Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-04-26

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the managers manual, insult
ing the Senators in the process,
in the ninth inning of the YAM
KEGS final game here Thurs
day. It's against union
rules for managers to play for
a tie on the road when they're
trailing in the ninth inning.
They play to win. because
the home club still has that
last crack at bat. But STEM
gel was saying to the Senator'S,
in effect, IF we tie you. we
can hold you in the last of
the ninth, then beat you.'
So, after Truman Cleveneer
walked Bill Skowron to start
the ninth and with the YAM
KEGS on the wrong end of a 80
score, Casey ordered Jerry
Lumpe to sacrifice. The
Yankees failed to get the tie
after Skowron moved over to
third on Enos Slaughter's long
fly to right, because Harmon
Killebrew then turned in a ter
rife play on Elston Towards
vicious grounder.
Stengel's safety-flrst tactics
at that point, rather than the
about gamble. didn't succeed,
but he would have had q lot
going for him if the Yankees
had been able to produce the
tying run. Casey was aware
that the tail end of the Sena-
tors batting order would be
swinging in the ninth, and he
was satisfied that no trouble
would be stirred up from that
source.
Cy Williams, who played 10
years with the Cubs and Phil
lies and led the National
League in home runs in 1920
and 1928, now is II years old
but remains spry. He's an
expert skier and is one of Wis
consin'S leading architects and
builders.
The Notre Dame Alumni
Magazine reports that Will
liams, a track teammate of
Knute Rockne, lives at Three
Lakes. Wis, where he has con-
structed a theater, bank, hotel
and many magnificent homes.
His most spectacular crea-
ton is the Northernaire, a lux
ury hotel at the gateway of the
Nicolet National Forest.
Williams, who slammed Al
homers in 1923, necessitated
the original Williams shift, "
forerunner of the daffy defense
rugged in an attempt to check
the blasting of Ted Williams.
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A wonderful collection of
baseball pictures, accompany
ing the text, makes THE Story
of Baseball" by John Durant,
a worthy addition to any sports
library. Captured are some
of the games more electrifying
moments, as well as much of
the screwball stuff, incidents
connected with the Black SoX
scandal, fights, etc.
There's a shot of Gabby
Hartnett autographing a base
ball for AL Capone's son while
the underworld car beams, a
photo which wildly demon
strates Ty Cobb's spikes-high
, sliding style and seemingly re-
flutes Cobb's claims of recent
years that he never intention
ally cut a player, and Umpire
George Magerkurth on the
ground and being pounded by
an irate Brooklyn hoodlum.
The loathing that Babe Ruth
and Miller Higgins felt for each
other is pictured in a dugout
scene. Many Of the game;
memorable events have beer
captured, but a picture that's
purported to show Mickey
Nantes monumental wallor
against Pedro Ramos-the bal
that hit the facade of the ROOF
in rightfleld and is the closest
that any fair drive ever came
to going out of Yankee Stadium
doesn't ring true. In thai
shot players are looking to left
field.
| Manager Cookie LavagettC
sends one and sometimes tive
of his pitchers to the stands il
civilian clothes during games tx
chart the pitches Of the opposi.
ton. Certain pitchers have
patterns in working against tn:
Senators. d. For instance, Boz
Turkeys first pitch to two Sen.
atorS on each of four occasions
the other day was a curve ball.
| Cookies charts show the typt
of pitch, whether high, low, in,
side or outside. i. ]. 1t gives tht
Senators batters an idea n
what pitchers are trying to pe
them out on and perhaps vii
present some notion of what Il
expect in the future.
1 Lavagetto feels the assign
ment of following each pitch,
enforcing concentration, also
will benefit his pitchers.
"They can't do me any good
sitting on the BENCH" Cookie
says. When they're charting
the opposition pitcher, they
should be thinking with him,
comparing what they'd try to
do with what the pitcher ac-
tually does. 1t should give them
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