The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-07
PITCHING VS. BAT. POWER IN ALL. STAR BALL GAME
Fans Are Real Goats as Owners Let Managers
 Choose Players
By RICHARD MCCAIN NEA Service Sports Writer

ganza formerly known as the Fans Follies, will have its fourth showing here in Griffith Stadium July 2.
 It will offer just about the same old cast and the same old plot National League Pitching vs. Ameri- can League Power.
 There is one important newcomer to the cast, however, He is the highest-paid pitcher alove today Frank Roosevelt, a $76,000-a-year right-hander who has seen fire in five opening games and one world series. MT. Roosevelt has graciously agreed to throw out the first ball.
 Despite the fact that the baseball magnuts have disenfranchised the citizenry and placed the selection of the all-stars in the hands of the major league managers, some 30,000 of the rebuffed pleasantly are ex- pected to pay their taxation without representation to the tune of ESQ., 900.
 Most of this money will be poured into the charitable coffers of the baseball players association for the aid of indigent old-timers. Well over $100,0oO ha salready been contribut. ed to this fund in the four preced- ing games. The association, there- fore, has been the real winner in the annual series.
 The other winner has been the American league. It has won three of the four games. The National league finally broke into the win column last year with a 4-3 victory in game played in the Boston Bees park.
 Hubbell And Harder Annual Heroes
 While the All-star affair is not played with the same fervor of a a regular league championship game nor with the hot tenseness of a world series, each of the four games, nevertheless. has produced some out- standing bits of brilliance.
 Some of the boys, you see, just can't bring themselves around to playing for anything but keeps, and, even though the game means noth- ing to them in the way of added gold, they cant help but bear down in there.
 Carl Hubbell, for instance.
 The Old Master was the star of sears in 1884, shining brightly in the darkness of the National de- feat. This was the game in which he got off to a Shaky start by giv- ing up a hit and walk and then proceeded to strike out five men in a row.
 They were right-fair- to -middling country hitters, too. There was fellow named Ruth-Babe Ruth, an outfielder. You may remember him. He was with the Braves for a while. And then there was Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx, and Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin. The five went down swinging on g pitches.
 Later that same day, mild, little Mel Harder stepped out of the shad- ows of the Americans dugout and stole some of the play away from MT. Hubbell by performing one of the most alright bits of relief pitch ing ever seen.
 MT. Harder incidentally, in the last four years has done better re- lief work than the WPA, Red Cross, PWA, and eco combined. He has worked 3innings in the four dif- ferent games and has been touched for only six hits. He has given nary a run.
 There Have Been Goats, Too
 Lefty Gomez. The Goofy. was the hero of the 1885 game in which the Americans embalmed the National, 4-l, in Clevelands huge sepulchre before 10000 elated partisans.
 Lefty and-yeah, that mans here again-Harder shared the duties on the dune and gave u ponly four hits.
 The first game of the series played July 6, 1883, as part of the Worlds Fair inChicago produced on outstanding hero. but tisaw the aforementioned MT. Ruth rise to the occasion in his usual way and bang out an important home run. The opposing teams were managed by Connie Mack and John McGraw which made the old-tiners remi- nisce about the good old days in their beers.
 Dizzy Dean, who recently said "the hell with all-star game" during his debate with Ford Prick, shared the hero spot with Hubbell last year as the two of them held the Americans scoreless through the first six innings while their mates stack ed up Q winning lead. Dig famed four in three hitless innings.
 The games, of course, have pro- duced their goats, too. There was, for instance, poor Lonnie Warneke who had to be keut alone in & quiet darkened room for days after the 1884 game in which the Americans almost gave him shell-shock with a six-run uprising in one inning. Poor Lonnie couldn't get the ball over, and then on the rare occasions he did, he wished he hadn't. They liked to rip his ears of.
 Frankie Frisch was the 1895 goat. MT. Frisch was the manager and the National ieaguers wanted to irn- peach him for malfeasance and mis- feasance and whatnot for starting } Bill Walker when such masters of the mound as Hubbell, Dean, and Mungo were lounging around the premises.
 Last year the goatSkin was draped across the young shoulders of Giu- seppi DiMaggio, the Yankees rookie Gitlseppi, eager to justify his man. ager's selection of him for duty in the game, misjudged a line drive and it skipped past him for a triple which accounted for the winning runs.
 But, to be quite frank about it. the real goats have been the fans, When started back in 1883 by Arch Ward, Chicago sports editor, the All-Stars show was intended to be the fans dream game-the game in which they could see their favorites all gathered together and playing