Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-13
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS STANN
Adversely Is q Stranger

another World Series this fall it behooves both 1878
pennant winners to look alive, especially the American
League champs They in the process of being debnked
as a super team and have taken to Squabbling with
umpireS like petulant children.
Adversely is stranger to the Yankees, and they
graceleSS in its presence Last they front
by margin of about seven games at the end of May and
II lengths ahead by August 2 In the past they have
given night club bouncerS trouble than umpires
They so relaxed and hai-fellow lmet that they
finished the last weeks of 1853 in the of men
thinking of something else.
They didn't play 500 ball and Casey stengel who
earlier had been asked the '58 Yankees his best
team finally answered the question with disguised
BEST team? They drop fly balls in the oued they don't
hit with the bases, and the infeld which said
was winning for early in the has become
cratic"
IN SHARP CONTRAST to their 1858 start the Yankees
this took up where they left off last Bob Turey,
who racked 10 victories in his first engagements in
49, is ITO pitcher who can't put two winning efforts
back to back Whitley Ford who 1913 early last year.
is a comparative bust.
Mickey Mantle is the Yanks only 300 hitter but he's
just barely and far from living up his potential
Elston Howard who Stengel was thinking the best
a-around ball player in the league is some 81 points off
in hitting Gil McDougald Yogi longer strike
fear in the hearts of enemy pitchers.
Berra is past his 34th birthday and Hank Bauer is
raising his 37th. What's more, club in the majors
carrying 43year-old Enos Slaughter except the world
champions And when Stenge forced to start his second
line pitchers-Art Ditmar Jim Bronstad Duke Mas orc
Ralph Terythere is nothing special about the Yankees.
MOSTLY, 1T IS THE YANKEES pitching that is
betrayng them because the records show the troubled
champs still lead the American League fielding and
second in team batting the Athletics Of all people But
with Ford and Turey longer mpresng htters and the
rest of the staff ordinary lot Casey realizes that
his 10th pennan-the that would tie him with John
McGraw-iSnt going to come easy if at all.
There was cry-baby note in Saturdays losing game
to the Red SoX who in last place at the time With
the score tied at to Umpire Bill Summers warned Yogi
Berra his constant pickering balls and strikes
Yogi who normally doesn't panic, yeped too often
and was thumbed out.
This set off Ryne Duren who pitching. The out
spoken type Duren twice last year made news by
talking out of turn the Yankees train after the pennant
cnched and again in the World Series when he made
the Choke up sign to the plate umpire in full view Of
millions of TV clients of whom Commissioner
Ford Prick. Charging Summers who doesn't backrack,
Duren spit out the wrong words and thrown out too
Obviously the Yankees have yet to learn they entitled
to no special concessions by the umpires.
THE PICTURE FOR THE BRAVES is not so bleak but
there is evidence of fading by the 1857 SO champs while
three clubs that in the second division
two are taking dead aim at the flag
Whereas the Braves weakened by the loss of Red
SchoendenSt and with their famed pitching sta-Spahn,
Buhl Burdette, Rush. Jay, ct al-failng to produce
real stopper to date, San Francisco Los Angeles and
Pittsburgh are growing in stature.
Two years ago the Giants were sixth place club but
that before such Orlando Cepeda Willie Kirkland,
Daryl Spencer Felipe Alou and Jackie Brandt began to
arrive" Two years ago, too, the Pirates wound up in
seventh place but after finishing second in 49, they
legitimate flag threats despite the worst start of any
National League club this season.
. But the surprise team in the MI is Los Angeles limp
ing seventh last year and believed to have fallen apart Up
70 now Walt Aston, widely criticized year ago. is
making ike the manager of the year.