Evening star., 1942-07-02
Cronin Ponders
Action in Case
Of Su|ky Ted
Fellow Bosox Furious
As SIueeer, Peeved
By Jeering, Loofs
BY BURTON HAWKINS,
star staff Correspondent.

BOSTON, July 2.-Boston's Tex
Williams has gone temperamental
again and that American League
pennant the Red Sox we're visioning
suddenly has become mirage. VIII
liams, backbone OF the surging Bos-
ton baseball club, says, Il don't care
II I never play ball in this city
again."
The heckling of few Boston fans
has penetrated Ted's admittedly
thin skin and Manager Joe Cronin
Is contemplating benching his lead
ing home run hitter, run scorer, run
producer and cleanup batter. The
towering, loose -jointed outfielder,
who hit a remarkable .406 last year
and who is batting an impressive
1886 this season, has incurred the
flaming fury of his mates.
Yanked from yesterdays second
game with Washington as Boston
captured both games of double
header. 80 and I'll, Williams i'm
mediate future was to hinge on q
pregame chat with Cronin, who con-
fessed Williams conduct has him
sizzling.
Touched OF by Hit.
The latest episode In Williams
hectic baseball career stemmed from
an apparently innocent single OF
the bat Of the Mats Stan Spence in
the first inning of the second game.
A few fans in the left-fleld stands
yTyi11ioy, e., farrikAy~xy
thought Ted should have caught the
ball and informed him about it. .
BY the time Ted came to bat In
the third inning he was boiling. He
attempted to foul several pitches
among the ieft-field customers and
the entire crowd Of 1000 chimed
in with booes. He flied out on that
occasion and in the fifth inning he
again attempted to slice fouls into
the stands before lashing long hit
to center field.
Williams made no pretense Of
running on what should have been
an easy triple. Instead, he logged
lightly into second base. trotted into
third as Bobby Doerr singled to left
and loped across the plate as
Ulysses Lupien hit into force play.
BY that time Boston players, ac-
cording to Washington players near
enough to hear, were shouting, Get
him out of there" to Cronin. When
Williams trotted back to the bench
Cronin said, Whats the matter
don't you want to play out there?"
Il don't care If I never play out
there again." replied Ted, and
Cronin waved him to the club
house, sending Pete Fox into left
field for the remainder of the game.
Williams dressed and left the stadi-
um before the game was over and
Cronin angrily dismissed the club
house boys report that Ted had said
he was sorry. HE always says
that" snorted Cronin.
Panied by Any Boos.
According to two players who
talked to Ted as he passed in the
clubhouse he said, II don't give
If never play in this city
again." During the course of his
heated one-way conversation he re-
| ferred to Boston fans as "boobs"
and spoke unkindly of their an.
cestry.
Williams never has become ac-
cusScmea TO being nooed even by a
handful of spectators. Babe Ruth
laughed off jeers, but Williams told
us last year, II can't help it-I'm
built that way. If there are $4,000
fans in the park and 1899 of 'em
are cheering me and one of them is
booing me, its that one guy I hear"
Ted has timed his latest outburst
poorly-at least insofar as the well
fare Of the Red Sox Is concerned.
Victorious in 20 of its last "A games,
Boston tomorrow will face the
league-leading Yankees in the
opener OF a crucial three-game
series.
Cronin will require the wisdom
OF Solomon in handling the affair,
but Joe's the type to prefer losing
without him rather than winning
! (See HAWKINS page A.1iN