The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-16
By HARRY GRAYSON Shorts Editor NEA Service.

 - Branch Hickey says that the dis ciplining of the famous Dean brothers last summer had more to do with the St Louis Cardinals winning the National League and world championships than any other one thing.
 NO player is bigger than the game" says the man who built ths' far-fiung Red Bird organization. Co
 The club rallied to Manager Frank FrIsch when the Deans went on 8 rampage after being set down for refusing to go to Detroit for an exhibition game. A new spirit was born. The Cardinals won six straight with the Deans or the sidelines."
 Hickey likes to tell of his first peek at Dizzy. It takes him back to the spring training of the Shaw nee, Okla, club in 1890.
 Dean had gone to Shawnee from Houston. There were 300 young players in the Shawnee camp, sent there by the Cardinals. They were performing in one of those cnd- less games in which the score means nothing and which are con ducted so coaches and managers may geta line on ability of the players.
 After several pitchers had made their appearance, tall young fei- low named Dean went to the mound. He never had pitched pro- fessional baseball, but he struck out all three men in the inning he pitched.
 Six WhiHfs i'm a Row
 Dean had great fast ball, and Hickey asked the coaches to let him pitch another inning. Again he struck out three men.
 Hickey took out one of the cards hec arries, and wrote "St Joseph" on it. St Joseph is a Cardinal Class A farm in the Western League. Shawnee was @ Class C club.
 The manager of the Shawne. club and several others tried to dissuade Hickey from sending Dean to club as high as St Jo- seph, pointing out that Dizzy had absolutely no experience. Hickey stuck to his decision, however, ana eventually Dean was sent to St Joseph, where he won IT games.
 @NotSt sfO was lO t1OlS- ton, and was pitching for tho pennant- winning Cardinals before the year was out.
 The evening of the day. Dizzy struck out six men in, two innings at Shawnee, Hickey met him in the hotel lobby.
 Dean went up to Hickey and said, Hello, Branch, how did I look out there to-day?"
 To this Hickey pretended to have forgotten that ever had seen a fellow named Dizzy Dean.
 What's your name?" he asked.
 ."Dizzy said. My names Dizzy Dean, Jerome Dean. Don't you kno wme? I'm the fellow who struck out six men in two innings today"
 Hickey pondered a few moments and then said, "Oh, yes, I believe I do remember fellow named Dean. Are you a left-hander Or right-hander?"
 Just Branch to Dizzy
 This sort of knocked Dizzy off stride a little bit, because he be- lieved he had impressed everybody at the park, but it did not keep him from putting up sales talk something like this:
 You are going to take me to St Louis, aren't you, Branch? can pitch in the big leagues right now, and will win for you, too"
 Hickey, during the entire con- versation, addressed Dizzy as Mir Dean, and Dizzy addressed the Cardinal vice president and gen. eral manager as Branch. It was their first meeting, and to this day Dizzy likes to be called Mir Dean by Hickey, but never fails to cali the Cardinal chief Branch.
 Flow are you going to beat a chap like that?" beams Rickey. Tt is little wonder that the De- trDit Tigers couldn't"