Show Sports I IJ Mirror r. r By By J John Mooney n 1 T telegram Sports Editor i A bunch of ot the boys were t s whooping it up Saturday afternoon afternoon after after- noon cutting up a few old touches as a. the baseball ticker showed the Yankees clinching the American lea league e title In the tho last days of ot the season euon The talk naturally shifted to Spurgeon Spud Chandler the Yankees Yankees' ace when Holman Peewee Peewee Pee- Pee c wee ee Bass Bau veteran Gemmell club dub pitcher chimed In that the greatest great gnat est eat pitcher he hed he'd d ever seen was wu Satchel Paige the great Negro chucker TI Talice Pee P e e wee wee- w e fI e drawled was the tho fa test pitcher I have havener ever ner watched and you all know Ive I've been en around baseball diamonds diamonds diamond dia dia- monds mond for quite some time Why by years yean ago a when hen I was pitching for th tM the House of David ld dub club I Iu u d to tangle with nUh him quite often olten In fact fad I believe Ue I 1 am amone amone amone one of the few pitchers In the tho world who ho holds more wins than lows over O Old Satchel and Peewee Fe rf swelled up to his full fl foot five foot height The first fint time I went tent against him I managed maDA to beat Satchel and It happened to be the tho first game rune of a barnstorming tour we 0 were ere taking with Satchels Satchel's club Pre Peewee wee went on As I 1 walked off oft the field Old Satchel fell feU In step tep with me and said uld Peewee I will be waitIng waltIn wait wait- In lug Ing for you next time you pitch And he was WI too Pee Claude Engberg who was U instrumental In Instrumental in- in In bringing bringing- the National National National Na Na- and American league allI all- all I stars tars to the special exhibition at Community park October 10 added added add add- ed his praise of Pal Paige's es e's prowess You see at one time Engberg was rated one of the better sandlot catchers in the state That speed of Paige's always always' reminds me of the remark one of ot our former big league ball players made when we were talking about Lefty Grove when Old Man Mose Iose was wu in his prime Claude re re- re marked I 1 wont won't mention the name of ot the tho player Engberg Engber continued but he was wu a poor hitter although although al although al- al though he fancied himself quite a man with nUh the willow Well It no was vas a dark day and through a mistake this batter started back to the bench after only two swings He Hey wait walt a minute the ump amp called you still have ha another swing coming And so 80 the player just swung from where he was vas standing out of the box because he knew he couldn't have h hit the ball any any- way We once heard a different version verlIon ver ver- lIon sion of that story in the days when Walter Valter Big Train Johnson Jonnson was wu iq his heyday It seems a rival batter batter batter bat bat- ter had bragged that hed he'd get a hit of off Johnson his first time at bat and the papers had made quite a bit of ot reading material out of ot h his boast bout Well Vell the first pitch tore its it's way through the air all so fast fut that the batter didn't even get started in his swing soing for tor a called strike The second came twice t as u fast Jut and agaIn the ump called strike With the batter in the hole Johnson fired the ball to first to hold the runner on the bag and the batter took a big swing awing and started back for the dugout Chided by his h manager he replied Well I thought it might curve and any- any Continued oa Olt Following Pete Pare P r |