Showman Engel's Flop Proves Oddities
Won't Make Fans Pay for Bad Baseball
Circus Okay
But They Also
Want Game
BY HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Service Editor
i Joe Engol's glve-baseball-back-to-tlie-fans
plan li a s fulled In
ChuUanooua.
Tho Soulhvrn Inuiiuo fium-hlso
rnturni to tho Washlniiton club,
which hold I'll), 0(10 mortKime.
Knvol loses moro tlinn $.10,000.
Soma 1700 lunty-t h r o u t od
ChaUnnooiinna, ninny of whom
rooted (or their
Wostmont from
Qg bleachers
' are out $30,000.
E n ( e I, base
bill't foremost
ahowman, d I d
everything, day
end nliht, to at
Uact paying
$ u e a t a, but
(mind they In
sisted on good
hainhfill. too
Engcl signed1" MePhU
a girl pitcher,
Jackie Mitchell, and had lior
strike out Babo Ruth and Lou
Gehrig In an exhibition game.
Ha would do unythlng to get
hli name and that of hla club
In the newspapers. Ho traded
Shortstop Johnny Jonea for a
turkey.
Ha purchased Dig Chief Woody
Arkeketa and o an opening day
atunt ataged a fake acalplng to
avenge Cuater.
aJlo put on an clcphnnt hunt,
Ot hunter wcurlng busllea to
make them look Ilka they were
mounted and firing blank shots
at two persona and a quantity
ot aheetlng,
' He had a glnnt duck lay the
largeat egg In history on avcond
base.
HORNBBY GETS AN
INEXPENSIVE HORSE
When Rogers Hornaby made
hla home bow aa manager of the
Lookouta, Engel burlesqued the
old batting champlon'a frequent
run-Ins over playing horses by
presenting him with a refugee
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In Rot ere ITornsby's ChatUnooc a bow aa manager of Lookouta, Joe Encel burlesqued famous second'
but man's frequent run-ins over playing horses by presenting him with one, locker and all.
from a gluo factory. Jockey and
all.
Engcl hung swcct-singlng ca
naries around the park to cheer
the faithful when things wero go
ing badly. He had a crying cage
for himself.
When Atlnntnns paraded with
a sign, "What Do We Cure for
Joe Engel and Clurk Griffith?
Wo have 14 Millionaires," tngel
drove Into tho Atlanta park in
a broken-down puddle Jumper
in a high hat behind a liveried
chauffeur with a aign, "Joe
Engel, Chattanooga's Only Mil
lionaire." Kngcl had as many as five uni
formed bands at Inaugurals. A
"sympathy" band of four Negro
boys played Jazz music between
Innings ... on a banjo, violin.
mouth organ and washbourd.
Engcl gave away fully furnish
cd and clectrlcally-e quipped
houses, lota, uutomobllcs and
washing machines. . .. ,
Ho had men's days as well as
ladles'. He had a knotholo gung
for youngsters with good grades
In school and who attended Sun
day school regularly.
GAME MUST STAND
ON ITS OWN FEET
Engcl threw the park open
on Christmas and fed thousands
of hungry men, women and chil
dren. He gave 7900 toys to poor
children. When things were good,
ho gave two-thirds of the profit
to charity.
Ho took homing pigeons on the
road. They flow homo to Mrs.
Engal with the score.
When Dizzy Dean refused to
appear in a schodulcd exhibition
In Chnttnnooga, Engel offered
$19,000 for the privilege of
punching the eccentric right
hander on the nose.
But, after the customers had
seen the sideshow, thoy wanted
to see tho main event baseball.
With all his showmanship,
Larry MacPhail of Brooklyn pro
duces the goods.
And ho knows that even the
most attractive ball club requires
good competition to bring in the
addicts in droves.
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When It no longer is capable
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might Just as well seek rein
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Snort Briefs
By EDDIE BRIETZ
NEW YORK. May 21 (The
Special News Service) Mid
western papers report that a full
fledged campaign is on to oust
every athletic head at the Uni
versity of Illinois, including
Bob Zuppke . . . Joe Cronin,
tearing a page from Bill Ter
ry s book, hus barred the press
from the clubhouse after the
game. But no one is iretting.
If the Sox keep going like they
did last week, the scribes will
see all they want of them on
the field.
POOR OLD BOBO
The fans are asking it and when
Buck Ncwsom's going to ride
again;
It seems the Tigers' favorite son
So far this yoar but two has
won.
Which may be why the gossips
say
He blushes when he draws his
poy.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY
Of the six leading hitters yes
terday in the two big leagues,
four were shortstops Travis,
Jurgcs, Cronin and Vaughan .
And those who think the Reds
are through: Jimmy Wilson .
the North Carolina U. tennis
team, which thought it had a
national collegiato record with
91 straight wins, must go way
back and sit down. Up bobs the
coachlcss -Spring Hill college
team with 93 in a row. (No
wonder Tulanc, Louisiana State
and other big Dixie teams have
reported "full schedules" to
Spring Hill for three years now)
. . . Lots of folks are wonder
ing why the Cubs don't try to
make a first-sacker out of Diz
zy Dean . . .
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Herbert Simons, C h ic a g o
Times: Having pitched only
one inning this season the
first against Pittsburgh, April
29, in which two Buccos trl
pled and another singled Diz
zy Dean thus gets 10 G's for an
inning's work a new high even
for the era's most fabulous base
ball fellow."
ONE MINUTE INTERVIEW
Kingflsh Levinsky: " I want
another fight with Louis ... All
Louis does is fight bums . . . And
ain't I a bum?"
The spring fever some people
are kicking about Is the same
enso they had all winter.
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Boys Choose
Basketball No. 1
NEW YORK. May 21 lPt
Baseball may still be America's
favorite gamo but that no longer
goes for New York boys. A poll
of nearly 9,000 members ol the
children's aid society's 10 boys'
clubs in the city gave basketball
the No. 1 spot.
Baseball, leader in previous
year's polls, came In second.
1052 ENTERED IN
NATIONAL OPEN
NEW YORK, May 21 (UP)
A total of 1092 entries has been
accepted for the 170 berths in
the national open goll cham
pionship at Fort Worth, Texas,
June 9-7, the U. S. Golf associ
ation has announced.
Due partially, to war condi
tions, it is the smallest entry
total since 1833 when 813 were
accepted.
MENDEL JOINS BAER
WASHINGTON Harry Men
del, who had a hand in tbe man
agement of Tony Galento, is
ballyhooing Buddy Baer in his
match with Joe Lewu at tiruiiin
stadium, May 23.
JOCKEY NEAR DEATH
CHICAGO, May 21 (U.P Ray
Hightshoe, 23, a leading Jockey
at major race tracks in 1940,
was near death at a hospital
Tuesday night, a victim of sep
ticemia.
aoxiNo
By TM Aamlalaa "ran
RtrrKAlA X. V. Jarkle Donovan,
1MH, Bufl.lo. and Andre Jeuurun, 1M.
. York. Drew (10).
NEW YORK Uonard BMinHt. 1. CM
caio. outpointed Jerry rtorrllo, 1S1. Brook-
rui-KM'ore.' tl Turner. 11 Port-
land, uutpolnud Buddy rclMwo, ui, iur
nr. MS. ().
SONNY LIKES IT FAST
DES PLAINES. 111. P) Ar
thur (Sonnv) Koester Jr., Is on
ly seven but when he gets be
hind the wheel of an auto wowl
Sonnv and his five-year-oia
hrnther. Johnny, took the keys
to a relative's car and went for
a three-hour spin before a truck
driver, noticing the diminutive
duo, curbed them. And he had
to touch 63 mph to do it.
But Sonny, who manages to
reach clutch and brake by slid
ing half off the seat didn't
think that was so fast. "Why."
he told inquiring police, "once
wo went 80." We was taught to
drive a year ago, but evidently
"forgot" the stern admonition
that he should never go alone.
We are not fighting for some
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Prime Minister Menzies of
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11 Foreign
Horses Named
For Gold Cup
LOS ANGELES, May 21 (P)
Eleven foreign-bred horses are
among the 64 nominees for the
$73,000 gold cup at Hollywood
park July 19.
The mile and a quarter race
for three year olds and up lints
Meissen from Peru; Colorado
Lad, Fairmond, Sierra Nevada
and Paper By from England;
Chlco from Ireland; Don Juan
11, Don Bingo II, Barrancosa and
Beautiful 11 from Argentina and
two Ton Toney from New Zea
land. Whlrlaway'a name tops the
homebred nominee but owner
Warren Wright has not said
whether he will ahip the sensa
tion of the eastern track to
Hollywood park.
Oregon
Snorts Notes
By FRED HAMPSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
Full many a gem of purest
ray serene, the deep unfathom
ed caves of ocean bear, wrote
Mr. Grey in his elegy, and to
prove the words timeless there
is the case of Ad Liska and the
Portland Beavers.
Oscar Vitt, the new Portland
manager, echoed these senti
ments the other day when he
declared the little submarine
pitcher "a major leaguer, and
nothing else but ... I will give
my personal attention to seeing
that he gets back up where he
belongs next year. Win in the
majors? I should say he will
la either league. He not only
has an entirely different deliv
ery from anything they see nor
mally, but fine control, plenty
on the ball, he can field his po
sition and is smart out there."
Liska ranks with such frus
trated baseball figures as Chuck
Klein, a peer of hitters who was
hopelessly bogged with a tail
end Philly club, and Walter
Johnson, who pitched 13 years
of classic baseball for a Wash
ington team that couldn't fight
its: way out of a light fog. This
season again the little' guy has
been throwing superb stuff at
Pacific coast league batters
while the Beavers tripped over
themselves on his pitching
nights. The fact that he won
four out ot his first eight games
ft
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out pitching. When he does win
he has to do it usually with a
one-run margin. Two or three
Portland runs constitute a land
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NEWQUIST STILL THERE
The sports writers, after re
covering from the first shock
of the latest Athertonizing, came
to the view that the University
of Oregon was pretty lucky.
The Webfoots didn't lose Jim
my Newquist, the Camas thun
derbolt who has been rated
along the Columbia river as the
hottest prepper since Grayson.
His collegiate preview as a
froth last fall did not lessen his
reputation.
Rumor has persisted that
Newquist was likely to be lost
by an Atherton decree. But he
survived the first whack and
the word now is that he's been
approved for lemon-yellow trap
pings.
Northern Division
Race Tightens
By The Associated Press
The northern division, Pacific
coast conference baseball title
race developed into a three-way
tussle yesterday when Washing.
ton downed the leading Oregon
team, 6 to 3, at Seattle to come
within a half-game of first place.
The idle Oregon State team,
currently in third place, is only
a game and a hall from the
top.
In another conference game
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