Show ira or SARASOTA FLA there is a ruu mor abroad that when manager jo joe e cronin of the boston red sox heard that toto the gorilla was chucking things at her intended mate cronin immediately rushed to the zoo and tried to sign toto up as a red sox pitcher for joe cronin after 14 last season feels that he can use almost any form of animal life that can chuck things at the grantland rice opposition just a year ago on this fair western coast of florida it was generally agreed that if anything happened to the yankees the red sox would move up to the vacated throne outside of the pitching the red sox had the best team in baseball at that time outside of the pitching the same thing is true today but outside of the pitching is the same as being outside of the money it is like being a well dressed man minus your pants A year ago manager cronin for veteran pitchers had bob grove jack wilson denny galehouse fritz joe heving and jim bagby for rookies he had bill butland herb hash and mickey harris who had won 60 minor league games and had cost tom yawkey over most of the veterans hit the soapy chute and all three of the rookies took an even deeper dive after leading the league 37 days cronin began to use up his pitching staff kith ith much lavishness and when the A crash came you a w E could hear it 50 miles at sea the yankees blew the flag but the red sox were too kt far back to know j toe cronin crania what happened or to care enough to find out on to 1941 Alea measured by its infield and its outfield by its power and its defensive play the red sox still have the best club in baseball up to the outer rim of the pitchers box with frank catching and first class reserves the red sox look even better now than they did a year ago but what about their pitching the only two veterans they have saved from the wreck of 1940 are bob grove and jack wilson grove will probably be good for only 20 games this season working once a week wilson loaded with potential powder is still an enigma croninn Cr onins three outside dependencies are 36 year old mike from rochester 29 year old oscar judd from sacramento and dick newsome from san diego three men who won over 60 games last season ile he should also get some help from bom his rookies of last year hash butland harris rich and dickman plus hughson brown and dobson this by any wild meanderings into the field of imagination a strong pitching staff but from the cluster of right and left arms cronin should be able to improve on his pitching of 1940 with enough luck he might even be able to have four or five good men ready and if this happens the red sox will be dangerous people to have around with jimmy foxx ted williams W illiams bobby doerr dom dimaggio and others who can hammer over the needed runs when they count the most the possibilities are there but his entire pitching string is stuffed with its it is a staff of question mark veterans and rookies sore arms and 1940 failures cronin must feel as it if he were wandering into a heavy fog minus a miners lamp or a torch the lone exception the lone exception is robert moses grove grov 1 the lonaconing Lona coning lancer from maryland grove reached the ripe age ot of 41 last week this is his twenty second season his seventeenth in the major leagues in his day and time grove has won ball garnes games for the athletics and red sox and his left arm is still hanging on his an all time major league average is which is far up in the higher brackets in this span of time lefty has whiffed 2217 opponents he is undoubtedly one of the greatest pitchers of all tinie time last season the former speed king won 7 games and lost 6 it was the leanest year of his long career Tenny sons brook may go on for ever but not a pitching arm grove now can work only once a week or once every 10 days cronin hopes the tall and willowy southpaw can win 12 or 15 games this would border on a miracle exactly 10 years ago grove won 31 games and lost only 4 tor for one of the th greatest seasons in all pitching his tory but when you add 10 years to t 31 years you begin bucking the im pregnable fortress known as time |