Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-06-03 | Page 23 | Kennedy Only Top Flight Pitcher Left for Tigers

Kennedy Only Top Flight Pitcher Left for Tigers By SID sm FEDER Associated Press Sports Writer They said so long to the Schoolboy today They said so long to one of the grander guys in this baseball business They'll remember him for his H wm I doin Edna greeting to o his bride brid that laid the radio audience in the aisles back in the palmy days They'll remember him pitching the Detroit Tigers to pennants in 1934 and 1935 1935 And they'll remember him too working his heart out this thiB spring trying to come back trying to overcome an arm ailment that specialists specialists specialists had been laboring over for more than a year But it was just dust no go for S Schoolboy Schoolboy School School- hool- hool boy Rowe For four or five minutes minutes min mm- utes the arm held up although little of the snap was left Then it went out Three times this spring he had taken the long walk to the show show- v ers His HiB heart was t there there here but that ailing ail nil k fi ing mg wing couldn't I finish w what hat It 11 i started So yesterday the Tigers sent him ii x V back to Beaumont from where he i skyrocketed to the f top lop in 1933 They Kennedy hope the warm sunny climate of the so southwest may restore life and zip to the salary whip And In Schoolboy Rowe you have largely th the picture of t the disappearing disappearing chances of Micke Mickey Cochrane Cochrane Cochrane Coch- Coch rane and his Detroit Dynamiters in this thiB years year's American league wars If the Schoolboy had conie come back theres there's no telling what might have hav happened With Vernon Kennedy and Rowe Mickey might have gone places But with Kennedy alone and there isn't another top-flight top grade A on the staff staff Its its it's strictly a long shot That was the fault yesterday The Tigers had shown shown- their consistent winning effort of the season when they headed east with their first stop Yankee stadl- stadl I urn um where pitching ng is is' the No 1 need of every visiting outfit With Kennedy up they finished in fronin front fron front in the series aeries opener Wednesday I But yesterday Mickey sent Poof Poo P and Submarine Bailer Baller Elden Auker to the post and neither had it The Yanks won both ends of a doubleheader 5 4 with Spud Chandler turning in a six-hit six effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort and Red Rolfe whacking a homer and 5 2 with Monte Pearson hurling his best game of the season season season sea sea- son son a hitter five-hitter and Tommy Henrich Henrich Henrich Hen Hen- rich and Billy Knickerbocker supplying supplying supplying sup sup- plying the production That left the Tigers with a less less- than average for the season again and boosted the Yanks Yanko to within two and one-half one games o othe of the American league leading Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Clove land Indians The Tribe outlasted the Athletics in a battle of home runs in Philadelphia and posted a 5 10 victory Dutch Leonard pitched a six hit ter as the Senators swamped the Chicago White So Sox 7 1 and Young Jim Bagby duplicated that effort in hurling the Red Sox to a 1 6 win over the St St. Louis Browns