The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-30
TODAY'S
 SPORT. PARADE
BY HENRY McLEMoRE

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 Los Angeles, Jan. 30.-(UP)-Put butterfly net in his hands and you'd swear he was a young profess sor hot on the trail of the Brotsocat- lia Trufulianna.
 Seat him in a library and you'd think he was an aspiring Ph. D. deep in research for his thesis.
 Put him in a baseball suit, shove a bat in his arms, and you'd bet all you had he hit behind the pitcher in decadent twilight league, deep in Arkansas.
 But you'd be wrong-and defin- itely. Because the young man I speak of is Dominic DiMaggio, the young outfielder that the San Fran cisco Seals sold this winter to the Boston Red Sox for 8 sum that made even Tom Yawkey call up the bank to see if his balance was in good order.
 He'll be in center field when the Red Sox open the American League season this spring and the man who found him, developed him, and sold him-Lefty O'Doul-says he will be in there when the season closes, hit- ting, fielding, and running bases with the touch of his celebrated old- CT brother, Joe.
 Wears Glasses
 If O'Doul is right, and there are few better judges of baseball ivory in the country than the manager of the Seals, then looks certainly are deceiving. Dominic is slight in build. He couldn't stand much more than five feet nine and ITO is 8 close guess at his weight. He wears glass es, too, and he never takes them of. ODoul says he pays so little atten- tion to his glasses that after seeing him a few times the Boston fans will forget that he wears them.
 T have never seen him touch them," O'Doul says, either to ad- just them or wipe them of. He hits the dirt on head first slides as if he didn't know he has them on."
 One look at Dominic, and if you know anything at all about baseball (and l do, having been a scout for the House of David for the past three years, and responsible for the sign- ing of Orson Welles) your first ques- tion is certain to be:
 Gan he hit in the big leagues?"
 ODoul says he can-that despite his size he has enough power to belt the ball in the majors.
 file hit .360 in the Pacific Coast League, and there isn't enough dif- ference in the pitching here and in the majors to cut him down a great deal. He'll get enough base knocks to keep him well above the 300 mark and he has other virtues that will make that 300 or better a big aver age"
 I asked O'Doul to list Dominic's virtues.
 Good As Joe?
 "Well, for one thing, he can go and get . fly ball as well as Joe. And you know what that means. It just means he can get his hands on any, thing inside the park. And when he gets it he can throw it. There isn't a better arm in the majors today than Dominic has. He'll throw strikes to any base, and from anywhere. And Dominic can run the bases. Hell run them better than Joe, much better. He stole something like 40 bases for me last year, and he never went down except on my order. Turned loose, he probably would have stolen 50 or CO.,
 ODoul stressed that Dominic was a team man. Despite his quiet man. ner he is 8 mixer and leaves the Pacific coast league with the regard and respect of every man in it. He'll never cause any trouble, Lefty says and is the sort of player who is never satisfied.
 Hell learn as quickly as any rookie you ever saw," O'Doul said Baseball is his life, he loves 1t, and doesn't want to ride on his brothers reputation. And he won't have to, either. He's got it."