The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-17
DEAN ON WAY TO EXPLAIN INJURY
 TO LEFT ARM
Glass Cut Says Mrs. D. as Cubs 'FrOnt Office"
 Awaits Report

GAVtoDukBA, uuAJ At-NO.EJ-~ 4IlLZy Dean, the Chicago Cubs 4185,000 beauty listened sleepily early to- day while his wife explained how he had received a lacerated arm.
 Manager Gabby Hartnett had sent the talkative one home from New York last night, saying he would not tolerate" any player breaking training rules. Dizzy's left arm was heavily bandaged.
 At 4:28 a. m. (EDT) the train car- rying Dizzy to Chicago where he will explain to the Cubs front office, ar- rived here and reporters found Mrs. Dean asleep in te lower berth of their drawing room and Dizzy asleep in the upper. Upon being awakened, he was too sleepy to talk, but she wasn't.
 "Tell them exactly what hap- pened, Jerome" she commanded of the prone figure in the berth above her. There was no response, and she continued: "the telephone rang in the middle of the night in the hotel in New York. Jerome reached out in the dark to answer 1t. His arm hit the glass top of the telephone table and knocked over a lamp. The lamp broke the glass top and Jerome cut his arm on the broken glass;" Mrs. D. Talks "It's nothing at all," Dizzy num- bled from above. "They just put two stitches in 1t. It hardly cut the skin. noy piitl vt,ntk I'm ur.it,0 tA ratnt,1 the team in Chicago next Sunday"
 T don't see why all the fuss" said Mrs. Dean. Its his left arm. If 1t was his right arm 1t would be dif- ferent."
 "Hartnett says he won't tolerate any player breaking training" one of the reporters said.
 Did Gabby say that?" asked Mrs. Dean.
 She then terminated the inter- view.
 The Deans wouldn't talk when they left New York last night. A story circulated in New York that Dizzy got tangled up with 8 plate glass cigar counter Saturday night, but 1t could not be verified. The physician who treated Dean there was not located until early today and his description of the wound did little to corroborate the cigar-counter run1or.
 T was called to the Hotel Com- modore about 24 hours ago to at tend Dean," Dr. Reynold E. Church said ct 2 c. m. T found sharp laceration which required two stitches to close"
 Mysterious When baseball writers travelling with the club pointed out that a man who poked his arm through a sheet of glass was not likely to re- ceive only a single, sharp wound, they received stony glares in reply. It was all very mysterious, and not even travelling Secretary Bob Lewis would give hint as to what hap pened.
 The Cubs office in Chicago said only: Dean already has told two stories"
 The whole affair was kept secret by 4AhA tiCtv u4AtAA GAVCl tIC Subo doubdle-header against Brooklyn at Brooklyn yesterday, although later 1t was learned that Dizzy and his wife checked out of the Commodore in New York at 2 a. m. Sunday. This was the first trip of the year that she had accompanied him.
 There has been lot of tension on the team since Deans recent state- ment blaming the Cubs poor show ing on the faiure fcertain Cubs to cooperate. He did not name them. It was known that Deans $20,000 salary is resented by the lesser paid players who perform every day. Dean has been big disappointment to Hartnett this season. He got off to a fair start, winning four games in the first two months of the sea- son, but he was belted out of the box in his last four trips to the mound, and Gabby was plenty peeved.