The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-09
SENATORS GET
 CANNON BALL.
 CUBAN ROOKIE
Ortiz With One G a m e Experience Expected
 to Make Good
BY PAUL SCHEFFLES United ress Staff CorrespOnden

United reSS Stan C0rreSpOndent)
 New York, March 9-(UP)-The g. Washington Senators have come up with Cuban rookie pitcher who does everything but the rhumba out on the pitching mound. Roberto Ortiz is his name and he's sup posed to be faster than any pitcher in the American League except Bob Teller. He has only played one full regulation baseball game in his life but Manager Bucky Harris says he'll stick. =.
 If Dutch Meyer, coach of the Texas Christians Horned Frogs, wants to retail his formula for producing passing wizards of the Davey O'Brien caliber, he'll find buyers in wholesale lots. Everybody sympathized with Meyer when Sammy Baugh was graduated, but along came OBrien. Now they're all feeling bad at the passing of Davey but Meyer predicts that Charlie Odle will make you forget 'em all. ...
 Oklahoma Produces Grapplers
 Professionally, wrestling may be flop but down at Oklahoma A. & M. they go in for the sport in large way because they have the greatest wrestling team in the na- tion. In 21 seasons the team has had IT undefeated seasons and lost only five meets against 121 victories and four ties. From 1921 to 1892 A. & M. ran up string of 70 consecutive dual meet victories. The mat men have lost only one meet since 1892 and have won nine official and unofficial national team titles. They also have claimed six national A.A.U. team titles. ..
 Wild Bill" Boyd, latest heavy weight protege of Jack Dempsey, was the only man ever to win the All-Navy heavyweight title two years running ....
 Doc Prothro. new manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, who is tackling the National Leagues most important reconstruction job, has at least one player on his roster to arouse enthusiasm. He is Merrill May, third baseman up from the Newark Bears. May bat ted .331 last season in the Inter- national league and drove in 1O8
 Poindexter Also Promising
 Annthar vNI0xyaSs fhot Iarfxx = smile of confidence to Prothros face is Jennings (Jinx) Poindexter, southpaw who was on Prothros staff last year at Little Rock. Tom Sunkel, last years strikeout king with the Southern Association is with the St. Louis Cardinals now but under Prothro's tutelage, Poin- dexter won the strikeout champion ship in 1886 and broke league record by punching IT of them in one game. ...
 Ed Goddard, star halfback of the Cleveland Rams professional football team, who Is taking post graduate work at the University of Southern California, has been offered baseball contract by the Cinvinnati Reds and expects to report to Ogden, Utah, a Red farm, at the close of the semester in June. Goddard is an infielder.
 The toughest, toughest football game should be just a breeze to Jim Mcdonald, star halfback of the Detroit Lions National Foot ball League team. Mcdonald mir aculously escaped injury a spec tacular automobile accident re- gently. His car skidded off the highway, crashed through three steel-studded guard-rails and over a 15 foot embankment. The car turned over three times but Mo- Donald climbed out of the wreck, uniniured.