Show YOU would think that tom yaw 1 key owner ot of the boston red box after spending so 30 many millions and waiting so many years to win a pennant would now be a happy carefree c a r frie man from what we hear yawkey usually ly a cool calm individual in the face of any crisis is now nervous nervo us as a a cat ca t on a hot stove s osva 0 his team has shown no sign ot of th tha e jitters but owner Y yawkey has he apparently joe cronin can cant t believe that his dream has a most excellent chance of coming con ang true As a high class sportsman in every way and a real lover ot of baseball winning a major league pennant became one of Yaw keys obsessions years ago money was never r a barrier along the pennant road it Is estimated that the red hed sox owner w n er has unloaded over for or the exclusive purpose of finishing in front the amount may be considerably higher but his pen cant dream kept turning into a nightmare something always happened and it was usually to the yankees in the meanwhile yawkey re in used sed to weaken much less to quit tie he also stuck to hit his manager joe cronin where the red sox box under average baseball ownership would have known tour four or five different diff erint man managers igers id in the last few years while it was known early this spring that the red bed sox would be good the yankees and the tigers were also in the pennant race picture the yankees with joe dl maggio magelo charlie keller tommy henrich henrica 4 joe gordon phil Stirn bill dickey nick etten johnny lindell and spud chandler shaped up as a formidable looking outfit on both attack and defense the tigers too looked dangerous many uncertainties the red sox at the time ilme had several gambles tofake to face at 11 first at third and their pitching staff they had tex hughson and boo ferris but the others were uni uncertainties ertain just as yank yankee ce pitchers were outside of chandler yo you can understand der stand during those march days at sarasota on the west coast of florida why tom nom yawkey should have been a trifle on an the jittery side tom was but joe cronin although joe knew this had to be his bis year cronen refused to make any predictions beyond saying this weve got a abood good ball club well give anybody a battle now past the midsummer spot with a long lead and the best ball club you would feel that tom yawkey at least should beable be able to take a deep free breath and r relax elix in baseballs greatest year so far as attendance and public interest goes with something close to an allstar team in one corral every one connected with the red bed sox soi should be able to stand up and sing just around the corner theres a rainbow in the sky or happy days are here again all ot of boston outside of the yawkey office are humming these cheerful tunes after all boston one cue of the cradles of baseball has gone 28 years without a pennant boston kept looking hack back these 28 years to the days of lon long lowe and tenney kid nichols Nl chols hugh duffy big bill dineen smoky joe wood carrigan Carrl gan speaker george duffy lewis hooper including george georg e stallings miracle braves bra ves of 1914 boston also could look back to a burly fellow by the name of babe ruth euth and a great squad that harry frazee sold to new york to make the yankees famous it was boston P that gave new york its yankee lame fame ruth pennock jumping joe dugan red hed ruffing these and many more but babe ruth huth was enough for 10 years the yankees without babe ruth huth in his prime would have been just another ball club A good one but not a great one would have kept stars it if tom yawkey hod hd been owner of the red bed sox around 1919 or 1920 boston would have dominated the A gome through the next decade not the yankees for yawkey would have kept ed barrow one of the smartest men baseball has ever known lie he would have kept babe ruth red ruffing and pennock kand and many others and to these be would have added the best ball players a few millions of dollars could buy this shows you what an owner means to a major league club harry frazee a theatrical theatric ali not a baseball man wrecked the red hed sox for at least 10 years year it has taken tom yawkey another 10 years to sweep away the debris and replace the damage he faced an almost impossible job with the yankees entrenched as they were mere largely through red sox talent all those years from this you can understand why tom yawkey and the sedate city of boston is to so wrought up over the prospect of getting a long delayed revenge over the yankees who robbed them of victory BO soli anany nany times |