% -7- 1 Bees Win, Lose or Draw Promising Negro Lad of 13 By FRANCIS E. STAN. Held Down Is in The Left-Handed Problem Children by Helpless Clark Griffith has been in baseball long enough to draw reliable estimates. When the old gentleman says that a club owner is lucky to Luck develop one major league player out of every 10 prospects it isn’t as un- Tough face of Jinx reasonable as it may sound at first. Griffith is speaking with more than t half a century of baseball behind him. Early Pace-Setters Walters of Reds Wins By young prospects he means kids who are the pick of the crop from baseball "schools" and minor league clubs. These are youngsters who Anchored in Ruck 16th Victory; Yank seem to have everything, at least in promise. But few of them make the Casualties grade. Proud as the Old Fox is that he came up with youngsters like By String Snapped Cecil Travis. Lewis, Case and Tdft within a Buddy George Wright period By the Associated Press. of a few years—1934 through 1938. By BILL WHITE, BOSTON. July 22.—Don’t mutter Associated Press Sports Writer. "Not many clubs are as lucky as we were,” Griffith says. “If you to Casey Stengel about hard luck If you think all good sports stories think I'm exaggerating in naming those odds of one out of every 10 in baseball, because there's a man end on a happy note, take the case and think of all who have failed over a similar who knows that if all World Series youngsters, stop period. of poor Cecil Haley, who at the I could name dozens fellows like Eddie Linke and Bobby Burke— games were played behind the eight tender age of 13 failed in his debut ball the Boston Bees wotild be many others. Sometimes it takes years to find out that they won't do.” right as a member of the New York in the money. As this baseball season moves rapidly toward the last two months of Giants. The venerable, voluble and vigor- Cecil, a Negro mascot, was the season there are some more of Griffith's ball players who are on the given ous Mr. Stengel, the boss of the a Giant uniform allowed fence. His two southpaws. Ken Chase and Joe Krakauskas, for instance. yesterday, Bees, doesn't feel a bit sorry for the to sit in the dugout for the first They have been around for quite some time now, rich in or always looming suffering Giants any other team time and promised a trip West if but never promise delivering. And yet neither Griffith nor Manager troubled with injuries, because his he'd bring the Giants some badly Bucky Harris can see his way clear to give up on these left-handers. worrier is running full blast just needed luck. The net result of his turning out woe for himself. work? Pirates. 4: Giants, 3. For a while, early in the season, He didn’t do a bit better than two Wanted to Bet on 35 Victories Bucky the Bees led the National League older recruits. Thirdbaseman Tom We recall talking with Harris after training preparations wrere well and there was great joy in Mr. Hafey, recalled from Jersey City, and Under way at Orlando, Fla., last March. Bucky was enthusiastic over Stengel's heart and in the spirits of Shortstop Frank Scalzi, recently de- the Bee fans. clared a free Krakauskas and Chase and Harris is not what one would call a green ever-so-patient They agent by Baseball soon to second, but some Commissioner Landis and for hand as a baseball manager. He began to manage ball clubs back in slipped by signed amazingly good playing—largely a good fee by the Giants. Hafey did 1924 and since then he has never been out of a major league job. That around second base—there they provide all the Giants’ runs with a makes him the second oldest in of of manager, point years continuous stayed. homer, but he later hit into a double service, in the two big leagues. Connie Mack is the only man who tops Bartell Starts Trouble. play with the corners crammed. and Mack is close Bucky to being twice Harris' age. Then the tragedy started. Dick Halters Wins 16th Victory. "I'm willing to bet a suit of clothes," Harris said, "that Chase and Bartell of the Cubs rode Tony Cuc- ■R- — Although Cecil and Tom and Kraukauskas cinello, the Bostons’ ace second T*-» win 35 games between them this year. Chase, especially, Frank couldn’t pull the Giants out baseman, out of a double play and CLICKS FIRST looks good. Both of them have good fast balls and their curves and con- DAY. Third Baseman Tom Hafey, up from Jersey RUNNER-UP IS CLIPPED. There’ll be no hair in the eyes of of their seven-straight losing streak, right out of the game for many trol are getting better. If can t win at least 30 between them City, celebrated the Giants a Louis there were some individual stories they games woeful weeks. A sad road yesterday joining by clouting Cyr, Vancouver, Wash., shotmaker, in the opening round trip fol- with happy endings elsewhere in the I'll have to admit that I dor.know what to think." lowed homer in round 6, and First Baseman Zeke Bonura (5) and of the National Public Links Golf Tournament at Baltimore and the Bees plummeted major leagues. That was in March. Here it is in late July and had we taken the bet from second to seventh where Frank Scalzi New Orleans place, Shortstop (1), recruit, congratulate Monday. The West Coast star, who finished second in the Opposed to Cecil, for example, Harris would have to start of a suit never wear. they stuck. thinking buying he would him. But the clout went for naught as the Pirates won, 4-3. jousting last year, was an early arrival and had Paul Ackerman was Chuck Klein of Pittsburgh, who To add to the The won and lost records tell a blunt Krakauskas won misery, Ival Good- stretched his story. has only five It was New York's seventh straight defeat. give him a haircut. A. P. consecutive game hit- man of the Reds banged a line —Copyright, Wirephotos. streak to games and lost twice as many. Chase's record is even worse. He has won ting 20 when he out- drive right into Pitcher Jim Turn- four and 12. That franked all the Merriwells put to- only games dropped makes their combined record show er's nose, him knocking out for a. gether by hitting a homer in the nine victories as against 22 defeats. If they win 35 games between them few weeks, and Lou Fette's arm ninth with two on to give the Bucs acted Giants for Price Harried Nate a Yearn M'Nair It will be necessary for Ken and Joe to win almost every start from now up in bad way to multiply Beg for Home Dickey, Hoag, their victory. And if you’re still the woes. until the end of the season. But then the players hunting for heroes, there's Buckv came out of the hospital and that After Tour Walters of the Cincinnati Reds. Carl toothsome y in of Mr. be- On Star Scant Return to 10 of the Called 1939 Their Stengel’s Youngest Offering Top Reynolds Chicago Cubs. Edgar Griff Crucial Season gan to light up the hotel lobbies, for Smith of the Chicago White Sox and he could field a What has happened to these two pitchers who were figured, in pre- whole team. Promise of Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. The Bees banged the ball fiercely Better Here's what eeason estimates, to give the Nats as much southpaw pitching as any Of Di Mag Clan Days In Race they did: Walters and no less an Batting authority than Willie Br a Staff his record as baseball s ‘‘win- team in the majors? The answer is difficult to Krakauskas Correspondent of The star. in 1935. when but kept obviously give. boss before, everybody McKechnie, of the Reds, de- CLEVELAND. ningest" pitcher intact by winning has lost a few tough decisions but not to make a difference. \ July 22—A little the correspondents travelling with enough big clared the Bees were playing better Fleet Seal Is Viewed Nats' his 16th with the weary of the whole business, the the club were stricken with Lewis Drops Out victory, Dodgers Both still are fast. Chase has a fine curve. Griffith's pet theory is that ball than in every- anybody the league. As travel-w'orn Nats finish another his victims. He beat them 4-1 if As Counter thing from gout to ptomaine poison- left-handers require more time, mature more slowly, than right-handers. to prove it, the Bees topped off a Magnet Of Select Group; Mize with a fine 6-hit job after the Western jaunt with a game today and ing, has Washington been so con- It is a dubious at with a few cases on record to furnish winning splurge with a double- fire theory best, only To Brother Joe two tomorrow against the Indians sistently Soars in N. L. List department had closed the header triumph over Willie's hampered by injuries. evidence. league and then head homeward with an gates on 34,513 Brooklyn fans. leaders last The most serious among the Sunday.