Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-09
WIN, LOSE OR
6NAV By FRANCIS STANN
The DeudIiest Position
THE DEADLIEST POSITION OF

THE DEADIIEsT POSITION on a baseball field is not
always the managers seat the bench although Chuck
Dressen friends have to The deadest could
be the pitchers mound.
Herb Score throws baseball approximately plus
miles per hour When the line drive that Gil McDougald
hit back at him struck Score squarey in the right it,
going l00puS miles per hour 1t must have been
a shocking sight 1t sufficient to McDougald.
swinging in all innocence to announce possible retirement
IF he loses his sight am going to quit this game,
McDougald quoted 1T not that important when
gets to this"
Later Gil retracted that calling spur-of moment
statement.
McDougald is at his peak So was Score only % and
the acknowledged stkeout king of baseball Nobody throws
faster than Score nobody has potential AS for the
Yankees McDougald, he is ball player in thousand
He play second short third base and he hurt
enemy with his bat.
THE TROUBLE WAS THAT with his bat he inadvertently
hurt guy who really wasn't enemy Even.at his tender
age Herb Score has host Of friends. He is big good
looking, modest youngster out of Lake Worth, Fla
Herb Score lives with his mother, whom he adores. He
says his beads He struck out 245 batsmen in 1885, mostly
fast balls.
Last year he famed 2ss would-be hitters. He was
in IS and his 100 record in Sc needed
no establishment
pitcher get of the way Of line drive hit back
at him? In batting practice nets used Pitchers throw
and duck In the old days and before nets were used in
batting practice batting practice pitchers were con-
stantly guard.
The line drive hit directly back at pitcher is almost
impossible to STOP 1t comes with the speed Of bullet and
it depends upon where hits far the seriousness Of
the pitchers condition is concerned.
SOME YEARS AGO. it is recalled, Washington had
pitcher named Ed Lnke He husky almost roypoly
highlander He used to complain that his right
numb and that a heating pad necessary.
Lnke carried his hip small pad that toasted his
fingers. He referring to 1t day in Yankee Stadium
when Jesse Hill came to bat
Hill, athletic director at Southern Cal.
Of those interim ouelders for the Yankees The best you
could Jesse that he bated ghhanded and could
like striped ape This time ho-ever, he connected
with fast ball and sent 1t line back to the box
Despite his heft Lnke agile fielding pitcher.
Still, he had chance to ward OF Hills liner 1t struck
him squarely between the eyes!
IF MEMORY SERVES, Ben Chapman second base.
The ball rebounded of Lnkes skull and sailed high and far
toward and back Of home plate.
rookie catcher, Jack Redmond, handling Linke
that afternoon. While his baterymate lying his
back like dead whale washed the beach, Redmond
drfed back and caught Hills carom Then he pegged to
Buddy Myer second base and Chapman doubled up
They scraped Linke from the diamond and took him to
the nearest hospital All he had headache which
in with most Washington pitchers Of that and
this one. Finally he released.
1t was a sensational double pay-Linke to Redmond to
Myer-and fortunately nobody badly hurt-not Lnke
the Yankees.