The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-28
Tribes, Brasscos Clash Saturday And Sunddy
AII-Americon Boys Get Thrill of Lifetime Being Coached by Cobb, Ruth and HubbeII
By HARRY CRIMSON
 NEA Sports Editor

NEA Sports Editor
 New York, Aug. 28-The All-Amer- ican Boys Game at the Polo Grounds tonight is as refreshing as dt is concrete proof that the kids have not quit playing baseball.
 Esquire must be credited with one of the more wholesome sports promotions. The magazine put on its show for the second straight year at a cost of 3T5,0O0.
 It brings to New York 32 picked lads of IT years and under and an equal number of baseball writers from as many sections of the country.
 Think of the thrills these boys get out of the trip and being coached by Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Carl Hubbell and other baseball figures.
 ; TO make sure no youngster in their section would not be disap- pointed, Silliman Evans, publish CT of the Nashville Tennessean, and his famous sports editor, Raymond Johnson, sent one boy from each of eight teams that competed in the Nashville area in addition to pitcher Bob Jones, who struck out 12 in the districts All-Star game
 The purpose of the production is, of course, to uncover young talent. It is an idea organized baseball should have thought of years ago.
 Major league club owners were quick enough to take advantage of it, however, for Paul Krichell of the Yankees, wish Egan of the Tigers, Hank DeBerry of the Giants, Ira Thomas of the Ath- letics, Buzz Wetzel of the Indians, Bob Quinn and Jack McCallister of the Braves and Cy Morgan of the Phillies were scouts I noticed ogling potential future greats in workouts at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field.
 GOLDSTEIN AND DI PIETRO
 There was plenty to see. The names you heard oftenest were those of first baseman Bob Gold stein and outfielder Bob DiPietro, both of Cobbs West team. This may have been due to the fact that Goldstein of Spokane and DiPietro of San Francisco were quickly dubbed the new Hank Greenberg and the new Joe Di- Maggie, respectively.
 It was not uncommon in Omaha Legion and amateur ball for Bernie Danze to strike out from 10 to IS. And because he is @ .350 hitter, he plays first base and the outfield. In the Utah. Idaho tryout game, George Fisher struck out the nine who faced him in three innings and punched out two hits.
 Art Trasher. standing more than six feet, a catcher of the Bill Dickey type, is the best boy player in the Los Angeles terri tory, the manufacturer of home runs. After becoming an All- American Boy, third baseman and outfielder Myron Craig hit
 three nome runs over the fence at the 3S0-foot mark in Denver's light air.
 Johnny Thomas, a skinny chap | from Sedalia, Mo, standing no
 more than five-feet eight, was promptly installed as the Vests
 first-string shortstop. Six-foot catcher Charley Nease of Little Rock caught the eye of Willis 1 Hudlin, former Cleveland pitcher. Casey Stengel calls Mickey Cum mins of Kansas City as good a young catching prospect as he ever saw.
 Perhaps carrying the heaviest responsibility was Bill Glane, a little left-hander who had even the great Cobb, manager of the West, worried. Glane registers from Detroit, the city that gave the game of a year ago the slender southpaw Bill Pierce, who shut out the West with three hits for six innings. Pierce is now win- ming for Buffalo. Tn three years of amateur competition, Glane won 33, lost 13, struck out 506 while granting 148 hits. He has five no-hit no-run games to his credit.
 Charley Root, Columbus man. ager, says 190-pound Bob Phelps of Columbus has as good a curve as most pitchers in the American Association.
 The New York Giants signed six-foot, 175-pound Vern Morgan 15 months ago when the Rich mond shortstop, was IS. The six- foot two-and-a-half inch short- stop Lester Eggers of Buffalo is remindful of Slats Marion. Ted Mace caught the trick stuff of Dick Callahan, the New orleans high school lad whom the Red Sox gave $15,000 for signing. Blinking as the bespectacled six-foot, 2O0-pound Johnny Neal, 8 right-hand batter, belted the ball $40 feet into the upper tier of the left field stands at the Polo Grounds, Manager Ruth promptly transformed the Bloomington, Ill |, youngster from a pitcher into an outfielder.
 That happened to be the story of the Bambino himself.