Show H 1 New York Post Service Sen Frick Dean-Frick Battle Has lIas Made Cardinals More Serious Outfit N 0 O DOUBT the real facts in the thc case are merely that Dizzy Dean has recently happened to have some of his best days while luck Ill has been continuing its overdue catching up with Carl Hubbell Maybe that isn't the whole explanation explanation explanation nation though Certainly a change has come over the Cards' Cards dugout since the St. St Louis representatives were training in Florida and since the thc season opened During the training period Frankie Frisch's young men were more concerned with the lighter as as- aspects aspects aspects of life than with the business of baseball Having read in the newspapers that they were due to win a pennant they let it go at that and devoted their more diligent attention to guitar concerts on street corners Once the National league season had started there was no greater concern over frequent de de- feats Somehow the athletes seemed to believe that such rebuffs could not happen to them in real life and that they would wake up almost any morning to find they merely had been victims of bad dreams Captain Leo Durocher having played with a Yankee team or two that similarly misplaced its confidence confidence confidence dence over a portion of the season was one of the few who had a cor cor- correct correct correct line on the situation Yeah weve we've got a good team but its it's a young one he explained when the Cards were moving blithe blithe- blithely ly and none too adeptly through their early season exercises A team like that can win a pennant and it also can finish away down with the Dodgers Its It's all aU how the breaks fall tau or rather how things click Something's got to wake us up and start us ns going What How do I know How lIow does any anyone one know w Those things just happen Remember that time in Cleve Cleve- Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land when Mike Gazella just a n sub sub- substitute substitute substitute practically browbeat a Yan Yan- Yankee Yankee Yankee kee team into snapping out of it and grabbing the flag Nobody told him to do it ft He just happened to touch off the spark when too many great players were feeling low or acting careless Something similar can happen to us Then watch Viewing the Cards in the dugout before a game recently I remembered remembered remembered that conversa conversa- tion The collection of babbling care care- carefree carefree carefree free young men who were more con con- concerned concerned with carry carry- carrying carrying carrying ing on feuds among y themselves than t h a n with doing serious damage to the opposition opposition opposition a month ago had changed The Cards were not the hard bitten Gas Dizzy Dean House Douse Gangsters of two or three seasons ago but neith neith- neither er were they riding joy-riding youths More than anything they were like the Giants who sat in the dugout across from them Serious athletes that is Young men not given to too much carryings on but intent upon giving the fans who crowded the stands a fair break for the at at- attention attention attention lavished upon them Even Dean ordinarily a gentle gentle- gentleman man who could give a ten-mile ten start to Tennyson's famed brook in any babbling contest was as silent as Hubbell across the way Only once in the 30 minutes immediately pre pre- preceding preceding preceding ceding game time was there any any- anything anything anything thing like the celebrated Dean wit and humor Then some stranger intruded to ask for the classic Dean signature on a baseball Shucks was the reply then Get away Dway man The only way Ill I'll sign anything with that guys guy's name nameon on it is with a bat Since the name of Ford Frick president of the National league and the recent spanker of Mr Dean is prettily written on all the league baseballs before they leave the fac fac- factory factory factory tory there seemed no doubt about who that guy was Also the chorused amens which followed this fervent announcement seem now to indicate what has converted the Cards into a team Definitely the St. St Louis representatives representatives continue to chafe under the reprimand of the league president who was only doing his duty Frick revealed to them that they were not quite the objects of popular adora adora- adoration adoration adoration tion that some of them had con con- conceived conceived conceived themselves to be Since the truth hurts worse than anything else the young men were bound to get even cven Dean pitched as he can pitch when he remembers he is no longer a barefooted kid in an Arkansas cot cot- cotton cotton cotton ton patch The Cards played the ball of which they are nrc capable NOT IN THE TILE BOX BOY SCORE B BILL DILL ILL STEWART baseball umpire and former chief of referees in hi hithe Inthe the thc National Hockey e league plans to dress the Chicago Black mack Hawks in La Balloon silk pants and gaudy jerseys when he starts managing them next season Says Sa s 's It will give them more crowd appeal Chan Parmelee who gave promise of becoming as asgood asgood asgood good a pitcher as his big brother who stars for the Cubs has decided to quit baseball rather than continue on a Dodgers' Dodgers farm One of the most eminent metro metro- metropolitan metropolitan metropolitan politan bookmakers inside and out out- outside outside side the tracks is getting away with witha a new gag Each day one of the bookies bookie's representatives around the jockeys' jockeys room and sec sec- secretary's secretary's secretary's in information in- in information information office seeking red hot formation Jersey golfers are ore saying that Foster Fargo powerful year seventeen-year-old who enters Yale next fall will be one of the links' links top I within a couple of seasons The Plainfield youngster who tied with Craig Wood for the medal in inthe inthe inthe the 1936 Jersey open and who has been champion at for the past three years is long off ofT the tees and warm on the greens Owners of New Yorks York's three major league baseball clubs are with one another again because of their agreement to ban radio broadcasts from the parks It seems that the bank which handles everything so nicely for the Dodgers and pays two managers to keep them in the sec sec- second second second ond division wants to break k the agreement for 25 Gs G's The U. U S. S G. G G A. A which has managed to ball up most of its tournaments in recent years ears should have sent a representative to the P P. P G. G A. A tour tour- tourney tourney tourney ney at the Pittsburgh Field club The pros and John McGraw president president dent of the club did such a courte courte- courteous ous and efficient job that even the most hardened golf writers now have new faith in human nature Those touts who expected to reap a harvest at the new du Pont race race- racetrack racetrack racetrack track near Wilmington are scared of only one thing thing the the Delaware lynch lynch- lynching lynching lynching ing laws John Ogden Balti Balti- Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore more Orioles business manager blames International league happen happen- happenings happenings happenings ings on the rainy spring weather Says hit hard-hit balls had no chance to bounce on the soggy infields and so pitchers with very little stuff have been getting by against power teams Mr 1 and Mrs 1 Tony Now Follow the Horses Now that he has retired from prizefighting Tony Canzoneri and the pretty Mrs Tony get their thrills out o 0 f watching horse h 0 r s e w races Al AI Schacht the base base- baseball baseball baseball ball comedian who v h o t has just signed a year f movie contract gets each time h e puts on his act in a abig abig abig big league park The use of that green aniline grass dye d y e T Tony that attracted attract d so Canzoneri much attention at atthe atthe atthe the Navy Army-Navy game last fall has spread to the hunts field where it is used to give a permanent ap ap- appearance appearance ap- ap appearance to the temporary jumps Paul Mellon incidentally has joined that very select group of life members in hi the United Hunts Pug Peace pound blocking back who starred for the frosh team last fall is being named as a surefire sure sure- surefire surefire fire star on the Pitt varsity which should be better than ever in Octo Octo- October October October ber Although boxers are sup sup- supposed supposed supposed posed to appear entirely in the nude when they weigh in for fights the ever modest Tony Galento always wears his wrist watch Flam Flam- Flamingo Flamingo Flamingo ingo Joe Widener the Belmont own own- owner owner owner er who always runs off of to Europe before the seasons season's big race at his track has patched up his feud with the United Hunts Ky Laffoon is the only time big-time golfer who chews tobacco during a tournament Whenever he gets in hi a tough spot he just spurts out a thin geyser of juice and steps up and belts the ball ball Mrs J. J G. G Clark named her clever Irish Battle jump jump- jumper er cr because of her friendly rivalry with Mrs Marion Gibson M. M F. F II of the Goldens Bridge Hounds The name means Will I beat Marion and the bookmakers dont don't like it Gabe Genovise manager of the former middleweight champion Babe paid trans trans- transportation transportation charges on Hans Dans Haver- Haver Haverlick Haverlick lick the Austrian heavyweight who is being handled bandied by the Woodman and Lawrence combination Battling Nelson who held the lightweight championship from 1908 to 1910 celebrated his birthday recently Amateur golfers in Philadelphia play annually for a atrophy atrophy atrophy trophy donated by Howard Ehmke former Athletic pitcher who struck out 13 Cubs in the 1929 worlds world's series opener at Wrigley field Sad Sam Gibson who won his first ten games for the San Francisco Seals this spring is thirty-nine thirty years old Frank Kanaly Yale track coach devised a n set of blinkers similar to those used on horses to break Easton Burlingame one of his sprinters from looking back in ina ina ina a race Hans Wagner the Pirates' Pirates coach has stopped riding subways to the Polo Grounds since a Johnny Quick Fingers picked his pocket for 60 60 on the Pirates' Pirates first trip to New York this year Jimmy dean of ot the Phil Phil- Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia adelphia baseball writers has dis- dis discovered discovered discovered covered what's wrong with the Ath Ath- Athletics Athletics Athletics Their first western trip didn't last long enough |