Show speaking of sports get trials in american league camps by GEORGE A BARCLAY M MORE ORE than rookies are being taken to the 5 arious american league Jp pring ring i training camps this year how many of them will make good and stay in fast company that is a question that eight american league managers would like to be able to answer right now but looking over the records of these recruits and gathering dope from the minor league managers who tutored them in 1937 it is ev evident i that a very competent bunch of new men are getting tryouts in the junior circuit the boston red sox seem likely to retain at least eight of the players brought in from minneapolis and little rock ark among these are catcher john peacock pitcher ay sharles charles wagner and outfielder Ont fielder henty gaffke of minneapolis pitchers emerson dickman and dick midkiff infielder jim tabor and outfielders deal and bonnekamp Nonn ekamp of little rock mikes new pitchers mickey cochrane who recently announced his definite retirement as an active player at detroit appears to have some likely recruits de trolls roster is long on pitchers mickey will have 17 to choose from elton benton who starred with am w E mickey cochrane memphis last year seems rea ready dy among other good prospects are pitchers harry eisenstat and jack corbett infielder frank croucher and outfielder roy cullenbine the chicago white sox will de and d largely on gerald walker and ats flarv owens acquired in the trade with detroit to bolster them but pitcher bill cox from st paul and outfielder rupert thompson from san diego look like the goods cleveland has considerable new material with pitcher john humphrey of new orleans outfielder geoffrey heath and third baseman kenny keltner kellner of milwaukee out in front the acquisition of catcher rollie hemsley from the st louis browns should help the regular pitching staff and aid in developing the rookies the new york yankees rookies come from newark which won the international league pennant by 24 games last year pitchers joe beggs atlee alice donald and second baseman joe gordon seem ready to step into the lineup and make good N 1 comfort for As connie mack Is believed to have four recruits who will give the athletics considerable aid and comfort this season these include pitchers bill potter from columbus ohio steve kalfass from trenton N J first baseman bill klaston ot of wil liam sport and second baseman lodigiani ot of oakland calif ahe st louis browns appear to have hav strengthened themselves not ony only in their recent major league trades but by the acquisition of pitcher vito Tamu ulis and first baseman george mcquinn of newark and pitcher riet of san antonio several of bucky harris washington recruits appear to lack experience peri ence but outfielder frank case and pitcher mike Kraka kaus of trenton and pitchers leonard of atlanta and phebus of chattanooga are highly touted as being able to deliver the goods in big league style school for amps OU see and hear a lot of things yand 1 and you likewise learn a few odds and ends in thirty six years of major and minor league umpiring brick owens famed american league arbiter who retired a few weeks ago could tell you that so out of the fullness of his experience awai bob feller lefty grove brick is preparing to conduct a correspondence school tor for umpires looking back over the years owens has seen some great ball clubs and some great players the best team of all he says was the white sox of 1919 and 1920 that turned into the black sox among pitchers brick considers walter johnsons delivery as deceptive as he ever saw he says lefty grove was one of the three or four fastest pitchers in history bob feller fe iler the schoolboy sensation of cleveland Is rated by brick as a faster pitcher than lefty grove and as fast as johnson feller has something few ever had says brick he throws his curve ball almost as fast as his speed ball incidentally bob made more improvement than any other pitch pitcher er in the 1937 season during his officiating career owens wells umpired more than games and believes he encountered every tough problem possible not once in his career did he permit a game to get out of hand he officiated games in the american league 1512 in the american association and several hundred more in other minor leagues S here and there 1 tv A 1 l IKE GIBBONS one of the lead M i 1 ing contenders for the middleweight title 25 years ago came out ot of retirement to referee the match between john henry lewis and fed lenhart lehart in st paul recently meyers who fought mushy callahan tor for the junior welterweight title in chicago in 1929 now is operating a tavern in pocatello idaho bennie who led big ten basketball scorers in 1928 1923 with points returned to his alma mater as a football coach the following season and has remained there ever since mickey walker says he would not pick professional boxing as ia a career camer if i lie had his life to live over the michigan yale football game next fall will mark the he first contest between the two elevens in 55 years yale having won their last meeting 64 to 0 in 1883 charley jones manager of sammy angott lightweight boxer had completed three years of college study at the louisville institute of technology when the world war broke out seventeen years later he returned to the same school W wade ade killifer Kil liler last years indianapolis manager will be the highest paid pilot in the pacific coast league next season he will lead the hollywood club his brother bill will be at sacramento notre dame and marquette began their basketball series on the old dirt floor at notre dame in 1920 re surri fumed eci it oia aie at chii K ri noor in milwaukee b me following year and have continued it on hardwood diamond flashes fifty nationalities or combinations of nationalities are represented re presente d in the national league three have indian strains guy rush bush of the cardinals is english indian roy johnson of boston norwegian indian tom baker of the giants irish indian lee grissom cincinnati southpaw rookie was unable to beat either pittsburgh or st louis last year losing lour four to the pirates and five to the cards but he beat boston four times and brooklyn thrice lou fette of boston defeated brooklyn six times last season losing one game it was the most victories any pitcher chalked up over one team leant nine players in the league have hit more wre than home runs in their national league careers nineteen players still in the league have driven in in i more mor e than runs twenty six have made more than 1000 hits biggest margin held by any club over another since 1900 is the cubs lead over boston to gus cus guhrs streak of consecutive games broken last june is the national league endurance record longest streaks still going Med wicks frank demardes De marees and burgess whiteheads While White heads johnny mize the cardinal first baseman has the highest lifetime average in the league among those players who have competed in or more games the average is in games paul warier toner has for 12 years joe medwick in six years chuck klein in 10 seasons new david harum gager CRABBY ABBY STREET foxy old man ager of the st louis browns has earned himself the undisputed title of the david harum of the american league with three deals this winter which have brought him seven first class players in return for the three he traded plus abut in cash in the first trade the browns obtained pitcher buck newsom outfielder buster mills and infielder lelder red kress from the boston red sox in return for joe in the second deal they sent R rollie to hemsley veteran catcher whose play has r ranked with that of the games greatest backstops back stops to the cleveland indians for catcher billy sullivan infielder lelder roy hughes and pitcher ed cole in their third trade they 1 1 if q rollie kollie bemsley nem Hems sley fey swapped shortstop bill knickerbocker to the new york yankees for utility infielder don heffner and are said to davs also received in cash from the yanks in hemsley Hern sley the indians will have a resourceful veteran who if he behaves himself will push the team further up the pennant flight in knickerbocker the yankees have practically purchased pennant insurance su this hard hitting infielder lelder can easily replace frank crosetti it if that fading star goes into complete eclipse this year Q western newspaper union |