Show McLEMORE SAYS SAYS- SAYS SAYS- Dizzy Finds Hard W or Aids By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK Aug 9 UP uP- uP This concerns a telegram from a dead game guy who refuses to admit that he has a dead game arm In its fewer than words the telegram tells a story that thatis is ol old as baseball the itself the Itself the story of a star who has been detoured off the glory road and is walkIng walking walk walk- ing once again the hot and dusty trail through the minors Arm Doesn't Hurt It came in for me today from Dizzy Dean and here it is just justas as he penciled it in the Western Union office down in Shreveport Shreveport Shreveport Shreve- Shreve port La The fans have been great with me down here Have been able to draw in full houses every time I have pitched Couple or three times my arm has been nearer par than it was last three years Am working very ery hard Pitching in my turn every three or four da days s My arm hasn't hurt me the thelast thelast thelast last four or five times I have pitched but it isn't as strong as asI asI asI I think it will be I am getting in shape to where I can go through nine innings without tir tir- tir- tir ing I am pitching just about the same delivery as I always did though not maybe quite as high Of course I want to go back to the majors That's why I am down here worl working ing so hard I would like to break down that old theory that they never come back Wins ins Seven Games Since the Cubs sent him off to the Tulsa of the Texas league Diz has won seven games and lost but three which would indicate that his optimism is based on something more substantial substantial sub sub- than the hope that springs eternal in the breasts of ol pitchers who have gone to the showers too often They play baseball in the Texas league fast baseball and a pitcher doesn't win seven games in the length of time Dean has just because he has a of clippings and anda a couple of world series rings Regular Work ork Anyway Its It's just a guess but perhaps the thing that has helped most in Deans Dean's effort to regain what may be properly termed the dizzy heights is regular work Hes He's taking his regular turn ou out there on the hill hilI and all the pampering and petting and hothouse hothouse hothouse hot hot- house prot protection of Wrigley field is finished Hes He's back to a schedule schedule schedule sched sched- ule like the one he had in St. St Louis under Frisch a schedule that doesn't give him much time for fretting about himself and thinking himself into new and painful miseries In Chicago he itched every 10 days or so which was scarcely often enough to determine whether his arm was really sore or just a victim of mold rust and cobwebs Rear back Diz and let er fly |