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Show Sneaking Speaking of Spoil's Spoils Sports SpOl SportsOld III ' Old Quarrel QuarrelReason QuarrelReason Reason for forFrisch forFrisch Frisch Fall FallBy By HERB ROGERSl ROGERSE ROGERS ROGERSFrisch "Ole Ole ' " E ; real story behind Fnnkle Frinkle FrinkleFrtsch .1 1 l . Frbeh Frisch Frtsch II s er cut eA.lt eAlt . it as leader of thefamous thefamous the I mostI ' famous Gas House canfr gang most mostcolorful mostcolorful mostcolorful colorful Icam team In baseball historyis history lis historylis historyf f Is told by observers close to Cardl Cards CardlI Cardlnal Cardsnal Cnrdinal nal afJaJrsIt affairsIt alliirs afJaJrs affairs alliirsIt I It all harks back to the spring of of37 37 when Frisch Is said to have haveurgcd haveurged haveurged urgcd urged the trading tradmg of Leo LIPPY LIPPYDurocher LippyDurocher LippyDurocher Durocher captain captam of his team teamThere teamThere teamThere There had ne\ ne never neer newer \ er been becn any love losttk lost tk tke e t 4 q q1Rrt ' ' 1Rrt 4 4r r ' ma mag mae . g e , < + v + e 1 1ns - ns t 1 1rrtAffiD & - u . * w v .V V M , w trRANKIE rItA\KU rItA KU rrtA\ffiD rrtA ffiD ' \ : FRISCHbetween FKISCn FRISCH FKISCnbetween between the two and on May 8 8Just 8rust 8ust Just rust ] before the game with the theGIants theGiants theGiants GIants they quarreled publIcly publIclyFrIsch publiclyFrisch publiclyFrisch FrIsch noted that Durocher was not nottakmg nottaking nottaking spottinghim takmg taking batting battmg practice and spottmg spotting spottmghIm spottinghim hIm talking talkmg to friends fnends in m the standscalled stands standscalled standscalled called him inIf mIf in m inIf If yon you re too big for this ball ballclub ballclub ballclub club yelled Frisch go get a tram train tramfor trainfor trainfor for St Louis Lippy lived hved up to tohis tohis tohis his name m in the ( he fluency of his Ius retortHe retortlie retort retortIe He lie Ie finished out the season but there therewas therewas therewas was no lessening lessenmg ; in the bad bloodbetween bloodbetween blood etwccn between > him and his manager managerFateful managerFateful Fateful TradeBranch Tiade Tlade Trade TiadeBranch Branch Rickey general manager managerof of the Card nals liked Durocher Durocherand Durocherand Durocherand and wanted to keep him But dur durmg during during mg ing the 1937 World Series Senes in m New NewYork NewYork NewYork York he made the deal with theirooklyn the theBrooklyn theBrooklyn Brooklyn Dodgers Rickey caned called calledin canedIn In Frisch and said Well I ve ye rusttraded Just rust Justtraded justraded traded Durocher as you wanted wantedHe wantedHe wantedIe He handed him a paper showmg showing showmgthat showingthat showingthat that for Lippy the Cards had re recelved received received celved ceived Inflelders Infielders Joe Stnpp Strlpp Stripp and JIm JImBucher JimBucher JimBucher Bucher Outfelder Johnny Cooney Cooneyand Cooneyand Cooneyand and Pitcher Plfcher Roy HenshawFrIsch HenshawFrisch Henshaw HenshawFrisch Frisch read the list then ex exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed claimed D dn do t you get a short shortstoP shortstop shortstop7 shortstop7You stoP ? ' You didn dldn t ask me to get you a ashortstop ashortstop ashoristop shortstop said ' Fickey I'lckey Ilckey rickey grimly grunly All Allyou Allyou Allyou you asked me was to get rid of ofDurocher ofDurocher ofOurocher Durocher You eo go out and get one oneor oneor oneor or play short yourself yourselfFrisch yourselfFrisch ) oursell oursellFrIsch Frisch Is said never to have re recovered recovered recovered covered from the blow and to have haveblamed haveblamed haveilamed blamed Rickey lor for the absence of ofany ofany ofany any suitable successor to the brll bril brllhant brilliant briliant hant liant DurocherAnd DurocherAnd Durocher DurocherAnd And Rickey is said to have fretted frettedall frettedall frettedall all summer for the same reason reasonwatchmg reasonwatching reasonwatching watchmg watching : the Cards lose eame game after aftergame aftergame aftergame game with misfits at short St Louis Louissports Louissports Louissports sports writers wnters said that Don Gut- Gut Gutterldge Gutteridge Gut-lendee Gut lendee - - - terldge teridge playing the short field had hadcost hadcost hadcost cost the team a round dozen defeats defeatsso so far with his wild : throws Had HadDurocher HadDurocher HadDurocber Durocher stayed at short they said saidthe saidthe saidthe the team would have bave been in the thepennant thepennant thepennant pennant fight battling batUmg with the PI l's ls PItates l'srates Pirates ' tates rates Cubs and Reds Rcds RedsFrisch RcdsFnsch RedsFrisch Frisch Fnsch s career as a player ended endedlast endedlast endedlast last spring sprmg when he took himself himsell off offthe offthe offthe the active list leaving leavmg a record of ot2 , 2 311 games for baseball tyros to toshoot toshoot toshoot shoot at He holds many World WorldSenes WorldSeries WorldSeries Senes Series records In the eight wh ch chsaw chsaw chsaw saw him perform always as a star starhe starhe starhe he got 58 hits tar far m in eicess e'ICcess eICcess excess ' ot of any anyother anyother anyother other player in m history He won the therecord therecord therecord record ot of the most singles smgles ever evermade evermade everroads made by one man in m tl t U ! e a classIcs classics45 45 the most two base h ts is 10 and andaveraged andaveraged andaveraged averaged 238 298 for the e a ght seriesNow series senes seriesNow Now 41 Frisch rrisch rrfsch reached a peal peak peaksalary peaksalary . salary of $18 18 S18 $ 000 His nS ] baseball ba.sehall basehall . ca career career c creer reer stirtcd shrted sorted at the age of 19 whcn when whcnhe whenhe whenhe he came to the Giants direct dlrcct from fromFOrl.bam fromFordhain fromForlUiam FOrl.bam FOrlbam Fordhain ! . college where he had hadstarred hadstarred starrcd starred at second base as n nell eU as In infootbaU infootball football footbaU John Jolm McGraw manager of ofIhe ofthe ofthe Ihe the Giants Ganls ] had a special bpeeJal lAtny hl.lng hllng liking . for forthe forthe the fiercely fierccly competitive compctltlve young play player player er and in 1921 1021 two years after he hejoined hejoined the team installed jomed joined him asthe as asthe asthe the regular rcgul.1r rcgul1r . second baseman a spot spotwhere spotwhere spotwhere where \ BIcGraw l\lcGrll\v l lcGrll v McGraw \ always bad had a starFrisch star starFnsch Fnsch FrIsch never hit lower than 327 327m 327in 327in m in his six years with McGraw A Abitter Abitter Abitter bitter dispute with McGraw at the theheight theheight theheight height ot of o1 the 1926 season led Fnsch Frisch Frischto Frischto to quit qwt the club and return home for fora fora a time McGraw said that he had hadoverlooked hadoverlooked hadoverlooked overlooked It it , , but that De'ember Deember December De'emberhen Decemberwhen Decemberwhen ( ' \\hen hen when \ Branch Rickey offered h m mHornsby mHornsby mHornsby Hornsby McGraw swapped FrischGrimm Frisch Fnsch FrischGlimm Glimm Grimm Stays on AirFor Air AirFor For the next three years Charlie CharlieGrimm CharlieGrimm GrImm tormer former manager ol of ChI ChIcago Chicagos Chicago cago cagos s Cubs expects to be tell tellng ngabout ng ngabout about what major league clubs are do aredo ng instead msteac1 ot of tell ng a maJor league majorleague club what to doGrimm do doGrimm Julythat Grimmho Grimm \ who \\ho ho commented In fn July that he got his first guod guoc1 good n ght s ssleep ssleep ssleep sleep after Gabby Hartnett Hartnelt Ifartnett suc succeeded succeeded sueceeded Cubsturned ceeded him as manager ot of tla tl t ! e a Cubs returnto turned down two offers olfers to return returnto returnto to baseball and signed a three year yearcontract yearcontract yearcontract contract as a sports announcer Cor for Cora fora fora a Chicago radio station Year's Years ' Best AmateurAMATEUR Amateur Alnateur AmateurA Al\IATEUR Al IATEUR AMATEUR A \ MATEUK thitlics athletics man or orwoman orwoman orr * woman of the year will be beknown beknown beknown known soon lIoon after " November "iovcmber iovcmber Yovcmber 1 It Itwill Itwill Itwill will be an athlete of this country country"ho countrywho countrywho "ho ho who " by his or her ber performance as asa asa Mx a competitor and by example andInfluence aDd and aDdlnlJucnce andInfluence lnlJucnce Influence as an n amateur , did mot most motto mostto mostto ' ! to advance the cause ot of sportsman sportsmanshIp sportsmanship sportsmanship shIp during doi-in doi in - ? the year 1938FIve 1938Five 1938 1938Five Five hundred sports writers wnters and andathletic andathletic andathletic athletic leaders from all sections of ofthe ofthe ofthe the country will serve on the board boardto boardto boardto to select the outstanding outstandmg athlete of ot1938 1938 and the winner wmner will receive receivethe receivethe receivethe the annual arnual James E r : Sulllvan Sullivan Sulllvantrophy Sullivantrophy Sullivantrophy SullivantrophyIn trophy trophyIn In the past member members * ot of the board boardmade boardmade boardmade made their choice on athletic abll abd abllIty abdity ability Ity and popularity which otten often came camefrom camefrom camefrom from wide newspaper publicity This Thisyear Thisyear Thiayear year the board is asked not to vote voteon voteon voteon on athletic ability only as acts of ofsportsmanship ofsportsmanship ofsportsmanship sportsmanship excellence exccllence ol of per performance performance performance formance qualities qua1ltles of character characterand characterand characterand and leadership force of personahty personality personalityand personahtyand and high taeals rdeals ideals of amateurism amateunsm are areas areas areas as important as athletic abihty abilIty In Inmakmg inmaking inmaking makmg making the nominationsThere nominationsThere nominations nominationsThere There are plenty of able young youngsters youngstets youngsiers sters stets who might qualify this year yearCharley yearCharley yearCharley Charley Tales Yates has been a favorite favoriteever favoriteever favoriteever ever since he won the British Bntlsh Ama Amateur Amateur Amateur teur golf goll gof ) championship Katherine KatherineRawls KatherineRawls KatherlneRawls Rawls Thompson the swimmer will willhave willhave willhave have much support while Patty PattyBerg PattyBerg PattyBerg Berg " who is having havmg a great year yearamong yearamong yearamong among the women womcn golfers is a good goodprospect goodprospect goodprospect goodprospectFormer prospect prospectFormer Former winners wmners of the Sullivanaward Sullivan Sullivanaward Sullivanaward award include mclude Bobby Jonea Jone Jones Don DonI DonBudge DonBudge DonBudge I Budge and Glenn MorrisGland Morns Morris MornsGiand ' Giand Gland Old ManSpeaking Man Speaking Speakmg of awards tor for outstand outstandIng outstandIng outstandIng Ing athletes there ought to be a alaurel alaurel alaurel laurel wreath for that grand oldman old oldman oldman man of American sports Juhan Julian JuhanCurtIss JulianCurtiss JulianCurtiss CurtIss Just turned 80 Curtiss has hasannounced hasannounced hasannounced announced his retirement from ac- ac as active aslive ac active - tive live association with sports al although although although though he is still stili keener both men mentaUy mentally mentally taUy tally and ph physically ) slcaUy than most men menIn menin menIn In their middle fiftIesIf fiftiesIf fifties fiftiesIt It If you ve ye never heard of JulianCurtiss Julian JulianCurtiss JulianCurtiss Curtiss it s because he s never neversought neversought neversought sought the spotlight No other man manhas manhas has had the intimate mtlmate and wide asso assoclatlon assonation assoelation clatlon nation with leading amateur and andprofessional andprofessional professIOnal athletes that Curtiss Curtisshas Curtisshas Curtisshas has had For years he has been beenthe beenthe beenthe the referee of the Poughkeepsie boat boatraces boatraces boatraces boatracesIt races racesIt It is Curtiss who Is responsible responsiblefor responsiblefor for making makmg : golf an American na nahonal national national honal tional sport Years ago he brought broughtback broughtback broughtback back a bag of golf sticks from Great GreatBrItalD GreatBritain GreatBritain BrItalD Britain and then sold the game to a askeptical askeptical askeptical skeptical public by importing a aboatload aboatload boatload of Scotch pros and tounng touring touringthem touringthem them In exhibitions ewblhons e-hibitions e hibitions ehibitionsTop exhibitionsTop - Top U . S . SwilmnerRalph S Svimmer SWinllner Swilmner vimmer vimmerRalph Ralph Flanagan of the \ Miami l\hamI l hamI B But Butmore Biltmore t tmore more pool has again agam been accorded accordedthe accordedthe accordedthe the title of America s outstandmg outstanding outstandingswimmer outstandingswimmer sWimmer The choice was made by bythe bythe bythe the All AlJ American board of SWIm SWImmmg swimmmg swimmmg mmg which aided by a committee committeeof of best aquatic experts in the coun coup country couptry country try annually selects its star teamThis teamThis team teamThis This year there are a few new newnames newnames newnames names on the list hst but Flanagan IS ISagam isagain isagain agam again an easy wmner v \ inner mner He took thev the thef v - r q qc qt t c r , I IRt Rt RtL L ? ' ' p 1 " s 4 4R9LPH ' * -f f - ' " " i'S iS i'Sf ' , W - ! .o- .o ! . - .oRUPH K4LPH RUPH R9LPH FLINAGAN FL\NAGA"i FL NAGA"i NAGAi FLINAGANhonors FLINAGANhonors \ " honors in the 220 440 880 830 and one onem onemile onemile m mile e freestyle eventsInCidentally eventsIncidentally events eventsIncidentally Incidentally Pacific Coast sports sportscnt sportscrtt sportscnt cnt crtt cs are predicting predlctmg tha that t w thill thin thillanother thinanother thinanother another year California CalIforma w U II be the theleadmg theleading theleading leadmg leading state in m National A A U Uaquatics Uaquatics Uaquatics aquatics for men Cal forn Corn ans figured fig figured figured ured prominently prommently not only in U1 tIe tIesummer tiesummer tiesummers summer s national cI ct ctampoishpscapturmg amp 01sh o ish ps pscapturmg pscapturing capturmg capturing one first one second and andfive andfive andfive five third thlrc1 places in m competition With WithrepresentatIves withrepresentatives withrepresentatives representatIves of more than a dozen dozenrival dozenrival dozenrival rival states but most of the rating ratingstars ratingstars ratingstars stars are youths likely to Improve Improverapidly improverapidly improverapidly rapidly Paul Wolf Paul Harron HarronHenry HarronHenry HarronHenry Henry Pans Paris and Howard Adams are areamong areamong areamong among the more promisini prOmIS1D promssinC : comersHere comers corners comersHere Here and mid Thm T11e1 Theie TheiePop e ePop foityfourth Pop Warner is us starting startmg his bus fOI foity foityfourth ty tyfourth fourth year as a coach Detro t tIS tis t13 IS the only team in the AmerIcan AmerIcanleague Americanleague Americanleague league which never has finished fimshed m in ineighth meighth ineighth eighth place Every evenmg evening dunng during eveningduring evenmgdunng pre season football footbalJ tralnmg training tralnmgthe trainingthe traiomgthe the Pnnceton Prmceton Princeton team knocks off olf for a asessIOn asession asession sessIOn of musical entertamment entertainment entertammentThe entertainmentThe entertainmentThe The purpose says Coach Tad Tac1 Wle tVie Wleman tVieman Wieman man I isi is to aid the d gestive system systemthrough systemthrough through systemthrough rest and to provide good goodcomradeship goodcomradeship goodcomradeship comradeship after scrapping forteam for forteam forteam team positions all day Southern SouthernCalIforma SouthernCalifornia SouthernCalifornia CalIforma California b Trojans are damn |