The Washington times., 1937-03-24
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By FRANK .RuCKn orNE11L


ORLANDO, Fla, March ~.
sgd Cohen threw q screw ball at
the righthanded hitting Hank
Greenberg down in Lakeland, and
the slugging first sacker Of the
Tigers missed it by a foot. This
was not surprising in view Of the
quality Of Cohen's service. The
ball came up with the wind carry
ing it-a most decided detriment
as pitchers will tell you-and Just
as Hankus Pankus swung with in
tent to burst the stitches, the
globule ducked into the capacious
NIT of j. Francis "Shanty" Hogan.
Now j. Francis Hogan is a man
Of mirth and girth, and he roared
his appreciation of Syd's pitch un-
til they must have heard him
three counties away.
Look at that PITCH" said
Stanley Raymond Harris. ut
was honey"
Stanley Raymond Harris, It
may be said, made a note on a
certain page in his ready refer.
ence book, to remember to pitch
sgd Cohen in the opening game
Of the July 4 double-header.
One pitch may not win q pen.
nant, as all the world knows, but
it may be a pretty fair indication
OF the sort Of arm behind the ball.
Cohen has labored on that screw
ball and he has mastered control
of it.
HAS CONFIDENCE
II have confidence in that
PITCH" Cohen said this morn
ing on the way to DaytOna
Beach to tackle the st. Louis
Cardinals in a return game.
II worked and worked on It
ever since reporting to the
Griffs at Biloxi, and now It is
paying dividends. I think I
can stop any hitter In the coun-
try with it.
II threw screw balls to five
Of them in five innings when
had to get the side out, and It
was effective. 1 fooled Green
berg with it in the first inning.
"They gave me q fine salute
with those two triples and got
. run, but I just kept pitching,
and everything was all right
That Hogan is a fine receiver.
You can work with him and de-
pend upon him. He will win q
lot of ball games for this club
this year."
Cohen will be one Of the regu-
lar pitchers for the Griffs this
year. He can't miss. He prob
ably will be the first-string left
handler, for the reason that he
pitches with his head as well as
with his heart and arm.
That may be just one mans
guess, for Dick Lanahan followed
Cohen on the rubber and gave as
fine an exhibition as you will want
to see in a long time. Dick pitched
his slow ball-the let-up pitch, as
they call it in the trade-and it
worked like a charm. The Tigers
hit him three times for one run.
Lanahan Improves
This was Lanahan'S finest per-
formance since joining the Wash
ington club, not only because he
limited a club that really looked
good to three hits, but because ne
pitched with greater fineSSe. He
made adroit use of the slow one
against such right-handed baSherS
as Rudy York and AL Simmons.
Twice he made Simmons force run
ners, and that is about all the
pitching you rightfully can ask OF
any left-handed pitcher.
Beating the Detroit Tigers with
left;handed pitching was a real
feat. It unqueStionably was the
ranking performance by the WASH
ington club up to date. Gerry
Walker, a strong right-handed hit
ter. led off; then we found Pete
Fox. Greenberg, Simmons, York
and Rogell, all betting from the
north side of the plate. Show me
two left-handers who will beat
that team as adroitly as the young
washington athletes beat them
yesterday.
The margin Of the GriffS may be
established as representing the
margin between the pitchers. The
several Tiger hurlerS were working
uphill all afternoon. The count
was three and two all too fire.
quently. Wild pitches aided Wash
ington.
Cecil Travis believes that all
things must go in threes. He hit
a triple with three on base TO score
three runs, and he drove into
triple play. 1t was the second triple
play made off drives he hit within
q week, and that Is something OF a
worlds record.
DeshOng to Hurl
Jimmy Deshong and Joe Casca.
rella will pitch against the Car
dinals in Daytona Beach today as
the Griffs return to that pic
turesuue little island ball park. II
the boys pitch back to their per-
Torrance of q few days ago they
will ba doing everything that NAV