THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. * Dressen Plans TUMMY,ma It. IBM C-3 AL SCHACHT'S THE My Own Particular Screwball To Show Yanks ¦ JH BEAT Only Southpaws IV BURTON HAWKINS It was in spring training withb never forget the ninth Inning game: the Senators in 1930 that I firstit of that Boston still wlth- Continued From Page C-l got to know . It:t out and two men out when NEW YORK. April 12.—1 threw the ball away trying a fans, including n t$ was the beginning of a clowning g somebody hit a drive down the 684 President ’s get Tom Umphlett at the plate* Eisenhower, when they polished ease partnership that would become e first-base line that looked good getting little ** * * famous both in baseball and all the way. off the Orioles, 13-5, at Griffith strategy was a d yesterday-. It was a yesterday when Runnels also got PresidefS vaudeville, and would lead tco But made one of the Stadium soupy for you Eisenhower's autograph on a greatest fielding plays wild, sloppy game which bad its as pinch ball my . . own individual success asa I ever he inserted Bob Oldis a for Cookie Lavagetto > saw. literally sliding his moments of excitement before baseball’s "clown prince” and aia on game runner for pinch-runner Pedro i When Pete was introduced to restaurateur. Many people belly, he knocked the ball down, the Senators broke the a e open with five- outburst in Ramos after Ramos dashed I the President by Clark Grifflthi who watched Altrock and me e then touched the base with his a . the Senators' boss said, “Here? fingers before got the seventh inning. from first to third base, it was hope, laughed .. and, I at ouir the runner Washington , a boy from Texas”. Pete antics, might there. Johnson’s no-hitter was scored two runs simply a case of Dressen speak- Midi be interested too inning . “Yes, sir. I’ve been to see your . saved. in the third on one bit. ing no Spanish and Ramos . know that almost from the be- . understanding former home in Denison.” ginning we never liked each Ij In the clubhouse when we were .: ’s leadoff too little English. “Lad. Ihop* congratulating Walter, someone wc;- W high off the centerfleld bleacher “Ihad a squeeze play in mind Said the President. other—and in the later years ol,( | you get four for four.” partnership, cried, "Speech 1” These were his wall. was nipped on if had thrown one our we never spoke. by pitched Washington, [' exact words: the left elbow by a Lou Kretlow more ball to Bob Porterfield,” Eddie Yost, hit When I Joined , balls twice yesterday, was clippbd Altrock was the recognised clown n “Goodness gracious sakes alive, and Porterfield shifted to Dressen explained. "I wasn’t . wasn’t I lucky." third base when Kretlow un- sure that Ramos could under- only six times last season. . j pitch. thought excerpts leashed a wild stand me, so I I’dbetter Porterfield dismissed bis back This is Hw ninth of 14 from AIu The Cussin’ twinge. Busby, get somebody who could.” Injury as merely a . $ Schecht's "My Own Particular Screw- strongest language Jim who accounted for hell," Published Doebledoy b Co. That’s the three of the Senators’ 10 hits, As of the moment, Jess Levan He pulled up lame after throw* by I ever heard Johnson use. In ing fanned after Yost stole second is a .400 hitter over a three-year out Eddie Waltkus with one ' fact, the Washington club later majors. in the ninth inning, but of the American, League. When D base while the absent-minded span in the ... He i out had what we playfully called . . he appeared with his cap slde- Kretlow took a windup. Mickey batted .444 in two games with , finished the game. Bob says “the cussin’ battery,’’ Johnson ; the slight damage won’t wayS on his head and his big Vernon grounded to Eddie Walt- the 1047 Phillies, .300 with the cause * and with last and with his i him to miss a turn on the plug of tobacco popping his jaw,'• his "dog-gum it.” kus at first base and Porterfield Senators year they timely pinch against the i mound. loved it. And so did Nick. According to the stray, this is scored when Waltkus’ throw to * a this I guess he felt secure as base- how Johnson first came to the the plate was too late. Yost Orioles he’s 1.000 hitter i Baltimore used 15 ball’s No. 1 clown until the day on season. ... It all adds to eight while Dressen employed 14. . . ' majors. Baseball heard about shifted to third the play and i I came to Washington. Before 11 a powerful, rawboned farm boy scored when Pete Runnels was hits in 20 tries. Gil Coan was picked off first joined the club, my old pal Joe e thrown out on a tap down the ** * * base by Porterfield in the first in Kansas who could fire a ball snaring Inning Judge had said to the other and Washington sent a scout to firstbase line. Uninterested in the s and Oravetz was players: you r presidential pitch was Mickey ‘‘Wait’ll see this 8 look him over. Hie scout wired The Senators got only two hits ’ off second base by Don Johnson • JllgSplTjr." „¦ ... busy ' . . screwball!” back: “This is the fastest man Kretlow the first five Vernon he was too in the sixth. The Senatdr| off in in- . organization staged taking, movies of the event. . . • compiled Some a 8 I’ve ever seen pitch.” So they nings and over the same span 12 runs with their Tampa. ...ys, si grabbed > third, benefit show in a hotel in signed him. only Pete Runnels, who the fourth and fifth hittdrt They per- mmm the Orioles had three hits low toss after it trickled through obtaining only among Invited Altrock to * He reported to Washington, off Porterfield. But Baltimore i one hit hearing # moling players, got < form. Then, also that : u a swarm of them. * all 6-foot-3 and 190 pounds of ’ reputation being scored three runs in the fifth on his life when the Gerald, I had a for * him, in a tweedy suit two sizes lonesome hit take 3-2 the souvenir of ! Catcher Ed Fitz with- I’d a to a President autographed the ball. yesterday, funny, they asked if team 1 too small, wearing a derby hat, lead. • held from action is up with Nick that night. alto too small, and carrying a , Baltimore man- ¦ expected to see service in the I dreamed up a number for With one down Cal Abrams ager who ultimately paraded five> two-day stand here against the r paper bag containing his spiked walked singing burlesque and Bob Kline mound, displayed . . us, a of a scene “ They pitch to the l Yankees. , With Presidents shoes. sent him in to gummed up a double-play from the “Lucia Sextet,’’ but I right away a quick distaste forLou Kretlow’s present, the Senators have a 1 and he lost, 3-1, be- grounder doing by Hal Smith by . . opening games. had to talk Nick into it.’• cause he couldn’t field a bunted rW wildness. . After the Orioles’ ’ 20-14 record in mostly | - throwing * * type comedy was - wide to Runnels at wide ones i** His of 7 ball and the other team discov- ~ . starter threw three to g " mugging, whije always ¦?. second base. Catcher Yost, leading off : I leaned crazy \ & Bruce Eddie in the Dressen’s chat with Mr. Eisen- -1 ered it and drove him with MBBjWjBII • ¦Hr » toward planned routines, gags. bunts. Edwards scooped up Willie Mi- first inning, Richards ordered l hower consisted entirely of bur- We got a good response dark, cloudy days randa’s down the third- Bill Miller to warm up in the ! sitis . . . Chuck 5 On Johnson’s 4 recommended from the audience. But I saw fast ball base line, but fired off balance bullpen . . . Miller didn’t make machine used by Trainer George styles 7 was almost invisible and BWWPUhMfP.'"-* past permit- s that our didn’t blend; nor opposing players part and wild first base, his entrance until the sixth, , Lentz of the Senators and [ wanted no ting the did I think that we’d ever see ‘ of him. I remember one game Abrams to score. though. President said he’d investigate eye ** * * to eye on comedy or anything 1 with Cleveland. It was overcast SENDING SENATORS AHEAD— Tom Umphlett is shown scoring Richards Protests its possibilities. . . . Bothered else. and Johnson was firing aspirin during the Senators’ three-run rally in the sixth inning of yesterday’s opening The game was telecast to • by bursitis in his right shoulder, When a fan in the rightfleld Wilkes-Barre, Norfolk, Rich- the President rubbed his Misses Out on Million tablets. He exploded two strikes game. Umphlett, who had singled, scored from third when boxes grabbed the ball. Smith ¦ shoul- , past mond, Harrisonburg, Va.; Har- der several times after making Breaking Tampa, , who later the forced pull third -4 camp in we by Don Leppert of Orioles made a bad throw to Catcher Hal Smith, who made was to up at risburg, Reading, Salisbury and his pregame pitch. had a series of exhibitions with j was killed a pitched ball. futile dive for ball. Leppert just stop base and Miranda had to halt at I a the had made a fine of Pinch-Hitter York, in addition to Washington : Porterfield picked up S2OO on the . The first t Chapman shook his head, Ernie Oravetz’ grounder. is second. Manager Paul Richards watching the play, not and Baltimore. .~. Arch Mc- an game was in Miami. If I’d had I dropped bat and walked back protested long and vigorously Arlene Francis televlsfon making a decision as his upraised mask seems to indicate.—Star staff photo. Donald and Bob Wolff’s descrip- show yesterday morning, but any money and sense then I’d[ toward the bench. that the runners should have Billy tion of the game was broadcast „ , Evans, the umpire, called, permitted ¦ had a fit. . be a millionaire. got been to advance an- a 52-station radio network. Bob’s wife, former ballplayer named “Come back, you another base, got on with Arlene in New A I strike coming.” other but nowhere. Dressen received a huge floral York while Porterfield at Doyle approached of us, Don Kretlow then lofted single was some Chapman Cockell Arrives a to heart, with "7” imbedded in the ' , asked hubby saying he was a real estate man j said over his shoul- left which scored both runners. , der, “You can don’t middle of it. . . . That’s been to show them a few pitches vU and had some lots he’d like to have it—l ATCHISON'S In New York, Says Washington moved in front to Chuck’s number he played . . sell us Beach. About want it.” since television trickery. . Bob did at Miami t stay with a three-run splurge in football with George Halas’ De- was snorting. 30 players went with him to and Griff “Ha > Yanks Learn of Stubbornness. He'll Beat Rocky the sixth after Runnels flied out. (HI.) Staleys. . . . won’t a inspect these lots. There was ANGLE catur Porter- be worth nickle this*aft- * Johnson was quiet and retir- JHEiIjSP' NEW YORK, April 12 (/P).— Sievers walked and Tom Umph- field’s victory could presage a putting no causeway across the bay to ernoon. He’s too much ' ing, but he also stubborn LEWIS ATCHISON Don Cockell, heavy- lett singled. Jesse Levan, bat- big year for him. ... It marked Miami Beach then, just a bumpy was as BY F. British on the ball.” ... Developed Grist a mule. There was a time when weight, arrived in New York to- ting for Edwards, got the tying the first time in four full years wrong. . . . Mrs. Porterfield string of rocks. And Miami J day i was | he lost to the Yankees in Wash- and repeated his prediction ran across with a solid single with the Senators that he won caught a plane back to Wash- Beach was a long stretch of heavy- ¦ ington and all the newspapers If every day was game, “and told him he should he would wrest the world to center which chased Kretlow. his first start. ington in time to see the game: nothing but sand, rocks, weeds came out with stories that weight boxing crown from Bill Miller came along to face Richards obviously and shrubbery. It the most f as in Washington. Clark Griffith have ’em put one in the White was un- was great couldn’t might voting Rocky Marciano May 16. Oravetz, batting for Oravetz desolate spot I’d 1 as Johnson was, he never have reached Ernie Kline. aware that little Ernie ever seen. beat manager House for him.” "I feel very confident,” the Oravetz'B sharp grounder Doyle announced we could buy the Yanks. His age. His friends and baseball to is a when he called MINOR LEAGUES then, Joe Cantlllion, told him opponents stocky Briton said of the title Second Baseman Don Leppert on the lefthanded Miller to By tha Associated Pras* along beach for from[ not have called the old fight Re- lots the Dressen’s antics in the third- in San Francisco. got Umphlett across, and, "*' $l5O to: to think anything of such stories. gentleman all sorts of things when place the righthanded Kretlow FACinc COAST LEAGUE to S3OO. "I’d advise you ’ coaching Arriving No brought . simply games but the idea bothered him. through years, depend- base box' back with Cockell on the Leppert threw wild past the . . Oravetz stepped i scheduled buy 10 so,’’ he told me. So down the Mary to or ; the next time Washington went ing which side they on, some wistful reminders of the liner Queen were his wife plate, Pedro Ramos, running for the other side of the plate and SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION "This is a potential gold mine.’’ on were good old days and four Atlanta. 5: Chattanooga. 1. . to New York. Johnson asked to yesterday, awaiting when the team associates. The British Levan, dashed to third. Bob got the that stuck Only came scheduled - I laughed, "Who would ever but while pennant fighter run across , open the series, It was on a the ceremonies for the opening was a contender and said he kept in shape on Oldis then ran for Ramos and the Senators In front at 4-3 TEXAS LEAGUE mV want to live in this place?” We AI Schacht shipboard by running Dallas. 2—o: Beaumont. o—l2. ’ Friday. game of the season, it was quite coached there. around the scored after Porterfield flied to with a sharp smash to Second ShreveDort, 7: Fort Worth. I. turned around and went back to City. He shut out the Yankees that Schacht used a piercing, two- deck and working out in the center. Baseman Don Leppert, who Houston. 3: Oklahoma 1. ,u Miami. apparent that Griff is just a finger help gymnasium. San Antonio. 8: Tulsa. 2. day. And when the papers still boy open- whistle to give sig- small at heart on nals, yesterday Five-run Outburst Sees Johnson’s No-Hitter said he’d been lucky, he came ing day. and the fans day discovered that Dressen is a BASEBALL PRACTICE SET The Senators iced it in the After the season opened myr back the very, next and shut “This will be my 44th opening them out again. To prove whistler, too. But Charlie puts The Columbia Heights unlim- seventh after Yost singled. record was 5-1 when I lost myr once game,” he remarked with a smile. legs team, Busby second, day and for all that it wasn’t luck, his arms, and voice into it ited baseball a member of followed with a single *1 USED ID SHAI£ WITH AN in Boston. The r “That’s one record nobody when the Departmental my he blanked them for the third .will the situation demands. and Old which drove Don Johnsop from RAZOR, after that defeat I saw first t ‘ break. And I'm so proud of ORDINARY AND MY straight game Monday. ever Dominion Leagues, will hold a the mound. Don Ferrarese dis- no-hitter. Waiter Johnson i on my association with all the Pres- (From he book ‘MyOwn Perticuler There is a bit of Casey practice at 5 p.m. tomorrow at posed of Vernon on a foul to RACE ALWAYSFEU ROUSH AND pitched it. While he was in hisI Copyright.4 1955. idents,” added, as ScrewbeU." by AI he if Presi- " by Doubledey Stengel, quite bit, Dressen, the Sixteenth Kennedy Smith, but Runnels RAW, 44