Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-30
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW By FRANCIS s7ANn
Some Come Undone
WATCHING A BIG LEAGU

WATCHING A BIG LEAGUE ball club come undone is
not pretty sight Too much money thought and effort
expended to make collapse anything but waStefu
But this has been for sagnaon in both the Amer
lean and National Leagues.
The White Sox, for instance have apart, even
though they did win two yesterday They talked big OF
winning the pennant but they fourth with only five
victories in their last % And the Giants are even
Giants beaten II times in their last 10 games
the flag and mopped up the Cleveland Indians in four
game World Series first time the National League had
in eight years and only the second time in history that the
N had swept Series You have to back to 1914 when
the miracle Braves whewashed the Philadelphia Ath-
letcs for the original.
That looked like good ball club in "a. The Giants
had Antone Magle Gomez Hearn Wilhelm and Grissom to
pitch and Dark Mays Rhodes and quite few other who
better than hands Today the Giants dead last
or as Chuck Dresser once put it, the Giants is dead
IN FLORIDA LAST MARCH young Chuck Comiskey of
the White spoke confidently beating the Yankees
1--WE only finished five games back in 49," he reminded
land had a lot of hard luck. We win because
have that good pitching"
Comskey president the club taking the
duties of general following his widely publicized
feud with Frank When resigned later become
general of the Cardinals Lane told reporters
II feel sorry for Marty Marion, real nice guy and
good manager. I'm for him because don't think the
White sox will finish in the first division" At the moment
it looks if Lane could be right than ComSkey
The Sox always thin although since 1851
they've been winding up fourth better with special
favorm for third place This they'll hardly be that
high. They club badly in need of overhaul.
AFTER THE GIANTS CLOBBERED the Indians in the
"a World Series their third place finish last
letdown Leo Durocher left to join the wealthy at NBC
and Bill Rgney mediocre player in his day but classified
as brain, succeeded him.
Horace Stoneham, club president, bet New York
baseball writer suit of clothes that his Giants would win
the pennant This in Arizona where the Giants trained
They may have looked good Stoneham catcus country
but they've been awfully bad since leaving it.
1t has been necessary for Rgney to bench Willie
Mays who being proclaimed the fellow to break
of y CobS records Recent dispatches indicate that Dusty
for the minors Alvin Dark gone having been traded
ST. Louis and less parsonage than Rogers Hornsby
took dim view of the Giants he managed and played
with. He put it like this:
This is the big league club I've ever SEEN It's
not Rgneys fault either They just don't have than
three major leaguers the squad"
BACK IN 1884 THERE case of pennant winner
falling apart right here in Washington The Senators had
80 games in 49, They had Cronin and Sewel and
Crowder and whtehll. They had Kuhel and Myer and
Bluege They had Stone and Schultz and Manush plus
Russell and Weaver
They went from first to seventh!
That was horrendous seaSon-1934. There were some
as injuries it's recalled At time in Cleveland
Catcher Luke Sewel playing shortstop rookie left
handed pitcher named Cohen playing in left field
Cronin had his wrist broken and sold Boston
$25O000 and Shortsop Lyn Larry 1t real long night
mare.
1t no fun to travel with that club back in "a 1t
can't be fun to be attached to the White Sox Giants of S.