Show Cronin Decides His Pitchers Must Commence Socking Apple Joe Tired of Seeing Twirlers Whiff Regularly Points to Exceptions of Rule By JACK KOFOED New York Park Evening E Journal Sports Writer riter MIAMI BEACH Fla March They 29 tell me that over in Biloxi Miss Joe Cronin had decided that pitchers with batting averages or of belong with the hour 48 week two two-c two cylinder automobiles and other symbols symbols sym sym- bols or of the past He wants his to represent something more offensively than an almost certain out Ot Mr Cronin thinks it ver very silly sill that thata a big strong guy like Jack Russell for instance should walk timidly to toUte Ute the plate and swing his bat like an anold anold old lady spearing oysters out of a cocktail He thinks this e condition is nothing more than psychological and that if iC Russell and his other pitchers put pUl theIr minds to it they can learn to hit That sounds like treason and the tearing learing down of old traditions yet it isn't really There have been plenty or of pitchers who could and did sock the horsehide though as asa asa a whole the tribe has been more to tobe tobe be pitied than censured Babe Babo Showed t t e c Way Seems to me I remember a fellow named Ruth He was a southpaw with the old Red Sox and showed such uch enthusiasm swinging a bat that they turned him into an outfielder How much salary do you think he would have gotten had he reached the uttermost peak as a hurler Twenty five ve thousand a year ear maybe and he wouldn't have been around for a double decade either The funny part of it is that no one is crazier about a ba base e hit than a pitcher particularly those who get only one every other month Oh it is admitted that even the regulars face tace rival only once every three or lour four days but that Isn't the answer Yeah Joe Cronin knows that there are quite a few exceptions to the rule right in his own league Among the good hittIng pitchers are George Earnshaw Wes Ferrell FerreH Lloyd I Brown Charley fluffing Ruffing and a few others Going beyond their times were Walter Johnson Bullet Joe Joel Bush and George Uhle What man has done man can do says Cronin so get et out there you mug s and take a 3 cut at the ball It wont won't bite bile you ou has lIas Punk Hitters The Washington ton manager has two pitchers who are arc as useless offensive offensive- offensively ly Iy as Harriss was then and Russell is now They are arc AI mas and Bob Burke Burk and when they do anything but whirl whiff or pop out its it's ls l's news like a 30 man biting a dog you know now Morgan Blake sports editor ot of the I Atlanta Ga Journal teaches one of the b biggest Bible classes in the city every Sunday Sundar morning |