The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-25
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by JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, May 25.-Speaking
IN Of baseball: When the Amer
lean League brass hats gather in
Cleveland on Wednesday. they will
name william Harridge president
succeeding the late E. S. Bar
nard Harridge never played
ball, never owned a ball club, and
never wrote baseball f. but he's
a capable detail man, a perfect
rubber stamp executive, and that's
what the job calls for these days.
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Those AS are going to be hard TO beat
. They figured to win from the start
.. Even Connie Mack is having diff
cult time trying to conceal his optimism
-. And you know how the old gentle
nan has always been about champion
ships 80. Come around in late September
and he will talk to you . The AS made
It fifteen straight against the Yanks Sun
day, and they played with that dash and
cockiness you always and in winning COM
binations.
Al Simmons IS probably the best player
IN the business today. taking him from
any angle He can 20 and get that
ball with the best Of them. he can throw,
he can run the bases. he knows what It
IS all about. and he's the most dangerous
batter in the majors Sunday was the
twenty-first successive game IN which he
hit safely. 4. His average for this squirt
IS above 500. . It's 70 surprise to find
that he IS leading the league in hitting.
This BUZZ Ariett Of the Phflies is an
other dangerous batter. He likes high
ball but the pitchers tell me he is liable
TO murder any kind Of a pitch. He
leads the league In homers with ten and
he's pretty sure to be UP there close 70
the top all season. Some Of the boys
are calling him the best rookie in the
National League. The truth IS AT
lett is an old timer. He was a star
for years out IN the Coast League. Hes
in his middle thirties'
That was tough game Fitzsimmons the
Fat dropped TO the Braves Sunday.
Fitz is pitching the best ball OF his career
this season. The new raised seam ball
may have something to DO with this, put
the chief factor is that he is concea!ing
his delivery better. In seasons past you
going to throw his knuckler. !. knowing
what to expect the boys Just laid back ana
waited for it.
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Young Joe Vosnik Of the Indians is
making the experts who wrote him down
as a spring flash look bad. Reinstateq
as a regular the sand lot graduate picked
Up where he started at the beginning OF
the season and he Is slamning the nall
all over the landscape. 'Vosmik looked
like the real stuff against u.s." Eddie Col
Inns of the AS said Sunday. He has
2 nice stance at the plate and takes
good cut at the ball. We couldn't get
him OUT. 4. The young man is hitting
342. and that is not halt bad.
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The Braves come to town Tuesday and
with them Ed Brandt, unbeaten. so far.
with seven victories and more strikeouts
than any other pitcher in the league.
Already the Boston Star has won almost
twice as many games as he won all last
that he pitched well enough to have
ranked higher. One of the games he
dropped was a two-hitter. and when you
drop two-hitter you aren't getting the
breaks. Brandt IS a left-hander with
great speed d. He'd be a 100000 pitcher
on anybody's STAFF.