Evening star., 1960-05-11
WIN, LOSE OR
NNAH By FRANCIS STANN
When Cochrune Went O-for-37

JAMES JOSEPH DYKES stared disconsoIately but
reSgned out of the window of his the Shoreham
Hotel but while it high enough he refused to Jump
ITS got to end sometime" Jimmy said, speaking the
l0game losing his Detroit Tigers brought to Griffith
Stadium last night. 1T always has, although not always
under the manager"
The Tigers, who did so we'll under the 63-year-old
Round Man when he succeeded Bill Norman on May g.
1853 with 2-l7 record started this campaign as the
hottest club in the major leagues Bengas reeled off
hve in row and mpresSionabe observers were saying
This has got to be DetrotS year!" Then came the 10
game streak the Tigers had brought to town. but which
they snapped last night with Rocky CoavitoS as-nning
homer
IT'S happened to me before" Dykes muSed regretfuy
In 1852, when managing the Philadelphia Athletics
we blew IL straight. Then when had the Baltimore
orioles, 1t was is in
"Its fun, but guess streaks like ours happen to
nearly every club"
EARLIER IN THE DAY there was occasion to ask Cal
Grhth If he had theory about the Tigers losing ways
haven't seen them this year. Cal said but don't forget
that we lost 16 in a last year"
Calls interviewer murmured something to the effect
that after ALL Detroit had four solid pchers-Don Moss
Jim Burning Paul Foytack and Frank Lary-plus other
more plentiful assets than the Senator'S Griffith shrugged
not quite agreeing They haven't got good pitcher as
Camo) Pascua and they haven't got better pair than
Pascual and Pete Ramos" he argued
IF we had one more Pascual and one more Ramos I'd
like our chances of taking it ALL,
Dykes hasn't been blaming his pitchers They've done
all right" Jimmy saying "out of my top four plus
lew Others you'd have to there stopper in the
group But how you losing streak if nobody is
hitting?
Steve Bko stopped dead. So did Colavto and Al
kaline Eddie Yost isn't hitting and Charlie Maxwell is
Just starting to play again We've gotten only
our last 10 games going into the Washington series now
we've got II in II games I'm with Cal far Pascual
concerned He's great caught him Monday night when
he beat Kansas City. But if club can't runs
iS OOino to hio
THE MYSTERY OF THE TIGERS who have chewed
up six in eight their ups and downs
has become so ngraned in the mind that Dykes
H. curing his own heyday as member OF the great old
Athletics they, too, had problems.
Eve had individual Ones" Jimmy said 81 remember
that over one stretch Mickey Cochrane great hitter
went for the collar in 80 at bats You'd say that's
almost impossible"
But somebody picked up the oad?" it was suggested
Somebody always did" Dykes verified. "Al Simmons
1or instance would hit little better Or Bing Miller
Jimmy Foxx Somebody always seemed to rise to the
sion when Cochrane or any of us we're in sumps.
But my club hell everybody is in slump at once
Except the pitchers If the pitching fuzzy I'd toss
IN oed at night and say to myself I'm not handling them
right But the pitchers have been all right It's just that
I've had to take some guy out when he doing real
good, Just in order to send pnch-hitter.
"And after I'd the pinch-htter" he added mourn
fully I'D wonder the pitcher wouldn't have better
at bat"
DYKES is DISTRESSED by the fact that Chico Fer
nandez, his slight Shorstop is the top hitter club
ooasting such musclemen as Kalne Coavto Maxwell and
Bl4Ko I'm tckled to death about Fernandez" he ex-
planned but traded for Fernandez for his fielding The
TACT that he's our best hitter is kind reflection
our big guys"
Jimmy admits that he and Rick Ferre who is assis-
tant to President Bill Dewitt have been contact with
griffith regarding trades But he is pesSimStc We're
not close. In fact, we won't make any deal"
Cal goes along with Dykes on that score. Il want
pitcher even strictly for relief and I'd like right
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