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Show THEl\'IIDVALEJOURNAL Oldest Battery • Ill Pro Baseball · I I• I Doc Crandall, pitcher, and Hank Severeid, who are thought to be the old· est battery in professional baseball today. The two men have not played to· gether since 1916, when they were both with the St. Louis Browns. After many ups and downs, drifting frl)m one team to anotlwr, tbe men have reunited again on the Sacramento club. Is Fastest Human XPICK-UPS DIAMD·NDX The split season has been abolished this year by the Texas league. • • • If the Giants und Yanks both win thls year It will produt:e the fourth all· New York world's seril~s. • • • Over the fifty-year mark, Sam Cruw· ford, old Tiger outfielder, is stfll hit· tlng the bnll on the Padfic coasl • • • The l\Iuniclpal stndium In Tl'rre Haute, Ind., seats 16,000 persons. 'l'he baseball club pla~·s its games there. • • • A catcher is a stout man ln a baseball suit, who signals for a curve and wonders what the pitcher will throw. • • • Ohio State and West Virginia have been baseball rivals since J8tl4. Ohlo played two games at Morgantown this year. • • • The St. Paul club of the American association announces the purchase of AI Shealy, pitcher, fl'om the :r>:ew York Yankees. • • • Charles Borah, captain of the South· em California track and field team, who rt1 s been dubbed the "fastest lm· n1an." Big Jim McCormack Was 'Early at Record Marks One of the f'arly record makers was "Big Jim" McCormack. He had a "submarine" delivery like that of Carl :!\fays although it was kno\Yn us an undel'hand delivery in those days. lle pitched for Chicago in 1885 and 1886. In 1895 he had a run of 14 consecu· tl\·e victories and in 1886 he won the opening game and did not lose one until Jul,\', scoring 1G straight. Defore joining Chicago he pitched for the Cincinnati Unions and be won 14 In a row for th<'m in 1884. Amos nusie. one of the very best pitchers of all time, was never able to win mol'e thun 14 In a row. Rusie had this string in 1894. Ed Heulbacll, who helped Chica;;o beat Detl'olt for the world's champiouiihip, won 14 in a row In WOU, the year that l'lttsbul':;h took the pennant from Chicago after the Cubs had beaten the Tigers In the world series of 1008. The best record in either league since 1!12 was ~made by "Dazzy" ance of Brooklyn. Vance won 15 flames C'onsecutively In 1H24. Consecutl\·e victories are b.arder to achieve each season, it appears. The pitcher who breaks the present record will have to have a great amount of Juck besides considerable pitching skill. Scott Hornsby, catcher of Washington nnl\·erslty, Is no relation to the Cub who Is being walked by oppoing pitchers. • • • Probably the oldest of all "firstball" throwers on opening day was Fire Chief \Vulluce of Cleveland, age eighty·On<J, • • • Andy Ru<:h, pitcher, who was sent on option to the Allentown club of the Eastem league, has been recalled by the Bridgeport team. • • • Rill Brnclley. Cy Young, Terry Tur- REGARD REYNOLDS FASTEST RUNNER lie huils from Rattlesnake ranch, does Carl N. Ueynolds, White Sox outfielder, who, Ch!cngo fans thluk, Is the fastest thing to spiked shoes In the Amerlean league. Boston rooters declare that Jack Rothrock, t11e Ued Sox utility player, Is faster. Not much choice between them. Perhaps a race will be arranged for them next season. Anyway, Reynolds calls Rattlesnake ranch his home, the ranch ucqn!ring its name because It also Is the residence of sundry thousands ot rattlers. Perhaps If Carl had gone in for high or broad jumping at college, he would have won national honors, since he has had plenty of practice In dodging that particular brand of snakes who have a sportsmanlike system of telling you when they are going to strike, writes Jack Bolton in the Louisville Courier-J ournul. Rattlesnake ranch Is 62 miles out from Del Rio, the nearest town, and Del Rio Is 200 miles from San Antonio, so now you know just how far 'out In the country Carl resides. Said run<:h, by the way, Is given over to shel'p, Carl and his father having abo11t 3,000 on their range now, about half as many as they rued to run. The wild western stories tell you that the average plainsman is bow· legged from riding horseback, but aftel' you take one look at Carl, who has heen riding for the last 15 years, you know you <'annot believe all you rea a. "Suppose you <'arry two guns when down home on the ranch?" Carl was asked. "Only to kill snakes," was the reply. "And I'm not as good with the six gun as with the rifle. Went down In old 1\Iexico bunting three years ago and some Mexican rurales dec·ided we were ba'lldits or something else. Anyway, they took a few shots at us anc1 we recrossed rhe Rio Grande in nothing flat." It was when Reynolds was winning letters in fu.Jr sports at Southwestern university thnt a White Sox: scout lumped him in 1927 and placed him with the Palestine club of the Lone Star leugue. All Carl did was to lead the league In batting with a mark of .376 and to base running with 32 stolen sacks. 1\Iight hnve done better, but played only 124 games. Then he came up to Chicago anl1 played In the first big league game he ever saw. Batted only .214 In ht:; 14 games with the Sox In '27, but he displayed so much rough talent that Charles Comiskey and his llt-utenant~ just about decided he would be a regular In 1928, and he was, although being kept out of about 60 games by Injuries. At that, he batted .332, topping such redoubtable batsmen as Harry Heilmann, Bing Miller, Sam Rice, Joe Sewell, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Earle Combe. In fact, there were only five Amel'ican league batters who batted better. What a sensation he should be this year with his tremendous power us a batsman and his terrific speed on the paths. Shawkey Now Coach ner, gJ mer Fti'ek and Paddy Livingston were n mong olcl-time baseballers In celebration at Cleveland. • • • • • • • • • Hugh M<:Quillan, pitcher, formerly of the New York Giants, Boston Braves ancl Newark Internationals, has been signee! by the Toledo club. • • • The Nashvllle club or the Southern association has asked for waivers on Johny Bro<'k, 'lleteran cntcher. Brock went to .':ashville from the Atlanta club. • • • Melvin Ott, youthful slugger of the New Yorl' Giants, says that Burleigh Grimes of the Pittsburgh Pirates is the harrleRt pitcher In the leugue for him to hit. There ha,ve been several In· stances l'h the big leagues In which a team made two home runs, each with the bases load· ed, hut in no instance did hoth of those circuit smashes come in one Inning. l\Injor league games In which two base-unloading homers were made, follow: Philadelphia Athletics vs. Boston, July 8. 1902. (Daniel J. Murphy, third Inning, and Har· ry D. Davis, sixth Inning.) Philadelphia Nationals vs. 3oston, April 28, 1!)21. (H. Miller, first Inning, nnd Lee l\Iea•l· nws, eil;l1th inning.) New York Giants vs. Phil· adelphia, Scptemher 15, 1!)~4. (George Kelly, fir::~t Inning, and Truvls ~nckson. third inning.) I'ittsh\lrgh Pirates vs. St. Lou!~, .Tun<> 22, Hl25. (Hazen S. Cuyler, first inn in::;; ITarnlfl , 1<'. Tmynm·, eighth Inning.) I O<K>O<K~O~~~OO~X>OO<K~D • • • Gordon Kessler, football nnd base· ball star at Maryhmd, was elected president of his class as a freshman and has bEC'en re-elected each year that followed. • I· Vance Ia th-. Most Effective Pitcher In the National League. It was just suteen summers ago when a red facr.d, awkward young giant came out c! the Nebraslta corn fields to pitch for Red Cloud. He won 11 and lost 15 that summernothing to bring a high league scout that far west. Three years later he pitched such efl'eclive ball tor Hastings In that same Nebraska league thut he was signed by the New York Yankees. The fit·st thlng he developed in the big league was a sore arm. For the next four years he was knocked around the minors witll a vim and rcgularit.v that would have discouraged anyone who did not have a lion's heart. Then his arm got well anrt he pitched so effectively !or New Orleans in 1921 that Brooklyn signed him the next year. Thus It was that Dazzy Vance be- gao a major career In a class with that of lllatty, Johnson and Waddell. For seven consecutive years he has reigned without a rival as the strike· out king of the major leagues. His record for these seven years Is 1,338 strikeouts. During last season he fanned as m!lny as 200 batsmen. After six seasons on the h!ll the big Nebraskun seemed to have as much speed as ever. In fact, he hung up his most impressive record in 1!)28 when he turned in an earned run reco1·d of 2.09, leading his league. He won 22 games and lost 10. This Is a remarkable achievement when It Is considered that Yance dPpends upon speed alone for his effectiveness. It has come to be a hy-word among players and fans the big league circuit oYer that when Dazzy "bears down" he is unbeatable. Still Hard Hitter BASEBAL L .iifj N TES @1 Iligh latitude In Canada makers twi· light baseball after dinner possible. • • • Albie Booth, freshman nt Yale, has captained football, basket ball and baseball, a record. • • • • Ray Lingre, out of the game last year wit.l! a sore arm, has been sold by the Cards to Rochester. • • • The Giants will try out a college southpaw when Johnny Hensel reports from the Villanova graduating class. • • • Fordham unh·ersity w!ll have a new baseball park for next season, Jack Coffey, graduate manager, announces. • • • Cy Williams of the Phillies, at one time as fast as any player in the Na· tional league, is beginning to go back on account of his legs. He still lllts the ball hard. ++t-+4:-+{.......+<t-+++ot•+ ++~··t· +++<t••:•+ f:t : Nothing Emotional About Bob Meuse! At his own request, Bob Shawkey, mujor leaguer, has been unconditionally released by the Montreal Royals and will rejoin his old club, the New York Yankees. as a coach of pitchers. Shawkey Injured his arm last year and has not been able to pitch this season. ~eteran i y• t~.• +;& + • • • Most of the long names are short· ened when the hlg leagues get them, but Dick Porter's name was length· ened to Ri"harcl Twilley Porter on his arrival In ('levelancl. • • • Old-timers who remember Kid IIllberfeld will be surprised to learn that at the opening game of the Southern as· soclation nt Chattanooga, Tenn.. he entf•red the park urm in arm with an umpire. • • • Horace Lisenbee, pitcher, and Heinie Wagner, conch, both with the Boston 11ecl So:~:, we1·e horn on the snme day of the J·ear, RPptember 2:3. Wagner was born In 1881 and Liseubee ir l.9QP American trotting stallions and brood mares are being exported to Eu· rope In large numbers.' • • • An d y K\.err Iras In t ro d uce d th e \., ,, arner system in Colgate football and is picking his own assistants. • • • Leo Diegel, Amerlcun holder of the Canutlwn open golf championsllip, w!ll defend his title at Montreal late in July. • • • Complete satisfaction with Pat Page's work as a football conch Is had by Indiana.· They signed him to a three year contract recently. IS NOT UNLUCKY NUMBER D 1oe Rmith, manager of Tommy Loughrun, light-heavyweight cham· pion, in a talk over the radio, listEC'd the eight leading heavyweights and light-hen vyweights as follows: 1, Tommy Loughran; 2, Jack Shar· key; 3, Jarues J. Braddock; 4, Paolino Uzcudun; 5, Young Stribling; G, Max Schmeling; 7, Johnny Risko; 8, Jim Maloney. Smith said Loughran was the only boxer in the group who had not lost a bout during the last five yeat·s. He explained his high rating of Braddock, light-heavyweight contender, by saying that he believed the hard-hitting Jersey City boy had enough strength aad skill to defeat all of the men rated Oelow him. Leon Riley, who pitched for Norfolk In the Virginia State league Just senson, has heen si~ned by the Reauing Keys of the International league. THII~TZEN I Tommy Loughran Ranked . First by His Manager 1\fannger !.lllre l\feNnlly says Pete Latzo, the for-mer welterweight ch>'m· pion, will play thir·d base with his Binghampton club thi~ summer. About nil there is left for Cincinnati fans is the eft'ort of their boys to set a new world's record for double plays They had a record last year of over 190. Dazzy Vance Still Dazzles 'En1 Chicago Star Is Also One of League's Hardest Hitters• • • • Several Homers Set Big League Records Page Five ~ There ts nothing emotional about Bob Meuse!, the clouting outfielder of the Yankees, who won the second game with the Athletics In their recent mem· orable series with a home run in the eighth Inning with the bases filled. In the clubhouse a!ter the game, Bob was asked what kind of a ball he hit that gave the Yankees their second victory of the ~y. "It was a curve ball," he answered. "\\'as it a nice curve?" was :1; the next question put to the + outfielder. + "As nice as Hommel can ~ ~ throw," replied the outfielder. •1> ol:• "\Veil, it wus a pretty nice ~ ... hl t," spoke up unother one of + ll.teusel's q uestloners. + ol:• • "\\'ell, ll fair one," slowly re· t~ marked the outfielder. :t Clouting Bob didn't appear to ol:• be excir ed over the biggest + ~ blow struck during the after• noon before the big;;est crowd In + •!• the history of baseball. ~ i r :1. ; ··• + + ':t• + + + • ; + ~ •• .1- 4 .... ... o!• ••• ,; +' + ••• + + ot• i: •!• ~ ~. -t• N ~ + ·~·+~,#~~~·~~~+~++~~+++~++ In the spring a young man's funcy turns to thought'! or love. A minor league battery reads-Love and Spring. • • • Babe Ruth has been a big league player for 15 seasons and has an av· erage batting mark of .347 for this period. P:tcher J. Miljus Has Seen M-:lch Service in Box. 'I' hey <'a II Roger Hornsby a baseball nomad because he never settles in one place for very . long. But Hornsby Is as stable as a rock compared to one member of the Indians. The great National league slugger has seen service with seven clubs since he broke Into professional baseball. John .Miljus has worked for thirteen, writes Gordon Cobbledlck in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. John'11 baseball career started at the University ot Pittsburgh in 1912. For three years he twirled for the Pitt nine and at the end of the 1914 sea· son was signed by the New York Giants. The following season he jumped :McGraw's outfit and signed with the Pittsburgh Federal league club. Thnt short·llved threat against the supremacy of the two major leagues went to smash and :1\Illjus got a job with St. Mary's In the Interstute league, and the next year, 1917, found him with Brooklyn. The Robins farmed him out to Binghamton in the New York State league, and he promptly jumped again-this time into Uncle Sam's army. The war over, he joined the Toledo Muuhens In W19, and was back at Brooklyn in '20 and '21. The season of '22 he divided between New OrleaM and Nashville In the Southern association. In '23 he was with the Rochester International leaguers and In '24 with Brldgeport.a{n the Eastern league. From Bridgeport he went all the way to Seattle and there, in the salubrious atmosphere of the Pacific Coast circuit, Big John seemed to find himself. He won 20 games In 11)25 and in 1927 he crashed through with 12 stt·aight victories and the Pittsburgh Pirates bought him in midseason. In the middle of last summer the Pirates asked wai\·ers on him and, in the absence ot General Manager Billy Evans and Seeretury Walter McNichols, a clerk In the Cleveland ball club office put in a claim for hl'J sen· ices. rt deYeloped, however, that a quirk of baseball law fixed his price at $10,500 instead of the established wniver price of $7,500. Cleveland tried to withdraw fro~ the transaction, but the Pirates appealed to Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and that high dignity l'tlled tbat the Indians must go thro11ogh with the purchuse. There were chuckles all over the league and Miljus was cttlled the $16.· 500 white elephant and simllar nucomplimentnry names. Then John began to pitch for the Indians and it became apparent that worse hurlers have been bought for more money. He took part in 11 games for Cleveland In the fag end of the 1928 season and, though his won and lost record wasn't impressive, the official average showed that lie had allowed only 2.65 earned runs per nineinning game. Right now It looks us I! Miljus will be one of the mainstays of the Indian pitching staff. He has a worl:l of stuff, a good bead and a greu t heart. Wins Highest Award • • • Harold Catcott, a catcher from Keosaqua, Iowa, has signed with the Dubuque team of the .Mississippi Val· ley league. • • • Waite Hoyt, Yankee pitcher, first was signed by the Dougers when he was the pitching sensation of Erasmus high schooL • • • Johnny Bassler, formerly of Detroit, is the only catcher in American league history to finish a season with a perfect fielding average. • • • Walter Johnson made 21 wild pitches duriv~ the 1910 campaign, while Leon K. Ames, furmer Giant, bettered this by nine five years previously. • • • Billy Southworth, Card manager, Is one of the few team pilots to come from the ranks of the outfielders. Most of them are catchers and infielders. • • • Harold <Ben) Turpin, right-hand pitcher, has been turned over to the Little Rock Travelers by the San li~ranclsco team of the Pacific Coast league. • • • Balfour Jeffrey of Topeka, Kan., Jim Scott, former major league sterling basket ball player, who is the pitcher and now an umpire In the recipient of the highest academic Southern league, spends hls winter ·honor that the University of Kansas months working in a Hollywood studfe can bestow upon any student within as a carpenter. its halls, the honor award. But one • • • award Is made. We often think If there had been nny baseball In the day of Janus, the two-faced chap In mythology, he'd have been a hard one to run down be· tween the bases. • • • Pat Mornn, former major league manager, has a nephew named Wal· tcr Sagen, who, while with a prep sehool in Massachusetts lust year, won 22 out of ~ ga~es. Two were no· hit affairs. • • • In the 11-inning gume between l'hillics and Giants April 23 ther.• were 20 of !l.lcGra\\ 's runners left on bases. Willoughby, of the Phi!'3, wa:< wild, passing nine hlltters and hlttlug one, hut he was ti~ht In the pinches and the Giants scored but one t'l'n off hlm. The size and weight ot golf balls wlll temaln unchanged, it was decided ut a meeting of the Iioyal and Ancient club, gowrnin~ body of British golf. • • • A noted columnist opines that prize fighting has something to do with the crime wave. \Ye admit that the Deeney-Tunney event was a crime. • • • Purdue university ol'l'ers 24 sportll In Its lntramurul program. Its popu· larity is shown by 2,G:t~ students out of :1,000 taking part in the sports, covel'ing U1e "athletics for all" nrograUL |