The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-17
Today's Sport
 Parade
By HENRY McLEMORE


 New York, May IT. (UP)-Lets call the whole thing off. Right now, before summer sets in and it gets hot, sticky and uncomfortable.
 Let's call off the American league race, mean. Whats the use of play ing out the schedule just because some misguided soul arranged 1t for 154 games under the delusion that it would take that many to decide the winner? The Yankees are in, to be quite truthful (which is a rare thing, indeed, for me- They were in during spring training and the only real excuse for starting tho American league season at all was to allow Mayor LaGuardia to show off his new spring hat.
 Since the race started things have gone from bad to worse, and the Yankees now threaten to lap the field and become the first team in history to win two years pennants in . single season. The Tanks have been damned sporting about the whole thing They benched Lou Gehrig, the powerhouse of their at tack for 2130 consecutive games, and prevailed upon Joe DeMaggio, the Italian version of Cobb, Speaker, Ruth and Wagner to pull an inn portant muscle and retire to the players club for spell.
 Disintegrating?
 The loss of these two gentlemen figured to have a very depressing effect on the Yankees, and when they opened in Detroit without Joe or Lou one paper welt so far as to chortle in headline: Yankees dis integrating."
 That very afternoon the dispirited New Workers beat the Tigers g to 2 and the same newspaper apolo- gized with this classic headline: Yankees disintegrate all over the Tigers" With a new man on first base, and substitutes in the outfleld the Yankees won ten of twelve games on the road, and opened their home stay in the stadium yes- terday by humping the St. Louis Browns.
 The presence of the Browns in this city doesn't make much sense unless their manager brought them here for a trip through the Worlds Fair and its educational features, in- cluding course at Christy Walsh's baseball school for boys. It costs money to come from St. Louis to New York. Besides, night in an upper berth isn't any too comfort able. Why didn't the Browns just stay at home and in an exchange of wires concede the Tanks clean sweep in the series? They might even have driven bargain by wire and lost only three of four games.
 The Browns being here is just as ridiculous as making the aYnks go out there later in the summer, when the temperature and the humidity have at one another to see which can infiict the worst punishment on baseball players. By the same token, why should the Tanks ruin a per- fectly nice summer by travelling around asserting superiority that IS already recognized. It's no fun for the other clubs, either. Don't you think that Lefty Grove of the Red Sox, getting bit old now and pretty sick of trying to make that tired arm of his act like a youngster, would rather spend the next three months fishing and swimming than pitching for a hopeless cause? Or that Rollo Hemlsey would much prefer to finger in the shade of a nice bed stube than in the dust and heat behind home plate at Cleve- land?
 It's All Over
 The thing to do is to concede the Tanks the pennant now, give. second place to the Red Sox, let the Tigers and the Indians match for third, and the remaining four clubs draw out of a hat for the second division positions. By doing this a lot of futile work would be avided. and be- sides, the Yankee players might pos- 6ioly become fat and lazy during ldleness and thus give the National league pennant winner some sort of chance in the World Series.
 Not much of a chance. mind you because boys, there Is a league that only a Ford Prick could love. Re- mind me, the next time see Ford 70 ask Jim, if he were baseball writer again, what he would write about the lifeless teams that are now pretending to run a race under his silks.