Show i Vaughns Vaughn's Slump Fatal To Buccaneers' Buccaneers Hopes Gibson Keeps Y Youthful Sh Shortstop In to Speed His Recovery Left Handed Pitching Made lade Buccaneer Buccaneer Buc Buc- I caneer Sluggers Behave By Associated Press Manager George Gibson is determined determined deter deter- mined to make a winning ball club out of the Pittsburgh Pirates even if he drops into the second division doing doing doing do do- ing it ft After an amazing spurt that carried car car- ried ned the thc Bucs from last place to first firstin firstin firstin in a few weeks the team collapsed and many arc are the thc reasons advanced for the blowup Floyd Vaughan youthful shortstop has shouldered much of thc the blame In a big measure it was Vaughans Vaughan's spectacular work afield and his heavy and timely hitting that carrIed carried car car- car car- ried ned the te team m to the top of at the National Na National National Na Na- league BLEW SKY HIGH His early summer show showing n stamped him as one of the thc finds of or the season And as Vaughan went so went the thc Pir Pirates tes Vaughan struck a slump on the last eastern invasion in He juggled drives that formerly he was able to take without effort and pitchers he in May and June had him waving a at the plate But Gibby insisting Vaughan yet will wm be one of ot the thc National leagues league's greats kept the youngster in ira there taking it iti HOWL FOR FOB Howls for have been heard almost daily at Forbes field The veteran Tommy meanwhile has warmed the bench Baseball men have protested that a call for Tommy t to relieve relic the slipping youngster still ml might ht put the Pirates up there Vaughan is a wonderful young player Gibson has replied to critics He had to get this stuff out of his system and hell he'll be a still greater greater- reate player for having taken the razz Im I'm going going- to leave him in there and let him work his way out of the thc slump PIET ALSO ON CHUTE Tony Piet Pint young second sacker who also was a star early in the thc summer summer sum sum- mer is another Buc Bue having his off off- days days- Tony too has been allowed to stick slick it out Gibson does not blame the thc fall of the Bucs to the failure of Vaughan and Piet to stand the thc pace He Hc points to the thc fact that lefthand pitchers have been poison to the club as a whole all year and that lefthand ers are bein being sent against the team four and five times a week LOSE PUNCH The Waner act h has hs s not been clicking click click- ing lag of late of-late late late and Comorosky while he played a brilliant game in the thc absence absence absence ab ab- sence of at the thc slower Dave Barbee was was yanked in the hope of hitting a winning winning win win- ning combination But to date it hasn't worked The team is not hitting and the thc pitchers overworked several weeks ago in along string of doubleheaders have lost much of their effectiveness That's the answer says the skipper and arid he insists hes he's going to play the schedule out with the lineup that was wasI good enough to hold first place longer long longer I er than any other club this season e-as e 1 |