Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-23
WIN, LOSE OR
UKAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
The Roiuh Is a Prophet

CHICAGO, SEPT. 2S-Rogers Hornsby stood behind the
batting cage at wgey Field and nodded toward the San
Francisco Giants dugout They won't win It," old pro
Hornsby declared Look at 'em They're down right now
The Giants dugout yesterday by pre-game
press visitors and Hornsby Cubs coach, interpreted
the hospitality Of the Giants this way:
They're looking for friends see After Los Angeles
got finished hooking em three in row, they're hurting
Blowing whole series has got to take something out Of
club
Last time they came to Chicago winging on top
those guys wouldn't speak to anybody Now they're
wagging their tails Besides San Francisco hasn't got
the pitching. This is between Milwaukee and Los
Angeles, you can bet on it."
And which Of the other two clubs would Hornsby
pick?
Rogers shrugged THE Dodgers have the best pitching
but you've got to ike the Braves account Of those
last three games with Philadelphia in the Milwaukee park"
THIS WAS AN HOUR BEFORE game time and the
Cubs laughing and joking during their hitting drill
a club do when it is sxth-placer. Pressure is
disease Of winners only and the Cubs immune They
seem to be enjoying the obque attention they drawing
potential spoilers" because after odays finale with
the Giants they close out the here against the
Dodgers.
eff we get well pitched game which isn't often we
can hurt any club Hornsby said with tight smile "San
Francisco especially because fastba pitcher stop
'em. The Dodgers and Braves tougher. Walt Aston
has pitchers who can start and relieve"
A newspaperman spoke up. "Rog, don't you rate Mil
waukee pretty hgh considering all those antiques they're
depending on?"
whats the matter with emp" Hornsby asked
Slaughter will play eftfied as well as anybody else
the clutch. Vernon will get you that big base hit Why
not pick those guys. What's wrong with being 40
years old, especially today when rs cent Of the
called big leaguers only tpe-A players-at best?"
"a The man with 358 lifetime average was II himself
when he managed the Browns in 1887 and hit 321
pinch hitter. He A and had been out Of baseball
for full year when he managed Oklahoma City in 1s4O
~ Dat Mol hatn doua and
pnch-hit. He singled.
BILL RIoNEY, LOOKING WAN and underweight
caught Honbys eye and sauted from the dugout Rogers
nodded Hes done all right" Hornsby conceded, mo
matter what happens So did Joe Gordon at Cleveland
wish the Indians could win just to shut up Frank Lane
If Lane knows much baseball why doesn't he manage
from the bench?"
The old Raj remains nothing If not spade-caller.
After Jim Marshall swatted q two-rpn homer OF Jack
Sanford in the first inning the West Coast baseball
writer's dancing attendance the Giants looked stricken
They had Just the club lose four of its last five big
games 1.-TWO against Milwaukee and three against Los
Angeles and the Cubs threatening to do them
in, too.
Dave Hillman working sloppiy for the Cubs, but
the Giants kept missing scoring chances and 1t wasn't
until the eighth inning that they got to Hman and Don
Elston, his relief, to move out in front, AS.
Now there was tension. Rigney, who started Of
his aces in Sanford, hadn't hesitated to follow with
Mike Mccormick another top hand. Finally, in order
to protect that precious and precaous lead the lean
gray hsyears manager called Sam Jones,
his only 20-game winner.
TIME AFTER TIME, RIGNEY called time and held con-
ferences first with Sanford and then with Mccormick
and Jones. In the American League, long pow-wows,
involving not only the pitchers but the catchers and
helders, would be dsallowed.
Jones is tall, angular man who in his movements
looks like he's studied satchel Paige He gives the i'm
preston that he is carrying too heavy burden, and
1t is an effort to pick up his feet
Seemingly forever Jones reads and dgests the signs
from his catcher, forcing virtually all of the baters
step out of the box
In short, he Is showboat, although q very good
pitcher. Slowly, deliberately, like q working under
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