Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-06 | Page 9 | Return of Lazzeri and Koenig to Color Series

Return of Lazzeri and Koenig to Color Series Infield St Stars rs of Huggins Regime Will Enter Big Event on Different Clubs Mark lark Adds Power to Cubs for Drive to Championship By ALAN GOULD Associated Press Sports Writer The Chicago Cubs seem a certainty now that the Dodgers have been disposed disposed dis dis- dis posed of to sprint splint down through th the finish of a turbulent National league season and into the worlds world's series wit with the New York Yankees There will be plenty of drama an and clamor in the meeting of ot these two Babe Ruth will be back in the classic classi after a lapse of three years perhaps for Cor the last time Charley Chancy Grimm ca can clinch a place in the forefront among big league managers while Joe McCarthy McCarthy Mc- Mc Carthy leading the Yankees into th thE fray will wm become the first pilot i in major mojor league history to manage pennant pennant pennant pen pen- nant winners in both bolh circuits He led the Cubs into the disastrous struggle of 1929 when the Athletics Athletic smothered in five Playing in n the huge reaches of th the Yankee stadium and and Wrigley field with the populace of the two largest larges cities in the nation to draw upon th the series will break all aU financial records KOENIG REAL DRAMA IA But Butof of all the interesting an and Intriguing guing possibilities none can surpass the return to worlds world's series battle anc and the big time of Mark Koenig the vel veteran vet vet- eran who came back from baseballs baseball's graveyard to regain his brilliance and provide the final touch tout of or balance power and experience th the Cubs needed in the dog fight light that has been the National league season An operation apparently has restored restored re reo re- re stored completely the failing sight o othe of the San Franciscan who to the Yankees with Tony Lazzeri In 1926 to form one of the great modern mOdem Infield combinations Miller Huggins gambled with the thet t two wo o yo youngsters Koenig oe ig a pu pus pur chase from Irom St. St Paul and Lazzeri equally costly from the Pacific Coast Coas league eague and they more than fulfilled his lis trust They teamed as though they hey had been playing major league ball together all their lives and got along as well weD off orr the field as as' as ason on rooming rooming room room- ing ng together on the Yankee trips Lazzeri was always always' the heavier hiter hit ter er never falling below and reaching reach reach- lag ing ng in 1929 while Koenig was a abit abit abit bit more brilliant afield Marks Mark's high spots pots were for the 1928 8 season and In the worlds world's series of 1927 when the Yankees walloped the Pi Pi- Pi- Pi rates OLD YOUNGSTERS Although both Koenig and Lazzeri still till are young men each of them just 28 both started failing about the same time Lazzeri slowed up in the field fieldin in n 1930 and his hitting dropped off to the low v mark of his major league career and Koenigs Koenig's eyes started bothering him The Yanks kept Tony but shipped Mark oil off to Detroit and he wound up in the Pacific Coast league e. e This spring after the Yankees had acquired ac ac- ac spectacular Lyn Lacy Lary and brilliant brilliant bril bril- Bant young Frank Crosetti to fill till the gaps Lazzeri suddenly took on a new lease of life At almost the same time Koenig underwent an eye operation They came back together with a rush Lazzeri Lazzer is again the Walloping of ot the halcyon halcon 1929 1927 days and Koenig Is once more the brilliant shortstop timely hitter of the Huggins Huggins Hug Hug- gins regime Thus they come down downto to another worlds world's series two main cogs again but in iri different machines I If the baseball gods of chance award them the just desserts of courageous courageous courageous cour cour- ageous indomitable warriors there will willbe be twin the 1932 classic