Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-07-15
WIN, LOSE OR
DNAW By FRANCIS sTANN
Roy Sievers: Perennial Bargain

FOR THE CHASTENED American League the pre-
All Star herocs of Roy severs little too late Be-
tween the time of the voting and the moments of truth
in City York. Severs became the hottest
hitting first baseman in the American League and the
big new crutch of the White Sox.
81 only hope the Al-Star break doesn't affect Roys
timing" Manager Al Lopez said in New York. looking to
the White sox home stand beginning tonight against
the orioles. When sievers right he's as good as
thought he'd be and maybe better"
The ex-senator who acquired by Chicago in
exchange for Catcher Earl Battey First Baseman Don
Mncher and $15000O in cash. to action tonight
with record of having hit safely in 16 straight games
longest such streak the club Roys IL homers lead the
Sox Four times he has broken up games.
Where once sievers was struggling with 22O aver
age he's bated S74 this 16-game stretch and the
sox once left for dead by the Yankees alive again.
II BLAME MYSELF for not playing Roy every day
from the time we got him. Lopez saying on the
An-Star bench in New York But he wasn't hitting
much early in the season and / alternated Roy with
Kluszewsk What didn't realize that Sievers has
got to play every day to keep his timing"
Big Ted Kluszewski, star in the SO World Series
after his late acquisition by Chicago has been playing
very little of late When he does crash the box score
it's pnch-hitter. Ted still swings dangerous bat
but most of the White Sox feel that Klu is little on
the lazy side and that sievers outhustles him.
Casey stengel who visited Lopez in the -star dug
out also is strong Severs admirer MY fellows thought
your club finished" drawled the Yankee manager
but then your first baseman got hot and WELL guess
you're in pretty good shape"
1--WE in good shape" Lopez replied "sievers is
getting the big hits but Gene Freese and Luis Aparico
are doing better, too think we're ready to make a
big move"
+ Casey grunted and changed the subject.
! AFTER THE SECOND All-Star game of course both
Lopez and stengel mite shaken by the abiect
failure of their exalted troops cope with the National
Leagues best pitchers and suggerS 1t was most embar
RAISING to realize that Willie Mays of the Giants got
as many base hits as the entire starting AL team.
Willie collected six in the two games. Among them
Minnie Mnoso, Pete Runnels, Roger Mars Mickey Mantle
Bill skowron, Yogi Berra Frank Malone and Ron Han
sen got half dozen hits But they did not match Mays
total of IL bases In fact there wasn't an extra base
hit in the whole outfit whereas Willie had double,
triple and home run in addition to his three singles.
That good National League pitching stopped Yankees
and White Sox alike, and Stengel and Lopez probably
agree, privately that if there any of this
Al-Star business their might come down with in
feriorty complexes F
+ NOT EVEN SEWERS with his red-hot bat was like
y to have stemmed the National League tide but the
White Sox hopeful that Roy will take up where he
left off in the As Ed Short Chicagos keeper of
vital and non-vtal records put it, I'VE think got
Roy cheap even if we had to give up good catcher in
Battey, prospect in Mincher and $15OOOO"
Roy always has represented bargain. When he
came up 10 the old ST. Louis Browns in 1949 and was
rookie-of -theyear with 3O6 batting average and 81
RIBS, the Browns had little invested in him. And the
Senator'S when they acquired him in 1854, did in a
fundamentally historic trade All they Gil Coan,
who long since has gone from the majors
Actually Sievers the property of the Balti-
more Orioles when the Coan deal was finalized, al
though Roy never wore oriole uniform. Baltimore
could have used him then and now All Sievers &C
compished in his six with Washington was to
reWrite the clubs Sugging records His 1870 home
is an a-tme high and in ST he became the Senator's
first home run champion with A. the first RBI leader
In 70 years and the first Washington hitter to lead in
total bases