The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-11
FERRIOS, EXGL, STkNDOuT IN IGEEAeUES
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Boston (UPts-Tlae, usual photO- 4inisla in baseballiss TpOlkiarof <thes year rsraceehas bpc0Eae thing goill0Ep than O. pyo0 Ieece Dave (Booe xgII risg -of rtbe BDSton Red H0xy
 The 23-year-clds exy ceFpoFal stavtedHolE ywitlara ebagg ybwvpfte elalAsg 22 sccreless innings and winning his first .eiskE games Hec continued hias sensational work dasptte the handiCaps of playing with Q nghtS hitting. second division club and of fighting oil asthma attacks.
 First American league rookie pitcher t0t win more than 20cgamea since Monte weaver turned the trick for Washington in 1882, Fer ris.wass oSlse Of the gane's greatest drawing cards. He made the Red Scx thousands of dollars-by owner Tom YAwkeylss own calculations yet cost them Q mere 02 cents. 4 sGiftt'Ffema Earn CRMh
 !. That was what the Gox paid in telegTanaaS to, getc FerTiss The sAxr foot.two1inela, 21O-poamd fiGlHt. handler who could pitch almost as well as southpaw - made an instant hit with Manager Memo Leibold of the Louisville farm club, who wired the Sox: "You can use this lad". The AnerleaM league club wired back: "KSOidS him Q, while. ." After watching FeyEisa play t92 With the. Cincinnati Reds in an exhibition game. Leibold sent an- other wire;. 'sTake the boy" and the. SOx did take him.
 In his major league debut at Philadelphia, Ferrisse shut out the As 20 on i've hits. A few dAys later, he horse-collared the slug- ging Yankees 5.0 Then, in quick succession. he trimmed the Tigers and White. Sex twice. the Browns, Indians and Athletics.
 His feats on the mound and at the bat earned him the nickname "Fantastie Ferris gi''yst no one wac more surprised than Dave hinlsalf, A few months before the baseball season opened, he, had just about decided. to, quit. the game on hla doctors advice.
 Young lad, forget about base ball." the doctor had told him when he was granted an Army dis charge. With the case of asthma yoN have ycuIir never play aaaan. The best thing you can do is3 60 west and cure itIr
 18Vvams e Aug, 1 ! However, the doctor wasn't com. nletelyy wrongs When August rolled around, Ferriss found himself talke Ing shots of adrenaIin and feeding himself, from; vialss He continued to, work his turn. on the mound when /most players would have been hospltali1eds On Aug. 1, hls record was i8 victories and four defeats: Sept. i it was 20 victories and seven. defeata. When, the White sox' sent. him to the shQWaFa- in. the fourth iElninee-for the, first time In his: careeE-their usually lhard%6oilea Jimmy, Dykes patted the. rOolaA staT on. tba. shoulder end said; Don't worry, kid, that's the lway' tt goes e0gnetlmes".
 Even when the Red Sox sank to seventh. place and their hitting be- came puny. Ferr1ss kept pitching good ball-and drawing crowds; in eBeST cfty around the circuit
 Born Dec. 5, 1921, at Shaw, 19tAas, he was christefed David Mea6pWs Ferriss and acquired the nickname Boo" because of his inr ability to say brother" as, a baby. He grnw Up on Q l,00O-acre cotton naantataons and was c stasdenk ct LalAsiesippt State College when he was drafbedl into the Army. 10 is unmarried. and lives in the off. aeAeon. with his mother, who is postsntstCass of Shaw.