FRIDAY, MAY 7. 1037
“ I guess he’ s the greatest pitcher
I’ve ever seen,” he said.
“ He
must be the best. I know I never
saw a ball do the things he can
make it do.”
Then some one asked him if he
had a girl back home and the meet­
ing sort of broke up.
“ Well sort of,” he said.
“ But
we’ll discuss that later.”
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© New York Post.— WNU Service.
Bob Feller Is Shy;
Publicity Has Not
Swelled His Head
'T 'H E Y said the kid was upstairs
* in his room but that it would be
a good idea to hurry for it was
about time for he and Weatherly
to start out for the night. They
seemed to say that the young man
was a bit of a heller— and at a ten­
der age of eighteen— but it seems he
is nothing of the sort.
“ Yeah, we’ re startin’ out—Stormy
and me,” said Bob Feller. “But
come in. Yeah, we were goin’ to
the movies. Go every night—we’ re
bugs about the movies. Me—I-like
Westerns, specially Hopalong Cas­
sidy. Stormy does, too.”
The two young Indians sat down.
Weatherly is small and pudgy and
twenty-two, but looks even younger
than Feller. They have been room­
mates since Feller joined the club.
“ We get along great,”
said
Stormy. “ Like the same things, like
to go to bed early.”
Feller was sitting silently. He is
a shy youngster, terribly afraid that
people will think all this publicity
has gone to his head.
His dad visited him at New Or­
leans and some one asked if Pop
would spend much time in Cleve­
land this summer.
“ No, Dad doesn’t like big cities,”
he said. “ If I have a good year,
though, he’ll probably do a lot of
visiting. But if I have a bad one
I’ll probably do a lot of visiting
myself—to Van Meter.
Bob Feller
“ I’d like to be a
pitcher like Walter
Johnson,” he said.
“ He pitched side-
arm, didn’t
he?
And he lasted a long
time
didn’t
he?
Well, I
think
I
should pitch side-
arm, too. That’s the
way I threw back
on the sandlots and
I did all right there.
It’s my natural way
of throwing.
“ How many do I think I’ll win?
I just wouldn’t say. I’ll be satisfied
if my average is as good as it was
last year.”
Last year in his short time with
the club he won five games, lost
three. If he averages a victory a
week he’ll come up with twenty-
three decisions.
SEVEN
TH E B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N I C L E
How it was that the Dodgers did
not take Gabby Hartnett when he
was offered to them by the Cubs?
Gabby, one of the smartest and
most popular players of recent
years, still should have a season or
two of top catching and hitting
left in him. . . Are experts and
scouts taking proper note of the
football line N. Y. U. will have
next fall? If Coach Mai Stevens
can persuade Bucky O’Connell to
become a trifle more interested in
the center assignment, the Violets
may have New York’s best forward
wall.
Tris Speaker once saw Sam Craw­
ford, the old Detroit slugger, hit
a ball 429 feet on the fly off Christy
Mathewson. It was in an exhibition
at Tulsa, Okla., on a field that was
not fenced in. The ball landed in a
mud pile and remained where it
hit. . . The three Panama hats Own­
er Horace Stoncham of the Giants
brought back from Cuba cost $40
apiece.
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N O T IN T H E B O X S C O R E :
HE Yankees figure Detroit is the
team to beat this year. They in­
sist Cleveland is over-rated and that
Bob Feller can be beaten by a
combination o. waiting him out and
bunting. The best National league
club, they say, is the Cubs . . .
Players, by the way, gossip that
times have not changed in Cleve­
land. When Walter Johnson was
manager Billy Evans tried to run
the team. Now Cy Slapnicka, who
succeeded Evans as business man­
ager, is trying to do all the thinking
for Manager Steve O’ Neill . . . 95
per cent of the horsemen racing in
Florida last winter voted against
that Australian starting gate with
whir* New York’s turf overlords
opened the season at the Jamaica
racetrack . . . Ken Smith, the very
able baseball writer, once was a
freight agent.
T
Nasty mens insist that all is not
sweetness and light among Cornell’ s
football folks. They insist that Grad­
uate Manager Jim Lynch recently
called in Coach Carl Snavely to
chide him about proselyting activi­
ties and that Carl has been doing a
bit ol lip-biting since. However,
chide or no chide, they also insist
that poor but honest boys still are
getting a looksee from Cornell and
that the Pittsfield, Mass., district
was well gandered at two weeks
ago . . . John Meketi, Giant, rookie
pitcher now with Jersey City, is one
of the best harmonica players in
baseball . . . Marty Glickman, the
Olympic sprinter, is shunning sports
for a short time due to complica­
tions caused by low blood pressure
. . . Add look alikes—Julius Sol-
ters of the Indians and Joe Med-
wick of the Cards.
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Although Temple loses 14 letter-
men by graduation Pop Warner
wears a b i g g e r
smile at spring foot­
ball practice than
he did 12 months
ago . . . Bivington
Bisland, the emi­
nent sports box-of­
fice man, used to
pitch for Louisville
One of the
sights at the St.
Nicks boxing arena
is
Jafsie
Condon
jumping up f r o m
Pop Warner
his
ringside
seat
and cheering whenever his body­
guard, A1 Reich, referees . . . Dave
Soden, Brooklyn tax appraiser and
ardent sports fan, is being talked
about as the next president of his
borough . . . The National league
may add Andy Kolk, an umpire let
out by the International, to its staff
this summer. Pretty good man, too.
Because so many customers think
he was robbed during the Montanez
fight Lightweight Champion Lou
Ambers, who previously never had
been much of a drawing card, now
should be a big gate attraction.
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racquets in the center of the court
and make a bonfire of them.
Dick Gill, Boston college’s gas-
house blond, is due for plenty of
shoving around on the intercollegi­
ate tracks this spring. Eddie O’Bri­
en and Jim Herber are reported as
still being exceedingly sore over the
way he elbowed and jostled the
slender Charlie Beetham in a re­
cent meet . . . Although he is best
celebrated as a football center, Ivy
league pitchers are worried about
the hitting prowess of Dartmouth’s
Mutt Ray . . . Jake Flowers, who
might have been a great infielder if
he had not been troubled by ill
health during his Dodger and Cardi­
nal days, now has entirely recov­
ered. He weighs 182 pounds and is
seeking either to manage a Class B
team or play in the International
league . . .
Just Relaxation for the Champ
_. ;.y rei
Business Manager Slapnick’s re­
cent statement that Feller would
pitch once a week doesn’ t meet with
his heartiest approval.
“ Why, back home I used to pitch
three times a week,” he says, “ and
it never bothered m e.”
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