The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1955-07-30
Baseball Scribes
Cover Up Higgins
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pitch Then Lemon threw three straight balls.
Here was dramatic situation of the year. Two
runs needed sweep the dOubleheader. Two runs
needed put the SOx only five games behind the
Yanks. Two base Two out Three and one
on Klaus. If he walked, Ted Williams COM
ing up with the bases loaded.
So what Higgins decide to do9 Let the next pitch go
by? No ordered Klaus to swing it. And swing he did
pitch that SERVE in the box swore was
ball four ,,,..
twired his bat dsguntngly couple Of times and headed
for the dug-out
That's what happened at Cleveland last Sunday after
noon in the most important game of the year.
The psychology Of pulling to within five games OF the
Yank plus beating Cleveland their first doubleheader of the
year could sent rushing to the very top
within the next week
The Yanks are ready to be taken Higgins had them
in the palm Of his hand last Sunday afternoon Only to
laugh at opportunity by calling on scorearm pitcher IN
We can only say it's good thing Higgins
that his costly mistakes being covered up by yes
men delegation of Boston baseball writer's who
travelling with the SOx. For that matter you can
toss in annOuncers Gowdy and Murphy with them
They did not like Lou BOudreau. Maybe because
he switched his lineup so often win that the
writer's resented the extra work heaped on them to
compile their card.
Boudreau would take no back talk from them. Higgins
wild they overheard for Higgins,
building him up the miracle baseball manager OF the
century
Not arrived in Boston to best memory
has he been criticized for any of his serious They
can't unload him very well. To do would mean they
wrong about Boudreau-
What makes us sick Of heart however the bold
courageous Egan play hand in hand with them
There's finer student of the game writing story to-
day than Egan
cared him millions of New England
Egan, you be biting his nails last
Sunday afternoon if he sat the radio
of the second game and listened Higgins ~ called
on O'clock to relieve and (2 LET Klaus swing on had
three and one pitch with Ted Williams coming
to
But Egan like the yes-men has remained silent
And that's what hurts 1t hurts all year long to
the SOx lose other big games in the late innings
cause they lack the resemblance of reliable pinch
hitter the bench
Batting for the sox pinch hitters
thing like las for the
It's been that way April and getting no better
Joos Thoneberry Olson, Stephens and Lepco That's all
you can expect coming from the dugou need
a hit to
We hate to think that cronin has refused to buy
Higgins pinch hitter or two
Last year, Boudreau decided to storm the first
division, he asked for Don Lenhart Meeand got
little time in getting rid of Mee
The sox might have been breathing the Yanks heels
nVe games away either Of them available pinch
hit last Sunday afternoon struck out in the fifth :
Throneberry struck out in the ninth.
Our Boston baseball writer's could do the sox big
that Higgins is mastermind
Higgins is beginning to believe all these stories
ne reads about his great confidence in his pitchers
so much So that he constantly lets a starter stay
N there until the other club piled up four and
five game lead.
In that respect however regardless of the dam
age DONE he's got more confidence in the clubs
anllV TO strike back than did Joe Mccarthy, the
manager, not the senator.
pof proof you can take that game Of the wear hack
~ 1901 Inc Sox and YankS tied This was If Kinder
gave up one run The Sox raed 10 going into the egth
Inc top end OF the batting order was due up in the ninth
cCarthy wasn't enthuSed They had been senced for
eAsAS innings lie had lost too much faith to wait
30 with two out and nobody on he yanked kinder fo
on ner Nobnlng happened Kinder went out-and Tey
usISor announcer sore-armer like O'clock was BROUGHT in
MAYBE you recall the details The Yanks blastad LIrch
son for two more runs ~ O'SVeo Hugh-
ana IN the ninth, the Suggers in whom, NSccorb
nao no Iat fought back to two runs that onId b
peen SuiIcent to win the pennant if McCarthv had MOI
ana SO did Higgins muff It, we say last Sunday ofto
oon When ne called in O'clock recovering from sore rn
years ago last September ~ ' 'uS' Iour
This is stll anybodys pennant and the Soy
dh WIN IL with even breaks they can't afford 40
&c PehaI-ed oy many more mistakes like Higgins
made week ago. ee"S
we can't expect the yes-men to give him a iab
when ne goes wrong. Our hope is the once-reI;abIe
Dave Egan W 0e-iehAOle
oicaly Egan helped chase Boudreau out of town no
,I leIuseu 70 go along with the kids When Higpns
T p3 ne promised that things would be different
But IN this late July Lepcio and Bolino ana otto
IN the dugout ' "e growing moldy
This may sound like essay sport writers instead of
pan team Yet its the baseball writer's who are losing the
pehant by encouraging Higgins to wrong that's the
way we must write it. w
KNIGHTS nE pVTHIAc