| Show Gambler MacPhail Sad He Didn't Take Chance I By PAT ROBINSON NEW YORK Aug 2 I INS Larry S-Larry Larry MacPhail red headed boss of the Dodgers is a gambler at heart He has been gambling gam gam- bUng bling all his lif life and usually successfully with successfully with his own an and i other peoples people's money He even gambled with his life that time he tried to kidnap the Kaiser from Holland j just st after the thelast thelast last war Being a good gambler he realizes that the chips cant can't always come his way Sometimes a gamble goes astray and when that happens he has no regrets What he does regret today however however how how- ever is the one time in his life when he failed to take a chance That was last winter when he re refused refused re- re fused to gamble of the Dodger clubs club's money on Lefty Gomez of the Yanks He could have bought Lefty for that sum but he hesitated so long that Ed Barrow boss of the Yanks grew impatient and refused to sell the left might Decide Pennant That one refusal refusal to gamble may mean the difference between winning winning win win- ning or losing the pennant to the Dodgers and many veteran baseball men say the Yanks Yanks' decision to keep Lefty assured them of the pennant in their league Gomez told everybody last winter that he had a lot of good pitching in his system and subsequent performances performances per per- prove he was right Yesterday Yesterday Yes Yes- for instance he turned in his eighth straight victory for the Yanks and made it a sparkling five five- hit 9 0 shut out over the hit hard ting Browns His record now is 10 victories against only three de de- feats The Dodgers certainly could have used those victories Tommy Henrich weighed in with two singles and his and home runs and Joe DiMaggio bagged a single and double to run his current hitting streak through 15 straight games In the only other American league game the White Sox fell before before be be- fore Dutch Leonard of the Senators Senators Sen Sen- 8 Dividends on Allen But to get back to MacPhail and the Dodgers He took a gamble on buying Johnny Allen from the Browns the other day and that on one began o pay dividends when Johnny came through with a victory victory vic vic- tory in his National league debut by trimming the Cubs 5 4 al although although al- al though he tired near the end and had to have help Allens Allen's performance was by no means sensational but he showed enough to ind indicate cate he may may be beof of use at least in relief if not as a starter Its It's too early eady to go out outon outon on on a limb in his case because sometimes these veterans take tak a I new lease on l life f when switched to another league The Reds topped the Braves 5 1 behind Johnny Vander Meers Meer's two two- hit pitching and the Giants dropped their sixth straight game and their tenth in their last 11 starts when Max Butcher of the Pirates beat old Carl Hubbell 6 And at night the Cardinals had their league lead cut to one game when Ben Warren hit an eleventh eleventh- inning home run to give the Phillies Phillies Phil Phil- lies a 2 1 triumph |
