Show 4 4 6 6 i tit 4 1 1 I 1 1 0 new york post service the Med Aled wicks an and d di maggiol cross swords T HIS all started when a customer with an italian bonicker mo nicker took his pen in hand to say that probably lie he would have to look out for 31 finns in his spaghetti from now on nevertheless th eless he could not help it lie he had to tell the world that jersey joe medwick was a better ball player than jolting joe di biaggio alaggio since then things have been happening each hour new regiments of jim parleys Far leys finest limp into this office with new tons of letters dealing with 4 t h e controversy i irate di maggio fans keep buzzing the phone all day issuing challenges to the medwick brethren holland tunnel and washington washing ton L A A bridge have become di maggio biaggio clogged with new jersey e r s e y neighbors bound for manhattan and the bronx so as to indulge in face to face combat with belittle rs of their joe so in the interests of peace as well as to give the japs and chinese sone some chance to attract popular attention with their own brawling braw linss lins this reporter undertook to do a mr air secretary hull personally it if he were choosing up sides and had the first two picks with pitchers excluded he would take charley gehringer and lou gehrig ahead of the two joes but he did not offer this plan instead he decided that if anything could cause the warring parties to compose their differences it would be the mature opinion of other big time players so he invited various baseball celebrities to take down their hair and answer one question who is the better player di maggio alaggio or medwick their answers are appended herewith gus mancuso lauds af jolting JO itin Z joes prowess GUS MANCUSO medwick is the better hitter but di maggio hits the longer ball di maggio is the better allaround all around ball player DICK BARTELL medwick leads in more departments of hitting total bases hits runs batted in so he must be the better hitter hitler di maggio gets more walks because it is almost impossible to walk medwick 4 w ick CARL CAKL HUBBELL awe we see so little of di maggio over here its hard to say but he must be great both are tough on pitchers BILL TERRY tenny iphy why cant we conic come up with a di maggio BILL mckechnie if I 1 were given my choice right now id take di maggio biaggio II medwick edwick is great but di ala maggio alaio io is a wonder TOM WINSETT everybody knows di maggio has a better arm hes a different type of hitter too a smooth swinger who generates more power even connie mack alack speaks his mind LAVAGETTO both of em cm can do everything id say di maggio has a shade more power As a national league player however id pick medwick but as an italian ill string along with the other ace 1 JOE CRONIN 1 I seen much of medwick but di maggo maggio is by far the better fielder CONNIE MACK aiace 1 I dont see how any player particularly one in the Nati national oral league can be compared to di ala maggio iol lies iles won affifi deriu darful simply wonderful rd id rank him with the he greatest outfield outfielders alers of all time GABBY HARTNETT both great hitters but if I 1 had to take my choice I 1 i hesitate in picking connie mack di maggio biaggio there you have it gents and ladies a the celebrities quoted here were picked at random the majority of them favor di maggio what is more players from the opposition circuit have kicked over the traces of league loyalty to render him proper acclaim since babe ruth is the only other player to have had similar tribute paid to him in recent years that should settle it NOT IN THE BOX SCORE HE dodgers and the st lo 10 louis i s ti clubs definitely will play night night t baseball next year As usual the dodgers win will not be worth losing sleep over but it will provide the boys with a gag gaff when the usual runners are left stranded afraid to go home in the dark you know bob olin who had tommy farr on the floor several times during their fight Is challenging all heavy weights within sight fritz maisel jr enters western maryland college this fall and the boys say he be is due to be as good a third sacker as was his daddy when he e starred for the yankees and orioles smith is te terribly r r ib ly t tired ir e d h he e horton says ays and plans to t take a k e a long 0 n rc rest s t after the belmont open minnesota may have an even better football team this season than the gopher elevens which have lost only one game in three years four good men are gone but the best frosh club ever to come out of the minnesota prairies will plug those gaps and ten sturdy lads ineligible last fall also are raring to go northwestern with don heap back to lead the charge will be dangerous but will lack reserves sufficient to repeat last falls brilliant showing illinois is a dark horse with very little known about the prospects chicago which faces princeton on its horns home field october 16 should be easy tor for the tigers indiana coming fast under do bo mcmillan should show improvement over 1036 1936 carl snavely cornell football coach is developing into a fine golfer lie scores consistently in the seventies enties friends say that gil dobie slammed around by an auto last year is far from a well na 4 man syracuse it townsmen c claim I 1 a I 1 m W that lou little has a real fin find I 1 in soph halfback and that the kid will lou little be a columbia regular this fall charley root leads the national league in control the veteran cub pitcher yields only one base on balls every six and a half annin innings gs gene tunney was by far the best cooki looking ng of alf the champions introduced in the yankee stadium ring recently bernon prentice president of the sea bright bri ht lawn lawil tennis and cricket club told it for the first time the other oth erday day when the brazilian davis cup team was here to play the united states a few years ago the U S L T A threw a dinner party and had the dining room appropriately decorated wt at least they thought they had it appropriately decorated manuel alonzo aaonzo widely traveled rave led in south america arrived early glanced around the room and then rushed up to the chairman of the be committee those are chilean flags he blurted out excitedly and chile has just declared war on brazil your writer picks an allstar all star team all star major league team for 1937 as picked by hugh bradley for st louis sporting news which is taking a poll of baseball writers medwick if di maggio cf paul waner waller rf rolfe ab cronin ss Ceh gehringer ringer ab gehrig ib hartnett c hubbell ruffing p A fan who professes professes to have no resentment concerning the gentleman but who has observed that arthur donovan referees nearly all the big mone money y prize fights in new york asks Is it possible that the great sporting sporting city of inhabitants can develop only one referee capable of handling a major prizefight prize fight I 1 refer the question to ballyhoo bill brown the red baiter of the new york state athletic commission personally I 1 think arthur is a swell guy as well as a referee who always does his duty corneals Cor nells frosh football team is overloaded with star material again this year bill murphy a jersey youngster I 1 said to be tops but also keep an eye on jack bohrman lies iles as hard as nails and can kick em cm a mile upper new york state papers are boosting rabbit Ala maranville ranville to succeed burleigh grimes as dod dodgers doders ers manager in in cincinnati they insist that burt bart shotton ot will succeed charley dressen who will be taken into the gianis organization minnesota football footma ll 11 coach bernie bierman says that tha wisconsin wm will have the most improved football team in the ill big ten his this year the average age of new york pro giants football players is twenty four years johnny spider manhattans Manhat tans right halfback builds model airplanes as a hobby old man studies has sidelined sidelines sid elined tom wood giant princeton tackle who had been counted on to fill george vacated post if the tigers could have teamed wood with charley toll they would have had the largest tackle pair in the east the combined weight of the two being a cozy pounds watch vito ananis soph back a at boston college tony who went to high s school chool with him tried to get the youngster in I 1 into to fordham but there was a slip up somewhere does anybody remember that on july 29 three weeks or so before the event this space said that johnny goodman would win the national amateur golf title |