The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Fans On Spot In Voting For Al-Stars;
Mize Choice Over Musial And Torgeson
BY FRANK Eek

AP Newsfeatures Sports Editor
NEW YORK June 14-Now that
baseball has given the All Star
Game back to the fans 1t will be
interesting to see how the millions
of baseball patrons throughout the
country vote. The fan is on the
spot.
Bv June rs, with the 1947 sea-
q not half over, he will have 10
send his ballot to any newspaper
participating in the voting. The
All-star Game will be played in
Chicago's Wrigley Field, Tuesday,
July 8.
Fans are choosing ali players
except pitchers. Hurlers will be
picked by the rival managers Joe
Cronin Of the Boston Red Sox for
the American League, and Eddle
Dyer of the World Champion St.
Louis Cardinals for the National.
At present it appears certain
that Johnny Mize, 210-pound slug
sing first baseman OF the New
York Giants, will be named. Mlze
is off and running in the horne
run derby and at the rate he's
going will crack in the neighbor-
hood of 50 round trippers this
season.
The selection of Mize might
mean thai both Stan Musial, lead
ing hitter in baseball last season,
and Rookie Earl Torgeson of the
Boston Braves will not corral
enough votes to make the squad
OF Is players.
Musial is one of the reasons the
Cardinals are in the second olvl-
sion. He has a bad appendix but
will wait until after the season to
have it removed. Some observers
feel that Stan is hurting his health
by remaining in the lineup but
Musial wants to get in every
game possible. Last year he
PLAYED 1856 games and hit 1865.
This year he is more than loo
points off that mark.
Shortstop is a closed corpora
ton in the National League but
there are four stockholders in Ed
die Miller of Cincinnati, Buddy
Kerr of the Giants, Marty Marion
Of the Cards and Pee Wee Reese
Of Booklyn.
Miller, who this year may hit
more homers than ever before
his high is IA in 1910 with the
Braves - has possible first call
with Kerr next. 1t might even
happen that the votes will be pref
ty evenly divided so that three or
four shortstops make the team.
Emil Verban Of the Phillies ap-
pears to hold the edge at second
base though many fans will 60 for
Ed Stanky.
Bob Elliott, whose big bat has
been a boon to the Braves, would
be the writer's selection for third
base over frankie Cuisine of the
Pirates, Spider J%orgensen of the
Dodgers and Whitley KuroWskl OF
the Cards.
The catching chore probably
will 20 to Walker Cooper of the
Giants with either Bruce Ed
wards OF the Dodgers or Clyde
Mccullough Of the Chicago Cubs
rs alternate. In the outfield you
wouldn't want any more solid
stickers than Enos Slaughter o.
the Cards and Harry Walker and
Del Ennis of the Phillies. Other
outer gardeners who will gather
many votes are Phil C%avarretta OF
the Cubs, Ralph Kiner of the Pi-
rates, Johnny Hopp of the Braves,
Dodger Dixie Walker and Willard
Marshall of the Giants.
AT the head of the pitching class
are Warren SPAIN of the Braves,
Schoolboy Rowe of the Phillies,
Hank BoroWy of the Cubs, Harry
Brecheen of the Red Birds and
Ewell Blackwell of the Reds.
Cronin probably would like to
have Rudy York as his American
League first baseman but the fans
may vote for George McQuinn,
who has been a big gun in the
Yankee attack this spring, or