The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-20


 as he wants to be, but appears to give up at the plate at times. | The Tanks trouble to date is that they have been unable to merge pitching and hitting. The New Workers got off to fine start with nary a 300 hitter in the bat. ting order, but remarkable pitch- ing enabled them to take. the American League lead by beating the Senators in a double.header in Washington on Decoration Day.
 The Tanks remained in front until July 26, despite the fact that the case of Vernon Gomez became more mystifying with each of his reverses. The left handed star of the past four sea- sons feels as we'll or better than he ever did, and seems to have just as much up his slevee, yet has been unable to compile a per- centage of .500.
 Crosetti Probably Lost
 for Remainder of Season
 Gomezs inconsistency was more than made up by the remarkable comeback on the part of Johnny Allen. flashes of brilliance shown by Johnny Broaca, and the flying start of Vito Tamulis.
 Lou Gehrig shook the most prolonged slump of his career. and George Selkirk, after rather disappointing beginning, came on to fill the large brogans of the im- mortal George Herman Ruth ac- ceptably. The faithful Gehrig and Selkirk, each awaiting In the neighborhood of 1920. are the only Yankee regulars hitting 300 or better now.
 Things went along swimmingly for the Tanks until July 14, when a cartilage in the left knee of Frankie Crosetti snapped out of joint as the shortstop pivoted on ad ouble play. That put the San Francisco youngster out un- til July 23, and he had just got going good again when the injury recurred on Aug. as he was climbing into Pullman berth en route home from Washington.
 Water on the knee has devel- oped, ana Frankie may be cut for the remainder of the campaign.
 Bill Dickey was in the dugout 10 days as the result of tearing a muscle in his knee in a collision with Buddy Myer. of the Senators, and hasn't been right since.
 Gehrig underwent another siege of lumbago, and when passed his 1600th consecutive game res veald that he had been playing with a torn shoulder muscle since June 8 in order to preserve his record.
 Allen bobbed up with a sore shoulder, and Johnny Murphy hurt a finger on his throwing hand. Yankees Well Fixed For
 Pitching in Stretch Run
 Tamulis suddenly lost his effec. tiveness, and was beaten Tn nVe straight engagements and shelleo from the premises in four Of them
 Neither Red Rolfe nor Jack saltzgaver can play shortstop ac' ceptably, so, despite all the Yankee farms, Mccarthy had to page BIondy Ryan, who threatened to retire when ordered to Baltimore by the Phillies. To date, the tall Buffalo blond hasn't even come ur with a slogan for the Tanks:
 Crosetti, a keyman, will DC missed, but with their pitching staff intact again, and with large Red Rufiing showing signs that ne is going to be a perplexing pron' l lem in the run down the stretch the Yankees are better equipped m the box than the Tigers for the double headers ahead.
 To cut down the Tigers mar gin, Mccarthy will have to syn. chronize his outfits pitching ano hitting--and instill some fight.
 Fight is perhaps as importan, as either pitching or hitting, and happens to be one of the out standing qualities of the Tigers who are the kind of athletes who won't permit the loss of even a Gehringer to stand between them