Show Frisch W Would V Avoid V Talk Thinks Dizzy Should Win Every Ball Game Yanks Favored to Repeat By Dy HENRY l Ie l United Press Sports Spotts Writer NEW YORK Dec 21 Dont Don't Don't Dont pay any attention to that New York date line because Im I'm not there as I write this but in the club car of ot a train stalled somewhere between Savannah and V Washington I I asked Frankie Frankle Frisch of at the St. St Louis Cardinal who Ismy is b ismy my traveling com companion anlon to try and determine our approximate location but he gave up after three pro pro- longed stares from the window revealed revealed re re- re nothing more illuminating than a a. brace of ot razorback hogs a patch of at pine trees tree and a barefooted I was very grateful to find Mister Mister Mis Mis- ter Frisch on on the train when I boarded It at Daytona Beach for I quickly allowed as how he ho would furnish me with an easy story Ill I'll ll just jUt ask him two or three baseball questions I figured an and there thero my story will wUl be Boat noat Holds Hola Interest But Mister Frisch risch didn't want to talk baseball He wanted to talk about boats About his boat About the boat he and Doc Weaver the St. St Louis trainer bought in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York early In November and started start start- started ed d for tor or Florida in X I paid polite attention until he hG happened to mention the trip required re a month lacking two days to make and then I X lost interest After all aU a man can swim to Florida faster than that I tried to open the discussion of baseball very tactfully He was WM in inthe inthe inthe the midst of describing a storm in Chesapeake bay when I said Guess youre you're glad Rickey couldn't get rid of Dean eh Pitchers Pitch Pitch- ers like Dizzy dont don't grow on trees Lemon trees maybe he hO said Then with Then with a laugh I didn't mean that Hes He's a a. screwball sure aure enough and as big a headache as a a. manager ever had but he can pitch You know Dizzy has bas no business losing Josing even evel so much as one ono game a year I mean that Ha He ought to win every game be he pitches in the National league Hubbells Hubbell's the only guy with any right to beat him and Dizzy if it he ho made up his mind could lick Hub every time out And that's that saying something for tor that Hubbell is one of ot the best pitchers I ever evet laid my eyes on Why does Dizzy lose games I 1 asked Is it because he hasn't a a. Winning spirit 1 Dis Too Tao Confident No not that that Frisch answered He likes to win all aU right I think its it's because hes he's so stuck on him self Its It's this way Mo Most t pitchers rs if It a a. batter hits a a. certain kind of ball will do their best beat to keep from giving the hitter bitter that kind of ball But not Dizzy and it isn't because be cause he doesn't know the hitters He knows the weaknesses of ot the National hitters as well as anyone But he doesn't like to pitch to their weaknesses He likes to show off oft by throwing the kind they like He doesn't like to admit that any kin kind of ball he throws throw Isn't good enough to get any hitter outLast out outLast Last year Ark Arky Vaughan beat him twice by knocking waist high fast tast ones out of ot the park parke Dizzy knew Vaughan liked that kind o of ot pitch but he was wu determined to show Arky Aricy he could throw that sort past him Mm Now Hubbell isn't that way Two years ago I got a triple off one of Carls Carl's screwballs and he hasn't hUnt thrown me one since Frisch thinks the Giants Gianu will be bethe bethe betho the tho team to beat in the National next year jear ear and that the tho Yankees are area a cinch to walk away in the American Ameri Ameri- can unless they all aU drop dead |