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Show Dean Holds Giants to Only Three Hits; Danning Saves Nightcap With Homer Off Form Hub Fails to Make Contest of Opener By BILL CORl M IntemaManal Sports Writer NEW YORK, Jun 10 (INS)-Not i Inr George Herman Ruth, the hermit of Riverside drive, hung up s r-l b i bia Yankee baseball base-ball blouse wtth the number I on ita back, ha there been a base ball player with the turnstile appeal of Dtisy Dean. Wa may blast him, reaat Mm 'and rasa him. We may print that he I s beginning to grew tlreeome. and that tha public pub-lic Is fad up with .his petulance, hi Dean constant popping- off and his re fusel to walk In somber lockitep of the preeent dy professional ball player. Pleyer. It isn't true, th public Isn't tired of Dean. Nearly bs.000 person th. largest midweek crowd In the history of the Polo ground. paid their way In ta see the Giants play th Cardinal In a doubleheader yesterday, and be was tha main event. It Is true that Disay wa pitting hi pitching aklll with th until recently unbeatable Carl Hubball. But it wasn't aeeeaeary to b In the park mere than five minute to realise tht It was Dean's day. Th cheering and booing that went with hi appaaranea, tha announcement an-nouncement of hi name over the loudspeaker, hi every move, until he disappeared Into the clubhouae a three-hit victor over the off-form Giant ace, made the polite patter of applause (or Hubbell Bound like the announcement of a paper on "our duty to China" at th ladle' aid. Which would have been th iltua-tlon iltua-tlon whether Dean won or loot, because be-cause Diasy Is bosoffiee and Hub-bell Hub-bell I a mighty (in pitcher, currently cur-rently In the throe of a serious lump. Tim waa whn I could hav looked en Hubbell losing streak aa a aerlou, almoat fatal, challenge chal-lenge ta the Giants' pennant hope. But Dr. Will Terry, the Memphis herb and miracle man, ha about convinced me that ha could send aut back of ths Polo grounds and pick up a team from tha subway circuit cir-cuit which performs en tha vacant lot there, and put It right up there in tha running in tha National league race. Every horse Dr. Terry backs turns out to be War Admiral. And I have now decided that rain la the only thing that can keep the Giants from winning at the Polo grounds. Only there, at tha Polo grounds, ' tOaauaua aa Pauewauj re ' '. Off Form Hub Fails To Provide Contest ICeatmee frets PraraSaig Past I and In the msvtee da yea see luck flniahe aa Plncbhlttar Harry Denning Den-ning supplied for the aecond game a winning horn run with ona out ia tha ninth. I understand Horace Btaneham eeat lha script for thst an dowa ta Terry lust befors ths Giants' turn at bat In the laet Inning Horace would have sent It sooner except that he was helping Eddl Brannlck count th boues, W ants Trip When young Jdr. Rtonehsm became be-came preaident af the Giants, bs promised, sr possibly Ihrestened Is ths word. Is Isks your correepon-j dent aa a trip around lha world as sooa a businees conditions at lbs 'Pols grounds warranted It. If be can just dig up a Dtesy Dean for Brooklyn. Boston, Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Chicage and tka rset af Ikoaa National league teams, wa can hire a prlvsis yacht with whistle. la Tea Porta Dean started aut yesterday as though ha waa working far tka C L O- pulling aver sia strikes against the first twa men ta face him. John U Lewis himasif never loosed boiler. boi-ler. But Dean' etrlkee are sot lb sort thst threaten the peace aad prosperity pros-perity of Iho most hsivp'ly. situated nstion In ths world today." There may be a good omen lor the United State In ths awing bark ta baseball aa In evidence all aver tha country during tha past year ar aa. noma how things sea mad ta go better back there la th day when a New York-HC Louis Baseball eeriea ail about tha biggest aawa there waa. And If that Is far-fetched, f am at leaat aura af this: Fifty-six thotjsand persan watching watch-ing two baseball gams aa a perfect per-fect June day may not as putting In their time ta tha moat profitable advantsgs, but they're better aff than they would be batting aaa another an-other aver tha bead with bail bale in a atreet riot. |
