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Show DiMaggio Gives Yank Squad 'Balance of Power' Afield By SID FEDEB ' NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (AP) There if guy named DiMaggio DiMag-gio who serves very excellent dinner at hi waterfront fishhouse in San Francisco. (Adv.) On the aide, this DiMaggio (first nam Joe) doe a bit of ball playing, which 1 a good a reason a any the Yankees figure to keep right on cutting the cake at next week' world aerie party. In any comparison of the outfields out-fields of the Yankee and the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Reds, who finally followed --n-4 Klatlfm. a decade. The heat on that one is off him now, but his current mark of about .385 la strictly nothing noth-ing to sneeze at, even with hay fever. Otherwise, the two outfields balance bal-ance up. like ham and eggs, or Scotch and soda. In left field, Twinkletoes George Selkirk, the old rasslln' man from Canada, gives the Yanks a wide edge over Wally Berger or Al Simmons. Over In right field, where the Bronx Bombers rely on their only rookie regular round-faced Charlie Char-lie Keller the Reds have a trump for the ace tn Poison-Ivy Ival Goodman, Good-man, although his chief edge Is In experience. No one yet hss put Tony Galento's pet tag "He's a bum" on clouting Charlie, who has batted In only three fewer runs (Contlnuad as Pas Thirty- vaa) al league form by backing Into the pennant you just have to leave Mr. Deadpan out of it There just isn't any comparison. compar-ison. The eerie fly - chasing squads find Jos and five other guys not named Joe. For a long time thla sea-on. Dl- n Msgglo appeared headed for the Joe DiMaggio first .400 batting average In the big leagues In nearly DiMaggio Gives Yanks Big Edge tcwtimd im rasa nutrm) than Goodman, although playing 10 fewer games. As a. unit, however, the Yanks cover the Reds like mushrooms smother a steak. They're fielding better, they're hitting near the J25 mark as a group, and they've drlv-en drlv-en In over 300 runs for the year, compared with about 190 by the Cincinnati -trio. Yet, when all Is said and done, when you argue the outfields, you alWays wind up with Deadpan Joe right back In your lap. It's a funny thing about Joe. Back last season, the folks In the Bronx, who see the most of him (except for rival pitchers), were not taking kindly to the Frisco kid. They were giving him. In large quantities, a cheer made famous in their own neighborhood. It consists con-sists of placing the tongue between the lips and blowing but hard. It Is distinctly not complimentary. and before you knew It, the fans were rooting Instead of hooting, lust like that This year, Joe started right out as the No. 1 entry In the Bronx popularity contest, con-test, and he hasn't stopped. His severest critics say the reason rea-son for Joe's Jamboree Is that he wants to be the highest paid player In baseball next season. He figures, fig-ures, they say, that when contract-signing contract-signing time come 'round, he's going to take his hitting mark, add two ciphers to It and toss It right on Ed Barrow's desk aa his '40 salsry demand. Joe also Is planning a little honeymoon this fall, and he's hard-headed hard-headed enough to realise this stuff about two living as cheaply as ons is strictly a come-on by the marriage mar-riage license clerks. So he wants to take a nice fat winner's cut from the series with him. Turning to the other outer gsr-den gsr-den sections, the Reds' left field collection file right Into the jigsaw jig-saw puzzle started In the Infield. Welly Berger, a Boston favorite of some time ago, landed with Sweet William Terry In the Polo Grounds and then shifted to the Rhlneland. Of course, you remember Al Simmons, Sim-mons, the foot-ln-the-buck belter who was quite a lad with the Athletics Ath-letics back down the years. Al has been kicked around the American league quite a bit these last few seasons. Like all good men when their service runs out in the Junior circuit, he landed la the National loop. |