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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-05 | Page 12 | Backseat Driving

Type issue
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Backseat Driving
Type article
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 12
OCR Text 1 Backseat Driving D ving e Boost for Foxx FOL b 1 I Experiment Fails ils U By FRANK K It BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Next Baseball Problem ll Is to Name Successor to Babe Ruth Thero has been no secret about his exploits this year even with a third-place third club but it seems appropriate a at this time to ring the well well- I known welkin in behal behalf of James Emory Foxx Fox the Athletic slugger There will be a well conducted publicity campaign calculated d to boost Columbia Lou Gehrig Into the picture pic plc- x ture being vacated by Babe Ruth but the fact Is 15 that Foxx has already moved well out in front of the Vl 1 j. j clouting carnival so far as personal achievements are I i f concerned For the time being the burly first baseman of the thc Athletics is Ruths Ruth's successor In everything but the mantle of wide nation-wide popularity and the personal persona that surrounded the Babe will depart with 1 it ff 0 Whoever succeeds him him if if there can be a true successor successor suc suc- r cessor which is 15 doubtful will doubtful will have to develop his i f own colorful personality i S GehrIg is an upstanding durable young oung man with f many excellent qualifications for public attention but buthe he has no more chance than Foxx when it comes t to rl t supplanting the Bambino In the Imagination and hearts of the American baseball public mw Foxx S. S It Js s true that Columbia Lou has basked In the limelight became be i cause came he Is on the same team with Ruth At one time he was popularly called the Crown Prince of Swat but that was several years a. a ago o. o 5 when Ruth was Kin KinK King and Foxx was no not yet on the scene with his own achievements Consequently it will take lake the old batting r records to make the final decision And nd at the present Foxx Fon holds the edge lead leading in if the S American league with an average of against outdid the ace In the matter of ot runs rons with I against but Foxx led led the home run parade with 48 while Lou blasted only 33 this season S Oklahoma Develops Into Proving Ground For Heroes of World Series The Osage country oun ry wants to to remind the world that it has developed S some of the baseball greats and aid does so In a letter from Meeker Okla OkIa to the Associated Press It goes like this Please get Carl right He is no not R a Missourian It He is from Meeker Okla Okia about 20 miles from where the pitched and batted corncobs and about 35 miles mUes from where Pepper Martin Martin Mar Mar- Martin tin used med to wade Lincoln park water holes salvaging golf golI balls Furthermore Meeker is planning a big celebration for its pecan raiser Mr Carl Owen Hubbell when he gets back to his winter chores from the b best season of b baseball all pitching any big leaguer has done in n ars n S All of which reminds ds us that Salt Lake can bak bask somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what In the glory of or In the se second ond game of the world series and that Is the old pinch hit by I Lefty ODoul That was not the first explosion that Lefty has touched off Salt Lakers can well remember many such blows S j In the pinch when he played with the Bees of the Pacific Coast league i L Like many heavy sluggers Lefty started out to be a pitcher He came to the Bees of 1922 in that role but was prevailed upon by Manager Duffy Lewis to switch to the outS out- out S field He became the regular right fielder stayed there when the franchise was was' taken to Hollywood went then to San Francisco and was drafted Into the maj majors ors by the Gl Giants Lefty Lefty eventually wound up up upon on the Brooklyn club and after a slow start batted his way to the National league hitting hitting hitting hit hit- ting championship in 1932 No his single that drove in the theS S first two runs of off Crowder was by y far ar no no u uncommon common occurS occur'S occurrence occurrence occur- occur S 'S rence for him Sc International league m moguls guIs think of the so called little world series with heavy hearts heart and rue roe t the e playoff experiment in their loop this year drar afew bucks into the gate rate they stared staged a playoff rue similar to to that pulled off In th the National hockey circuit At the end of the regular season Newark headed the loop and md was far and away the best team of the lot Then came caine the freak frnk S series aeries R Rochester hester p second plate e team beat Newark and Buffalo fourth pla place fourth e team c Jm beat both Rochester and Baltimore the third- third place club 5 5 0 That sent Buffalo which barely managed ed to squeeze into a first firstI J I- division berth Into the series with Columbus of the American association asso asso- clation and the were soundly trounced International league pride was was hurt of course but bu worse still the c customers actually shunned such a set
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