Show Yankee Pi Pilot ot Fearful Of Turning Grey After J i HIS Pitchers Fiur Hurl rs Falter cr Against Macks Mack's l Murphy as Wild as Mrs l O'Leary's Cow By JACK KOFOED 1 1 New Ne' York lork Journal Sports Sport J PHILADELPHIA April Joe 28 McCarthy worried through ei tn flings on the bench He had a ball clUb the critics admitted m mIght M tj the thc American league if 1 It were giVen something In the WIY way way-t ct c pitChIng Ah but that was the rub The pitchers were not un tin to fn th Iha v f n.- n. 1 v outfit u- u ui i uT To make k sure u h he would n a free mind on opening day t L l u Joe had trotted ou out hL his prize sou paw Lefty Lefly Gomez Gomer The had hn-d always been cousins to Lf All th the Castilian n needed to do Ii show his lean p person hill and they were licked But Sen Senor r Gomez blew up like thi LI Black Tom explosion along abbot abbu the thelt sIxth inning The CG ca gt the range or of hi his fast ball when be beRot Rot got it nt Jr the plate which h they didn't s s do and with two ru rUM In Md and a a. couple ot of guys goy named Jo Joon Joe on base bose Joe McCarthy d decided ber e h d sUffered enough Joe called In Johnny one Murphy of the million Murphys Murph's whO have graduated from But John es wIld u as Mrs OLe OLeary tOw and In the eighth inning McCarthy wearily waved d for Harry Smythe to t come to the rescue i Miller tUler Comes Cornu Through Then Bob Johnson hammered out l double sending McNair over the plat late and tying the score Tying the Store by gosh and Frank HI Higgins gins the see see- e ond best h hiter ter on the AthletIcs Athletic com Com J me ing up with the winning run roosting on second Catcher Bill Dickey looked bookel at the boss bOtoS There Thereas Was as only olly one thing to walk do-walk Higgins So Smythe pitched four wide ones to hIm and then M Carthay roBed coiled hIm out of the em Uhle lihle went to the rescue This Thu wasa was wu wua t a spot for veterans with d n Uhle come loafing out of th the bull bullpen pen And m made de Hayes lot e Hig Higgins at second Cascarella Ute the pitcher was dUe to bat but ev knew he A pinch hit r would go co up for lor hIm Who would it be A bs bg man with the tanned akin of an IndIan popped out of the dugout Ah fling DIng Miller It would be I b buttie but but- Ue tie of then for fling Bing wu was 40 years IS I'S old and had been around even ryca longer than Uhle UhIc George pitched a 1 CUrve and the plate b by Inches Steady there timer said McCarthy to Show me something Ill I'll your your Very ry best this Season searon 1 The veteran n hesitated Then I buzzed a fast one Bing l bat bat came me around like the striking neck or of a cobra There was a crack of loather meeting wood end and lh the ball bail shot out in a screaming liner toward the left field bleacher wall valL Four Fall McCarthy stood up his heart hart in his his his' throat There Thereas was as JUst on one chance One chance In a million that they wouldn't be b beaten Myron Hoag Haag had gone cone to left In place of Ruth Hoa Hoag was fast as a beam of light liht And he was racing like mad At the last lut instant he hurled himself forward ini inia a leap But h he was wal a afoot afoot foot short hort The ball hit th the tad nd skittered aw away Hoa Hoag didn't bother to chase It for Bob Johnson We was al read ready cross across the plate with th winning win ning run Joe sighed and walked toward the dugout steps One swallow make a summer And one lost last Mil ball game doesn't make a season e on but he 1st had found out what he had feared through all the training season H HIS pitchers were going to give him many gray hairs before beCore the other games were played Gomez Murphy Smythe Uhle thle They nil all had failed when he them most How Ilow greatly would the therIse rIse to the emergency in the days day t ti tome come Joe didn't know He COUI only u guess at the answer And was none too cheerful as to what thU answer might be I |