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Show 'LEFTY GOMEZ NOVEL HOLDOUT RAISE IS TOO ; SMALL, OPINES SOUTHPAW ACE Formar Salt Lsksr Return ,' Contract to Yank Boat, With Indignant RsmsrVs i By JACK CUDDY Halted Preaa (porta Writer 1, NEW YORK. Jan. It Senor Ve'r. non "Lefty" Gomez, known to the ' trade aa the goofy CasUllian. is the first baseball plajr-. plajr-. er In 1133 to be- . I come a holdout af-I af-I tr being offered a ' raise. He may be the last i Thla action by . . , the Yankees' ace V southpaw hurler ' would seem el- Vj f most as unique as - . the historic lnci- f ! dent wherein Mr. , 4v . , ' X took a bite out of i V-C . Fido's leg, were it V "f f ' not for the human . 1 element involved. i I ' El Gomez is no , V I asfl 1 ordinary man. He s I j the glamorous Geaaea ( eaballero who's f galloping through big-'.ime baseball ' with all the comical flourishes of a ' befuddled sailor on horseback after a brief apprenticeship with tha Salt Lake club of the Utah-Idaho league. and then with the San Francisco bests. He's the tall, skinny farmer boy from California who came to the big city, alicked back his hair and pre-. pre-. sented the fans with a hodge-podge f of daullng pitching, Broadway romance ro-mance and cheese diets. Lefty did right well for a country boy last season. This awkward beanpole bean-pole of a fellow strode out to the mound in 37 games, not counting the - world series appearance, and received . about $10,000 for his services. ' LEFTYllS -INSULTED" Colonel Jake Ruppert jovial brewer brew-er who owns the Yanks, sent the pride of Rodeo, Cel., a contract this season calling for an increase of probably about 12000. But the Castlllian, who la goofy like a fox, came thundering down to the club offices and roared at Ed Barrow, business manager, that be was "insulted." Barrow tried to explain to the irate eaballero that his salary had been raised, not cut that it was Babe Ruth who got the 125,000 alash. But Senor Gomez would accept no explanations. ex-planations. "I want more money," he shouted. "You call that a raise, after the way I pitched last seasonT Take another look at tha records, and don't forget the world series statistics, then maybe may-be we can talk business. ' He left in a huff. It teems that Lefty, the fast-ball artist, won 24 games and lost only 7 last season. One of his strongest selling sell-ing points was that he gained seven victories over the Philadelphia Athletics Ath-letics against one setback. In the second sec-ond gsme of the world series he out-pitched out-pitched Lonnie Warneke, pride of the Chicago Cubs. ROMANCE IN BACKGROUND Romance makes it necessary for the man from Rodeo to have more money this year. There's little June O'Dea, star of the recent musical comedy hit "Of Thee I Sing." It's hard to keep the finger on Lefty, so we can't just discover whether he and June were married, or inland to be . married. Anyway, ahe's 19 and mighty pretty, and he's about 22. |