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Show The New York Yankees are looking look-ing closely at the Red Sox and the Indians. Although holding every club in the league dangerous on any given occasion, they naturally expect ex-pect the strongest resistance from those two teams. They are concerned with the pitching pitch-ing in Boston and Cleveland. As they see it, they will be aided by a contin- W"r uance of the ineffec-1 JJFf tiveness of Old Mose W Grove and menaced 1 " 4 by the skill of Bob S ' i Feller. They even . h think at least some ? of them that I talked I , ' to the other day '1 that these two pitch- ' ers, one near the end " of the string as a big leaguer and the other oth-er just heading into Bob Grove the days of his greatness, great-ness, may bring about a change in I the positions of their two leading I As Joe McCarthy puts it, Feller is doing for the Indians what Grove used to do for the Red Sox but can do no longer, apparently: step in and halt their skidding with a well-pitched well-pitched game when the other pitchers pitch-ers are faltering. So far, of course, the Red Sox have managed to dc all right without Old Mose in th form he held through last year. Bui what of the months ahead the ho months when the strain will be heav ier on the other pitchers. : Grove Through at Last? I asked some of the Yanks if they thought Old Mose was through that after 15 years of hurling, during which he slipped under the .500 mark only once, and that in his first year out of Baltimore if the Lona-coning Lona-coning Limited really had lost his stuff. I asked them that, remembering remem-bering that everybody thought he was through as far back as 1934 when he won only eight games in his first year in Boston. They remembered that, too and remembered how he came back with a rush and what a pitcher he was right up to the end of last season. Only one of them answered. T don't know," he said, "but that's what we heard when we were in Boston. The dope we got was that while he might come through with a good game once in a while might get out there any afternoon V$ S tit BOB FELLER and blow that curve baU of his around the plate and then let go with a fast one now and then just to remind the hitters he still has it-he it-he isn't going to be much real help to the club any more. "It that's so, those other Boston pitchers had better be hot all season. sea-son. Check back and you'll find that the 15 games Grove won last year meant the difference between second sec-ond place and fourth at least.' The Yanks Admire Them Incidentally, Grove and Feller, who may in one way or the other have such an effect not only on the fate of their own clubs but on the fate of the Yankees as well, are two of the Yanks' favorite athletes. Naturally, they like to beat the two Bobs every time they hook up with them. But they admire Grove for nis year-in and year-out performances, perform-ances, the courage he showed In Dcatog his way back when everybody every-body had him tagged for the cleaners clean-ers and the skill with which he has made over his pitching style They Dont Like 'Showboats' They admire Feller not only for the natural stuff he has but for the way he has taken his fame in stride. Se are no swelled-heads or show- about it . The Yanks, I might say, e : cnU- D:tS; theTtook an almost violent nu?DUgSoSem ontis side after But Diz gui 33 senes T Ted into Uiei clubhouse when he walked into u of the defeat. |