| Show r aa now new york tork po hobt t service lucky lad thinks yank yankee cc bench Is best ball school tom Il enrich Hei twenty y year carold old yankee rookie qualifies as hugh Br adleys guest columnist this week and at as the luckiest lad in the world because judge landis ruled him a free agent and entitled to sell his services to the highest bidder lie ile sells a few of his experiences with the yankees by TOM HENRICH THREE dball years in professional ball declared a free agent by judge landis and selling myself to the world champion yankees for more money than I 1 ever thought was in the world before its still all a little bewildering to a small town boy I 1 guess I 1 understand any of it at first first off I 1 belonged to cleveland then I 1 read in a montreal paper during the winter meetings that milwaukee had bought me direct from new orleans but judge landis cleared a whole lot up for me hes the first real judge id ever met I 1 just wanted my case clarified I 1 wanted to find out if everything was on the up and up have the baseball law of it explained to me if you cant get a square deal in this game tom I 1 told myself and I 1 meant it too theres no use going on playing it judge landis was fine about it he try to bulldoze me or trap me into any admissions he simp simply ly wanted the truth and make believe he get at it well I 1 was declared a free agent on the first of april AU all fools day I 1 was too excited to attach any significance to the date and as its turned out the joke exactly been on me when I 1 arrived home in alassio lon ion there were a couple of telegrams awaiting me and in three days id had eight major league offers four from each league perhaps id better not say what they were I 1 weighed em cm all before accepting the yankees bid I 1 had my reasons for doing that if im ever going to be a major leaguer I 1 want to be with the best club in baseball the rest of it is up to mr mccarthy I 1 been with the yanks very long but I 1 never knew there was so much to baseball just sitting on the bench through one nine inning hining game is a liberal aduca education tion in itself in the minors everything Q 1 is sort of taken for granted but on the yanks every player on the squad is in every play I 1 feel like ive been playing for years from what ive learned already I 1 never knew they made em cm as wise as tony Laz lazzeri zerl always keep your head up kid 1 I lou loo gehrig warned me and the re rest st of the gang have given me lots of other pointers on this team if I 1 tant cant learn how bow to be a big leabu leaguer r I 1 must be pretty dumb I 1 was really weaned on football youve heard of the massillon tigers and the canton bulldogs they were playing great pro football before I 1 was born ive had my dad sit down with me by the hour and tell me about jim thorpe bob nash and the rest of those old timers nash was a graduate of rutgers ers and he was the only end ever to stop jim from running but of course dads favorite team was the tigers dad used to say to ns as kids that to bet on them was safer than putting your money in the he first national bank from what ive seen of em about the way I 1 feel about the yankees though neither of us is a betting man dad let any of us ive got three brothers even play football hes a great baseball fan himself he wanted to make me over into a choke hitter bitter ile he said you yon ne never ver strike out if you shorten your bat but you never get any home runs either my brother eddie is still a better ball player than I 1 am and I 1 think he was an awful chump to chuck the game and go into bu business hes old now twenty five but charles is crazy about baseball hes only seventeen years old and is going to try to catch on with akron this summer and comeux come up through the yankee farms art is just a fifteen year old kid in high school but he weighs pounds already ten more than I 1 do I 1 came up through the softball ranks there was no hardball hardvall har dball at home but theres no chance to hit in that rocket racket the pitchers think they have a bad day when they dont fan 20 batters I 1 bet nat rupert has about 1000 no hitters to his credit hardballs Hard balls more of a game softball Sott ball exactly a fad it offers relaxation to thousands of boys NOT IN THE BOX SCORE ILL KLEM the old blaster aster II Is B BILL one of the few umpires who like to work behind the plate when bob feller is pitching the others say that the kid has so much stuff even his fast ball takes a funny hop that it is hard to call them right carl hubbells Hub bells perfect control makes working one of his games an umpires pleasure e though billy johnston youngest of the clan turns fight promoter with a summer club at rockaway Kock away soon that eminent sportsman tun tim afara mara is proudly displaying one of the seven honorary gold life membership elk citations in addition to being treasurer of the new york americans soccer club john Horn kornbluth bluth also is an executive in one of the towns leading department stores years ago he helped form the maccabee sport club of chicago and starred for that organization on the soccer pitch two members of the cincinnati reds lost minor league batting crowns by a single base hit last season phil hit for rochester and was nosed out by smead jolley joe dwyer batted for nashville only to be shaded by fred kid eberfeld one of the roughest toughest of ballplayers when he performed for the yankees and other big time clubs never wore socks draped his knobby knees in ladies silk stockings instead movies will finish morris morns track career carcer olympic champ glenn morris is through so far as amateur track is concerned if he persists in his movie career according to one of the most eminent A A U off officials glenn is said to have been ready f tn to take a fling at boxing eft F before he got that tarzan contract incidentally old time pugs bugs now doing bits in fl ickers include jack perry glenn pittsburgh welter morris weight joe glick famed brooklyn buttonhole maker bing conley middleweight georgie georgia levine brownsville Browns ville welterweight frank moran old time heavyweight and too many more to be mentioned ken danbach will not play pro football the princeton quarterback will join a chicago business firm this summer eleven of the twenty two soccer players who competed for the english cup at wembley stadium are Scotch men four performing for sunderland and seven for preston north end the boyhood ambition of jimmy johnston the garden boxing gent who so often is tossed to the lions was to be a lion tamer john finn whose dad has been a cop on brook lyns hard bitten sand street for thirty one years has signed to play first base for altoona the best tip as to whether lou chiozza will do for the giants may be had by watching him protect his foul line third basemen who can go to the right the way he does have little else to worry about pitcher lamaster who was drafted by the phillies could have been had by brooklyn last summer casey stengel pleaded with the directors to buy him tor for five Gs less than the casey now gets for not managing a second division outfit one of hank bank marinos first bowling pupils was fritz crisler that was when the princeton football co coach ach was a crack end on Chi cagos powerhouse outfit of 1921 roland hulshart a bit of a kid from bel air md did your correspondents own home grounds may startle sprinting champions within a season or two frankie terranova new york scrapper knee high to a grasshopper clicked with chicago fight tans fans and will return there rogers Horns bys early season batting was no surprise to the browns manager last summer he confided that american league pitching was so bad that he could hit standing on one leg with one eye shut now that they have local fans interested te in their jersey city and newark farms the he yankees and giants ought to put international league scores on the polo grounds additions to the like father like son hall of fame eddie collins jr blasting ivy league pitchers to all corners comers for yale coach tuss laughryn rys boy john looking like the best prospect on his old mans brown team ted merediths meredithe hs youngster running for mercersburg Mercers burg lawson kid doing the same for lower marion high even though hed make as good a man as any for the job jack dempsey should quit yelling that the nation needs a boxing czar the truth is czars azars ruin sports just as they do everything else one way or another always protecting special interests and as any student of commission or one man sports control very well knows the eventual sufferer is that age old burden bearer the average citizen barney ain the basketball authority refereed a game at sing sing last winter one fan in particular did not like mr ains style of officiating every time a foul was called on a member of the lawes university quintet this ardent rooter would yell It robber obber later mr ain who deli delights ats in providing hardworking hard working reporters with rare items investigated the sing sing status found ile he was in in as a fourth offender burglary |
