Show Ewell Credits Walters for His Success NEW YORK Cincinnati's reed-like red-hot points bony finger at team-mate Bucky Walters as the man most responsible for his According to who leads all big league was the only fellow who helped me when I first came up with the Reds in else paid any attention to me or knew I he Bucky came over to me after I had been in camp a few days and showed me several tips that proved mighty helpful later told me how to pitch to certain how to field my position and how to keep runners close to the He encouraged me he could and was very helpful in every I owe my success more to him than to anyone who still gives Skinny Ewell occasional laughs whenever he hears Blackwell pay him He also has something to say on the sub guess it would be pretty easy to take credit for his Walter the truth is that he needed little help and I can't remember where I was very had a lot of good stuff when he came up and has even more He's just about the best prospect I've seen since I came up to the Blackwell says his main ambition is to win 20 if he can't win I don't know who Another man instrumental in Blackwell's emergence from a run-of-the-mine performer to a standout pitcher was Deson Bill He was managing Cincinnati when Ewell arrived but currently is coaching the Cleveland Indians' pitching remember very well the time Blackwell reported to Mc-Kechnie was kind of shy and never said very I believe it was the first time he ever was that far away from He came from San and Fla must have looked to be on the other side of the that Walters took an interest in him That's Bucky 's he likes to help most Walters never likes to take any watched Blackwell for a while Boston Red Sox in an exhibition at He went a u fame with the bases full at ba Williams was got Williams on a ground ball to the second baseman and also retired the next two men although Boston pushed a run May-this was in came to me and asked to be sent to the minors so he cou d K work He was sitting the on bench with us and growing awfully So I send him to Syracuse in arranged the to national and that's who he re really won his spurs i triumphs with Syracuse and then pitched the Chiefs into the little world series with three more victories in the After that came a considerable stretch in military service and then a return trip to the Reds and hotter than a five-alarm blaze and he insists lit 1 |