Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-21
WIN, LOSE OR
HNAH BY FRANCIS STANN
Meeting Of Old Roomies

MIAMI FEB 21-In the grin room of the Miami Springs
Country Club Jimmy Foxx sat with his robust for the
pause that refreshes TALL stately with gray
white hair walked up and and Howard Ehmke had
reunion.
Y I'VE were roomes" Jimmy laughed Foxx was wearing
bright green baseball cap with white M it, He is
the baseball University Of Miami these days
In his heydey there few harder htters than DoubleX
while Ehmke became immortal when he struck out 10 Of
the Cubs in the opening of the 1929 World Series in
Chicago and won for the old Philadelphia Athletics 31
"Jim" unused Ehmke relishing. the reminiscence you
called it."
~ know did, Foxx beloved. "or Howard. here hadn't
been with club for quite while Sore But the
night before the Series opened had bunch
we hit sacks said Roome wouldn't be surprised
the Old Man. pitched you tomorrow" *ts@
s 1.-The old Man was Connie Mack of course" Ehmke
explained bysander "Shpcks didn't expect start
q Series game, much less the opener My had been
Sore and was old guy Besides had Grove, Earn
shaw, Romme and Walberg to pitch"
3 THE Old Man. knew what he doing" Foxx said.
That's how come We won the Series in five games"
UNTIL CARL ERsKINE famed "A Yankees in the SO
Series behalf of the Dodgers Ehmkes IS stkeouts stood
the all-time record Now he saying to Foxx:
"Doube-x, do you really remember that night before
the seriesa"
Certainly do" Jimmy replied 4 was no Brain but
had bunch. Remember that promised you home
If you pitched?"
'That do" Ehmke replied Jimmy said he'd hit one
for me- We play the next day and it's scoeess game and
IN seventh
the dgut and searched out There just the fanest
suggestion of wink promise that he intended keep
And enough Jimmy beted out of the park when
he came to bat to put US ahead, 10"
That should have been all needed Foxx grinned
"but it wasn't"
NO" Ehmke conceded "How Jimmy Dykes threw so
wild the ball that Woody English hit to him I'll
know Anyway English wound up second base and
single followed and suddenly it a ted-up game
I'VE didn't exactly get last two by the book"
Foxx reminded Those Chcagos were mite Eighty, too"
True True" Ehmke said.
SPEAKING OF CONNIE MACKs choosing you to open
the Series said to Ehmke, didn't 1t shock
TO some Others including AL Simmons"
Foxx guffawed, Ehmke grinned. 1.-THE way remember
IT." Foxx said I'VE playing catch the sdelnes and
suddenly Ehmke up. Simmons thunder
struck He walked to the dugout and said the Old
Man. You're not going to pitch that guy, you?
Mister Mack looked Simmons Squarely in the eye
Aoysus, he asked. are questioning my Judgment?
A gulped and said NO, sir Mr.. Mack, and turned
That the end of that
Il don't think that Simmons liked very much" Ehmke
said. Once while pitching for the Red sox got him
26 times in used to throw at him. Just under his
nose and sometimes behind him. There only about
four pitchers in the American League worked Simmons
that way Fred Marberry of Washington used
come at Al with sdearm PITCH stepping toward third base
He didn't like It,"
But AL was sweet hitter" Foxx said
You can say that again. Ehmke agreed.
FAN WHO OBVIOUSLY had been following the
National Baseball Golf Tournament approached Foxx and
said:
Are you Mister Foxx?"
"Yes, that's right"
II saw hit two home day In the White Sox
park In Chicago The first the lehed stands
The second one, don't know where it landed"
Foxx signed the piece of autograph paper which the
worshper had whipped THE second homer Jimmy said
probably the longest in history I'm Dragging
1t went over the second deck of comskey Park
days later a guy came up to me and said:
Mister Foxx, you liked to kill me-
= Naturally. / hen he said nil
tennis on the public courts back Of the ball park ball
struck me the foot discovered later that you hit It,
That did it, Foxx grinned. I'm bet you that it went
$50 feet.
c.. Nh.