Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-25
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THAT HOLLYWOOD ATMOSPHERE apparently Is
making the Dodgers bit lght-headed. Imagine grown
like Duke snder, after hobbng about all spring
with bum knee, hurting his arm by trying to throw
ball the 1O6-foot-hgh rim Of Memorial Coliseum
Pretty expensive Glowing around too since Manager
Walt Aston docked the Duke days pay-about $275-for
the game he had to sit out
1t could be tpoff, too that School Teacher Aston
Is somewhat less than happy at the way his Dodgers
playing. Up to now, the one-tme Brookyns have not
even been looking like rst-divson team, much less
solid pennant threat The Dodgers growing old
Aston will have manage as he did before. Little
wonder If Walt has no patience with kid stunts.
Snider Of course could win the National League batting
championship with because that's what Goose
Goslin did back in 1928 when he pulled DANCED fool
trick too He wore out promising young ball player
in Bobby Reeves, but Goose wound up with 37s batting
average.
IN GosLINS CASE it happened day during spring
training The Senators in % training at Fair
While the Senators were practcng at end Of the
Fair Grounds, schoolboy track team working out
on the other.
From his vantage point in the outfeld Gosin spied
but he was blissfuly ignorant Of how to put shot He
began to throw it like baseball. To his delight he
threw it farther than anybody else.
Next day. Weeks went by and Gosln could
only lob baseball The word was passed around the
league that you could run on Goose
Bucky Harris, still playing manager Of the Senator's
needed GoSns bat and he assigned Shortstop Reeves
as personal caddy to the Goose Reeves tall strap
ping young who had been football player Georgia
Tech He could throw, too.
BOBBY THREW LIKE FEW sl1ortstops you've ever
seen, using a sdearm motion that made the pa sink
and feel like lead Joe Judge who playing first base
NJ thosaI If
to take ineld practice with catchers mitt in order
save his hand for the game.
Whenever a ball was hit to leftheld, Reeves raced
full speed toward Gosin took the lobs from the Goose
and whipped it to the base enemy trying
to reach The washington club managed to get by with
a dead-armed leftfeder but at considerable wear and
tear Reeves. BY late July the Ramblin Wreck literally
was one and had to be rested.
While Bobby was parking 1t on the bench, new boy
came up from Kansas City, where he had been no star
This would be Joe Cronin And shortsop to be his
Job with the Senators through 1884 when Clark Grth
sold Cronin, then his soninlaw, to the Red Sox Poor
Reeves didn't last long.
GoSLIN HOWEVER, ENJOYED the % season quite
lot. His dead didn't handicap him at the plate
and for spell almost half the season Goose
was hitting 400 or better
Washington didn't make much Of run for the flag,
but the batting race was dandy. After AL Simmons
and Lou Gehrig challenged Goslin only to fall back,
Heine Manusn charged INTO the picture.
Heinie playing for the st. Louis Browns that
and after squirt he passed Gosin Then
the final series Of the season. fourgame affair with the
Browns Goose got hot again. He banged out hits
in IS times at bat and the last day he held 2pont
margin over Manush.
That was when Sam Jones, who was the Senator's
big pitcher with TT after being purchased from the
Yankees volunteered to pitch cut Of turn in order to
stop Manush The veteran confident could hobbe
Heine, but he didn't Manush picked up two of st.
Louis seven hits.
Gosin, however, also raped out two hits and beat
Manush 379 to 37S to become Washingtons first batting
king since Ed Delahanty in 1902 The Goose was the
Big Man in town.
Reeves washed up. Manager Harris didn't fare
too well, either. Grifhth fred him and made Walter
johnson manager.