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Show UANK K. IAKIR TIltOSAM lOATI IDlTOA km TM to tba first af several article Frank K. Baker. Tel. , gram Sports Editor will writ daring hi a aat era trip. NfcMfORK-aTYrMj 11 am win pining rnviout of the young pitcher trying to make good in the big league at a moundimin for the Giant. Pitching for' the National league champions, in case aomebodjr clie katn't alrtady rrientioned it, ia tough, disheartening work. Young Melton, lanky southpaw with (weeping rurv and - nice hop oa hi last one. found that out this weak when he) (truck ut 11 men only ta drop 1-1 rlrcbion to lh Boston Bee. Now It no diegrar to lose even to tha Bar but when tha league champion art handcuffed go completely a they wcrg that day by hnrient Guy Bush, it' significant to observe once gain that they're mighty impotent lot up ther al Um platter. Na wonder I be Tank humbled I hem la lha world eerie last fall. Na wander moat al lha bay wha got around tba National league rlrcail a great deal of lha tlma ar figuring thai Ut Louie ar Chirege will walk off with lha pea nasi Iktt summer. Na wander Charlie Dreasea ia moment al homo learn enlhealaam aat at Cincinnati the other day predicted that hi lowly Bod might finish In lha first dlvlslsa. Ho moot have (wanted oa beating the Giant oftea enough lo da that Lat year I thought the rattern ten bet were eulogizing eulogiz-ing a pitcher named Carl Mubbell too much. After e watching the Giantt a few timet now, I don't think they " gave him enough attention. Anybody who can make a league champion out of the Giantt like he did latt year it a magician. If he docs it again 111 be a confirmed be- Lever in miracle. , After watching the GianU and then Uking squint at (he - Yankee. H a ey to understand why Yankeg ttadium i so much larger than tha Polo Ground. The Yank have color and glamor In their makeup. The GianU go at the game In machine like fashion, banking on tweet pitching and tight fielding to turn a, t few hit into a winning gama. Tho Yank don't hiv any 1-0 . notions. Nrnrly every man In the lineup I capable of breaking bp a ball m with ilngl blow. A two or three run lead on the Yank midway In the gam ia nothing to brag about. For a man wb mi (apposed t b ready for the beach a . . roupl af yar ago berauee al hi aging leg. Teny Latieri. f fanner Salt Laker, I doing jull wall, thank yea. II ha be) lb team' leading (ticker In early season game aad I fc playing mighty (wool ball oat there around the keystone tack. Mi performance lb other afternoon against PhlladeU phi I an example af hi Imports ace for rt wss hi quick thinking that stsrtad a triple play, and. H wt hi thre bit tbat kept the Yank attack geiag fall blast. The triple ttaned with runner on fine and aecond, . no handt out and the Yankt only two runs ahead. The .. batter lined to Laneri and the runner on aecond scurried ".back to the bag the moment he taw the ball was headed ' squarely for the second baseman. Tony doublecrotsed him, however, and didn't catch the ball. He batted it to the ground directly in front of him, scooped it up on the bounce. He pegged to Crotetti to force the runner combing com-bing up from firtt and Crotetti then threw the runner out "at first. The A'l runner, originally on second, was nailed ' then when he tried to make third, Gehrig to Rolfe. In pitching the team to victory that day, Johnny Broaca, the bespectacled t wirier from Yale, sent Manager Jo McCarthy Into , th ihower room mumbling about "a guy ia crazy who thlnka he know women and pitcher." Broaca mad tho poorest chowlng f any of the Yankee chuckers in (pring training, yet he waa th flnt to latt th entire route. Lefty Comet and tho others had ' their Inaugural troubles splenty. Broaca turned la hi victory on a raw day that waa o cold It reminded oa of feotbaJI aad dock banting. Scare - ly more than a thouaand fana huddled ia th nsamenetk ta " diunt, which bs frequently acceewmodatod crowd of ll,0 . and which U now being enlarged a few mar thoaaaad aa . Colonel Jacob Rupport, th genial brewer -owner af tho o Yank, dream af (omoday luring 1 !, ant to hi hired band play th aatlanal pastlm. |