The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17
SAYS HE HASN'T
WORRIED ABOUT
DIAMOND PLANS
Great SOuthpaw Busy All Day
Long Riding, Hunting, and
Farming
ARM AFFECTED BASEBALL
Yankee Mound Star Leaves
Impression That He Doesn't
Care About Future

Kennett Square, Pa, Nov. H.
In the heart of the Roaring Forties
in New York. the wise minds of the
New York Yankees gather these
gray days and discuss 1929 plans.
And foremost of a championship
club is a concern over the greatest
left arm in baseball.
But down here in the heart of
Pennsylvania most picturesque
pastoral country, the owner of the
greatest left arm in baseball is go
ing peacefully and happily about the
business of being a gentleman farm
er and great baseball star COM
pletely on vacation.
Last August when the Yankees
were breezing along with great
big lead and threatening to make
another joke ont Of the American
League pennant race, the left arm
of Herb Pennock, the greatest south
paw in the league and the mainstay
of the New York pitching staff,
went dead suddenly.
Couldn't Lift Arm
He couldn't lift his arm above his
head and no treatment known
brought any response. He didn't
pitch another game all season and it
is of too recent record to recall what
terrific battle the Yankees had to
win the pennant without him.
As the services of Pennock were
of vital Importance to the Yankees
in 1928. SO they will be if the Yam
KEGS are to have an improved pitch
ing staff for the next campaign.
and Pennock's arm is the big worry
Of little Miller Higgins, manager Of
the team.
Pennock, however, is not fretting
himself by worry. He is hunting,
riding cross country with his wife.
working with his hounds and Civ
ing personal attention to the rails
ing of the fine tomatoes and POM
pons. which are his special hobbies.
How is your arm, Herb" he was
asked.
ITO be frank" he answered, Il do
not know. am letting it alone. I
have detached myself entirely from
baseball. am occupying myself
with other thoughts. | am doing the
things | like to do, and l am enjoy
ing the happiness that | have only
during the months when l am with
my family, my horses, my dogs and
my plants. ! feel that when l am
mentally happy my body will be
happy. if might put it that way.
And I'm sure the old arm will get
feeling happy, too"
Mays In Florida
Carl Mays, whose arm went dead
in Cincinnati last season, is in Mi
ami Beach, Fla, baking his arm in
the sun, and some other pitchers
are working their arms through the
off months. But not Pennock, whose
arm is the best of all of them.
Il would be foolish to do anything
like that" Pennock said. II am
rather frail. That is, l never have
had weight to spare, and must
build myself up during the off sea-
son. might not only permanently
disable my arm by foolish exercise,
but | might impair some other or
gan. Ny theory is that it is essen
tial first to feel good, be happy, en-
joy yourself and keep in a pleasant
frame of mind. All other things. /
believe, will them adjust themselves
to your frame of mind.
There certainly wasn't anything
in his conversation that would indi-
cate that Herb Pennock doesn't care
if he never is able to pitch again.
Baseball has been too much in his
life to become detached entirely
from it without some regret.
But there certainly is something
in him that betrays the feeling that
he will not despair when the time
comes that he must pay the natural
toll.
Herb Pennock is q wealthy man.
His money is represented in one of
the most attractive little estates
you would want to see, and his saw.
ings are in investments that pay.
He has lovely family, wife and
little daughter who like to do the
things he does. Every dog, horse
and plant on his farm are the best
that money can buy, and he has q
great pride in them.
Watching him around his farm
you are convinced that man hardly
could be happier and, as he said
maybe his arm will get happy with
him before another season starts.