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McCarthy puts okay seal on pee wee reese One Look at Dodger Rookie "'V In Action and Yankee Manager Declares 'The Boy's Got It' Ry TOMMY HOLMES Stall Correspondent the h'ooklyn Eagle Louisville. April 9 (U.R) Add to the list of distinguished citizens who okay Harold (Pee Wee) Reese the name of Mr. Joseph Vincent McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy, as manager of the Yankees, baseball champions of the world for four successful seasons, certainly should qualify as an expert on the subject.

He never saw Reese in action until yesterday when the Dodgers played the Yankees and beat them, 10 to 6, at Owensboro, down the Ohio River, a right smart piece from here. Reese was out of action when I lie teams met in two Florida games last month. 6M mm JksAI PROFESSOR PAUL Paul Runyan will embark on new job of instructing Columbia University students how to swing a golf club today. Metropolis professional, and former P. O.

A. champion, will devote two doys a week to golf instruction at Morningside Heights. BROOKLYN EAGLE SPORTS TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940 SHOWING HIS TEETH AGAIN By ED HUGHES ED HUGHES' COLUMN DIZZY'S PITCHING NOT IMPRESSIVE Wichita, April 9 liPy-Dizzy Dean's 1940 pitching debut, as brilliant as it was, impressed no one as much as the big right-hander himself. Making his first exhibition game start yesterday at Fort Smith, Dean gave the St. Louis Browns no runs and two hits in five innings.

He struck Case of Bonura Has Terry Agog Bill Has Zeke Down for Post But Latter Seeks Job Elsewhere Salisbury, N. C. April 9 The problem of what to do-wtth-Zeke Bonura, the big lumbering Italian who, every one admits, will bat over .300 no matter whom he plays with, is becoming more complicated every day and even Manager Bill Terry is at a lo.s,s for an answer. When bis Zeke was a And Reese acted aa though he had never heard of the proud world champions. He scored two runs, drove In two.

hit a home run over iie right field fence that would be ip equivalent of a home run in he same direction at Ebbets Field -elides unloading a brilliant fielding display. He's Got It, Says Marse Joe Normally Mr. McCarthy, who doesn't like to lose, would have been tough subject for an interview. But your agent was lucky in tackling the Yankee chief Just after he n.id finished a porterhouse stean which he described as "that thick and the best steak I've had since coming South." You don't have to worry about Reese." said McCarthy. "The boy's got It.

And I don't believe Brooklyn would have him today if Joe Cronin had ever seen him play. 'He showed me enough today with his fielding and I can see he's fast enough to do the things on the base paths that I've heard about. That leaves only his hitting to take into consideration and I think you can forget about that, too. "He doesn't look very strong, but his build and his strength are deceptive. We were talking about the Brooklyn hitters and had agreed to have our outfielders play in halfway for Reese.

I didn't pay much attention to it at the moment, but I was half conscious that Johnny Sturm was twisting and squirming on the bench. Sturm, you know, played at Kansas City last year while Reese played at Louisville. i He ll Hit Alt Right' "Sturm is a rookie and was sort of bashful about saying anything, I guess, but he finally couldn't stand it any longer. He stood up and said that you couldn't play for Reese that way. that Reese was apt to whack one over the skull of any outfielder who played him close.

Well, we played a.s Sturm suggested and that is the right way. Not that it did us any good. The one ball he hit was where no one could get it without a door in the right field fence. "He'll hit all right. Not that he'll be a Hornsby or anything like that, but the boy knows what to do with a bat.

The National League will have the same kind of trouble with him as they had with Woody English. When I was with the Cubs, you remember, I brought English out of the American Association. "He didn't look any too strong, either, and Ihe outfielders played rlae and Woody teed off and beat their brains out. They finally got wise to themselves, the outfielders played back and the pitchers started to be careful. But.

they were hurt, anywav, because Woody wouldn't go for bad balls and he ronld dump the good ones out over the infield. Reese, too. has a great eye. He proved that when he drew that base on balls In Brooklyn's big sec-: ond inning. Chandler threw six pitches at him and not one wa.s (three inches from a strike.

But Reese got his base on balls and the Dodgers went, on to score seven I runs." THE POLICE BOUTS Members of the Police Department will battle it out for titles in four classes at the Bronx Collf'um to-night. This should provide royal thumping if tht pavement pounders have absorbed anything of the of their instructor. Hf is Sgt. Bill Spengler, easily the best boxer ever turned choice for the firsl-base post, comes owning day at the rolo Grounds. Terry still insists that Babe Young is his No.

1 candidate for the Job, but siniv Voting, because of marital difficulties, will not report to the Giant until tomorrow, It may become necevary to use McCarthy at first against right-handed pilchers and Bonura against lefties. Then, with that much off his mind, Terry leaned back and added confusion where bewilderment pre-i viously existed by saying in his next Yankees Greet Dodgers Like Long-Lost Kin World Champs Find Flock First-Class Conditioning Rival Special In Ihe Brooklyn Eagle Louisville. April 9 The Yankees, champions of the major leagues, have absorbed their customary beating from the Dodgers, but Mislead of being humiliated, the Bronx Bombers were pleased today. The Yanks can't help admiring a hustling and colorful Irani such as the Dodgers, and it. was with elation that the Yankees greeted the Dodgers in Owensboro yesterday after finishing a boring jaunt against minor league outfits.

Manager Joe McCarthy is conduced that the Dodgers win, lose or draw are just about the best conditioners the Yankees could hope to meet. The Flock usually manages to stiffen the Yanks In the pie-season exhibition series and the Bronx Bombers are then in condition to steamroller the opposition in the American League. All of which is very pleasing to MrCarthy and it wouldn't at all be surprising if the Yanks lengthen their schedule with the Dodgers next Spring. Officially, McCarthy-has nothing to say about the National League race, but off the record it is no secret that Marse Joe rales the Dodgers most highly and would like to sec nothing better than the Dodgers cop the pennant. It goes without saying that a Yankee-Dodger subway World Series would panic the town.

Just, the thought, of the money to be realized from such a series is enough to make the front office executives' eyes pop and their months water. The Yankee lineup that played the full nine innings against the Dodgers yesterday, with the exception of Joe Gordon, who is still on the sidelines, and the pitching. Is the same one that will be by McCarthy on opening day. A line drive off the bat of Billy Knickerbocker hit Lefty Gomez in the left knee yesterday In batting practice and indications were that Gomez may not, pitch for a week. a.s he wa.s barely able to walk last night.

A thorough examination will be marie today to determine whether he should be sent to New York. Phelps Leads In Homer Output Louisville. April 9 Resumption of hostilities between the Yanks and the Dodgers and Brooklyn's nifty victory suggested what hap- pened la-st Spring, when Durocher's club beat the champions six games out of nine Hugh Casey went the limit and allowed ten hits, but had comparatively easy sailing after a sustained Dodger attack In the second netted seven runs off Spur- geon Chandler In addition to Reese, Phelps and Joe DiMaggio hit home runs It was the fourth four-master for Phelps in his la.st four games and the Babe now leads Brooklyn players In home-run production with six. HOLMES. MacPhail in Town Picks Cards, Reds I Larry MacPhail does NOT pick Brooklyn to win the National League pennant.

The energetic i president of the Dodgers wa.s back from the South today and grouped Brooklyn with the Giants and Pirates behind Cincinnati and St. i louis as the way he sees the 1940 i race in the National League. The I Cardinals were placed even with the Reds only if Jornny Mize and Lindsay Brown, infielders, recover quickly and fully from recent injuries. MacPhail also said that tlv Cardinals had offered him Bob Welland, a pitcher, for Johnny Hudson, but he turned down the offer. The purchase of Herman Franks, rookie catcher, with Brooklyn, wis completed by the payment of $15,000 to the Cardinals, Indicating that Franks has won a regular catching post with Babe Phelps and Gus Manruso.

I i i i I mounted. The members began to battle among themselves and to ask for an accounting. They received some staggering reports. I recall one club dinner at which Georges Carpentier, then here to fight Dcmpsey, sparred in evening dress with Tony Biddle. Later it was disclosed that Gorgeous Georges had been given $5,000 for his display.

Subsequently Gavin and Biddle became at loggerheads, and Bid-die resigned from the I. S. C. That was a bombshell for the membership. The Major had been one of the club's founders.

Mr. Biddle, with some logic, explained that he thought too much money had been spent on "organization," not enough on construction. Gavin's handling of the funds came in for some criticism. This nimble gentleman promptly submitted that he had spent most of the building fund hammering through the Wa'ker Law. swan's beyan to shower on the I S.

C. The Lexington Ave. plot was foreclosed F.bbets Field sued for rent, the club having ued the grounds to promote a fight. At about this point Gavin squinted the dark clouds overhead, decided to take a boat or England. He never came back.

And except for the adjustments at law. that was the last of the International Sporting Club. Tex Rickard. who had been interested in the Bubble, went ahead with his Madison Square Garden. He became Boxings headman largely through the nils and errors of the Englishman.

Gavin. out three batters and walked four. Dean's form was the big news of he game as his Chicago Cub teammates splurged to an easy 15 to 2 ictory. After his five-Inning turn Dean bounced off the mound, gave his wife a hearty hug and told everybody how good he felt, l-ull of Enthusiasm 'T eel better and wa.s ater than at any time since I joined the Cubs." he said, bubbling with jubilation. The one-time great pitcher came to the Cubs two years ago this month from St.

Loui.s for $185,000 i and three players. Since then he 1 has won a total of 13 games for the Cubs, six last season. Manager Gabby Hart net was among thos who were not com- pletely carried away by Dean's per- fnrmance. 'T guess It was all right." commented Gabby, and added he didn't know when Dean would pitch again. The hurler's teammates didn't have much to say one way or the other about his unveiling.

A Glimmer of llop Camp followers of the Cubs, especially sports writers traveling with the team, could see little dif-terence between the Dean of yesterday and the Dean who failed to pitch winning ball in 1938-39. He had veryvjittle speed, sticking almost entirely to his curve and slow ball. It was the first time the Browns had ever fared him and heir timing was off on his slow stuff. Some of the scribes with the team l.a'.e been predicting that ihe tin- The only question about him is his consistency. If he can prove out bv he lorce.

Spengler floui ished 20-odd years ago. won many amateur titles, including the National heavyweight. A neat boxer who could also punch, Spengler received many offers to turn "pro" Satisfied with amateur Spengler declined. Later he was promoted to athletic instructor of the coppers. Mention of Spengler recalls the "Mississippi Bubble" of boxing the International Sporting Club of two decades or so ago.

This is easily the mast fantanic story of frenzied finance and headlong idealism that Cauliflower offers. Spengler stirs the wild memory because he several times enter- tained the I. S. C. members.

It was this club, too, that staged the first bouts between British and American army, navy and police. The Britishers marie a clean sneep. But that is a no' her slorv, except to that Spengler didn't pn'Avm or New York cops. The kev man of Hip Intern rl'ih was a hlsnk. tnt Fr.slishinan named Oavm.

This gentleman created a classic financial tangle, but thai was not all. He was the real father of boxing as you have it in New York today. Gavin waj an odd compound of idealism, financial wizardry and nigh powered salesmanship. SWANKY SC'IIEMK He suddenly descended on New Yorkers with a splendiferous scheme of legally re-establishing boxing, then dead in the State His plans, however, were not for the masses, for whom he didn't give a hang. Gavin's idea was to an exclusive club modeled after tiie swanky National Sporting Club of London.

All he desired as some 2.500 wealthy members, millionaires preferred. Gavin interested a group of social regesteriles. ih.en went to work. He rounded up sufficient State-wide support to legalize boxing an astounding effort. The bill was passed bv Jimmv Walker.

Jimmy has always received the credit but he admits Gavin did all the work Gavin planned to build his model club at Lexington Ave. and 49th St. His persuasive personality rounded up nearly 11.000.000 worth of subscriptions. The plot was bought and ground actually broken but no clubhouse ever rose on it. The finances of Gavin and company became somewhat narled.

While awaiting the ap- pearancs of the edifice, the I 8. C. held bouts and smart social gatherings elsewhere. And I ha', proved a terrific blunder WHKKt II WtNT The Central Opera House was leaded for ten years at an annual rental of about $75,000. After which it was discovered this building couldn't be lea.

ei for ooxinj! Trouble Terry asserted that Bonura was through as a Giant and anybody who wanted him couid have him at a price. Immediately after Bonura signed his contract Terrv an- Bonura nounced that Bonura would never see the Polo Grounds again in a Giant uniform, and normally Terry-is a man who never goes back on his word. But. lo and behold. Terry today admitted that Bonura may be his fault but my own." he maintains.

I After four cancellations in five days I the Sox noped to get in a game to- i day agi.inst the Pittsburgh, whose manager, Frank Frlsch, is back on the job. The infection in Frisrh's I throat, is healed but he still Is bare- ly able to speak. SALISBURY. N. by an ailing arm.

Mel Harder will not pitch any more exhibition games for the Cleveland Indians or hurl at all until he Is certain he can handle Ihe job. Another ailing Tribesman, Al Mllnar, says Manager Oscar Vitt is worrying moie than necessary. "I'm 100 percent, better than I was at this time last year," he asserts. FORT WORTH, TEXAS The St. Louis Cardinals, with only three more exhibitions before they reach i home, met Fort Worth's Texas i Leaguers today.

Tne other stops for the Cards are Oklahoma City and Tulsa. ATLANTA The veteran SI John-aon Is proving a big disappointment the Phillies this Spring. Drafted from Rochester alter winning 22 I Joost Confined to Hospital, May Miss Last Camp Games Diziy Dean predictable Dean would fail to last nllt th(1 ttjln Ulp Cubs ever, Ins work against the Browns at leat gaie a glimmer of hope that he might again become a winning although apparently none of his mates is optimistic enough to think he can ever aaain approximate the form he showed with the St. Louis Cardinals. To Unveil Ruppert Memorial Plaque A memorial plaque to perpetuate the memory of the late Col Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees for 24 years, will be unveiled at the Yankee Stadium April 19 when the world champions start their 1940 home season with the Washington Senators.

This will be the second plaque to be unveiled at the Stadium. The other was In honor of Miller Hugglns. the midget manager who won six American league pennant.s and three world championships for the Yankees. FAREWELL SWEEPS Dublin, Aprl- lvP The Irish Hospital Trust, which for 10 year has conducted the famous Irish Sweepstakes and distributed I about $166,000,000) in prizes, is closing its books and going nut of business because of the war. Joseph Mefjralh.

managing director, said last night a new company would he formed which would include sweepstakes promotion In Its activities "If it is decided to rnntlnue them under the existing conditions. breath: "It wouldn surprise me to find Bonura with any one of four major league teams when the reason opens." Well, what can you do with a guy like that? The Giants were idle yesterdav when rain a.shed out their tilt with the Indians at Anderson, S. but there was no holding Bonura, who motored over to Greenville with the avowed Intention of cooking tip a deal for himself with either the Bees or the Senators, who were playing there. "Maybe I. too, should have gone over," said Terry, "but I guess that would have made me look too anxious." The Giants, who lead Cleveland, 54, In their town-lo-town series, will attempt to increase their margin over the Indians here toriav.

and losing II. Si reported overweight and has been unimpressive. In the first meeting between the Philadelphia clubs the Phils were called upon to face Southpaw Chubby Dean of the Athletics, who was scheduled to make his first start of the season. He has been idle because of a strained side. WINSTON-SALEM, N.

Although the Boston Bees blew an eight-round lead In yesterday's slugfest with Washington, they found some consolation in the fact Al lope, wasn't badly hurt. It was feared at first a blow on the middle finger of the catcher's throwing hand had broken the bone, hut examination showed only a split finger nail. CHARLOTTE, N. Po- falil, says Manager Bucky Harris, is the "best defensive shortstop Washington lias owned since Roger Peckinpaugh, and in time he may be better than Peck." The 22-year old rookie from Faribault, may not be a heavy hitter but he has been a terrific threat every time he got base, His fielding so far has been airtight. CULLENBINE HAS MAKINGS OF GREAT BALL PLAYER that, he'll be a Brooklyn regular, 1 It was announced (hat Fri-ptobably in right field, perhaps In days will again be observed this center Born in Nashville, year as Ladies Day at the Stadium.

Oct. 18. 1914. Roy's family moved The first Ladies Day will be Friday, to Detroit when he was a baby and i May 3. Women will be admitted to he grew up around and about the i Hie grandstand upon payment of motor citv.

At the tender age of I 'he 10-ceiU Federal lax and 15-19 he his lot with the Tiger 'enl liervUe oharge. i By Ihe. Aitocialed Preis BLUEFIELD, W.VA.-Eddie Joost may be lost to the Cincinnati Reds for the rest of their exhibition games as a result of being hit by a ball pitched by Jack Wilson of the Boston Red Sox Sunday. He still is in a Durham, N. hospital but i rlub officials said X-ray examina-, tion showed he had not suffered a concussion.

Paul Derringer was listed to face Boston's Denny Gale-' house today In the semi-final Reds-I Sox clash of the Spring, i KNOXVILLE, TENN. After to day's game with the Knoxville Smokies, Detroit's Tigers leave the still chilly South and move to Evanfville, for their next start. Indications are that next Spring they will remain at Lakeland, Fla, longer and play only one or two exhibitions on way home. KANSAS CITY The Chicago White Sox look to Julius Solters to add power to their attack this season. Dissatisfied with the Browns la.st year, 3olters says he's ready to play ball now.

"If I don't have a I good year, It won't be anybody Tliis is another in serff.i of on Dodger start and rookie. If Rov Cu'lenbuie can hit con-sis'entiy against National League pitching, our Dodgers will never regret the $25,000 bonus they paid him to cast his lot with Ebbets Field. For the broad-shouldered cutiy-haired young athlete who was one of the most conspicuous of the Detroit, players and farm hands declared free agents bv Juriee Lan-di has a chance to be a terrific ball player. To a high desree he has most of the things that true diamond greatness requires. He is a good outfielder with one of the greatest throwing arms in the game.

He is a sw itch hitter and batting either right or iefi-handed can bust the ball with home-run power. And furthermore he is colorful with a of swaggering confidence that fans i bound to like if he rheks main beginning his round of the minors in the Class East Dixie League, His progress was steady until last reason when as utility outfielder of the Detroit team, he hit only .240 for 75 games. That mediocre batting mark was somewhat relieved bv his large percentage of extra base drives. And it In a curious fact 'hat. of the six American league home runs he hit in 1939 three were walloped off the delivery of Bob Feller, the game's greatest current pitcher.

Golf and his six-month-old baby daughter form Culienbine's prlnial outside diversions, HOLMES..