Evening star., 1938-03-17
Yanks Held Unbeatable.

beat the Yankees. Nobody possibly can
do it unless Joe Di Maggie comes down
with poison ivy, Lefty Gomez comes
down with goitre, and Lou Gehrig
comes down with a terrible thud. The
terrible thud is new germ, just per-
fected by science, which is said to be
distantly related to the African tsetse
thud.
Enough of this levity. if that's what
1t is. Col Jake Rupert owns. and J.
V. Mccarthy manages, a ball club
much better than any other in its
league. far better than anything in the
National League. If the Yanks can
be beaten, the omens lie, and I am
looking straight at one particular
omen, with blue spectacles and fake
White whiskers, who is we'll known
to the police of Saskatchewan.
Joe Mccarthy denies that his team
is shoo-ln for the pennant, but Joe
has a pretty complacent look about him
these days He cannot help looking
complacent, as he basks in st. Peters
burg's certified sunshine and squints
at the Yankee athletes.
They're good, I admit" he saws.
handsomely. Il think they're good
enough to win. But anything can hap
pen. For the Lords sake, don't ink
us by saying that the Yankees are sure
to win
The Yankees are sure to win. For
one thing, they are a better ball club
than they were in 1885 and 1887. In
many key spots they are young club,
improving all the time.
The outf1eld is young. fast and DOW
erful. Joe Di Maggie the little known
Coast rookie. is short of Is. So is
Tommy Heinrich. George Selkirk is
older, but full of ambition and strong
as an OK. There is no better replace
ment anywhere than Myril Hoag,
AND over in Newark, where Col. Rup-
pert keeps his green beer to mellow.
is youth named Charlie Keller, who
some day may rank them all. .- o.
Red Rolfe is young and improving.
frankie Crosetti is 81. Joe Gordon
still is in college, between ball seasons.
Successor to Tony Lazzeri, Joe will
speed up the double-play production
department and hit better than .27o,
wnere Lazzeri hit only .235. Bill
knickerbocker and Babe Dahlgren are
the best team Of utility inflelders the
Yankees have had in years. Lou
Gehrig? Well, Gehrig is a big left
handed first baseman with a lot of
promise.
Surplus Of Young Pitchers.
Mr.. Mccarthy has more good young
pitchers than he knows what to do
with. That is always the way with
MIR. Mccarthy Three or four years
ago he spotted your correspondent
IN conversation with some baseball
writer's in the lobby of the hotel down
here.
Hey, you, come over here!" he
barked
Your correspondent trotted over.
Don't talk to baseball writer's" said
Mr.. Mccarthy. you amt ready for
that yet. Get up to bed, get out to
the field early in the morning, and
show me something. Then maybe
some day you'll have something to
talk to them writer's about
"Yessir," said your correspondent.
thoroughly chastened.
We got into the elevator, where the
light was better.
oh, OH" said Mr.. Mccarthy. Its
you. I thought you were one of my
new pitchers. Thank God you're not,
because you prob'ly can't pitch lick"
With this accurate summary of the
situation, Mr.. Mccarthy strobe of to
the hay.
Mr.. Mccarthy has more young
pitchers than ever this year-Chand-
Ter, Beggs, Donald, Sundra, Wicker,
Vance and some more Chandler and
Vance already have shown we'll in the
American League. Beggs and Donald
were stars of the wonder team at
Newark last year. Mix the best of
these striplings up with Gomez, Ruf-
fine, Pearson and Murphy, and you
have all the pitching one man could
ask
Then there is Dickey. In fact, there
Is ball team. We will take up De-
troit and Cleveland in good time, and
fine organizations they are, but, If they
have a chance 50 has Austria.
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