The Washington times., 1931-05-27
WASHINGTON TIMES SPORTS
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By BABE RUTH


PHILADELPHIA, May give
have completed our first swing
around the league and have had
O look at most of the young
players who may be the head
liners a few years from now.
You know it takes more than a
month before all the teams have
seen all the others. This is be-
cause the schedule arrangement
keeps the teams in each section
playing home and home series
with one another before engaging
the clubs of the other part of the
league.
We always like to see the new
conner in action. We read a lot
from the training camps each
spring but do not pay so much
attention to this, because the
training camp is always full of
optimism. When the regular sea-
son opens and new names begin
to appear in the box scores then
we figure that the new player
has made an Impression.
Show Great Form
In the first complete swing of
the Yankees I saw a lot of good
baseball by the newer players.
Owen and Doljack of the Detroit
Tigers impressed me particularly.
If they can keep up the gait they
showed against the Yankees,
Bucky Harris has two good youig-
sters coming along. Both of them
hit safely in all the four games
we played in our first visit to
Detroit, and Doljack's hits we're
particularly hard and long. In
the field each of the pair played
great ball.
Yes, these two kids sure look
ed great. saw a little of Dol
jack on our last visit to Detroit
last fall. but then he was just
Up for a late season trial. Now
he apparently is up to stay.
How that kid can throw!
vosmik and Detore, of Cleve-
land, are another pair of young
sters who hit our pitchers hard
and played well on defense. They
are likely to stick for some time.
You know VoSmik made grand
start this year in hitting, then
fell off and had to be benched.
But this did not shake his conf
dence. He was getting his second
chance when we were there and
, batting we'll. He had one triple
that was as hard hit as anything
I have seen this spring. Detore
also did some hard hitting against
US.
Van Camp, of the Red Sox. is
another player, who looked great
in his games against us. So did
Pickering, the new third baseman
of the Sox, who was with the
Giants during the training season
and later came to the Red SoX
on waivers.
Word for Joe Kuhel
Levey, of the Browns, and
Kuhel, of the Washington club,
are two more of the younger crop
who did everything we'll while we
were playing against their clubs.
I saw both of these players late
last season, but they did not look
as good then as they did in their
games this year. Kuhel was tough
with our pitchers in a threegame
series at the Stadium. He is not
a regular, of course. He is playing
because of Judges operation.
I did not get a chance to see
Appling, the new White SOx
shOrtstOp. He started the sea-
son as a regular but he was i'll
jured before we reached Chi
cagO and he was out of the line
up in the only game that We
were able to play there. He
was to have played in the sec
Ond game of this series but we
never got to that because of all
theArai
The Athletics did not flash
much young talent on US. Con-
ME Mack used his world series
lineup except for Todt at first
base in some of the games, and
Phil is no newcomer to the
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the AS, Bing Miller was out and
Connie Mack had Cramer in
Bing's place, but the youngstcr
had little to do.
This takes in all the clubs ex-
cept the Yankees. We had very |
capable newcomer in our out
field in a few games early in the
season before he was forced out |
by a shoulder injury. I mean
Myril Hoag. He is fast, has a
fine arm, and what a ground Gov
erer? He is a good hitter now
but wait until he has had more
experience against big league
pitching.
There may be other young play
ers here and there who will soon
be outshining some of the young
fellows I have mentioned. These
are just early 1881 impressions of
new ball players in our league. I |
don't say that all these boys are
ging to be sensations. But do
say that they have looked pretty
good during the early weeks of
the season: ...,,
Copyright. 1891. ny the Christy
Walsh Syndicate)
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