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Show Thursday, June 16, 1938 THE PARK RECORD PAGE THREE Speaking of Sports i Sons of Italy Make Up Star Baseball Club By GEORGE A. BARCLAY THERE are enough Italian boys in the big leagues to do a Verdi opera, with principals and chorus warbling in the mother tongue. Not that these fellows are singers. Ball ,playing is their business and their performance on the diamond is making the brilliance of these second sec-ond and third generation sons of Italy a tradition in the national game. Take a census of the Italian-Americans Italian-Americans in the National and jAmerican leagues and you'll find fthere are 17 of them and if you add coach there would be 18 in all. Put them all together on a ball field and you'd have a team that with the exception of pitching would be able to hold its own with any club in the big leagues. Let's start JOE DI MAGGIO behind the plate. Well, there's Er nie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Beds. He is a heavy hitter and a crafty receiver who would be a first- string catcher wherever he went. He'd have plenty of help from Gus Mancuso of the New York Giants. Although Gus is beginning to show signs of wear and tear he is still good enough for a pennant winning team. For third string catcher. An- gelo Giuliani of the St. Louis Browns would do nicely. Star Infield At first base you would have your choice of Dolph Camilli of the, Brooklyn Dodgers or Zeke Bonura of the Washington Senators. Dolph would probably get the call for the job because of his greater speed and superior fielding ability, al-though al-though Bonura would command re spect because of his hitting. Second base on this Italo-Amer ican team might be a problem. To begin with, there s Tony Lazzen, now utility man with the Chicago Cubs. Tony was a big gun for years in the New York Yankees offense and defense and that team seems to be feeling his absence this year. Age would probably keep Tony from playing regularly, so the call would probably go to Tony Cuccinello of the Boston Bees whose righting heart and fielding skill have helped make the Bees a terror for other National league teams this spring. Then there would be Lou Chiozza of the New York Giants, who though crowded out of a regular regu-lar job by the acquisition of Alex Kampouris by Bill Terry, still can ,give a good account of himself. There would be no contest at third base. Cookie Lavagetto of the Brooklyn Dodgers who led the league in hitting this spring would nail down that job without half try ing. Shortstop, of course, would go to Frank Crossetti of the New York Yankees, because of his superb fielding and his timely hitting, Frankie isn't as fast as he was a few years ago, but he's still good enough for. the big time. The incomparable Joe Di Maggio, centerfielder of the New York Yankees, would head up the out field. He would probaoly be flanked on one side by his brother Vincent of the Boston Bees and by Johnny Rizzo who started the season so sensationally with the Pittsburgh Pi rates. Phil Cavaretta of the Chi cago Cubs would also be in the fight for an outfield 30b. His best chance would be to nose out Rizzo, for Vince Di Maggio is recognized as one of the classiest fielders in the business and he is crowding his way toward the .300 mark. Melvin Mazzera of the St, liouis Browns and Tony Bongiovan-ni Bongiovan-ni of the Reds would be utility out fielders. The pitching staff would present problems. There isn't a pitcher of Italian ancestry in the big show who compares in skill with the others. It seems that the sons of Italy have preferred positions where their speed and general all-around ability give them a chance to play regu-larly regu-larly every day. So only Julio Eon netti of the St. Louis Browns and Joe Cascarella of the Cincinnati Reds would be possibilities. Oscar Mellilo, coach of the Browns, would draw the assignment of manager in view of his long ex perience and his splendid career as a player. Mellilo was one of the first of the American-Italians to demonstrate his race's proficiency on the diamond. I ' a L,namp rasses THE fight trade is looking to Lou AmDers to provide some stiff competition against Henry Armstrong Arm-strong when they fight for the lightweight light-weight championship July 26. Experts Ex-perts who saw Barney Ross bow to Armstrong in New York recently are of the opinion that Ambers will mak a creditable showing but that the tan-colored whirlwind will win. As lone as his SDeed holds out. Armstrong will probably prove too much for any fighter he meets. Ambers Am-bers is not as far along the backward back-ward trail as is Ross, but he is not likely to prove a match for the swarming tactics of the Negro. Ross' announced decision to retire is a wise one. "Barney's through," was on everybody's lips the night of his last fight, even though he gave championship exhibition of game-ness. game-ness. Barney, who had never been knocked out, stood the punishment for 15 rounds in spite of the referee's ref-eree's desire to stop the fight. And no champion, when he has come to the end of the trail, could feel a deeper satisfaction in his achieve ments than Ross. Bred in the dingy poverty of New York's East Side and reared in the tough ghetto of Chicago, Ross rose to pugilistic eminence by sheer merit. When he won the Chicago Golden Gloves featherweight title in 1929, as an awkward kid, he at tracted the attention of Sam Pian and Art Winch, who ever since have been his managers. They handled him shrewdly and four years later had him winning the lightweight championship from the veteran Tony Canzoneri. In 1934 Barney won the welterweight cham pionship from Jimmy McLarnin. In a return bout with McLarnin, Ross was beaten, but came back in another anoth-er year to regain that throne. He held it against all comers until he met the dusky little Armstrong, re garded by many as the greatest fighter of his weight since the famed Joe Gans. Here and There BONNIE MACK, seventy - five- year-old manager of the Phila delphia Athletics, continues to surprise sur-prise the fans. Adding a couple of ex-college boys to a team that was regarded as the laughing stock of the American league, he has made the Athletics a club to be reckoned with . . . Don Lambeau, 200-pound son of the Green Bay Packers' coach, will enter Fordham in the fall. He's a fullback . . . Wee Dickie Dick-ie Kerr, former White Sox pitcher who was the hero of the 1919 world series, has returned to organized baseball as an active member of a Mountain States league team. Kerr is forty-five years old . . . Bunny McCormick, Notre Dame's right halfback the last two years, will spend the summer delivering ice at Livermore, Calif., before ac cepting a full time position with an oil company in California ... All American league batting champions since 1931 bave been infielders . . . Ted Duay, young New York Giant catcher, turned down a scholarship at Rutgers to play professional baseball. "I'd rather catch Carl Hubbell than be president of Yale," he said. Flag Insurance? VX7HEN Bill Terry, manager of the New York Giants, acquired Second Baseman Alex Kampouris of the Cincinnati Reds recently, he turned a neat deal that makes his team a real pennant-contender. The Giants were stumbling around until they got Alex. Various players trying try-ing to substitute for Burgess White- Ax yy ALEX KAMPOURIS head, who is nrobably -out for the season because of illness, gave poor performances at the keystone sack. Kampouris brought an end to Xer ry's worries. Little Alex, who is the only Greek hnv in the bis leaeues. is sot a heavy hitter, but he does clout them occasionally for extra bases and break iro ball games as a result Alex, who batted only .249 last yeaf, drove out 17 home runs. It is as a sure-fire fielder and a player with dash and fire that he will be of value to the Giants in the race. Kamnouris. who came orieinally from the Pacific Coast league, is a resident of Sacramento, Caul, lie attended the University of Southern California and was the youngest stu dent ever to graduate from that in stitution. . Wallv Berber, whom the Reds got from the Giants in exchange for Kamnouris. hit .235 last year and i tied Alex s record 01 1 nome runs C Western Newspaper Cnion. iVcira Itcvicw of Current Events YARNELL DEFIES JAPS American Admiral Refuses to Remove His Warships From the Yanghe River ... Congress and Politics r w v I v a yy v - J ay, . y.,?y- Here Japanese soldiers with fixed position in a part of Suchow which the flaming ruins. There, as elsewhere, the city before retreating. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Japan's Demands Rejected AMERICAN warships will remain In f Via Vanot70 rirsr and will Cff to any place where Americans are in danger. This despite the de- J- ' T manus 01 oapdit. Naval ofncials of Japan asked that all foreign warships leave the Yangtze river area between Wuhu and Kiukiang because the invaders invad-ers were - about to start an offensive toward Hankow, provisional Chinese Admiral ral TTarrv V. "Vnrnpll. Harry Yarell commander of the United States Asiatic fleet, rejected the demand sharply. Further more, he at once planned an in spection trip up the Yangtze and through the war zone, and he did not ask Japan's permission. These three "principles" of Amer ican naval operations in Asiatic wa ters were set forth by Admiral Yar-nell Yar-nell in his note to the Japanese : The United States navy will re tain complete freedom of movement on the Yangtze, and will proceed to any place where Americans are in danger. The American command will not change the color of its warships, which are painted white, to conform to any color scheme suggested by the Japanese. The United States does not regard the warning of Japanese naval officials of-ficials relative to the Yangtze as relieving re-lieving the Japanese "in the slight est degree" of responsibility for damage or injury to United States warships. Chinese claimed the drive of the Japanese on the central front was held up by Yellow river floods. Chengchow, once a prosperous rail way center, was still held by the Chinese, but had been reduced to ruins by Japanese shells and bombs and by the Chinese themselves in pursuing their "scorched earth" policy. Japanese air raids on Canton continued con-tinued by day and night. Perhaps 10,000 persons had been killed there, many thousands were injured and the metropolis was shattered. A great portion of the population fled from the city. "tN Kennedy to Resign? AMBASSADOR J. P. KENNEDY left London for the United States and, according to tha London Daily Express, he intends to report to the President as soon as he arrives in Washington on his plan to settle the British war debt, and then will resign his post. He has held the position only three months. Healing Party Rifts THOUGH it was believed Tommy Corcoran and his "eliminating committee" would continue the efforts ef-forts to "purge" the Democratic party of opponents of administration policies, the President Presi-dent himself undertook under-took to repair some of the breaks in the party ranks. For instance, in-stance, he invited Senator Gillette, victor vic-tor in the Iowa primary, pri-mary, to the White House where they took off their coats, ate luncheon together togeth-er and, according Gov. Lehman to reports, planned common action against the Republican enemy in November. Also, it was disclosed, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt had sent word to the New York Democrats that the renomina-tion renomina-tion of Governor Lehman would be acceptable to him. He has not liked Lehman since the governor came i 1 J bayonets are seen rushing a Chinese Japanese artillery had reduced to the defenders practically destroyed out against the court packing bill There had been a plan to run Leh man for senator and Wagner for governor, but this switch presum ably is now out. Railway Aid Postponed VHEN the leaders of the sen ate and house made up their minds to adjourn congress not lat er than June 15, they went to the White House and told the President Presi-dent the proposed legislation to ex pedite the reorganization of rail roads would have to be postponed to the next session. They agreed however, to put through two other railway measures. One permits RFC loans to railroads without in terstate commerce commission certification. cer-tification. The other establishes a special unemployment insurance system for rail workers. Sloan on Wage Law A LFRED P. SLOAN Jr., chair- x x man of General Motors, told the stockholders of the corporation that federal legislation for mini mum wages and maximum hours will increase unemployment, unem-ployment, penalize small business and further unbalance the entire national economy. He criticized criti-cized the spending-lending spending-lending program as recovery medicine and said "There certainly is nothing in the picture to A. P. Sloan Jr. warrant optimism so far as the immediate future is concerned, or to establish my confidence as to any intelligent solution of our difficulties." dif-ficulties." Sloan said that one of the two major contributing causes of the present depression has been the un-stabilizing un-stabilizing of the national economy by too rapid an increase in wages and too rapid a shortening of hours in many key industries thus unbalancing un-balancing purchasing power in relation rela-tion to prices. ' The second cause, superimposed on the first, Sloan continued, "is the fact that there has been developing a growing lack of confidence and a fear as to the attitude of government toward business, as well as to economic eco-nomic policies that have been enacted enact-ed as affecting the national economy and penalizing the operating effectiveness effect-iveness of industry." Martin Suspends Five PRESIDENT HOMER MARTIN of the United Automobile Workers suspended five members of the union's un-ion's international board on the ground that they were disturbing union un-ion harmony. The five were Vice Presidents Richard T. Franken-steen, Franken-steen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, and Walter N. Wells, and Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer George Addess. Lindberghs on Island rOL. AND MRS. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH and their two sons are now established in their new hme on little Illiec island just off the Brittany coast of France. Illiec island is large enough only for its castle, formerly the home of the opera singer, Mme. Adelina Patti. It is near St. Gildas island, home of Dr. Alexis Carrell, American Amer-ican scientist with whom Lindbergh developed the mechanical heart. Son James Won't Run TAMES ROOSEVELT, son and secretary of the President, rejected re-jected a citizens committee's request re-quest that he run for lieutenant governor cf Massachusetts, declaring declar-ing "I feel that I have an obligation obliga-tion above all else to remain ?t my duties in Washington." i Nails Win in Elections OENLEIN'S Nazi Sudeten party won an overwhelming endorsement endorse-ment from voters in Czechoslovakia's Czechoslo-vakia's German districts in a landslide land-slide decision which featured the country's final municipal elections. In the Czech districts President Benes' party gained substantially, while the Socialists and Agrarians held their own. Communists also showed a gain in the Czech areas. Few incidents of violence marked the day and no Czech troops were in evidence. Great Britain, acting to avert a fresh war crisis, received permission from th Czech govern ment to station observers throughout through-out the larger election districts. - Our Slump Worst A CCORDING to the monthly bul- letin of the federal reserve board, the present business depres sion is more severe m the United States than in any other industrial country in the world. The manufacture of war materi als in other countries was pointed out, however, as one of the principal prin-cipal supports to business activity, many other industries showing al most as poor results as in the Unit ed States. The social security board report ed that during March two out of every thirteen persons in the United States received 6ome form of public pub-lic aid, federal, state or local. The total number was estimated at 19,-700,000. 19,-700,000. The statistics did not embrace em-brace farm subsidy payments, the federal housing program and other planned economy measures. Plan Relief Politics Quiz UARRY HOPKINS, head of the A WPA, asserted that the renom- ination of Senator Gillette by Iowa Democrats showed that his vast or ganization was not ( -iim- playing politics. But f prominent Democratic Demo-cratic senators are I not so sure this is true, or will be true during the remain der of the year. Ten of them signed a resolution, intro duced by Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, Mary-land, calling for the appointment of a senatorial commit Senator Tydings tee or three to investigate any charges of politics in relief that may arise during the 1938 election campaign. The resolution made no reference to the Iowa primary in which Hopkins backed Otha Wearin, the loser. The ten signers of the resolution, including both supporters and critics crit-ics of the Roosevelt administration, were, besides Tydings: Adams of Colorado, Bulkley of Ohio, Burke of Nebraska, George of Georgia, Gerry Ger-ry of Rhode Island, Hatch of New Mexico, King of Utah, McAdoo of California and Wagner of New York. Senator Hatch said he would try again at the next session to impose restrictions on participation by relief re-lief workers in party conventions or other political activities. House Unseats Jenks A RTHUR B. JENKS, Republican, who had served 18 months of his term as representative from New Hampshire, was unseated by the house and replaced by Alphonse Roy, Democrat, who was declared defeated in the 1936 election. The vote to oust Jenks was 214 to 122. When it was announced, all the Republicans, Re-publicans, Progressives and Farm-er-Laborites and some Democrats marched out in a body as a gesture of protest. The action by the house was apparently ap-parently taken to aid the campaign of Senator Fred Brown of New Hampshire for renomination. Roy has a large following among the French population of Manchester, N. H. Eight Army Flyers Die UIGHT army airmen from Cha-nute Cha-nute field in Illinois were caught in a storm, lost one wing of their big bomber and crashed in a farm field near Delavan, 111. All of them were killed and the tanks burst into flame. Three of the victims were commissioned officers. Kidnaped Boy Dead T ITTLE James Bailey Cash, five years old, who was kidnaped from his home in Princeton, Fla., was found dead by federal agents, his body lying in a clump of palmetto. palmet-to. The $10,000 which his father had paid for the lad's ransom was recovered. Franklin Pierce McCall, twenty-one twenty-one years old, a truck driver, was arrested by J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men and confessed the crime. 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