Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-16 | Page 14 | Backseat Driving

FRANK K. BAKER, ' TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR. t -n Elden Auker, the pitcher traded to the Boston Red Sox by 'the Tigers, lays he developed his underhand delivery out of necessity following a football injury. What's more, he claims that it was a great break for him, declaring that he believe he throws with less arm strain than most pitchers in the big lagues. In fact, he contends that it is more natural to throw underhand than overhand, pointing out that a kid throwing a ball for the first time wil linvariably toss it with an underhand motion. Auker suffered a fractured shoulder in football practice during his sophomore year at Kansas State college in Manhattan. Man-hattan. The shoulder was subsequently reinjured and finally, he found it necessary to switch to a sidearm delivery in collegiate col-legiate and semipro baseball. After graduation, he got a try-out and eventually landed with the Decatur club of the Three-Eye league, where Bob Coleman, the manager and a scout for Detroit, suggested he try the submarine delivery. They'll be billed as Joe Louis and Jack Roper when they meet at Los Angeles in April, but just as a means of keeping the records straight, here are their real names. Roper's actual cognomen cog-nomen is Cecil Byron Hammond and Louis, as is more generally known, is really fellow called Barrow. The highest salaried players In the American league are first basemen. .Lou Gehrig draws about $37,500, Jimmy Koxx gets about $31,000, Hank Greenberg Is contracted for about $30,000 and Hal Trosky of Cleveland draws about $20.000.