The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-19
C0CHRANE RATES
 FREY BEST EVER
Detroit Pilot Says Brook lyn ShOrtstOp Nucleus of Dodgers

nus Frey the best snortstop n
 baseball.
 The St Louis youngster is one
 of the principal reasons why the
 Detroit manager says, Give the Brooklyn club one more Van Mun- go and 1t would steal second place in the National league this season perhaps even first" Frey is only 22 and starting his second complete season in the ma
 jors. He was a switch hitter when
 he came up from Nashville in the
 fall of 1883 but stuck to the left side of the plate last year. Now
 he is switching again. Junior, as Casey Stengel calls him, appears frail, but hits the ball for good distances.
 Brooklyn impressed Cochrane more than any other outfit that the Tigers encountered in the south. The Dodgers should have. They won four out of four from the American League champions.
 "The outfield has power at bat and can field," explains Mircle
 Mike.
 "Frenchie Bordagary will heip
 the club tremendously. He hit 300 for the White Sox last season when he wasn't satisfied. "The Brooklyn infield pulled seven double plays against us in three games.
 "The entire club pounded all our pitchers except Tommy Bridges. "Al Lopez is great catcher" So all Stengel has to do to excel the feat Cochrane accomplished with the Tigers in 1894 is to dig ur another Mungo. Casey undoubtedly has strained his eyes trying to do that ever since he took command across the bridge.
 Frogs in his Throat This whopper by Chester Me- Carty took the minnow mounted on a fancy shield at the national convention of the Izaak Walton League in Chicago. q was fishing on the banks of the Deshutes river in oregon and hadn't had dimes worth of luck with the bait I was using," re- counted McCarty. Some one had told me that when all other baits failed to land 'em, frogs would do | the trick.
 T went in search of frogs, and finally found one. Being a litt.c nearsighted, failed to see that the frog was being held in the mouth of a big vicious looking rattlesnalEe
 until my hand was few inches
 from it.
 Having bottle of whiskey with me, I poured few drops of the stuff down the snakes throat
 He dropped the frog. l picked 1t up, returned to where I had leit my fishing tackle, and began cast ing with the frog as bait. Pretty
 soon felt something tapping against my boot.
 "When l looked down I saw the
 snake to which had given the
 whiskey. He held two frogs in his
 mouth"
 Break BOA; Win Open Tommy Armour asserts that anybody who breaks BOA at Oak mont in June will win the U. s. Open championship. ] The Briton agrees with Gene i Sarazen that the Pittsburgh lay out is the toughest folk course in | the world. Between them. they ought to know, and this opinion is unanimous as far as persons fa- miliar with Oakmont are con. l cerned.
 Armour won the only U. s. Open ever staged at Oakmont, beating
 Lighthouse Harry Cooper in q | playoff.
 Balancing the contention that Oakmont has been made a harder course since 1927 Is another that the players of to-day score lower Without wind or rain, Oakmont
 will be an ideal course, perfectly
 groomed with lightning fast green
 and fairways of rich turf. Rair
 would Iengthen the course consid.
 erably beyond the actual 700t
 yards 1t measures. l fConvriRht. tp2k.l