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Show Yankee Club Should Save Pilot) Pay By HENRY McLEMORE Vnitrd Press Sport Writer NEW YORK, July 1 Colonel Jak Ruppert is very smart man. and has done all right by himself In that little matter of accumulating what kibi like to call worldly goods. So I don't suppose I have much right to adviae him along busineaa lines, being aa my worldly gooda conaiat chiefly of a pogo itick which I employ In keeping that very vital on jump ahead of the aheriff. Colonel Jake Silly But I am going to adviae him, nev-theleaa, nev-theleaa, and If he followa my advice he can aave hlmaelf the tidy aum of twenty-five or thirty thouaand dollar a year. Cotonet Jake t strictly silly "when he pay Joseph McCarthy $35,000 a year to manage the New York Yankees. For the simple reason that the New York Yankees, aa they now stand don't need a manager. They are eo much better than anything else In the American league that McCarthy could go off In the Maine woods hunting antelope or anything else that is In season, and stay there until the anow falls without endangering the chances of the team. Yon know aa well a I do that the Yankees, even If McCarthy were a thousand miles away, would go on winning games by telephone number scores. The current Yankees are the same aort of team that th Yankees of the late 1920's were. They have in abundance abun-dance everything it take to win. Th pitching is good, the fielding Is fin and th batting well, look back at the Yankee games this year and count th innings where they got runs in bunches like grapes. Six runs, seven runs, five runs, eight runs, Th old Yankees, with Ruth and Gehrig knocking the ball all over th place, and with Hoyt and Pen-nock Pen-nock and the boys pitching three and four-hit games, needed no manager. man-ager. All Miller Huggins had to do was sit on the bench and see that the boys went to bat in the proper order. Don't Need Pitching One of the chief problems of a manager, as I get it, is to handle the pitching. Well, th Yankees aever have needed much pitching. Next year Colonel Jake should hire himself a WPA worker for about fifty a week and give him the Job of managing. The rules require a manager, but there is no use paying a small fortune to get one. I hereby state my willingness to manage th club for a tenth of what McCarthy gets, I promise not to go near the stadium, and to confine con-fine my activities to ordering new supplies of bats for th boy to break hitting extra base hits. |