Show MAGGIO DIMAGGIO DI PROVES WORTH Yank Rookie Great Asset AssetTo AssetTo AssetTo To Baseball By HARRY GRAYSON Special to Tte The Telegram NEW YORK May 28 Highly 28 Highly publicized major league recruits rarely live JIve up to advance notices but everything Tom Toni Laird San Francisco sports editor and other experts said about Joe DIMaggio Is true It is doubtful if a freshman ever caught on an In the big show as 83 quickly as the y 21 old 21 old ar-old outfielder of the New York Yankees DIMaggIo is 15 a picture ball baU player He does everything exceptionally well Trained observers predict that hell he'll lilt hit Maybe Mabe not this season sea sea- season son lion but next and then for tor a decade perhaps The Tho e son of th tim the i San Francisco f cant ant mUI mlis He has the stroke of master Only Crib one Yank Yankee e can beat the foo 6 2 foot pound 9 pound DIMaggio going to first base He Is Ben Chapman a fair country sprinter Chapman and DiMaggio take off with the crack of the bat Earl McNeely coach of the Washington Wash Wash- ington Senat Senators rs and great center fielder of that club from 1924 through 27 and other competent judges call DiMaggio tho the tin finest est thrower they've ever seen Hes He's Fleet R Runner The fleetest ba bae e runners runner have taken no liberties with DIMaggio's long right arm since he threw out Pete rF x superlative base bas runner of ot the Detroit Tigers who attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to to score the tying run in jn inthe inthe the ninth Inning of ot a ga game e in Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee stadium after the ignited Italian had caught a fl fly in deep left field DiMaggIo a panned dead-panned youth ou h is a stylist at the plate so much so that veterans stand admiring him in practice as well as during a game You h have he e to go into left-hand left hitters to find any who resemble tho the right handed hitting fug Dil gio Kb The lad from the west coast cout reminds you of a right right- handed Joe Jackson Speaker or Left Lefty ODoul The latter managed DiMaggio in San Francisco In 1935 by the way and Joe credits the former National league batting champion with teaching teaching teach teach- ing him how to get more power into his swing and to pull the ball into left field DIMaggio cocks his bat and stands perfectly still about a foot from the plate and at right angles to the pitcher His Ht N all I into a six six inch arc arc- arc He Ie ite ait waits until i ithe the ball Is right on top of ot him hitting hitting hit hit- ting it where It is pitched at the last split second Most superlative right-hand right batters batters batters bat bat- take lake both a long stride and swing If It there Is a flaw in the DiMaggio Di Di- Maggio batting technique it is that his stride is a bit too short This he takes directly Into the pitch He is perfectly at ease at the plate and never of off balance after his follow tollow through Hits Savagely iMag o hits Its the hf ball savagely ana anu on a line une to all fields Rogers Hor Hornsby said that gb glo looked like Uke strictly a fast ball hitter hiUer to him but the St. St Louis I Browns' Browns pitchers had less success success' against the prize than any others It safely can be said that Joe DiMaggio DiMaggio Di Di- Maggio is In the big show for tor quite a run While he never may be a Babe Ruth as a home run hitter or at the bucks office he Is very definitely den deli bucks office which with the Bambino gone is a great break for the Yankees and the American league I New Yorks York's New Sult Sultan n of f Swat SwatI 1 s L y i J 1 2 m 4 I v w I n is te The DiMaggio swing Plenty of power r f i WI WIs S IA s 4 L x t J L 1 4 Z 5 I L j I f F Goes and gets em eni em The DiMaggio grip |