Show I Red Sox Hurlers Are Cranky About Their Backstops So Sox They're pitchers r a superstitious That's ti why 1 lot they those Insist stR Re Red o on n d haVing bavin certain catchers work with the them whenever they're assigned to the slab Even Manager Bill Carrigan has haR be bee been n stung by the superstition bug The master mas max ter of the worlds world's champions would woul d rather concede defeat than send sand any my an backstop other than Forrest Cad Cady Int Into c the lineup the da day he picks Ernie Shore Shor e to pitch Shore by the way is a difficult hurler hurle to catch because of ot the freakish dip on o n his fast ball baIL The gaunt Southerner post posItively positively demands demanda that Cad Cady catch him Other catchers hav have r handled the string S bean of the Boston staff but Shore never neve seems as steady as when hen Cady is h his receiver By the same me token Dutch Leonard always alway Insists that Manager Carrigan Carrl Carrl- pan oan work behind the plate late the day he ha pitches Bills BIll throwing arm la nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing to brag about but he flea he's long on the steadying bull which he a al ways way brings Into u Sue LUe e the Instant Leonard exhibits symptoms of wavering wavering wa wa- vering and this u Is the reason the southpaw wants wanta his hla boss bon on the Job n Carrigan Is one of or the smartest mask mask- men in the business and Leonard figures that his handling of or ev every r situation that arises rl I offsets any handicap tHat t his g glass arm may majr give e the enemy Chester e Thomas J always a draws the grabbing task when Ma Mays Maya or Ruth are aro dol doing nit the curving Mays Maya with his bis p pe peculiar pe- pe culiar subway delivery Is a a. hard guy to catch and no one on Ise else seems to do the Job lob a as al well n as Thomas |