Show speaking of sports sion sign St stealing ealinor called As asset set to ballplayer by GEORGE A BARCLAY MACK sits in his d dugout t gout CONNIE and fans himself with a score card rd nice way to keep coot cool on a tot day perhaps but an even weer nicer way to flash signals to batters or base runners for a casual flip of pa the cardboard may mean bunt dibuno take a long ion lead off fir first st it jit hit and nd run ran or squeeze play john mcgraw sat in his dugout and by a cryptic telegraph system commanded the actions of his players on the field as it if they were robots operated by remote control how the sign language of 1 baseball works A yank at the peak of 0 a cap the wink of an eye a shoe lace ca carelessly re lessly tied at a shift of the feet a slight turning of the hips all may have a hidden significance the ability to detect the signs and mannerisms of opposing players is therefore an asset that pays big ina t LEFTY LEFTT ODOUL dividends in the major leagues of the old tim timers ers chief bender the doughty indian who pitched for the athletics a generation ago was said to be the most cl cunning inning i in decoding signals of the moderns lefty odoul credited his ability to io steal signs with helping him to win inn the national league batting championship a few years ago now lies les manager of the san francisco seals and makes life miserable for ids his coast league rivals by his bis uncanny knack picks on pitchers one of his tricks was to take advantage of the mannerisms of two pitchers who invariably tipped off the kind of ball they were preparing to throw flint rehm the cardinals big right hander bander was one of those pitchers lefty said when he threw his curve he looked at the ball as he drew his arms over his head in the windup when he threw his fast one he look at the bau ball then there was a pitcher named watson with brooklyn who had a habit of sticking his tongue out of the corner of his mouth when he threw a curve I 1 tell anybody about those fellows or the word would have got around the circuit and stid rehm and watson would have covered up their giveaway give away signs larry woodall once a star catcher for the detroit tigers and now ODou ls chief aid at san francisco is also handy at sign snatch ing between them they had a lot ot of fun last year at the expense of catcher cooper of sacramento they got his signals to the pitchers regularly and the seal batters laid 10 for r every pitch cooper unwittingly held his glove with the fingers pointing down when a curve was being thrown and gave his target for a fast one with fingers pointing up r va J W 11 BUCKY HARRIS it might occur to you that managers and coaches would use word signs sometimes in much the same way as football quarterbacks bark out directions for or the next play but they wont work according to odoul who cited ducky bucky harris experiment as an example harris tried verbal signals for a 11 while when he was managing the washington senators a few years ago go lefty recalled but he gave them up after a fair trial its tough getting over spoken signs when tans fans are yelling themselves hoarse in a tight clinch then if a ball player misses a signal he be ilas has a fine alibi after the derby T THE 1 IE sixty fourth kentucky derby w won on by the long shot lawrin with jo jockey c key eddie arcaro up may be remembered in history as a derby of disappointments the disappointments point ments started even before the race was run stagehand favored to lead the field all the way and a horse with an uncanny ability to win had to be scratched a couple of days before the race because of a bad cold the next disillusionment t came with the fold up of fighting fox A full brother of the famous gallant fox this horse was favorite when off P rose from the stands fighting fox fought it out for about a mile and then quit bull lea provided the next series of heartaches heart aches to his fans he was second choice in the betting and greatly touted ahead of time but in the payoff pay off bull lea there dauber gave perhaps the greatest demonstration of the futility of what might have been in actual p performance er for mance this horse did enough running to win the race he simply encountered raaf a load of trouble and tough luck A slow getaway get away and th the necessity of dropping to last place to avoid a pile up en route were things dauber had to contend with but in the face of these hurdles he be made up all but one length on lawrin and was crowding the winner at the finish line lawrin himself reserved reserve d his disappointments until after the race then it was discovered that this unexpected winner would not have a chance to show his stuff in either the preakness Pre akness or the belm ont his owner had neglected to enter him for either of these classics so lawrin the derby winner becomes just another three year old until he has a chance to demonstrate his worth further on some of the mid midwestern western tracks this summer tennis grand slam W ITH three of the worlds choicest tennis crowns perched on his sorrel head john donald budge americas no 1 tennis nis player hopes to make a clean sweep of the major championships in the sport by annexing the one remaining title still at large the french national championship recognized iced in some quarters as the worlds hard court championship the french tournament occurs before the wimbledon Wimble don classic in in england so don will have plen plenty ty of time for both at wimbledon Wimble do don fir B budge will defend his worlds championship pion ship against all comers the redheaded genius of tennis now holds not only the wimbledon Wimble don crown which is the all england title as well as the worlds but the american national championship r DON BUDGE and the australian national title only fred perry now a leading pro has ever succeeded in winning all four of these titles in a single season the betting is brisk that budge will equal perrys score by breezing through the french tournament he still has some distance to go however before he equals perrys traveling record the englishman maintains he has covered more ground than anybody in the history of tennis for he has campaigned through south america and africa and in one season held the nation national al championship of no less than 11 different countries here and there NE of the rn most ost inte interesting g 0 ONE names in the majors is moore oddly enough all four of them are in the national league the last moore in the american league was wilcy moore the yanks old sinker ball relief man last year the national league had six moores but johnny moore phillies Phil lles outfielder and randy moore brooklyn ban handy dy man have drifted back to the minors in case you 9 get et your moores mixed up here are a few tabs on lem cm joe gregg moore new york glants giants left fielder twenty nine born cause texas weight pounds gene moore boston bees right richt fielder twenty seven born lancki ter texas weight pounds terry bluford moore st louis Cardin cardinals alst outfielder twenty six born memphis tenn weight pounds lloyd whitey moore bloore Cincin cincinnati Dati reds pitcher twenty three bor born a ohio weight tuscarawas Tusca pounds bob seeds veteran newark outfielder and former m major ajor leaguer belted out seven home runs in two days recently setting a new mark for fol r batters batters to shoot at all of his the left field wallops were hit over wall which is feet from home plate 0 western newspaper union |