Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-14
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BEFORE ROY SEWERS left town after picking up his
Touchdown Club trophy outstanding contribution TO
baseba but not 1858 contract from the Senator's he
was being chided by some friends
"You may wind up getting traded" fellow said at
the Sheraton-Park the other night
IN miss all Of spring training II necessary" Roy said
Il had a good year and want to be paid for It,"
IF you don't get your money" the other repeated you
could be traded"
THAT would be too bad" Sievers replied in what was
suspected brilliantly. to be mock regret
large young man was approaching and the who
had been talking to Sievers remarked Now there's
OF fellow being traded on Look how hungry he looks"
Roy who Mr. Muscles of our baseball rm looked at
Ray Krouse all 275 $50 pounds of him. As physically
formidable as he is sievers dwarfed by Krouse
He doesn't look so hungry" Roy replied dryly. I'm
TACT he looks like he Just ate a morsel like me-"
KRoUsE ASKED. What are you talking about7"
You, in part" fellow said How you got traded to
the Detroit Lons-and wound UP the pro champion
ship team"
Clean living" Ray-grunted.
Jim Castiga, the one time Georgetown Philadelphia
Eagles and Redskins fulback surveyed Krouses ample
measurements
: what do you weigh?"
"oh seventy-five eighty" answered the giant ex-
Maryland tackle.
Il keep telling this guy" castigia explained that he
ought to take OF few pounds say get down to 24O
$50 pounds and he'd amount to something in pro
football I'm still weighing 2l5 220 which about what
] was when was playing"
Krouse said nothing, but guy who knows Castglia
pretty well got out the needle
And how many championship teams did you play
for?" he asked.
mot a single one" Jim admitted sheepshly.
Krouse threw grateful glance
GETTING BACK TO SEWERS it may develop that
Roy viii be the toughest holdout the Senators
countered in years, and certainly during Cal Griths
reign boss Roy quiet guy but has stubborn streak
and when he thinks he's worth the money he undoubtedly
will wait until he gets it,
Nor you blame him much although this is by way
of telling Cal how spend his money After eight
years in the maoalthough he drove 800 for
Washington In UNSATISFACTORY hit the jackpot In 1857
He wasn't the big average hitter but he 800
land he was the American League leader in home
sand bated in, Ted williams and Mickey Mantle not
gwithstanding.
Roy his own when he was swinging for the
fences but he less at the mercy OF his
when it came TO knocking home 1t helps to have
somebody base All too often, severs with
the bases unoccupied
THE FACT THAT wAsFiINGToNs attendance was
some 10000 in 81 than in SO might be laid to Sever
alone No exhibons aalker Roy nonetheless became
talked about and 1t follows that he have drawn
customers although this Griffith processes to have
his doubts
Cal qualified recently 1T don't necessarily have to be all
Sievers doing"
And he could be right, although sievers didn't hurt
any The businessmen Of Washington fearful lest the
Grfiths the franchise sold tickets all last winter
as best they could They gave the big civic pitch that
might have helped without that backing plus severs'
herocs the Senators attendance might have reached
appalling low.
Some who think kindly OF Cal Griffith, including this
corner feel that In the absence OF farm system that
produces plus concrete hope for the future would
wise to unload Mr. Muscle from Missouri pronto While he's
red hot and expensive, while he's pushing 80. $50.
Roy probably wouldn't mind becoming temporary one
man farm system In trade for young ball players.
Another way TO gure IT, washington with Severs the
finished 43 games back OF the Yankees in 1887 The
Senators we're SO back SO and 43 behind in 55a years
when Sievers averaging better than 100 batted
across. e.e