The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-02
BULLETIN ACE !. OF GIANTS TIPS
 SCALES AT 265
MaranvilIe Gave Start to Walter Brown, Former
 Cub
By PAUL sCHEFFELS, United Press Staff Correspondent.

New York. July 2-(Up)-Notes from the major league circuit:
 The biggest man in baseball (fronn the hay-scales point of view-265 pounds), walter Brown, New York Giants buyy.pen ace, owes his start to one. of the tlnieSt men that ever achieved deathless diamond fame, James Walter Vincent Maranville. In the Rabbits Chicago Cubs days, he saw Big Brown. aged lS, twirl- ing in rural Rhode Islands serai- pro zone. Browns first sniff of big legaue smoke was a six-inning fling with the Cubs way back in 1925.
 For . time, Manager Casey Sten- gel of the Boston Braves. could put on the field a lineup that enc rolled the oldest ouftield and the youngest isafield ever arrayed in the history of baseball. Stengel had both Waner Brothers 3T and 35 in that order, and Johnny Cooney, who will be 70 next March, for his outfield.
 Infield of Youngsters
 His youthful infield would have been Buddy Gremp, aged 21, on first base: 'Bauna Powell, $, at second; willie Weitelmann, 21, at short; and Sibby Sisti, who won't be 2l until July 26, at third.
 Allegiance is somewhat split at Wrigley Field when the Giants trot out their Chicago battery" against the Cubs. The receiving end, rosy-cheeked Gabby Hartnett, though a Rhode Islander by birth, has been Chicago resident since he first joined the Bruins in 1922. The pitcher, be spectacled B o b Carpenter, is a Chicago native and owns a seat in the Chicago Grain Exchange which he uses all winter as a thriving junior executive.
 Slim slabSteEs can help them- selves to a success secret passed along by Jake Mooty. Texan relief hurler of the Chicago Cubs. Jake. who weighs only about 16S, used to depend on his power-ball in the piaches. Success dodged him until he developed a sneaker" an emer- ee1acy pitch with more elusiveness than speed to serve up there when the ball game situation reaches it's peak clutch and the key hitter has his heels dug in for a house-clean- ing swing.
 Crafts Past Unusual
 Ten years ago the football coach at Mississippi College told his star backfield ball carrier he better play baseball in spring as a con- dition3ng means. The gridder had never played a game of baseball In his life. but ohediently followed instructions. Today, thousands of fans who never heard of him In football know him as the center fielder of the world championship baseball club, one of the best ball. hawks the National League has ever enrolled. The name = Harry Craft.
 Answer these if you can:
 l-Why do historians call 1925 ''ttae year without an equal''?
 2Why do they call this years Brooklyn Dodgers 'The Super SuperbaS"?
 3-Ddd they call the 1916 New York Giants a homer team be- cause their all-tirne record winning streak of 26 straight was made enc tirely on their home grounds.
 They refer, in lighter vein, to the fact that it's the only season in National League history in which not a single ball game ended In a tie.
 1Perfaps because the 1902 Su- perbas led the League in homers with le for the entire season. whereas Leo DurocheY's boys had already hit twice that many by June 10, 1941.
 3-Certainly not. Don't you know that earlier in the same year the same Giants had a winning streak of 1T straight, all played away from home?