Harris Lines up Lefties to Fire at Yankees in Series Starting Tomorrow Win, Lose Or Draw Rally Defeating by FRANCIS E
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* * \ } '•*. ,* '*//•* '- T -.. t. *♦ Sports News Comics and Classified Q * ._____WASHINGTON; D. C.t FRIDAY, O-jT Harris Lines Up Lefties to Fire at Yankees in Series Starting Tomorrow Win, Lose or Draw Rally Defeating By FRANCIS E. STAN. The Dean So Far Is Chubby, Not Dizzy A's Held Tonic In any summation of early pitching feats in the majors so far the old name of Dean must place high on the list. Not Dizzy nor Daffy, nor Mr. Griffith’s own Dopey, but a young fellow named Lovill who wroks Nats Needed for the Athletics. Only the A’s don't call him Lovill. He’s Chubby. It would be interesting to hear what the world champion *New York Yankees call him because Chubby is the fellow who is responsible for both Pilot Convinced Club of the Yanks’ defeats to date. As you may recall, he pitched the opening game for old Connie Mack and had a 1-0 victory in his grasp. Will Shine if Its Piobably appalled by what they were doing, Chubby’s mates kicked across a run for the champions but Dean carried right on and won In the Hurling Improves tenth Inning, anyway. The score was 2-1. A few days later he threw By FRANCIS E. STAN. a four-hitter at the same Yanks and won this time, 1-0. In all, he’s In the wake of their heaviest bat- given no earned runs and only 10 hits to the best club in baseball in ting attack of the infant season—a 19 innings. 13-hit barrage, good for a total of 19 There's Been Nothing Consistent About the Guy bases—the Nationals today began to regard their chances in a better It's still April, and September, when pitching records go into the light. They finally are out of the books, is a long way off but every now and then a fellow like Chubby American League cellar and. s'prise, Dean will come and, into a fine boxman. along overnight develop Right they nave shown that at times they now is a sort of a Chubby left-handed Bucky Walters. He dabbled as a pack some power and can come from first baseman and as an outfielder. He switched to pitching and didn’t behind. amount to much for a while. And then he bobbed up and licked the If there ever was a more bizarre Yankees twice running. ball game with' a story-book twist than s 7-to-6 decision over Lovill—er, pardon, Chubby—is a North Carolinian, as might be yesterday the Athletics it escapes memory at suspected. He came from Mount Airy, pitched in prep school, decided the moment. Trailing, 1-6, with two he’d rather bat at Duke. So he played the outfield and first base for down and nobody on base in the Coach Jack Coombs and then, as a decided to and sophomore, quit play ninth inning. Then—six hits, a base in the Or, at with the Athletics. majors. least, TEARFUL—Pensively dream- on balls and a ball game. So, you see, there hasn’t been anything consistent about Lefty “There’s a game,” jubilated Man- ing of something or other is Lovili up to now. Mack didn’t want Chubby to Duke. He wrote ager Bucky Harris, “that may do this quit the great dane, Vagabond of club of ours more than Dear, and he wrote Coombs and the text of both letters was the same .. good any- Lindenhoff, owned Robert thing in the world. We a stay in college until four years are up. So Chubby quit and joined the by finally got A. couple of good breaks. Now. if we A's and in his first year, back in 1937, the 19-year-old-youngster became Cavenaugh of Chicago. «-——- can come up with a little better a sensation as a pinch-hitter. pitching, we should be all right.” Gets Dean Did Batting Tricks When He Debutted Hollingsworth Chance. Boxer, Shepherd High The pitching is the fly in the oint- We forget just what he did but it seems that he tied, or broke, a ment now. So far none of Bucky s a pinch-hitting record of some sort. Or did he merely lead the starters has won. Dutch Leonard, pinch-hitters of the American League? Something along these lines, any- In Show Ratings who has tried twice, is the only first- and the way, reward was the first base job. He was bad at first, got flight hurler who has worked a com- better, and then fell victim to the urge to pitch again. plete game. After losing that open- The funny part of it all is that up to a couple of weeks Mr. Mack had At Riverside ing-game heart-breaker to Grove on April 16 Dutch was kayoed in Boston. no intention of using Chubby as a starting pitcher. The young fellow had And every other starter—Ken Chase, gone to Connie during spring training and asked for a shot as a starter. 600 Are Sid Hudson, Joe Haynes and Joe Loville, it seems, sets some store the lucre of the realm. Being Judged by He explained Krakauskas—has been shelled from to the old that made For Award gent starting pitchers the money in basball, that he Tonight's the box. Both of Washington's vic- wanted to the hop gravy train, too, and, finally, that it was hard work Of tories were credited to second-string warming up in the bull-pen every time a Philadelphia pitcher got in Championship pitchers, Walter MasterSon and trouble. This, of is Alejandro Carrasquel. course, constantly. The National Capital Kennel But the A's Board of had the There has been nothing wrong Strategy fixed idea that Dean was no Club’s 11th annual dog show en- with the Nats at the plate the nine-inning pitcher. The brain trusters agreed that Lovill could pitch during tered its final day at Riverside last two days. They have hammered the eighth and ninth innings of almost any ball game. Or the first and : Stadium with of more Red Sox and Athletic pitching for second In he a today judging innings. short, was two-inning Johnny in the Mackian 25 hits in the last two popular breeds a to the j days and, book. preliminary for selection of the moreover, distance. Those 25 _ 1 grand champion to- hits were good for 36 bases, an un- night at 10. Some 600 dogs from He's a usual record even for better Wash- Breezy Bloke From Mount Airy nearly all States and Canada are entered in ington teams. But as the A’s were to start the Dean the five-ring show. getting ready campaign started, Today, as the Nats were to tackle Four young women from the finished and won over the Phillies in an exhibition campaign. By thus the A's in the finale to a brief University of Maryland, dressed in series becoming the first Mackman to pitch nine he won the and await the arrival of the innings opening colors denoting first, second, third Yankees, game assignment the Yankees. And that to date. Harris was to look at another against brings things up and fourth place ribbons, were to starter, A1 In a one- Now this Lovill Dean a -- ■■■■ Hollingsworth. six and fellow, (Chubby) is person of considerable u ■ III— present best of breed awards. third innings stretch as a relief import around the American League. In none of the early ratings was he FAMILY PAIR—International of Some best of breed victors in the Champion Barnaul Marlenhof pitcher in New York last week the given much of a tumble. The top boys of the southpawing squadron were (left) and his opening yesterday whose past rec- brother, Ch. ilosea of Marlenhof, are American- Brooklyn cast off showed plenty. If Grove, Marius Russo, Ken Chase, Joe Krakauskas and, maybe, Gomez. ords make them serious contenders bred miniature achnausers owned by Miss Oene Slmtoonds of for the he can repeat, A1 practically can But it's at supreme honors include in hard, this time, to keep this breezy boy from Mount Airey from name the when he wants to Baltimore. Many of the* bow-wows shown at the working group the boxer, Ch, days the top. For the time being, at least, he belongs there. currently being start Riverside Stadium also have fa Ut* von Dom, owned by John Phelps games. Whether he can continue at a close to to beeflPent^red the Old Dominion the felicitations which clip reasonally this remains Wagner, and the German shepherd, Tempering Club show to be held at the baseball In Alexandria to- are around how- be seen. He will be watched closely by at least three clubs—the Yankees, park Ch. Thora von Bern of Giralda, being passed today, Indians and Nationals. Thse seem to be the teams logically cut out as fair morrow. / owned by Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, ever, is, the aforementioned pitching situation. Leonard's losing battle for left-handers in * and in hounds the Ch. prey although Dean, twice beating the Yanks, defied a t---*-I Afghan Sahib against Grove was a masterpiece. .780 success percentage by the champions against southpaws last year. Tanyah of Cy Ann from Fort Worth, Tex. Another formidable (See BASEBALL. C-4.) We mean, the Yanks in 1939 were even more successful against left- Page Official Score threat was handers than Junior's Chance Slim the Irish setter. Rose- right-handers.