The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-05
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BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press stan Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent)
 Chicago, Oct. 5-chicago has gone softly.
 Visitors no longer have to order their suits from Hart, Schahner and Bethlehem steel.
 A pineapple is something you eat, a typewriter is something you write on, and no one dreads lead pol soning.
 Even a squealer isn't put on the spot any more and if he is taken for a ride 1t is down Michigan boule- yard, with folks throwing ticker tape at him.
 To prove what I say is true, l give you Anthony (the brain) Las- zeri, who Is known to the trade as Tony the Torpedo.
 Even as I write this, Lazzeri is squealing on "his old mob--the New York Yankees. For 12 years Lazzeri was one of the Yankee trigger" men. He sat on their councils, helped grease their guns. helped put the finger on their foes. Tn Q pinch, no one was more anxious to rub 'em out than "the brain," particularly on two-ply killings at second base. His was e "black hand" on the bat.
 Then the northside Chicago mob got to him. With dough. He sold out to public money gabs No. l, Phil Wrigley, who is known in chicle circles as "the bite" He left the Yankee mob for the Cub gang.
 It is not known for sure how he left, but the D. A. suspects he left in the dead of night in a sleek, high powered Pullman. lower 8, car 4, answering to the name of Hiawatha Springs.
 Anyway, today he Is sitting in a bomb-proof dugout with his fellow baseball killers from Chicago. AL ready the Cubs have sent expen- sive wreaths to the Pirates, and are today pricing triple-plated caskets for Yankees. They are counting on the brain,
 Now what can "the brain" tell them? What can he squeal7 What secrets can he give away? Local police authorities are watching this closely, and are said already to have thrown 0 cordon around Lazzeri The situation called for three-way investigation, and they have an- nounced that e break is imminent and as everybody knows, breaks make the series,
 Knows the "Enemy"
 Lazzeri knows @ lot. For i2 years, and six world series, this despavado of the diamond worimed his way into the innermost chambers of tho Yankee hideout. He learned what Yankee pitchers had. He learned how they held the ball when they threw curve, Q strike, or changed pace. Tn his mind he stored away cunningly, the strength and the weakness of the batters.
 He even knew the significance oi the delicate nuances of the third base coach. A fiutter of the hand from the first base coach becans like handwriting on the wall t9 him. And when the third base coach yelled "Attaboy Joel' only Ton. the Torpedo realized that this pre- saged another St. Valentines muT1 der on the bases, with Qehrig, Dick ey, and De Maggie the wop plotting 'em out. Even the "big brair," Me- Carthy, couldn't cross his legs with out the Torpedo lifting his eyebrows and murmuring to himself. "Uh' huhl see. I get 1t. I know" Now, as special investigator, x-7e7 working out of J. Edgar Hoover'a office the win De surprised to learn about this himself, incidentally I tailed LazzefI in yesterdays final practice by the Cubs. Disguised az e penguin. I sat next to the brain when the Tanks tried out in Wrig- ley field.
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