Evening star., 1953-06-01

Francis stann Persal cost them ball game with Wash
ngton on Memorial Day. After yelling off Left Fielder Hoot
Evers when routine short fly hit
loaded in the ninth inning Persa unaccounaby hesitaed
so long that it fell safely at his feet and the Mats the
contest to l.
Apparently Piersal felt was better qualified
out the fleet Jim Busby third base after the CATCH
And he could have been right Evers good outeer but
Persall has better throwing
THE RED sox YOUNG MAN is in good company . . .
or in stylish goat pen result of his ub. Years
at dramatic moment the rile-armed Bob MeuSe the
Yankees attempted the stunt In key game Meusel
playing left field shouted off the Earle Combs
in center field in order to make throw for the plate It
didn't off, Meusel lost the fly the Yankees the
and memory serves, the game
If it's any consolation to Piersall goats good
ball players probably because the better brand get
opportunities to become The holds for other
sports like golf Sam Snead widely believed to be bad
putter The truth that Snead good the green's
But because he often in contention, when frequently
putt worth ST. more, Sam is the spot lot
times than the average tournament pro.
Oddly, the public remembers the ufs wildly than
the herocs Fred Merke of the Giants fine first base
man. yet he wound with the tag of Bonehead because in
that neckandneck pennan with the Chicago Cubs in
1908 he neglected to tag second base while the winning
scoring.
There were extenuating circumstances as of the
other historic goat games The Giants had runners first
and third in the last half of the ninth when AL Brdwe the
shorsop singled Moose Mccormick third scored but the
19year-od Merke first didn't bother to touch second
base he the winning the plate In fair
Merke it not customary for players to bother
with such nceties tagging all bases under the circum
stances but Johnny Evers of the Cubs called for the ball.
stepped second base and demanded strict ruling The
result Evers technically payo ruled
In the payof the Giants lost; hence "Bonehead" Merke
HACK WILSON LEFT good many records for posterity
real good sugger Wilson, Yet he's as we'll remembered for
losing ball in the in the 1929 World Series in fact
making two in inning as fer his home run and
runs batted-in feats
1t custom to laugh at Babe Herman of the Dodgers
Clown Babe supposed to have been Actually did
have habit of staring with open at the drives of his
teammates when he baserunner forgetting
-. but Herman was real clown. He of the
htters of his time.
Nobody ever had dismal World Series at bat than
Gil Hodges last October During the he had hit
home and Billy Evans while general manager of
the Tigers unquaedly called first baseman in
baseball But Hodges Series and became
the first player in history to do any classic
More people remember Hodges World Series collapse
probably than his home output five years. wherein he
homered anywhere from % to 40 times during any given
season.
IN THE 1925 WORLD SERIES between WASHINGTON and
Pittsburgh the Mats shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh COM
mitted record of eight washington made only one
oherJ Peck derded the years. yet
as Muddy Rue Roger got bum rap His were on
bad throws Ruel GAS far weather concerned
that the wettes Series ever known. Peck was
grabbing everything hit his way Roger was throwing
slippery ball and the other infelders trying
Wet treacherouS throw Anybody seen Peck play
knows that eight during period games is
1,000-to-1 shot"
Quick, now, whose wild pitch an American League
pennant? Jack Chesbros, of He flung all away
with zany throw he was with the New York
Highlanders, managed by Clark Griffith.
Chesbro Al that year. that still stands
But fans remember Chesbro the fellow who Wild
pitched the Hghlanders out of pennant So he
also became goat and what's wrong with that? The
answer is nothing The goat gets many to
become one because he's the ball player who will gamble