Show WORLD SERIES I I t f h i By NEA Service G stands for grand gorgeous gallant gallant gal gal- lant and goofy gooly They tell me that Vernon Lefty Gomez ace of the thc Yankees' Yankees pitching staff is Js all of them but he hc looks allrIght all allright allright right out the there thereon r c con on the rubber Id I'd just as soon see him whip cm m in there as any pitcher pitch er in the big show His every motion on the mound spells class Gomez speaking When I was a kid I had no desire to be a ball player My parents wanted want w- w ed me to be an anI an I electrical e n 11 i i Lefty Gomez I wanted ranted to tobe tobe tobe be an aviator I crossed up everybody by becoming a pitcher That's how he hc started Now in his second year in the big leagues hes he's two three among the games game's best bes pitchers I 1 became a pitcher simply because I 1 was left-handed left Lefty tells Maybe May be the fact that I couldn't hit or run had something to do with It too WILLIAMS LIKED HIM 1111 But he had a fast ball Nick Williams Wil Wil- liams Hams of the thc San Francisco Coast league club saw it it The Thc angular Castillian Castillian Cas- Cas tillian took the proffered contract Gomez is supposed to lose fifteen pounds e cr every hard game he pitches Fortunately he hc gains it back with careful diet and rest within 48 hours else hed he'd weigh a minus quantity The slender southpaw was born in Rodeo Cal and wont won't be 22 years old until the thc Saturday after Thanks Thanks' Thanksgiving giving day By that time hell he'll be richer by several thousand dollars of ot world series money BEGAN WITH BEES His prof professional pitching career beban beban be be- ban at Salt Lake City in the thc U Eye league in 1928 He Hc performed for lor the Frisco Seals in 1929 The Yankees used him in 15 games in 1930 and optioned op him to St. St Paul where he won eight and lost four Back again with the Yankees last season he won 21 games and lost nine his first year as asa asa asa a re regular ular r Lefty was the first major leaguer to pitch 20 victories this season He probably will pitch the opening game of the world series series Pip Speed and QueenIe are nicknames to which George Wash Washington Washing Inc I ton answers The big Yankee Yan Yan-i kee hurler was I born in Denison December Iowa 20 1899 is six I feet one and one one- I half halt inches tall and husky bats and throws right right- handed Pip and Sp Speed ed are arc names that need no tion Queenie comes from the queen of spades which G George e 0 r g e somehow cant can't seem to duck in the thc card games of ofU L h. h hearts George One look at the thc American leagues league's weekly pitching averages is proof that is having one of oC his best seasons seasons sea sea- I sons on the mound since he became i a regular starting starling pitcher for the thc Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees In 1927 1027 He Hc had a a. a poor year car in 1931 but It was due almost entirely to toan toan toan an appendicitis operation that kept him out of or the thc game early in the thc campaign cam cam- HAD NO CONTROL From 1921 to of 1927 was a batsman's most dangerous danger danger- ous enemy a speed ball pitcher pilcher without with without I out a semblance of ot control In those years he was chased or drawn out of the Dakota lea league ue to the American league to the thc South Atlantic to th the American again to the thc Southern to the American association While at St St. Paul in 1926 he learned to control for the first time A succession of headers double which left the Yankee mound staff starr limp and exhausted in August of 1927 gave his first starting assignment assign assign- ment meat He surprised everybody including in in- eluding the late Miller Huggins Yankee Yan kee manager with control of his assortment assortment as as- of fast balls knuckle balls curves and sallers He went on to win ten games after the middle of August |