Show Fat Freddie Sees Phillies Maybe in First Division PITTSBURGH Aug 5 UP Fat CD-Fat Fat Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons still the most surprised man man in the world 1 at his selection to manage the Phillies has his is eyes trained on fifth and possibly fourth place for I I his Quakers rs in the National league race this season Were Wre only three and a half games behind the Cubs Cubs said the stout ye 42 year old old r-old pitcher as his Phils stopped off oft here her last night I and took a 6 2 beating from the Pirates If the Dodgers keep losIng losing losing los los- ing maybe well we'll get as high as fourth Freddy is proud of t the clubs club's record since he took over We Webe be beat beit t the Cards three out of four and the Cubs two out of three he beamed But the former isn t letting the flush of early success- success five victories in seven games with two of the hottest teams in the league at the moment overcome moment overcome him r 5 I I I I know the limitations of this club what it can do and what it cant can't do and irs i's going to take me some time to build to the point wh where rc we can be up in there he said adding With Dandy Murtaugh leaving soon for the army were we're going to tobe tobe tobe be weak around the keystone cush cush- ion My pitching isn't bad at all an alland alland anand and my outfield is pretty good We need reserves in most of the departments departments departments de de- de- de but you cant can't pick good players out of the air these days But for the war Freddy believes his club would be fighting with the rest of the flag contenders Look at t the pitching staff we turned over to Uncle Sam Theres There's Mulcahy Hughes Hoerst and Johnson That's a quartet any manager would like to have on his staff He neatly parried a question on the Bucky Harris-Bill Harris Cox exchange ex ex- change saying All An I want to do is manage this ball club and do a good job 1 J |