Milford chronicle., 1932-05-13
DOTS AND DASHES
ABOUT SPORTS

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Walter Johnson, manager of thu
! washington Senators and for many
years one of the leading hurlers il
the American League, rates the old
timers far superior to the present.
day slab artists. In a recent inter
view the Big Train declared: "They
just don't turn out pitchers nova
days like the old-timers. There isn't
a young man on any team in any
league who can come up to the apple
tossers of the days when baseball
was sure 'nOugh baseball"
Take Rube Waddell for instance,
! there was a pitcher such as had to
be born not made. In fact baseball
players very rarely can be made.
That is the trouble with the present
day gang.
"Christy MathewsOn is another boy
who can't be equaled. Others are Ed
Walsh and Doc White of the White
SOX and Joe Wood of the Red Sox.
They were the huskies who in my
estimation were the real thing. OF
course it is understood that Lefty
Grove is undoubtedly the greatest
pitcher of the day. But when you
come right down to baseball facts
Lefty Grove isn't the pitcher the old
timers were and he never will be-"
Edward Warren, the One-armed
captain of the Yale nine, is playing
this year despite his injury. He lost
his arm in a motor boat accident at
Lake Racquette. N. Y. last summer,
following his election to the cap
taincy of the Yale nine. Physicians
have approved his playing.
Warren considers himself well able
to bat and to cover the outfield in
spite of his handicap.
BurgOO King, the winner of the
Kentucky Derby last Saturday, was
to Belmont Park on Sunday
10 engage in workouts before his
owner, Colonel r. r. Bradley, de- |
,ides whether or not he will send |
him to Maryland for the Preakness
tomorrow. Col. Bradley said that he |
was usually not able to determine |
or not a horse was hurt i'm |
| race until three OF four days after |
he race. The chances are, how l
,ver, that BurgOo King finished the /
ace in good shape and that he will
inter and make good showing in
he Preakness.
ShortstOp John Peter Bolensky,
Who fielded and battcd his way from
he sandlots of the anthracite region
o a post with the Philadelphia Ath-
etics was Internationally released
his week by Manager Connie Mack.
Joe Boley (as he is known to base
all fans) came to the Athletics in
927, after a successful term of nine
ears with the Baltimore Orioles. He
ras born in MahOney City, Pa, and
) "a years old.
BOley was rated as one of the best
hortstOps in baseball during the
eak of his career. He is reported
} have cost the Athletics between
$4,000 and 100000.
Dan HOwley, swapping manager
T the Cincinnati Reds, who traded
,tal of 80 men to build his 1892
,am, learned the art of barter
trough an experience in which he
1t a different player of the same
anne.
Scouting in the south a few years
20 Howley spotted a likely college
ar by the name of Crawford When
owley became manager of the Reds
, remembered this player and de-
rmined to get him. Pat Crawford
ell was playing with the Giants and
a deal Crawford came to Cincin-
lti.
At the first opportunity HOwley
Id the player how he had admired
m from the first time he saw him.
Zen the truth came out. HOwley
d obtained the wrong Crawford.
A twenty-one-year old youngster
the ace starting pitcher of the
w York Yankees this season. He
Vernon Gomez. who won his start
: role last year by winning II
mes and losing only nine. Gomez
six feet one and One-half inches
| and weighs 175 pounds.
He has won three out of his first
II games this season.
very interesting sports maga-
Ie is published in Dover, Delaware,
an 1S-year-old boy by the name
David Hugg End. He recently
rted his third successful year as
editor of the magazine. The
gazine is called "Everybody's
Drts Monthly. Young Hugg has
eived much favorable commen-
ion OH his work and in addition
writing for his own publication
is a regular contributor to several
and other magazines.
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