash white white- wash b by Gomez Allen Ruffing Ruffing Ruf Rut fin fing and Ruth and his pals started home run production on a mass scale this year In two weeks the Babe had five and Byrd and Gehrig four our apiece Byrd was the first to cool but Combs came in at a high temperature Then a depression depression de do- got them all Over in Yankee stadium a house that home runs built the cr cry for Babe and Lou and Ton Tony is strangely silent To the pitchers pitchers pitchers-an an angular a raw rookie and two veterans one a red head red head go the tributes of or the fans