Evening star., 1952-03-04

Sunshine the track Most of them
got in shape. They playing off their clippings As
result finished fifth 23R games of the pace That did it,
Prof Sawyer got threeyear contract last October
Notwithstanding He also got out his whip And he's pretty
good with the whip when he wants to crack it. The result
No wives in Clearwater No long about the beaches No dog
and tracks, unless player wants to risk fine No
uce for anybody unsigned.
AMONG THE LAST of the PhileS suit up Short
stop Granny Relief Pitcher Jim Konstanty The
shortsop in 1850 signed but Sawyer wouldn't permit
him to out The Mrs Hammer who spent part
of the winter Clearwater didn't leave town until this week.
Konstanty fabulous star in $780, had baked at salary cut
biggest allowable.
He'd been in Clearwater for quite some time until
Saturday the big pitcher
the Phiies field time Sawyer among them,
when KonSanty wearing No. 35 of the clubhouse
eased his quietly into group taking calhenics.
newpaperman noticed him and said to Sawyer do allow
unsigned players to suit up?"
Definitely not" Sawyer said.
We isn't that Konstanty in deep left eld?" he asked
Last we heard he stayed up to midnight with Bob Carpenter
(president of the club and failed terms"
Sawyer said nothing but few minutes later he called to
Travelling Secretary Frank Powell and spoke to him. Powell
moved off in Konstantys direction He returned say Kon
stanty this morning" Sawyer smiled bleak
EDDIE SAWYER PLAYS for keeps He was painfully
wounded last year when his Phies collapsed What hurt
most dissension the club Some of the boys weren't
speaking to each other.
Pitchers complained that they weren't getting any
Others squawked that pitchers like the highly paid Konstanty
messing clubs chances. Sawyer not explosive
but neither mitless patience his forte He took the
aforementioned steps
AS Sawyer puts it, They'll be better on They're hungry
again Let em start all They're young enough to get
going and to stop passing the buck.
1--WE 800 than the Dodgers last year
and they didn't win. they his Phils) don't like what
we're doing, arrange it that any dissenters
play somewhere else"
Philadelphia baseball writer pointed up Second Baseman
Mike Goas exit from the National League evidence of
Sawyers determination to discipline his players mike did
pretty good in So he saying "but off fair he
thought he could the club In time at all Goat not
only wasn't the Phies but waived by all the other
National League teams"
THE EVIDENCE so FAR is that Sawyer is making the
Phie accept their monasc life gracefully Instead of hur-
red dressing after workouts they sit around the clubhouse
and talk baseball Some remain the field and play
pepper games for drink stakes.
In the evenngsthey all quartered in the same hotel
they sit around the lobby and talk Sawyer works them
long that many feel night at nearby track
much less risking fine if caught
Frick the baseball commissioner visited the
Pes camp Stouty refused to recognize inhuane
treatment of Prof sawyer serfs When reporter asked him
he felt the policy bit drastic Mr. Frick baseball
writer of years ago. replied in nostalgia vein:
"Ths is the the old baseball camps used to be
No wives and kiddes taking sunbaths along the foul lines
and that sort of thing However" he qualified automatically
his not to be construed criticism of wives in general
I am record as in favor of wives"