Evening star., 1956-12-19
WIN, LOSE OR
DPAW
GNAW BY FRANCIS STANN
Sox Are Better for Ted

TED WILLIAMS, WHO QUIT baseball a couple of years
ago in the Saturday Evening Post says he can't afford
to retire II need the money" Williams admits The question
certain to be raised again will be- Would the Red Sox be
better of without the Big Guy?
role of an speaker the other night
in Hartford, Sammy White Of the Red Sox touched
Williams The glib catcher of the Bostons admitted that Ted
was controversial figure There have been he
told his listeners, "but feel the about Ted get
greatly exaggerated in the telling and retelling.
zone thing is sure" White drove home. williams is
the greatest hitter in baseball and it his absence from
last that really axed Ted sets the
pace and hit much better when he is in the lineup The
statement you hear that the Red sox better club without
him is ridiculous"
Which, of course it is williams the first to admit he
isn't the hitter he was in the 940 but nobody else active
today including Stan Musa very close to his lifetime
average Of 348 Another point williams plays left field in
Fenway Park better than anybody in the business.
IT MAY BE INTERESTING to washington fans to learn
via White that the Sox blame many of their 1856
the Senator'S all people Washington really killed
by beating games had to win to stay in contention
Sammy spoke up and the who really got in hair
were Roy Severs and Jim Lemon"
Sievers and Lemon the Senator's long bail hitters-
when they aren't striking out White holds them in sort
Of nettlesome respect
They gave pitchers bad afternoons ed note
afernoons? and the curious part of that both
out at balls outside the strike That is the sort Of
thing that makes very hard to figure how pitch the
really good htters."
White not the first catcher-nor pitcher nor MANAGER
to feel the Of Illustration when badban hers slap
nonsrkes into the seats to win ball games Ducky Medwck
for example, notorious for hitting bad pitches Yogi
Berra came up willing and able to hit at almost anything
He still won't argue with himself over pitch that is couple
Of inches inside out high low Severs and Lemon
not the level with Medwick and Berra but White
apparently is putting them in the general classification
Cold Stove League: Calvin Grith is shaking his head
w. ask 4 anv
prospect Of trades involving the Senator's which
virtual perpetual motion from the neck up We've got
nothng-absoutey nothingon the fire." Cal saying at
the Redskins game Sunday Some Severs and
some want YoSt, but not badly enough"
What happens if they both stay with the Senator's" Cal
was asked Won't they feel mite unwanted in training
camp?"
Ignoring latter part Of the question Cal replied:
Chuck Dressen wants Sievers first base
Roys sti with US That means guess that Pete Runnels
with play third base Or, maybe Yost will play third he's
around and Runnels viii 60 to the outfeld
TO tell you the truth don't know how 1t will all shape
Severs is weak in the outneld. Whether Runnels
play the outfeld I don't know"
Pete must be getting little up with moving around
the diamond He started shortstop and switched to
second base Last season he was put first and did
psngy well Now it looks as there chance he will be
used at one or more new positions.
THERE WAS sQUIB in Eastern sports pages the other
day TO the effect that Nore Dame and Northwestern will
1909 aIJet an ll-year lapse
High time they got together oo Midwest football followers
thinking.
Some years may be recalled Northwestern, Ohio
State Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan boycotted Notre
Dame Only Iowa. Purdue and Indiana of the Big refused
TO join the boycott The Irish and their alumni were burned
up As one put IT, Those schools built their stadums
revenue from with Notre they got
them erected they dropped Notre Dame"
The return Of Northwestern the schedule not
only revyes great rivalry dt ranked with Dame
Army and Notre Damesouthern Cali, but it gives the South
Bend school entree into Chicago No other city
the country has many Irish alumni as Chicago.
There those feel not logicaly that eventually
Of the other onetime boycoers may TO follou
Northwesterns lead Some think that the departure OF
Frank Leahy may be influence. It may be, At that
"