The Washington times., 1938-01-27

the ransom
money in less
BILL coRUM time than it
would take for the negotiations.
Talking with newspapermen
the other night about Anders'
proposed plan to grab the great
jerome, Edgar Hoover said he
doubted if it would have been
a profitable snatch.
The head Oman based his
belief on the recent announce
ment that the st. Louis Club
was trying to slash Deans
salary to $4,000. Mr.. Hoover
didn't know the half of it.
WOULD HAVE HELPED
There were times last season
when Breadon, Hickey and
Frisch would have put right in
with Anders and helped him
capture Dean-with net.
And so far as the fans are
concerned, if Dizzy and the
little woman are going to stage
another of those noisy holdout
strikes this spring they'll be
sorry Anders' cheme fell
through. Those things can grow
tiresome. Especially when the
"better half" insists on desert
ing the vacuum cleaner to give
out hourly bulletins to the press.
I doubt. however, if Dizzy will
be hard to sign this spring. He
had a bad year in '37, and knows
it. This is his year to pitch as
he can pitch when he chooses,
to get back some of the prestige
his antics and tantrumS Of the
last two seasons cost him.
LOVES L1MELIGHT
Dizzy dotes on the imelight;
is smart enough to know that he
must win to stay in it. Tempera-
ment is a luxury that a losing
pitcher can't afford. The older
Dean still is young enough, and
good enough, to be one OF the
games greats. Perhaps my
hunch is fathered by the wish,
but it is my hunch that he is
due for a big season.
Diz must know in his heart
that he wrecked his 1887 season
with his own outbursts. He had
nothing to win from Frick, for
example, save trouble. Which
was all he won.
Paul Deans case is perplex-
ing. DR.. Bob Hyland and others
in a position to know insist there
is nothing wrong with his pitch
ing arm. But Paul thinks so.
Therefore, it comes to the same
thing so far as his value as a
pitcher is concerned.
NEEDS PSYCHOANALYZING
A good psychologist might be
able to change the course Of
this young fellows life. He ad-
nits his arm feels all right. He
simply can't or won't make him
self throw hard. He's babied
his arm so long he can't stop.
There was period last summer,
when he'd promise every day
that the next day he would cut
loose and put something on the
ball.
He'd even get to the pitch
when he was going to do it.
Then he'd flub it and nothing
that anybody could say or do
: would make him try to fire his
high hard one. I imagine that
people who have had a broken
leg or arm must be able to SYM
pathize with him in that feeling
Of fear.
NOT GREAT PITCHER
He's through unless he over.
comes it, although he's little
more than a rookie in age. To
be sure, he was not cut out to
be a great pitcher. He has
speed, but almost all young
pitchers have that.
Except for being Dizzy's kid
brother, Paul never would have
made much ripple in the big
league pond. That made him,
and there are those who insist
it also broke him. They claim
the psychological relationship
between the brothers is so
strange that Paul has no urge
to win unless Dizzy is winning.
I don't know the two men
Intimately enough to say. But
there seems to be no question
that a mental quirk and not a
physical handicap threatens to
cut short Paul's once promising