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MacPHAILS MacPHAIL S recent demand de demand demand MARRY LARRY mand that the Nat onal anal IC1gue IC1guebar 1e linguebar gue guebar bar St Louis Card nal Pitcher PHcher Bob BobBowman BobBowman BobBowman Bowman for his bean ng of Joe JoeMedwlck JoeMedwick JoeMedwick Medwlck Medwick calls to mind mmd other trag tragedles tragedies tragedies edles edies and semi traged es whIch whIchst whichSt whichst st rrcd the baseball world for ( or a av av aWhile aWhilePerhaps v . v ; rule bile rulePerhaps bilePerhaps Perhaps the outstanding outstandmg case In Inbaseball Inbaseball Inbaseball baseball s history was that of Carl CarllIays CarlMays CarlMays l\Iays l Iays Mays \ New York Yankee pitcher In inIS'O inISO 19 19'0 190 ' 0 Three American Amencan league clubs clubstried clubstried clubstried tried to have him banished from frombaseball frombaseball frombaseball baseball when hen he killed Kay Ray Chap Chap- Chapman Chapman Chapman - - man Cleveland inGelder mfielder infielder with a abean abean abean bean ballAccusatIons ballAccusations ball ballAccusations Accusations of using usmg a bean ball ballwere ballwere ballwere were nothing nothmg new to Mays For Forthree Forthree Forthree three seasons it had been said that thathe thathe he del berately fired his a r spl sp1 ttmgsubmarme ttingsubmarine ttmg tting ttmgsubmarine submarine submarme ball at batters heads headsto headsto headsto to make them quit crowding crowdmg theplate the theplate plate But th s time tIDe ! the charges chargeswere chargeswere were of a more serious na natureThe nature natureThe ture tureThe The Cleveland players were np up inarms In Inarms inarms arms Only slightly less perturbed perturbedwere perturbedwere were their colleagues collcagaes on the TIger TIgerand Tigerand Tigerand and Fed red Sox clubs who met and andannounced andannounced anuounced announced that they would refuse rcCuse tobat to tobat tobat bat against agamst \ BIays 1\Iays 1 Iays Mays again agam agamPresIdent againPresident againPresident President Ban Johnson absolved absolvejl absolv absolvejlMays ; Mays o of intent to hit Chapman andthe and andthe andthe the boycott faded away But Mays Mayswas Mayswas Mayswas was the object of widespread d slIke slake slIkedurIng slakeduring slikeduring durIng the rema nder of his bIg bIgleague bigleague bigleague league careerDustin career careerDusting Dusting Dustmg Dustin , ' in the OpenTwo Open OpenTwo Two outbreaks of open dustingcame oosting dusting oostingcame dustingcame came in 1937 once when DIZzy DIZzyDean DizzyDean DizzyDean Dean angered by the ( he New York YorkGiants YorkGiants YorkGiants Giants let fly at them repeatedly , and once when JImmy Wlison Wilson Phil lies manager ordered his pitchers to tofiatten toflatten toflatten fiatten flatten Cub batters when the PM Phil PMlies Phillies Phillies lies were on the short end of a a14 14 to 3 score Players on neIther neItherteam neitherteam neitherteam team however harbored a grudgeThe grudgeThe grudge grudgeThe The career of Johnny Watwoodyoung Watwood Watwoodyoung Watwoodyoung young White Sox player ended on ona ona ona a tragic note just 10 years ago Wat Watwood Watwood Watwood wood was hit on the head by Cub Cubfireball Cubfireball Cubfireball fireball hurler Pat Malone durmg during durmgthe duringthe duringthe the Chicago city series senes in m 1930 He Herecovered Herecovered Herecovered recovered from the skull fracture fracturebut fracturebut fracturebut but h s baseball days were ended endedHIs endedHis endedHis HIs batting battmg skill had vanished vamshed vanishedWho's vanishedWho's Who's Whos ' Next9 Next2 Next ? 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' . $ ' ARTUKO ARTURO GODOYLouis GODOY Louis outdoor fight in New York YorkBut YorkBut YorkBut But Godoy was the outstanding outstandmg pos poss s b lity hty for a title fight He Ile 1 1 ad adstayed a-stayed a stayed adstayed - stayed the 1 I mit mlt with the Bomber Bomberthe Bomberthe Bombethe the first t me and seemed to be i In Inexcellent inexcellent : _ excellent shape when the final bell bellrang bellrang bel.rang belrang . rang He wasn t an idol 1dol of the fansbut fans fansbut fansbut but neither d d they th nk he was wasan wasan wasan an out and out bum bumGodoy bumGodoy bumGodoy Godoy was gime g'1me g1me g ' sme but he was fu fir fuout firout out of his biS class Fugged rugged Pugged cour'1 cour1 couri cour'1geous courigeous courigeous ' geous and strong he be is hard to w ( . , c , s scourage scourage scourage courage He likes to rush an ani 1 1D1'1ul 1miul D1'1ul D11ul miul D1'1ulhl miulhis ' hl his opponent This TIns time Louis svts svtsset \ 1S 1Sset ' set He lie fought bib his hl own figbt fight fightand anmade and andmade andmade made the South American look like likehe likebe lik likhe > he be really Is-a Is a is - a second rate fgl glter terPlenty ter Plenty of Coinage Courage Com CourageIt age It takes more than courage and andstrength andstrength strength to win wm championships H It Ittakes Ittakes takes even more than those t vo so In Ingred ingred gredents gred ents to make good contenders contendersOtherwIse contendersOtherwise Otherwise the box ng game . would ould becluttered becluttered be becluttered cluttered with musclpbound musclf'bound musclfbound musclebound ' heroesGodoy heroesGodoy heroes Godoy s case is typ cal eal of today s sheavyweIght sheavyweight s heavyweight prospects At least In Inthe inthe the aspect of strength But he heun heunl unl un ! ke many others had courage to tomatch tomatch match the champion s Not a few fewother fewother other contenders were frIghtenedstlf frightenedstiff frightened frightenedstiff stiff stlf ! before they entered the ring ringPictures ringPictures Pictures after the battle showmg showing showmghim showinghim him scarred but smilmg smiling smilmgLouIs smilingLouis Louis himself isn t so fondof fond of de defending defending fending his title htle again agalD and again againwith againwith with second raters When aSked aSkedImmediately askedimmediately immediately after ncter his last figbt fight figbtwhat fightwhat what he be Intended Intcnded to do nevt ne\.i ne.i ne .i i next ' \ . Joe re replied re- re replied re- re repiled - - plied piled soberly Guess Gucss III I II ll have to tofight tofight tofight fight the winner between Tony Ga Galento Galento lento and 1\1:1 1 1:1 11 \ Blax Maxi : " liacr Baer * . ' When it was pointed out to hIm hen hImthat henthat that be he had knocked them both out outin outin tn in four rounds the Negro said apol apologet oget gct cally I know the match is . aoti .ot ot otl ! ing mg new but that s the way , wa,11 wa11 wayU waytl U tl ings logs are supposed to go _ |