Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-20 | Page 14 | Most Valuable Player Shunned

i MOST VALUABLE V PLA PLAYER YER Jimmy Foxx May MayBe Be Out Of Picture American League Must Face Facet t Embarrassing Choice i of Foxx Gehrig-Foxx By ALAN GOULD Associated Press Sports Writer One of the strangest of old Gus GusTan's Fans Fan's reactions this year and last Is s his marked preference for Lou Gehrig over Jimmie Foxx in marking markup mark mark- ing up a ballot for the star all American Amen Ameri can league ball team The vote ot last summer was outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing in Gehrig's favor when the public balloting took place to decide the he up make-up of the thc teams that fought it t out for major league star all honors honors hon hon- ors at Chicago Fox Foxx it is true received a big vote ill all told including the support o of those hose who would like to see him on third bird base in order to make room for Gehrig at nt first but the consequence consequence conse conse- quence was was' that he did not get the nomination for either star all position tion ion Again it appears on the f face e of ot the carl early returns that Gehrig is going to o outdistance Foxx with the result that the American league will once onee more be up against the embarrass embarrass- unless meat nent unless it wishes to be arbi arbi- y trai-y about the matter matter of of taking the field for the star all star game with the National league July 10 without the he man mars voted as the most valuable individual player in each of ot the past two wo years No Drawback Let there be no misunderstanding about how we regard Gehrig The TheIron TheIron Theron Iron ron Man of the Yankees is a great player in every respect He will be beno no 10 handicap to the American league He has done some things that Foxx never will do such as playing ing ten straight seasons without missing a single game but on performance cs cs- cs- cs during the past few fc years he ic does docs not outrank the Maryland mauler To be specific during 33 1932 Foxx has hit more home runs driven in more runs and posted a hl higher her batting bating bat bat- ting ing average than Gehrig These factors fac fac- tors ors are a 3 pretty fair bir measure of offensive of of- I ability and they are indis indis- Defensively while white there is no doubt about Gehrig's steadiness I 1 would not concede Columbia Lou holds an edge over Maryland Jimmie Neither is a Hal Chase or a Fred Ten Ten- nd ncy ney when it comes to doing fancy stuff tuff around the bag Plenty of Pitchers There should be no trouble this year ear with the National leagues league's all all' star tar hurling staff although the nominations nom nom- nations still may be subject to the wear vear and tear of ot another tough penant pennant pen pen- nant ant race Managers like Charley Chancy Grimm of the he Cubs Bill Bm Terry of the Giants and nd Frank Frisch of the Cardinals cannot annot afford rd to sacrifice ball games just for tor the satisfaction of at having their ace pitchers rested up for the session However 1 among such men as Hubbell Hubbell Hub- Hub bell jell Bush Warneke Dizzy Dean and Schumacher at least two or three should hould be in jn the pink The American league wilt will be harder hard hard- er r pressed for pitching talent unless Manager er Joe McCarthy is kind enough nough to save Vernon Lefty Gomez for the game WhItehill of ot the Senators Marbery Marberry Marber- Marber r ry y of the Tigers and possibly Hildebrand Hildebrand Hilde- Hilde brand rand of the Indians will be on the allstar star roster but none has shown as much stuff this season as Gomez Gomer and the he time one greats of ot the league Grove Earnshaw Ferrell et al at are arc no longer longer much more than names