Show speaking of sports baseballs best pilots played average 9 game by ROBERT mcshane A ANOTHER NOTHER major american crisis cria developed not lo 10 long gag ago 0 when columbia lou gehrig benched himself after establishing what may fee be an all time record for consecutive games plainly the iron man was nearing the end of the trail huge salty tears were shed over Ge Geh rigs brigs impending doom what did baseball intend to do for the man who has done so much for it who would reward him with a managerial job forgotten was the fact that gehrig yet retired that tha t he be a decrepit individual requiring a guiding hand to steer hini him to the closest relief agency but the american sports loving public is like that let one of its heroes start slipping and the hue and cry is nation wide he must aw 7 4 Z OSCAR VITT be rewarded what can we do for him the fact that the big sports figure may make more in a week than the average person does in a year is seemingly beside the point it was a black mark against baseball according to calamity howlers bowlers how lers that babe ruth euth given a managers job when he retired he was the games most colorful color ful figure packing the stands wherever he appeared and giving the best years of his life to the diamond wars ruth was fas the highest paid baseball phay player in history signing contracts at a top price ot of per year jear that total include income inco me on royalties and syndicated newspaper stories yet ruths failure to find an executive position caused widespread wailing unsun unsung heroes overlooked is the fact that each year a lot of fast smart ballplayers go by the boards they too have devoted their best years to the game but when the final day rolls around they cast an agonized eye over the bank book and wonder where going to open a filling station or lunch counter they did a 4 lot for the game but they heroes there seems to be some good reason why great baseball stars arent usually picked when managers are appointed some of them have such as tris speaker cobb and walter johnson but they last the most successful managers seem to be those men who were good players but not great ones connie mack the most widely known was once a catcher and a good one but experts dont rate him with kung kling bresnahan and archer oscar vitt cleveland manager was formerly a major league infielder beld he remembered for his outstanding ability as a player rather he was a reliable performer who played a steady game so was fred haney manager of the browns also a former infielder joe mccarthy the most successful manager in baseball could never make the grade as a big league player A second baseman mccar thys fame as a player never spread past the minors and his ability was never tested in big time competition success stories casey stengel and ji jimmy unicy dykes were better than the average ball player in their best years but neither of them were world beaters since they shed their uniforms been doing better bette r than all tight right del baker of the tigers was a catcher in his day but do so well in the nia majors jors that prohibit him from becoming a rood good manager with so many players of average ability malting the grade as man agers it seems more than coincidence that the stars fail in n an executive capacity it seems though waste of 1 a sympathy to shed tears tea rs over ever a great man whose playing career is is drawing to a close he has made money has a host of friends and admirers and has led the kind of an existence he wanted because baseball offer him a managers job it mean that moguls of the game are hard heart ed wretches casting off a man when his useful usefulness iness is over A man be a great ball player but lack may the essential qualifications manager of a good fortunately bau ball club owners realize that I 1 jack of all trades 0 ONE NE of baseballs sensations though not for his playing ability is morris moe berg scholar gentleman and catcher for the boston red sox not that moe a good baseball player he is but hes such a versatile individual that his accomplishments in other fields tend to awe the average onlooker to begin with moe aloe can talk fast and furiously in five different languages and has a working knowledge of about a dozen more lie ile studied romance languages at princeton graduating in 1923 he originally planned on going to the sorbonne in paris to study phonetics but decided to finance his continued education by playing bau ban with brooklyn ile he played the summer of 1923 and then went to paris when he came back the following summer the dodgers particularly impressed the winter spent in study helped his hitting so he was sold to minneapolis from minneapolis he went to reading in the international league and from there to the chicago white sox in 1925 deciding on further education moe aloe enrolled in the law school of columbia university he passed the new york state bar examinations in 1929 his comprehensive knowledge was ably demonstrated recently when he appeared on a quiz program over a nationwide nation wide hookup he astonished even his bis fellow broadcasters with his rapid fire answers to the brain stumping questions in addition to his other accomplishments ments moe is familiar with the scores of several operas and is a lover of the drama A real gourmet he knows the best restaurants in all the cities on the big league route aloe despite his amazing versatility is primarily a baseball player he want to be known as a lawyer or a linguist he wants to be looked upon as a conscientious hardworking hard working catcher he played on the 1933 washington team under manager joe cronin and cronin bergs boss now on the red sox will attest to bergs value to the team which won the american league championship lie he plays a steady consistently good game and though no second babe ruth manages to be a dangerous 0 hitter in a pinch nor does he play baseball for the money involved he has been a well paid player and in addition is a member of a new york law firm and a director of two new jersey manufacturing plants sport shorts A FTER losing the first heat in 1 which she started nancy hawks first trotting horse to beat won 45 straight and never lost another race carl hubbell never argues with umpires believing it to be bad luck probably the reason umpire george magerkurth says hubbell is the easiest player in baseball to get along with man banuel uel salvo G giant I 1 a n t pitcher carl hubbell was a floorwalker in a san francisco department store during his off seasons there george member of baseballs hall of fame recently traveled a thousand miles to deliver one pitch guest gues t of honor at a wichita semipro semi pro game arrived from st L louis auls I 1 during a driving rain the game was postponed but made his one pitch then caught a train for home bad news item tommy farr says he is coming back to america to fight max baer gain again billy conn recently announced that he will not become a heavyweight fighter but will content hi him m tn tommy farr fa r self with being the best light heavy warner brothers expect to sign spencer trac tracy y to play the lead role in the lif life e of knute rockne the philada philadelphia el white elephants were renamed the athletics when connie mack took over the club in may 1901 hated chore SOUTHERN football coaches have revealed that they would like to eliminate spring football practice but like the man who held on to the tigers tail they dont dare let go eo spring football practice is a dreary spectacle the players have never been enthusiastic about it but turn out because thearl afraid some hard plugging individual who may have less ability but who shows more interest in the game will be on the first string lineup line up in their belr place the next fall coaches probably dont des deserve erve much sympathy they are pid oaid for year around work but the play ers at least theoretically receive nothing tor for their services the southern coaches nevert nevertheless he have a good point naturally spring practice gives the squad head start on signals and formations a but if all schools abandoned abandoned the spring practice season and started from scratch they all would have the same chance and it would relieve the possibilities for un injury during the early season by western union |