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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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Bob Shawkey’s Start on Mound
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EHIND the scenes in the baseball life of Bob Shawkey, manager ••
of the Yankees, looms the story of an obscure storekeeper in a ..
small northwestern Pennsylvania village who foresaw the pos- s „
slbilities in the lanky youth*. ’*
Harry Truman., minor league and semi-pro pitcher in bis younger ,,
days, stopped one afternoon to watch a gawky youth playing ball on ••
a vacant lot in Sigel, Pa., a tiny oil town. The youth was Shawkey. +
Sensing possibilities in the youthful hurler, Truman took him in 4-
hand and for two years coached him in pitching for control. Back of
the Truman barn Bob Shawkey
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practiced throwing nothing but a
straight, fast ball for two years,
and at the end of that time he
could hit a tiny mark on the side
of the barn at the regular pitching ..
distance.
When the kid catchers of the
village could no longer hold Shaw-
key’s fast ball, Truman hired a
piofessional catcher to clerk in his
store and train with his pitching
find on the side.
When Shawkey became profi-
cient enough in control to satisfy
his teacher, he was taught the in-
tricacies of the curve ball. Curv-
ing balls between two posts, pitch-
ing at a barely discernible mark
on the barn wall and the everlast-
ing drilling in control constituted
Shawkey’s daily fare for three
more years.
Then Truman declared the
time had come for Bob to begin
his career in baseball. A tip to a
manager friend and Shawkey made
his debut in organized baseball in
Pocatello, Idaho.
Manager Bob Shawkey.
Batters Don't Strike
With Count Three Balls
Very rarely do batters swing with
the' count three balls and no strikes,
although the next pitch is to be a
strike if the hurler can make it.
“Only two men ever hit against me
with the count 3 and 0 and got home
runs,” says Sergt. George Connally,
the Toledo right-hander, who is one
of that large army of former Chicago
White Sox. They are called the anti-
Grabiners.
Those batters, he added, were Pat
Collins and Tom Angley. Collins
turned the trick when he was a mem-
ber of the New York Yankees. Ang-
ley cid it last spring while he was a
Blue. Kansas City waS playing in
Toledo and led by a run in the eighth
inning. Three balls were thrown to
Angley and the fourth was a strike
with nothing on it. It disappeared
over the right field wall.
Connally recalls the time he went
In to relieve Urban Faber in a game
against the Yankees in the last of the
tenth with the' bases filled and Babe
Ruth at the plate.
“And when the Babe hit the ball
four or five miles out of the park the
boys rushed up and patted me on the
back,” grins Connally. “They said
that was the way to get the runners
off the bases."
Five Events Paid for
Seventeen Navy Teams
/ Receipts from four football games
and one basketball contest nearly sup-
ported athletics at the Naval academy
during the past year. In fact, these
five contests yielded enough revenue
to take care of all the 17 competitive
sports.
The football games included those
with Notre Dame at Baltimore, Prince-
ton at Princeton and with Penn and
Dartmouth at Philadelphia. The bas-
ketball game was with the Penn at
Philadelphia.
The Naval academy’s share of the
four football games was .$314,093.37,
and it received $1,623.20 from the
basketball game with Pennsylvania.
The total expenditures in connection
with the 17 sports was $317,273.12.
The largest sum devoted to any
sport is spent on football, the figure
being $84,697.86. while rowing, which
does not produce any income, cost
$54,663.20.
h Yanks Get Crosetti
Frank Crosetti of the San Francisco
(Seals) club, Pacific Coast league, goes
to Col. Jake Ruppert’s Yankees for
$100,000. ball fans were told. The
deal was closed when the Yankees
agreed not to call for the player un-
til 1932.
/ Line on Players
A good way to get a line on young
ball players in the major leagues is to
listen to comments by players on op-
posing teams. The other fellow fre-
quently has a slant better than that
of the player’s teammates. There
have been e number of good recruits
introduced this season, but if the
“enemy”' has the correct information,
A1 Lopez is the best find of the Na-
tional league and Dib Williams in the
American.
Jporf}foies\
Night boat races are being staged in
Paris.
* * *
John Killcullen, heavyweight cham-
pion of the New York A. C., will enter
Y'ale this fall.
* * *
San Francisco’s Seals will inaugu-
rate night baseball in the club’s new
$1,500,000 park in 1931.
* * *
Bitsy Grant, little Atlanta tennis
marvel, keeps in condition by playing
baketball during the winter,
* * *
Bob Hays, former Missouri athlete,
will coach the Wake Forest (N. C.)
college football team this fall.
* * *
Paul McBrayer, Kentucky’ all-
Southern basketball guard, will try
out for an end on the football team.
* * *
It seems to be only a matter of a
few weeks until American ingenuity
produces a vest pocket golf course.
* * *
Sport writers call it “Tom Thumb”
baseball in the Nashville plant of the
Southern association, due to the park’s
small size.
* * *
Bryan M. Grant, Jr., clay court ten-
nis champion of the United States, is
only five feet four inches' tall and
weighs 118 pounds.
* * *
In 1,500 professional boxing matches
held in New York state since last De-
cember, only 22 have ended in fouls.
All were main bouts.
* * *
The White Sox recently tied the
American league record by making
five double plays in one game against
the New York Yankees.
* * *
Since 1922 Bobby Jones hasn’t al-
lowed a year to pass without winning
either the United States open or ama-
teur golf championship.
* * *
Seven college football games will be
played at the Yankee stadium and five
at the Polo grounds in New York city
during the coming season.
* * *
Umpires in the American league
have been instructed to keep an ac-
count of baseballs driven into the
stands or over the fences.
. * * *
William “Young” Stribling, heavy
weight boxer, holds the record for the
number of fights in a year, 55, and for
knockouts scored, 120 in all.
* * *
Jim Londos, wrestling champion of
several states, is one of a family of
13, who with their father were active
in sports in his native Greece.
* * *
A baseball pitcher who explains that
he never is very good until hot weather
arrives shouldn’t have had many ex-
cuses for defeats this season.
* * *
It Is calculated that contestants in
this season’s British open golf tour-
nament who played through to the
end covered about 30 miles on foot.
*' * *
Jockey Laverne Fator has piloted al-
most 1,000 horses to prizes totalling
well above $2,000,000, but has never
led the winning list of jockeys for a
season.
* * *
Buenos Aires promoters are said to
have offered A1 Singer $75,000 to go
there and fight Jus4o Suarez, South
American lightweight champion, this
winter.
* * *
Each of the four America’s cup de-
fender candidate yachts, Enterprise,
Weetamoe, Yankee and Whirlwind,
cost in the neighborhood of $200,000
to build.
* * *
Frank Bruen of Madison Square
Garden, says Willie Stribling and Gam-
polo will positively meet in New York
this fall and that they will be featured
at Miami in the annual winter bout.
SPRING DRILLING
GIVEN APPROVAL
St. John of Ohio Favors
Some Out-of-Season Work.
L. W. St. John, director of ath-
letics at Ohio State, believes that
some regulation should be put on
spring football and other out-of-sea-
son drills of varsity squads, but he is
not in accord with the idea put for-
ward at Wisconsin to abolish these
practices entirely.
“Several years back,” he says, “I at-
tempted to get the Big Ten directors
to set some limitation on regularly
organized spring football practice—
namely, to limit it to a certain num-
ber of weeks with a certain number
of periods. I still feel that some lim-
itation of this sort will eventually
come. I think it will always be neces-
sary to .have a certain amount of out-
of-season work in different lines of
athletic activity for the proper car-
rying on of physical education course
work. To attempt to abolish all out-
of-season practice would be illogical
and impractical. It would lead to a
certain amount of evasion and«suspl-
Director L. W. St. John.
cion. A certain amount of out-of-
season football practice will always be
desirable and serve to lessen the pres-
sure in the fall.
“With regard to basketball, I feel
that some regulation as to the start-
ing of regular varsity practice in the
fall is desirable and that some such
limitation as to spring basketball
would be quite in order, although
again, to abolish all such out-of-sea-
son work would be a serious mistake.”
Jack Bentley, former Baltimore and
Giant first baseman, and left-handed
pitcher, now with the York club of
the New York-Pennsylvania league,
announces that this is his last year
on the diamond. Next year Bentley
will link arms with a New York brok-
erage firm, and take his place in the
ranks of the football stars, just out
of college, selling stocks and bonds.
When Luque, the Cuban, pitches
for the Brooklyn club of the National
league, all the newspapers in Havana
take a play by play account of the
game.
At national open championships,
professional golfers are announced
only by their last names while the
amateurs are honored with the pre-
fix “Mister.” At the Western Open
championship at Indianwood all golf-
ers received the prefix “Mister.” The
amateurs were not distinguished from
the professionals.
This policy was pursued after the
announcer on the first day introduced
one pair as follows:
“Mr. Walter Hagen and Chick
Evans.”
Leslie S. Gordon, president of the
Western Golf association, decided
that all contestants would be “mis-
tered” after that.
Whereby the Western GoY asj^cia-
tion institutes another mucA-.-i™,ded
reform in tournament golf.
It was some time ago and the late
Tim Hurst was umpiring a gam > when
a young rookie, angered anq cha-
grined at striking out, turned cm fchft
effervescent Hurst and proceeded to
bawl him out most artistically, anath-
ematizing him from hades to break-
fast, and finally.winding up:
“You blinkety-blankety blank blank,
you’re blind as a bat!”
Hurst regarded the young man men-
acingly, and finally blurted:
“Cut out that blind as a bat part
or I’ll fine ye a hundred.”
Christy Flanagan, ace of the Notre
Dame backfields of 1925, 1926 and
1927, has been signed as assistant
varsity football coach for Purdue.
Flanagan won unanimous selection
as all-western halfback and mention
on a number of all-American teams.
His best remembered feat occurred
when in playing against the Army in
1927 he broke loose for a run of 87
yards that yielded the winning touch-
down for Notre Dame, which tri-
umphed 7 to 0.
When the Cubs blew up in the 1929
world series some of the members of
the club expressed fear that the Chi-
cago fans would be down on them
this year. Actually quite the reverse
has been the case and record crowds
have been storming Wrigley field.
The crowds which attended the re-
cent Giant-Cub series exceeded those
of the twd world series games played
a.t Chicago in 1929.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 194, Ed. 1 Monday, October 20, 1930, newspaper, October 20, 1930; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906706/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.