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Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-03 | Page 8 | Warneke's Ability under Fire of World Series Throng is Question

Type issue
Date 1932-09-03
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Warneke's Ability under Fire of World Series Throng is Question
Type article
Date 1932-09-03
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 8
OCR Text Warneke's Ability Under Fire of World Series Seres Throng Is Question By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK YORK Sept 3 A 3 A citizen o of Chicago who originally enough signs gns himself himsel Cubs Fan Fn takes this to task for venturing the he prediction that Burleigh Grimes would be the standout t pitching man manfor manor ma for or the in the impending lawn awn party with wih the Yankees do get nerve Where you ou your nere he e writes naming Grimes Grime to be our best cst series pitcher picher You probably are too dumb to know it but we have havea a boy named Lonnie Warneke pItchIng pitch- pitch lag Ing ng for us Who vho has m managed na ed to win wina a few games Why when Lonnie starts tarts throwing that y or whatever it i is i at the Yankees hell he'll make Grimes look like something out of f the Three Eye Three Three-Ee league league I cant can't wait walt until Warneke makes a per cent monkey out of you BEATS EATS INGLORIOUS RETREAT We stand corrected and will wui start at t once developing a taste for tor core core- coconut coco nuts and ad limb to limb swinging We take nut it all back Warneke i Is the back greatest te i al pitcher piche of ot all al time te best hit Wt will wi be a pop to Grimm and aud strike out every time tie Burleigh Bur Bur- leigh Grimes is just a flash in the pan pa and his two decades In i the majors majors ma ma- jors all al an accident But as we beat our inglorious inglorious' retreat re re treat we would like to remind Cubs Fan that w we wrote the same tort sort of story about Grimes Gries last year when he was with wih St. St Louis and got an indignant in In- letter leter from Cards Fan who said Paul Pau Derringer and not Grimes would stem the stampeding white elephants elephant elephant We trust Cubs Fan Fa remembers what happened in i the 1931 serIes Were We're sure Cards Fan an does Derringer Derringer Der Der- ringer the fair haired one one the bo boy I wonder the te pitching s sensation of the j I ages didn't get to first base against the Athletics while Grimes practically practical I Ily ly won the championship championship for his side J single Derringer started the 1 first fist game and ad lost it i. i 6 to 2 and came ce I iback back to start the sixth and lost it I t i 8 Stol to 1 I ITis This department doesn't doesn tsay say Warneke Warneke War War- Ware f e neke will wf not be the flinging ace of the Cubs The Te man must have some som something some some-i thing tig rookie rooke or no rookie rooke You Xou dont don't I I I go around winning winni 19 or 20 games gameson I on your smile sie or the way you wear your cap Not Not even in the National league leage of this season which they tell teU me isn't so hot ht DONT DON'T DON FORGET DERRINGER But Derringers Derringer's failure makes us a trifle leery of jumping on the Warneke Warneke War War- neke band wagon Like Lonnie this year Paul had everything in the regular regular reg reg- ular season of 1931 1931 He couldn't lose for winning But when they plopped him hii out there in the center of a lawn in the middle of all al those people and he realized what depended on his firIng fir fir- tr Ing arm that firing tring arm an lost Us its it speed and cunning and he became just An Another n nother J other rattled rated and upset young man in dIrt dirty flannels I Of course Warneke may be something some some- thing else ele The years he spent in irs I Ilent I silent lent communion with wih the majestic J wilds of his his' native Ozark mountains hi I Inay i ir nay may have given him the mental poise J r to io scoff at high stakes and ad tight r places laces laces He may be as tough and mean IS as they paint him If U he heis is i. i nothing hort short of ot a collapse of the grandstands would fret him hIm Or the te loss los of his hs plug lug of tobacco l
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