The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-04-14
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HALiI1iar,n RraIlcheY.
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much of batting punch in the
spring games, but with pitching
staff functioning as the Fonseca
| FINGERS have been, they do not
need to score an awful lot of runs
| to win
| Phar Lap may not show his best
form at Chicagos Arlington Park
because that track in hot weather
is like a brick pavement, and Phar
Lap, with nothing less than a Bald
win locomotive on his back, may
| crack up on that kind of going.
The high punt kickoff, allowed
| under the new rules of football,
will make the play look bit IKE
a basketball toss-up. because it al
lows so many players of each team
to gather under the oval while it
is falling, and resulting in a free
for-all scramble.
And Everybody Docs
The Athletics, apparently just
as good as they were last year,
must be picked to win the Ameri-
can league pennant again. But
would rather pick the Yankees be-
cause anybody can pick the Athle-
tics.
The reason why spring baseball
predictions are the unauthorized
mallarkey is because so many eX-
pectancies are knocked awry by
trades, illness, injuries and other
factors that spring handicappers
wot not of.
The deduction that the Cincin-
natl Reds will lead the second di-
vision in the National league this
year is not deduction at all, but
| only a wild guess, prompted by
faith in the ability of Dan Howley
to keep the ball-club fighting.
Calm Yourself, Johnny
Johnny Allen, pitching rookie of
the Yankees, may be the best re-
cruit pitcher in the league this
year, because Joe Mccarthy is
great hand at helping a young fell
low to keep his temper. Steve
O'Neil, who caught Allen at Tor
onto, says that Johnny's only fault
is his own hot head.
The reported ambition of Jess
Willard to come back to the ring
sounds very fishy because Jess
was too old to- lift his dukes ten
years ago when he tried to come
back against Firpo--and Jessica
was 80 years old then.
This writer's impression that
Gene Tunney really had decided tc
use the English language in writ.
ing his memories for Golfers must
because Gene weighed in sNeh die
finx. ac at,an 6rrlIo nh1n n a a ~ in
of the installments.
But Maybe He Doesn't Like Beans
The charge that Jack Dempsey
didn't go to Boston on any of his
comeback tours because Boston
writers were too pro-Sharkey and
would have thrown cold water on
his attempts is hard to deny be-
Boston, where he could have
played to nifty gate.
Adolph Heuser, sensational
young battler from Germany ought
to go right to the top of the heavy
weight heap because he is brick
laye1. and if you ever shook hands
with a bricklayer you know the
reason.
Let the Other Guys Work, Too
Babe Ruth processes to be pu-
zled because so many old pitchers
are still tossing topnotch ball for
major league teams. but he
shouldn't be. The reason is that
old pitchers make batters hit, de-
pending upon the eight men out
there on the diamond with them.
and young pitchers forget all about
their mates and try to strike every
body out.
The complicated series of STAN
ley Cup playoffs. by which the
team finishing in third place dur
ing the season may win the hockey
championship. isn't so hard to fig
ure out when the take at the gates
Is figured.
Uncle Robbie saw his team. the
BrooI<Iyns. beaten by indianapolis
at Jacksonville the other day, II Ia
I. IN game marked By loose
pitching. poor hitting and horrible
SEEDING, all on the part. of the
BrookIyns. The boys must have