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Show Robinson Tells How The Dodgers Captured National League Flag is roi n ro Di i n DER Bj tVILBERI R( Mil Ns BROOKLYN. Oct . --Eating break-' fst off a -trundle table in one s hotel-apartment hotel-apartment in New York with the wife; on the morning after driving the nail In the National l-eague pennant would1 make any normal hum in being feel pretty kittenish en though he were a grandpa at the mellowing age of 56. That's exactly the way your uncle Wilbert Robinson a ted anci felt vhen; this interview was nulled off He was An a gala mood. His eyes, sparkled with the snap of a 1 ear old bov. getting ready to take in his, first circus. Between bites he cackled rcmmis-' cenUy. He joked Ma Robinson across the table of ham and eggs. He sang' off yards of praise about h) ball t lub that had made the great fight. Hej 1.ughed over the eccentricities of; Squire Ebbets. And of the iJodgers'j part In the coming world series he opined fluentlv BTTEATfl OLD Bi n "Yep, my bojs are mostlv castoffs. all right. But I like 'em.' They've, got the good old steady goods if you handle Vrn right "I pat my boys on the back Instead of bawling them out when they make' mistakes. A manager, who is COntin- ually finding fault with his players.i will soon have them p)aing half hearted baseball. "if one of them makes a mistake Just tell him that we'll make It up next time. And he does. BEDXT8 PI M R8 ' I don't try to assume the attitude of knowing it all. I gHe them credit for knowing some baseball ihcmselves.l "Ball players like to have i little funj while they are playing Thev like to' work together and he each other if, given a chance So I've tried to make! them feel like a. family. "last spring when we played the Yankees at Jacksonville and won 10 games put of I i from them I figured right I hen and there that We were good enough to win the pennant and that if we were capable of taking a pennant that WS could ul?. win the' w orld series. I ii wai: HELP! "My team has been called a team of misfits castoffSi ou know. AYell. they are all right. The only players on the team w ho cannot l- classed a -castoff are Pitcher Cadorc and Outfielders Out-fielders Wheat and Myers. "Changing clubs has helped many players tor one thing and if you en courage them ul du re - .ilw.ix,. i lo-Of lo-Of good baseball left in them. "Winning ball games ij, largelv matter of getting the "let's, go, boys, j all together md do your beet' .-pirit. PEN S M BPIRJ I ah year i ve toici mem tnev- could i win the pennant Tin b lie . u hp and came through. As for ni pitching staff, I was once a catcher. They say 1 know how to handle them and get results. .Ms theory In developing pitchers is to make their legs strong Sounds funny. 1 know. But how often have you seen a pitcher begin to blow about the firth or sixth inning in th. majority ma-jority of cases it's his leg! I hat have weakened, not his arm. ROBBIE'S THEORY The strain of coming down on one's leg with the delivery of every ball is the hardest part of pitching! Winn the isga wobble it ruins a pitch) i I stride- and with it goes his effectlv . n, -v and control. "They way I keep my pitchers' legs Mtrong, is to give them a lot of work c hasing flies In the outfield on off days when thS aren't working in the bo n "8 THE LEGS 'The pitchers with the help of a trainer, will generally look out lo keep their salarv wing In condition Hu! their irjr-. I luok out for that part of It. When thv are chaalng long n- balls the) are also developing their Wind- Several other manageri are using my svstem to keep their pitchers in shape. They are finding It euccessfui-Connie euccessfui-Connie Mack was quick to see the trick and Is making flv -chasers out nf u'l hi? pitching re. rults Mv boys think they can win the world series. They are playing 'he best ball of their careers I think we ( are good enough to cop. too. The National Na-tional League has better pitchers than! the American this year, it seems I've got seven of the best one on my team. That ought to be enough." His PI LS NORMAL So there v ore. That s lite way your uncle Wilbert feels about copping the pennant and also the world sen in a nutshell. The cast-off idea doesn't bother him one tittle, The Boston Braves cut the buck with a team made up mainly of discards In '14. likewise the Phillies of '15 the Robins of '16. the Cubs of 18 and the Reds last vfeir So you see t'ncle Wllbort's pulse Is lust as normal as dip singing of the' old tea kettle on the new kitchen! r..nge. |