| Show Arky Isn't Ready for Minors Yet By Ry PAUL NEW YORK Feb 11 CUPIt's CUP UP- UP Its It's a full two months until the opening of the major league baseball season but baseball men have already chosen a successor to Arky Vaughan perennial Pittsburgh Pirates' Pirates slugger The Theman Theman Theman man so honored at this early date is Rookie AU Alf Anderson up from Atlanta with a batting average in games Andersons Anderson's record Is good Hes He's been In Jn organized baseball for three seasons is only 26 years old and graduated from the University University University Uni Uni- of ol Georgia where he was a three-letter three man in baseball basketball basketball basketball bas bas- and football However theres there's one joker In the setup setup- Vaughan himself When National league records for the past nine years are considered con con- there Is hardly any basis for Vaughans Vaughan's removal and little room for improvement Arky only 28 years old la lacks ks only the color olor and dash of a Babe Ruth to tobe to-be be one of baseballs baseball's greats Chin tucked In he resembles resembles resembles re re- re- re a West Point cadet or heavyweight fighter In action When Ihen hen he takes his cut at the plate He has powerful legs and tremendous speed in getting down to first and seldom hits into a double play Its It's not easy to find out anything anything any any- thing about mouthed close-mouthed Arky In fact he Is so self effacing that when he came up for trial from Wichita In 1932 he was almost shipped back without even being looked over However regular shortstop Tommy was Injured and Vaughan was Inserted in inserted inserted In- In into the breach and hes he's been there ever since That Pie Traynor then manager manager manager man man- ager of the Pirates didn't make a mistake In using Vaughan is attested to by the official aver aver- ages Here are some of the facts that make the shift Vaughan for Anderson movement movement movement move move- ment lOok absurd In nine years in the majors hes he's never batted under and has a lifetime average of ot He won the league batting crown I In 1935 with a 85 mark In I 1940 he fell to lowest mark markI I in his career but finished among the circuits circuit's three top tens He played in games and was ninth hardest to fan with only 25 strikeouts in time times at bat for an average of one strikeout in every chances He was sixth among the pass- pass getters with 88 bases on balls in his trips to the plate or boiled down was able to draw a walk once in every 78 trips As evidence of ol his speed on the base paths he was was- seventh In the 10 tough-to-double tough hittIng hitting hitting hit hit- ting into a double play oni only five times during the year for an 1382 average of ol only once every times at bat That's all Anderson has to equal to stick with Pittsburgh |
