The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-05
ST. LOUIS. Gets
ALL-STAR GAME
NEXT TUESDAY
Gabby Hartnett Out of
Summer Classic for First
Time in History
NY BILL BRANDT


Larry French, ace Of the Chicago
Cubs, and pacemaker Of the Ma
tional League pitching battalions
all spring In the shutout depart
ment, steps into the AllStar game
spotlight for the first time IN his
long career when the teams from
the two major leagues square OF in
Sportsman's Park, st. Louis, Tues
day, July Q. at 1880 p. m, Central
Standard Time.
The talented California southpaw
pitched his first major league game
as long ago as 1929, beginning a
6-year team on the staff Of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, before being
traded to the Cubs at the close Of
the 1894 season. This is thus Larry's
18th year as a full-fledged major
league ace. He has won IS or more
games In 8 of his dozen years serv-
Ice, but by some odd quirk Of Fate,
All-Star Game nomination never
came his way until this year.
Five other National Leagues be-
side Laughing Larry viii be basking
in the sunlight of All-Star Game
prominence for the first time when
the battle Of st. Louis gets going
These five are all comparative
youngsters trio Of Phillies, Hugh
Mulcahy, Kirby Rigbe and Merrill
May; Pete Coscarart, the sprightly
young second-sacker Of the Brook
lyn Dodgers, and Max West, long
range slugger Of the Boston Bees.
Mulcahy and Higbe, as the two
man pitching staff of the Phils, and
May, brilliant third-baseman and
$50 hitter, won their All-Star game
places by splendid performance
which kept the Phils In the thick of
the fight for the second division
leadership all spring, even though
the baseball experts far and wide
last winter doomed the Quakers to
last place almost unanimously.
In the strong contrast to this stall
wart squadron of six flrst-year ALI
stars stands the array Of hardy per-
ennials whose names have sparkled
In the box scores Of the July classic
down through the years. Carl Hub
bell is the only man on this years
National League squad who saw ac-
ton In the premiere All-Star game
staged in connection with the Chi
cago Worlds Fair, but four of the
boys-Bill Herman, Joe Medwick,
Mel OFT and Arky Vaughan-have
been on every National League ALI
Star game team since that first one.
Starting in 1884, this quartette
has held q reunion in successive
Julys In six different clubhouses as
the Nationual League team donned
its war-paint for the fray-first at
the Polo Grounds, New York, in
1894, then in Cleveland Municipal
Stadium in 1895, next in the Bee
Hive as Of 1886, Washington in 81,
out to Cincy for the 1898 battle,
then last year in Yankee Stadium.
They will hold the reunion again
in st. Louis, celebrating their
seventh straight election to their
leagues all-star ensemble. It's re-
union for Hubbell, too, his seventh
All-Star game, though not his sew
enth straight. He was In the first
six, then missed last year. It's ole
Moore,s sixth. Joe wasn't there IN
the Chicago premier and he missed
last year, too.
The 1910 classic marks the first
time in the history Of the mid-sum-
mer event that the genial phiz Of
Gabby Hartnett Is out Of the pic.
ture. The first six years Gabby was
listed as q catcher on the All-Star
squad. Last year he was manager, In
recognition of leading the Cubs to
the 1898 pennant.
This year he is represented only
in the form Of ballot he cast, along
with the other National League
managers, which delineated the
parent circuits All-Star lineup.