The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-30
RICH, WILLIAMS. AND TABOR SHOW
 CLASS AT CAMP.
Pitcher Looks Like Stand out Before Season Opens;
 Cronin Modest
By GEORGE KIRKsEY

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Sarasota, Fla, March 3O-(UP) The deep thinkers of baseball have been saying for some time the way to beat the, Yankees is to outdo them at their own game-to go out and get bright young players and develop them.
 That's what the Boston Red sox have been doing the past three years and the first bumper crop has come in. Three of the prize rockies in Florida are in the Red Sox camp and they are going to add more strength to the club that outhit the Yankees by 25 points last year.
 The youngsters are right fielder Ted Williams, third baseman Jim Tabor, and pitcher Woody Rich. They all look ready. Williams, who hit .366 at Minneapolis last year and hammered out 43 home runs, looks like one of baseballs coming stars. Tabor, a tall third baseman of the Joe Dugan type, doesn't look like he can miss.
 Woody Rich Lauded
 But the brightest youngster of them all is Woody Rich, labeled an- other Grover Cleveland Alexander. Rich's presence is doubly important because of the Red Sox's crying need for pitching. Rich, in his second year in baseball last season, won 19 games for Little Rock and pitched 8 no-hits game. His pitching style is a duplicate of Alexander's, throw ing sidearm with an effortless mo. tion. He has abundant stuff and marvellous control.
 If those three lads deliver, the Red Sox are going to get in the Tanks hair plenty. Last year the Red Sox finished second, 9A games of the pace, and broke even, eleven eleven, in 22 games against the Tanks. But they wound up the sea- son with a frightful pitching staff which Joe Cronin juggled around and kept going.
 Cronin plans to carry II pitchers, and hopes to find six starters some where. The makeup of the staff is very much in doubt. Jim Bagby, Lefty Grove, Jack Wilson, Fritz Ostermueller, Emerson Dickman, and Joe Heving are the principal hold overs. The newcomers are Eldon A,lker and Jake Wade from Detroit and Deny Galehouse from Cleveland. The two youngsters are Rich and Wilfred Lefebvre, a southpaw from Minneapolis. If Cronin can get to- gether a capable staff without using Wilson, a 15-game winner last year, as a starter, he plans to use him as No. 1 relief man.
 Grove on Tap
 The best guess is that mainline hurlers will be Bagby, Dickman, Auker, Ostermueller, Wilson, Rich and Grove, who'll pitch about once a week. Grove has looked great in training and is far from through although he must have plenty of rest.
 The Red Sox lost two great hitters in Ben Chapman, who batted $40 and Pinky Higgins, who batted .303, but Williams and Tabor are expected to hold up their end at bat. Both youngsters really can hit.
 Cronin is highly enthused about his club, but laughs off any attempts to swing the talk to the pennant.
 "The Tanks are the class of the race" said Cronin. You can't get away from that. We are moving up to them but we still have good way to go. We are building with young sters and when we do get there we'll have a solid club for long time. .'
 Outside of the box, Cronin has his club set. The infield will be Jimmy Foxx at first; Bobby Doerr, who has arrived as second baseman, and Cronin and Tabor on the left side of the infield.
 Gene Desautels, who doesn't get the credit he deserves, John Peacock and Moe Berg, baseball's No. in- tellectual, will comprise the catch- ing staff.
 Out of this lineup, only Desautels and Doerr aren't considered as poe tential 300 hitters and they won't be ..r under that mark. Desautels hit .291 last year and Doerr .289. So, give the Red Sox some pitching to go with their abundant power, and they'll make themselves most ~l.~. ~~,sr,,e %x ttSa vonkc