Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-17
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Adversely and Herb Score

HERBERT JUDE SCORE is deeply religious highly
popular young man-perhaps well liked by ballpayers
in the American League He also courageous
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nan likely much of the blame will be charged to
Scores failure to deliver The nice kid from Lake Worth.
Fa who four years ago showed potential than
pitcher since Bob Teller. is all mixed up.
It isn't his fault Adversely has WALKED hand in hand
with Score since he boy Few ba layers IN history
have been logged with such succession of unlucky breaks
And last Saturday there was further evidence that fate
beginning to beat him down. A~4 "a
At time when the Indians desperately needed the big
lift, Score couldn't furnish it.
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TWICE IN THE FIRST three innings the indians gave
Herb leads He didn't last the third Detroit blew
him out In ve-run inning and went to win, to g.
1t costly game for Cleveland because the rstplace
White Sox also lost
1t was Scores 10th loss of the year against nine wins
which may not be bad record for most pitchers but not
for the southpaw who threw the fastest pitch in the
majors Charley Maxwell and Gus Zernial hit
homers Of the young man OF whom hters were trying to
get piece of bali" little than two years ago.
Worst of ALL Herb hasn't for the Tribe since July
at which point looked as If Cleveland might win the flag
Distressing too, the fact that Score trying
motion-one Of those no-wndup types-in effort to
curb his control problem
1t ddn-he walked FIVE batters in the 2s innings he
lasted and made wild pitch-but obviously the no-wndup
took something of his swift one.
WHEN SCORE FIRST PUT on big league uniform
only four years ago there by the experts to pin
a can't-miss label on him. He'll break all Of Feler's
srkeout records they predicted The late iris Speaker
repeatedly record This boy is going to be of
the great ones"
And considering how young and green he was in 1855
and 1856 he did all right He &c., lost 10 and famed
sos batters in 476 innings Almost everybody else talked
only of his great speed but the hters especially the left
handed ones vowed that he also threw the sharpest curve
In the big leagues
He the only bona-fde drawing card among AL
pitchers by 1s56-the only hurer to draw people into the
parks all by himself And then as you will remember fate
interviewed again. Gil McDougald of the Yankees hit him
in the right eye with a line drive.
e. It was of the nearly tragic accidents in the
majors since the beaning and death of Ray Chapman.
McDougald 1.-the rest of the Yankees all the players
in the league bemoaned the injury
ACCIDENTS INJURIES and illness had been nothing
to Herb. He run over by truck when he was
three years old Not long afterwards he stricken with
rheumatic fever then broken ankle appendec-
tony high blood pressure pneumonia couple Of
times :. shoulder separation
It was the rheumatic fever which caused his mother
to from Rosedae N " to Florida and it at Lake
Worth that Cy Sapncka who also discovered Feer signed
Score. looked like the greatest onetwo discovery in
history until McDougad's line drive May Z, 1857
At rst it was feared that Herb would lose the sight
of his eye also appeared that he might never pitch
again. And If he did, he might be gun shy and no longer
effective because Of this Fortunately, neither Of these
calamites happened But bad luck pursued him in other
DISCUSSES. s1ts s
BY the spring Of SO he healthy reported early to
training camp, seemed like his old sef-and then tore
muscle in his elbow That cancelled most of So This
year he looked like the old Score again. but from the
batters viewpoint Although he throwing the
same the ball hasn't been moving with its former deadly
consistency.
It's been rough three years and now to top it of
temporarily at least has iunked his classic natural
motion for nowndup STYLE which frequently the sign
of mixed-up guy. And Herb deserves better.
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