, 1935-07-09
CRITICS JUMP
ON F. FRISCH
Americans Play Excellent
Ball to Take Game
Four to One
Bx ALAN GOULD


comes only once a year and it's a
great baseball show-this major
league all star tournament-but the
feeling Tuesday in National league
quarters was that it's q much
sounder policy to settle current ar
guments in the World Series.
zsyThe Nationals are not completely
discouraged, nor have they the
slightest idea Of suggesting the
abandonment of an event that has
rapidly captured the country's pop
ular fancy, as q spectacle, but the
{ fact remains they have yet 20 win
2 an all-star game, In three attempts.
Ton the other hand they have been
: victorious over the American league
In the last two world champion
ships and look forward with con-
siderable confidence now 10 the
fall festivities when. in all likeli-
hood, the New York Giants will
strive to wipe out the sting OF
what happened Monday right out
before the gaze Of 1872 cash GUS
toners in the gigantic Cleveland
stadium.
The third straight triumph Of the
Americans. by a 4 to / score, vas
easily the most decisive scored
y dnce the all-star idea was Matched
I IN 1888 at Chicago. IL was espe-
cially sweet for the forces of the
junior league for the reason they
were supposed to be somewhat be-
low par, crippled by the loss Of
several outstanding stars Of pre-
vious years and generally rated, In
advance, as this years underdogs.
IL was simultaneously q bitter pill
for the Nationals, who found them
selves o~utpitched, outplayed and
outsmarted under circumstances
that left plenty OF room for the
sccond-guessers to go into action.
Frisch Criticized
Most OF the argument In the wake
Of the game Tuesday centered about
Manager Frank Frisch's judgment
starting his own southpaw. Bill
Walker. instead Of Hal Schumacher,
sinker-ball ace Of the New York
Giants. Walker was raped for
three runs. including q booming
homer by Jimmie Foxx In the first
inning, so that the ball game was
over but the shouting by the time
Schumacher went In to twirl a
four-inning trick. prince Hal
himself yielded the fourth run but
ne famed five and gave an in
dividual performance equally as
brilliant as that Of either Lefty
Gomez or Mel Harder, wso COM
bined to pitch the Americans to a
fcur-hit victory.
The psychological effect Of start
ing Schumacher instead Of Walk
err, who was named as a replace
mcnt for Van Mungo tire night be-
fore the game, might have altered
the entire picture. On the other
hand, with their big hitterS mostly
handcuffed anyway. 1t might have
made no difference to the Nationals
IN the final outcome. Frisch him
self has the best answer 70 his
critics.
ITS sheer second-guesclng to
say I should have started Schu-
macher," he declared. sure, I
figured Hal was our ace but I had
TO take into account that he and
Walker were the only two fresh
pitchers available. All three Of the
others, Dizzy Dean, Paul Derringer
and Carl Hubbell, pitched the cay
before. I couldn't ask Schumacher
to pitch the whole game, could I.
without getting into q fight with
Bill Terry? SO what? I gambled
80 Walker getting away 10 o good
TART and then figured on Schu-
macher to step In with a strong
finish.
Il know it didn't work but the
margin was pretty thin, at that.
II Walker hadn't grooved that high
curve for Foxx in the first inning,
II Medwick had played Hemsley's
triple better In the second frame
and II we had placed a hit or two
in the clutches. it would have been
q different story. I would try the
same strategy all owe again, under
the same circumstances"