Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-08-25
WIN, LOSE OR
INAV By FRANCIS sTANN
-Four of a Kind

CHICAGO Aug. 25-This could be the showdown week
end in the American League especially Sunday when the
Yankees to town to clash head-on with the White
Sox in 1t could be do die for each club
especially if the White Sox fail to make hay the expense
of the Senators these next three days.
1t would be nice to be able to think the American
Leagues stirring Is reflection of superior sks but
this not necessarily the The suspicion exists that
it is great only because the four clubs
closely punched not outstanding.
Casey Stengel has not been we'll man, nor have his
Yankees been any too healthy If the
travelled Tommy Byrne and Larsen rescued from
the minors they probably would be in the second division
Certainly the Yankees do not the other clubs they
did Their Bob Turey, who made pennant
practically automatic still doesn't know how pitch.
At time he had 81 record Now it's merely 1912
for team playing $40 ball lately Turey hasn't been
lasting very long.
LARRY DoBYs STRAINED leg is not calculated to helm
the Indians but Cleveland had been staggering even before
the Negro suggers injury The pitching Big Three of Bob
Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia has been taking its
Jumps lately Herb Score got his the other night from the
Red Sox.
Were not for the double headers which have piled
up on them, you'd have to like the White Sox Schedule
wise they're getting the best of it, Marty Marion is
running out of pitchers And pitching is lust about the
heartiest recommendation for the White sox.
1t might be foolhardy to label the American a sick
league but it's no circuit any longer Indeed the
TWO future class clubs could we'll be the Red and Tigers
1t is no accident that in recent years two teams
nave been coming with the best young players They
have top-gade farm clubs and money plus ambition
in the front offices. If any pair of club owners rates
couple OF pennants, it's Tom Yawkey Boston and Spike
Briggs of Detroit
THE WHITE sox DESERVE "E" for effort Lacking
the kind of wealth that behind the Tigers and Red Sox
General Manager Frank Lane must trade lot That he
does it uncommony well is reflected by the fact the club
hasn't been out of the first division since 1850.
Once the crack Cleveland pitchers the hill
and they be headed in that direction alreadyt may
time before the Indians again pennant threats
The Tribe has little else except pching. It's aging
outfit with such Rosen Kner WertZ, Hogan and others
just about ready to call it a
If the Yankees don't make it this season. they could
be another club that will pose real threat some
time to There is little proof that Owners Dan Topping
and Del Webb making about attempts to carry
old Yankee tradition Among other things they have sold
Yankee Stadium in order to become they
have disposed of their farm system except for
the Bnghamton franchise.
BOTH THE YANKEES and Indians are quick to bid
for veterans cut loose by other clubs or National
This was pointed when Sal Mage 49, let out by the
Giants Cleveland and New York the only teams that
scrambled for the oldster promptly got cobbered in his
first outing by the Senators, of all people,
There's not much to be said kind way for the other
cubs-Kansas City, Baltimore and Washington Because
big league status is novel, the Athletics and Orioles
drawing well at the present time but thew aren't much
ball clubs.
AS Tor the Senators, they to be looking little
more hopeless each day. They've almost got to wind o
seventh perhaps even in the cellar Who remembers last
when they finished sixth and fired Bckv Harris for
not doing better? ava