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Show Mel Thinks Tribe May I Stop Yanksj OMAHA. Neb, Not. (AP Tott can't add Mel Harder, ace pitcher of the Cleveland American Amer-ican league baseball team, to the lilt of thoee who think the world champion New York Yankee out ht to bo liquidated. Mel has hla owa remedy for the monopoly the Yank have taken on the American laafue pennant. -Time and the law of averafea will take care of them," aald he. Mel, an Omaha boy, thlnki the Indiana might make It kind of tough on the Yanka next year. The Indiana, he aald, are en their way up. He doeant predict any 1940 pennant for them, but "Anyway, we ought to end up In eecond place." There'a a lot of apirlt among the Indiana they won 20 of 33 gamea on the road In the last five week! of the 193 teuton nd "our weak Infield auddenly ' became atrong when our rookie cam through," Harder declared. "Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack make ua tough on both aldei of second. We've got the beet third baseman In the league and our outfield la good. A couple of our young pitchers are coming up. "More than that, we've got a great team spirit. Those young fellows helped u a lot," Mel went on. Harder, who Jo DIMagglo says la the toughest pitcher In the league, looks forward to big year la 1M0. The arm trouble that bothered him the first part of last season la gone now. |