A~12___WASHINGTON, D. C„ MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1941.__ Major Baseball Campaigns Still Muddled After Heavy Firing on All Fronts --A A- DOPING THE DERBY IS DANGEROUS -By JIM BERRYMAN or Scorned Giants, Working Capital Win, Lose Draw r HM-M-m... PLENTy^~> (N TH' SPORTS HEWS ‘BOUT *• FRANCIS E. STAN. By TH DERBY..LESSEE WHAT i fr-Poa-cKs cap\ /T—VET HARRy jJT'.f CHESAPEAKE S [ Red Sox Cross TH‘ WISE GUYS HAVE J HINDQUARTERS SEEMEC! To ) art To Aid Fox of Floridn Avenue T'DISH OUT.... \ EXPERT LIKES Bees, Say Melancholy r haveeVERytH|M6 H£ V THAT i>/spose " s--- Years ago we took a pledge never to shed tears for a ^NEEDED WHEAJ HE WAS major league WCHALLEa,GED dltib owner until one was found standing in a breadline. Even the owners By..J of seem All losing teams to do all right. They come to work in 12-cylinder 'Experts' New Owners automobiles and carry cigars in their vest pockets. And if they ever get hard-pressed for cash they sell a ballplayer and that’s all there is to it. are 167 Hits, 114 Scores SL/rne We breaking that pledge for a moment. You sort of have to be j BeamsS Quinn, Stengel Others •orry for Uncle Clark Griffith. He still has a 12-cylinder car and plenty In 7 /-Bur rmishedJ Sunday Games ONLY 2^ AHEAD to Better ©f cigars, but the old boy is sick at heart. You see, he thought he was jL Planning BEANS YZ going to spring a this year. Prove big surprise Sport Dizzy COULD BE THE ZY $350,000 Purchase All during spring training he said little about his new Washington BET-SHOULD Bv BILL BONI, aYK tAam. He didn't pick the Nats to win the pennant, nor did he comment PAY P2ETT/ Vx By BILL KING, when the experts chose them lor seventh place. Sitting in his lower box Associated Press Sports Writer. Associated Press Sports Writer. yesterday he told why. ”1 was a-going to have a laugh on the baseball This, marking the start of the sec- BOSTON, April 21.—For the sec- writers," he confessed, morbidly. “I knew that I had a good team. It's j ond week of the major league base- ond time in his half century of base- But we can’t win a ball, Bob Quinn is heading a syndi- 6tiy good. ball game.” ball season, should by rights bring cate-owned club that he hopes wall for a pause reflection, check-back be a pennant winner for his beloved on the estimates and how Pitchers Were Believed Real pre-season Boston. Starting Strength they are holding up under the early That esteemed veteran, popularly firing. known as “Honest Bob'’ last The old gentleman is panic-stricken. He said the only other time he BUT D/SPOSEAND >-■«: night In the light of yesterday’s devel- -7<. proudly announced that a dozen felt this way was early in the season of 1924. “We came from spring f CUR/QUS CO/A/ TOO, TOOK opments, however, this corner defies loyal friends had joined forces with training that year with a team which I thought could win the pennant,” A BEAUTIFUL J any one to come up with a reason- SHELLACKING him for the purchase of the 73 per he said. “We got off to a terrible start. Going West for the first time we AT IT able, logical analysis. For those JAMAICA.-’COURSE £ cent controlling interests in the Bos- were in sixth place. I began to wonder if I hadn't made an awful mistake COULPA who insist on it, however, here is BEEN A GAG ton National League Club held for krid I got panicky." the situation: OPDS... the five C. F. 1 sggrt past years by Adams, * Six after Sid Hudson was called to home to receive an ^TfelBUILP innings plate In the National League the New -KYET.tt) U CANTO wealthy Boston sportsman. Among award for the most valuable of thct same them were the club s being Washington player 1940, : York Giants, who were not supposed fCount out 0(/b\ Casey Stengel, the Sid Hudson was walking to the showers yesterday. For the second straight to make the first division, are in BOOTS.. LEMME \ manager, and Francis Ouimet. j ^ time tne Boston Red Sox had driven him out of the box. Deep in melan- | first place, having lost their first SEE— HIS Time AT former National Open and amateur j a Boston broker. ehQlia, Griffith watched Pinch-Hitter Buddy Myer bat for Hudson. ; game in six starts to Brooklyn yes- KEENE LAND FORTH' \8gg2 golf champion, now and Adams refused we was terday. 10-9. The Cincinnati Reds, 6-FURLONG WAS < Both»Quinn , “Down South all thought pitching our long suit,” he mur- favored to for the ‘ to divulge the financial terms of the mured unhappily. “Now look what's happened. Leonard has lost twice. repeat pennant, I12 '/<-■. WOT BAD, are next to last and attained that, deal that will be consummated as Hudson has been batted out twice. Masterson and Sundra have been and- y eminence only by winning their last soon as a few minor legal and finan- knocked out. We had to 17 hits behind Chase to win our get only game." two games, including a 7-3 job on cial details have been settled, prob- the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday. ably within a day or so. It is under- J sood, however, that the In the American League, barring Quinn group As the on agreed to give $250,000 cash and a Usual, Travesty Came Sunday the presence of the scorned Boston $100,000 note for control. Once a spring the'Nats play so badly that a majority of the customers Red Sox in first place with a record Get Fresh Working Capital. •wear off them. It alw'ays on a sunny Sunday, when the of five wins and no losses, things happens bright, The owners of the club's remain- Hands are at least half full. That's what After are not quite so strange. happened yesterday. HELLO SARCiEX ing 27 per cent holdings, former Hudson left, Arnold Anderson, Danny MacFayden and Jim Dean blas- Home Plate Takes Beating. Y THIS IS FINNEGAN! I Massachusetts Gov. Frank G. Alien, rSEMD phemed the pitching box which Walter Johnson used. / OH-OH TH* CUCKOO ( ex-Representative Joseph F. O'Con- * Now to delve into the dark ad- Griffith let down his hair in his misery. He felt, and still feels, that in t IT CART OUT To 1 nell of Boston and Leopold M. ventures which befell supposedly WAS TIPPED ME 4TM Masterson and Hudson he has the best of OFF To AN' / Goulston, the club's vice president, Leonard. Chase. quartet pitchers major league baseball teams yester- SLUE GOOSEBERRy. -YEAH... will retain their re- of any club in the American League. "I was a-hoping these fellers, anck day. DEUGHT.. t GUESS / interests, Quinn l vealed. Steve Sundra, would get us by until May 15. Then I figured I'd be able In the National League there were TH'UNUSUAL heat \ VW50T The other members of the Quinn to pick up two or three relief pitchers and we'd be all set," he confessed. four games. These produced 62 'IM—HE'S ^££-yOHV) / syndicate are Joseph F. Conway, All of us not that Mr. Griffith has a ball runs, 100 hits, 16 errors and 27 i I GOT IT! IT'S *~ BAD may agree potentially good OFFjy Richard Hevessy. Joseph Maney, club. For one the Nats lack that hitter and lack re- pitchers. There were three games thing, long they INTH'BAQ/WOW ■ Daniel Marr. Louis Perini. Frank in the American These serves, not to mention again the relief pitchers that Uncle Clark hoped League. MOMEY/H McCourt, all of Boston; Guidi Rugo turned up 52 runs, 67 hits, 12 errors to bag. But for the purposes of this piece, we ll skip that. The point is TH'BAHKy of Milton. Dr. William Wrang of and 15 pitchers. that Griffith sincerely thought he had the makings of a surprise team. Middletowm, Conn.; J. W Powdrell In both there was of Conn., and Max We have a hunch that he actually believed Washington would be in the leagues only Danielson, Mayer one pitcher able to go nine innings of Brooklyn, an intimate friend of pennant fight. This is based chiefly on how miserable the old boy feels SH H-Hf He was the Yankees’ Red Ruffing, 5/ {H Manager Stengel. right now. XHERE IT IS. who gave the Philadelphia Athletics 1 In addition to providing the means 10 hits. Red was backed by three HITLER ACROSS for the purchase of Adams' stock, homers, two by Joe Gordon and one TH BALKANS', the group also will supply fresh Here's What Old Grift He Had Thought with the bases full by Joe Di Maggio; ITS A C/HCH J working capital, Quinn exulted. six It originally was intended to write a blurb about the Kentucky straight hits and eight runs in Organization Due Today. the fifth, and a six-run ninth. The D£rby today, it was a mistake to talk to the Old Fox. We have been "It looks a splendid setup and I score was 19-5. •pilling salty tears ever since and it is too late to stop now. am delighted to be associated with The Here is what Griffith thought he had on April 12. when the Nats’ best pitching, however, was such substantial men who have such •pecial train rolled into Union Station: a two-man, six-hit job by Mel Har- a keen love for baseball,” Quinn der and Joe who heaved said.