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Show i ooaooo-o 0 0 1 Jimmy Dykes Wants Hurling Job 6 0 p IMMY DYKES, the round veteran and Jack-of-all trades on the p 9, I Athletics the man who can't be placed "wrong" on a baseball P J diamond seems quite likely to go through the season of 1929 as a 0 pitcher! It has been the ambition of the sturdy second baseman-short- 9 stop-third baseman-tirst baseman-outtielder what is lie? to try his 9 $ famed fast ball and his dinky curve against the big league soekers in X 9 games that are important in the pennant quest. He is in a fair way to 9 p have that ambition gratified. Witfi what results no one knows, writes o Bill Dolan in the Philadelphia Record. 9 9 The conversion of hard-hitting pitchers into intielders and out- 9 p Belders is not an uncommon occurrence in baseball, but very few have 9 made the transition from other position's to that of pitching. Bob Smith, ? 6 a rather light-hitting infielder, with tlie Boston Braves, made the switch 6 2 from a utility role to the pitching mound a couple of seasons ago with 9 p better than fair results, and Dykes has just as good a chance toTn tke p 2 good on the knoll as Smith. 9 6 The all-around Mackman, like Smith, lias a fine throwing arm one 6 $ a mite better than Smith's according to ball players who are familiar 2 P with both men and though Dykes' curve ball may leave a lot to be 0 ? desired, his "hook" will improve with experience and his speed should X P fit in nicely In a league that specializes in fast-ball pitching. P 9 Dykes' search for a new position in which to exercise his talents 6 6 of slugging and heaving baseballs comes as a result of the return of x 9 Joe Hauser to big league spangles. This is a happy anticipation P X for Hauser. and no one is sorry x lflt pp: Si 'Jill $ ' 9 about his return, but every good 6 break must have its victim, and 2 the corpus delicti in this instance 6 is Jeems Dykes, who diked the 2 hole at first base last season after p the gap had cost a number of ball x games. Dykes had occupied him-o him-o self in his previous years of base-x base-x ball hiking from second base to P short to third, according to the $ need of the moment, and nobody, I least of all Jimmy and Connie Mack, had a suspicion that the oft-shifted infielder was a great first baseman. But good-fes Dykes was at a first sticker, the fans know that if Jtoe Hauser comes back in anything like his old-time form he will be sure to cop his job again, and the worshipers at Dykes' feet are bemoaning be-moaning their visions of his return re-turn to a utility role in balhiom. 0000X0K0C Jimmy Dykes. 00-000-0-0-CK0K |