Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
WIN, LOSE OR
6NAH BY FRANCIS STANN
Old Pros Are Best Pros

football coach had beaten and hasty retreat from
ChcagoS AStar football game and the Democratic shenani
order to witness part of the BraveSedS
series here Il feel like never football game at all"
Woody telling reporters 1T blank The A-Stars
showed nothing and Cleveland didn't have put out much
Contests involving so-caled All-Stars rarely
great deal and about all the 1856 affair at Soldier Field
proved again. that club if it bears down seriously
has definite advantage The pros spell out minded
of purpose and organization The A-Stars
less strangers to each other and they hardly wait
to join their own pro clubs and try to win job.
When the Browns won handily by 26-O the other
nght-the AH-Sars getting beyond the pros 81
yard line-they exploded the myth that of pro-
feSSiona coaches could up things. This
thing that made year ago when for the first
time, the AStars left charge of Curly Lambeau
and five six other pro coaches They 1927 victory
but in the wake of Ceveands easy win this it's evident
that 1t fuke.
Sending unco-ordinated boys men is foolhardy
The real is dedicated bringing
home the bacon The typical ASta doesn't quite
incentive The $3.50 he draws for being Al-Star falls
somewhat short.
MILWAUKEE, IS A STRANGE sports town. The Braves
hot Saturday night crowd of 45OO3 paying Gus
toners damned into County Stadium which has seating
for only 43OO The upstart Reds pro-
tected their National League lead and yet the day
peSSmsm rampant.
The lady drives a taxcab mournfuy felt the Dodg-
would catch the Braves The desk the Schroeder
Hotel volunteered msgivings of his The bell boy,
anxious to get to the ball park, in agreement
They're giving it heluva PITCH" he admitted speak
ing of the Braves but guess I'm to seeing the
Dodgers in the World Series
Anyway" he sighed, we've got convention of women
filling hotels during World He named the
organization and asked Ever that outfit?"
guest couldn't recall that he had
Pretty weak tppers," the reply. "They got dimes
stuck to their fingers I'm thinking"
ON THE CINCINNATI BENCH Birdie Tebbetts manager
and poSSesser OF degree in philosophy debunkng the
theory that his clubs current with Braves crucial
Birdie who may we'll be the most quoabe in the
majors put it this way:
We've got 40-odd ball games still to play, how can
anybody pick this series the crucial Another
ITEM keep reading where my ball club the muscle
Everybody hits the long ball. yet my pitchers aren't much
account
I've got news for people My pitchers have been won
derfu It's the hitters who have let Some day
hope-Post Jabonski and Kluszewsk will start swshing
those bats.
Last February and March-during spring training
would you have bet that little guys like Mcmillan and
Temple would be carrying they doing it,
When and if the muscle guys deliver Wen be tough"
PRACTICAL MAN, Tebbetts claims the Dodgers have
no great advantage because the schedule apparently avors
Brooklyn.
so the Dodgers finish at home?" Birdie says What
good does that do them they beat the Phes there?
AT the end of those second division clubs are
the ones likely to beat you The Dodgers be playing
the Phlles Pirates and Giants late September That
Brooklyn will have to beat pitchers like Friend and
Kline of Pittsburgh Gomez Antone of New York and
those hot Phies pchershottes in the National League
right now
MY players know that have seasonal view don't
want them thinking that do or die If my
pitcher gets cobbered today knows that my reaction
is that he's got 10 or II starts
writers keep asking which team-Braves or Dodg-
ers-wil win They to ignore u.s. which is all right
with me Well go on playing day by day maybe by the
end of the season we'll be on top
Il don't believe Birdie concluded that the best team
always wins 1t could be the one that's hottest during the
last one or two weeks"