PAGE FOUR
Manager Mel Ott Could Make A Return
Top The Majors With A Pennant Winner
§§ WOOD
m (U. P. Sports Writer)
I s ; ®SJSLAND. Calif. on-H he fol
m the footsteps of his prece
ll I tape*, look for Mel Ott to be
H p ba£K managing in the major leagues
§■' Jfhe Oakland Acorns, managed
if i Kind, are one of the pre-season
IK fasciites to win the Pacific Coast
HB League pennant in 1952 and it was
H a jennant winning managerial job
jgj wftfC this same club that catapulted
H f Caspp Stengel into the post as boss
BB of vthe New York Yankees: and
■ ClTKtk Dressen, two years later,
K, tajjie Brooklyn Dodgers.
BE' "Mel is just as much a big league
§§§ BBnmger as Stenge lor Dressen,"
K f saytC owner C. L. Brick Laws of
Hp Use -Oaks. “Maybe Mel just needed
■ K fistTSSasoning down here, too.”
■ tSw is Ott's second season at
■ the ‘helm of the Acorns. His not
■ too-sfmnd team finished in the first
if diviaioa in 1951, but Laws is the
MM type of owner who demands a win-
K Isis. He’ll get Ott whatever help he
|H Wants—or finds necessary—to make
l|R|v: .~ a taUgh pennant contender. ‘
■ j Ott, who managed the New York
Bp CKwl* for a few years before being
m w«it in 1950, figures he has leam
gflk ed—a. lot with his first experience
I I hr~m minor league.
■ "Among other things, I’ve learn
■ e* to do some public speaking,"
I r PM—SEASON—
BASEBALL
■K * By UNITED PRESS
■ Z Williams on second
K PHONEIX, Ariz. —OH— It’s offi
■ COR ’from Manager Leo Durocher
■ tjgaj’ that 23-year-old Davey Will
gf lama is the successor to Eddie
I Stanky as the New York Giant’s
B|. second baseman.
II He’ll open In Stanley’s old job
8 s, and there’s nobody close to him,"
H Durocher said. “I believe he’U hit
I | -MUjand if he does that’ll be
i iXwocher had tabbed Williams as
S| thR 1 candidate to succeed
B Stanky when spring training open
§K eJC.’He seemed to be losing some
I ; confidence In the slick-fielding na
■R fifi? ,W Dallas. Tex., about a week
S jf bop but Insisted today that Davey
would be able to handle the job
1 Br- a $65,000 purchase
I I fJJSm Atlanta In 1948, played in 30
I games for the Giants last season
1 and did not commit an error. He
W Mt, .266 and batted safely in eight
I straight games during one stretch.
I Bob Hofman and Ronnie Sanford,
I- Wh* were in the running with Wil
| Buna until today, are believed up
I to? trade now. The Giants are re
s' ported to be dickering for outfteld
m *r George Metkovich of the plts
| Mnh Pirates, who are In dire need
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he s»ys. “I still don’t like speak
ing, but I’ve done more of it for
the Acorns In the last year than
I had done in all my life before.”
Ott is a capable representative on
the banquet circuit for the Oaks,
and wins a lot of friends for ihs
team and his owners.
Now a greying 43 years of age
ana with a married daughter, Mel
still is as active as the rawest
rookie in spring training camp.
He not only instructs the young
sters on their hitting and fielding,
but takes a turn in the batting
cage himself and just the other day
pitched four innings in an intra
squad game.
He is very popular with his play
ers, and bends over backwards to
give them all the help he can to
make them satisfied.
A good example came up recently
when the Oaks acquired Danny
Litwhi|er, veteran majop league
outfielder.
Since Ott joined the Giants un
der John McGraw at the age of
16, he always has worn No. 4 on
his uniform. It so happens that Lit
whiler always has worn No. 4, too.
So this season, for the first time
in his career, Ott will wear No.
30.
“I believe the active players
should have the small numbers.”
he says. “Anyway, maybe a new
number will change my luck.”
The Giants meet the Chicago
Cubs, who beat the Cleveland In
dians, 6-5, and ran their victory
string to four straight games yes
terday, in an exhibition game this
afternoon.
SCHOEDIENST—STANKY
BRADENTON. Fla. IIPI AI
“Red” Schoendienst probably will i
team with Manager Eddie Stanky |
as the St. Louis Cardinals’ keystone
combination when they open the
National League season.
That long-predicted move ap
peared more likely than ever today
after Schoendienst and Stanky
paired for the first time in yes- ,
terday’s 1-0 victory over the Phil
adelphia Phillies.
Schoendienst had played in the 1
outfield and at first base this year '
before Stanky finally shifted him to
shortstop—the position he played ]
at Rochester in the International 1
League before he went to the
majors.
Rookie Willard Schmidt starred 1
in yesterday’s game, shutting out ’
the Phils with one hit-in five bin- J
ings. He has not allowed an earn
ed run in 20 innings.
The Boston Braves, who play the
Cardinals today, lost to the New
York Yankees, 3-1, yesterday. <
CERV SHOWS POWER <
ST. FEfEJRSBURO, Fla. W I
BMMferv, file powerful right-hand- 4
er slugger wjis hit .344 for Kansas <
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TODAY'S SPORT PARADE
By OSCAR FRALEY
• (United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK (If) Major league baseball scouts are missing the
boat. The boat to Africa, that is.
“Where are the baseball modems who can hit, throw, field and run
the bases like the stalwarts of a' generation ago?" the Immortal Ty
Cobb recently asked.
Nobody knows, although the big league “ivory hunters” have been
doing what appeared to be a capable job. All you have to do is
take a peek at the major league rosters and you understand how
much ground they have covered.
For instance there are 24 guys from eight foreign countries in the
majors this season. That includes 14 from Cuba, four from Canada
and one each from Scotland, Austraia, Venezuela, Mexico, Czecho
slovakia and France.
There are 38 players from 13 foreign countries if you want to
count the 10 from Brooklyn and one from Chattachooohe, Qa.; Cou
shatta, La.; Marmaduke, Ark., and Holland, Mich. •
But the National Georgraphic Society has come up with a tip that
may send the scouts storming into Africa, and don’t think that’s too
far fetched considering that Bill Veeck is having the Japanese
scouted for his St. Louis Browns.
Anyhow, for the benefit of some enterprising ball club, the National
Georgraphic in a special news bulletlng' tip off the "ivory hunters”
to the fuzzy-wuzzies of the Anglo-Egyptlan Sudan.
These are the same fighting men lauded by Rudyard Kipling and
who could be immortalized in the future by our dashing baseball
writers.
The Fuzzy-Wuzzies, the National Georgraphic tips, have away of
settling minor differences which fits Cobb’s prescription for coming 1
up to the big leagues “the hard way.”
For instance, when two men quarrel they strip to the waist and
each takes a place in a small circle about as far as it is from home
plate to the pitcher’s mound.
At hand are piles of rocks the size of baseballs. At a starting
signal, they let fly at each other.
Control is a necessity in this sport, because there just ain’t
gonna be anybody running in from the bull pen.
The characters at odds may dodge or catch the flying stones
But the lad who cringes out of his circle is branded a coward.
So from now on I’ll laugh at anybody who says a pitcher-wtth no
body throwing back at him-is the epitome of courage. Pitchers who
throw infield liners expected.
Stone duels can be serious, the National Georgraphic admits, but
adds that they can be deadly when two entire tribes start pitching as
is it was the final game of the World Series. Then it is assumed
the situation assumes the aspect of the Boston Red Sox infield.
Buy, anyhow, it looks like .it’s worth investigation. These warriors
are natural-born athletes. Their couage is unquestioned. rThere is
Ino doubt about their ability to throw and, as for their running
they chase mountain goats into the crags and bean theim with these
I same baseball sized stones.
Only one question remains unanswered. Can they hit?
City in 1951, appeared today to 4)61
winning a regular berth in the New I
York Yankees’ outfield on the pow
er of his lusty bat.
Cerv hammered his fourth home
run of the spring, high for the club,
-as the Yankees defeated the Bos
ton Braves, 3-1, yesterday and it
came off 2-game winner Warren
Spahn.
Herman Wehmeier, Floyd Bev
ens and Frank Smith shut ou the
Detroit Tigers, 7-0, yesterday. It
was Cincinnati’s third straight vic
tory and second shutout over the
Tigers this spring. |
LITTLE HOPE FOR HAL
LAKELAND, Fla. (IB The
odds still appeared to be against
Hal Newhouser in his bid for A
comeback with the Detroit' Tigers
today.
The once-brilliarrt lefthander, out this spillway for the first Naas slnet
of action most of last season, was his pond was built four years ago.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 14, 1982
I hammered for four runs in five
inn’ngs as the Cincinnati Reds wal
oped the Tigers, 7-0, yesterday.
LEMON GOING STRONG
TUCON, Ariz. —TO)— Bob Lem
on of the Celeveland Indians
hoping to break back into the 20-
victory club this season alter a
year’s absence, sported a stunning
record of having allowed only two
runs in 20 exhibition Innings today.
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scorless frames was broken when
Eddie MikSis of the Chicago Cubs
| homered yesterday. But the big
Cleveland ace allowed only one
more run in the next fiye innings
although the Indians lost, 6-5.
A typical example is that of
Glen Thompson, near Charlotte,
who aays water is running over
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