European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rookie studies nomenclature with manager Ott by John Wentworth former i Clint Hartung was a Fly dodging problem child until some recalled that he could pitch new York new York baseball fans probably Are no More tender hearted than the Umpire killers in any other american they shout for the blood of yesterdays heroes and feel no qualms about burying an ambitious Rookie even be fore Treyve Given him a Chance to stretch his eager that Why the scene which took place in the third inning of the game at the Polo grounds on May 9 was something of a startling for when a raw looking Young Man who had never before pitched in a major league Ball Park stepped onto the giants Mound with the Home team already six runs behind the visiting Boston the crowd stood up and cheered As if he were Christy Matthewson resumed from the base Ball players at the very some Limber armed Moses to deliver them with a fast Ball in Stead of a magic it was All the More surprising be cause the Rookie was listed on the scorecards As an and out fielders ordinarily have no business trying to throw a baseball past the bats of such formidable stockmen As the braves Bob Danny lit Tommy Holmes and Earl As if this we rent Tive fans previous experience with the Vount Man should have left them with a decided distaste for any one bearing even a slight resemblance to for As an outfielder he had shown an amazing Lack of acquaintance with the behaviour of Fly and baseball fans Are usually pretty fussy about what an outfielder does with a Ball that comes his apparently there was some pretty Good reason for the fans show of for at the end of the big Clint As any giant fan can Tell is the name of the most winsome Rookie to come up in off the Field assured of a position among the Start ing pitchers of the giants in his six inning Relief stint he had held the opposition to two hits and one run and struck out five and when he left the even though the game had been the bleach rites stood up again and use one local Newspaperman comparison if they were his the month and a half since that extraordinary floppy har Tung has continued to justify the reception that the new York fans gave him by winning Ball his that probably want too much to for Hartung had previously been on display Only As an he had come up to the big leagues As a highly advertised combination of Ted Williams hitting Power and Bob Fellers ability to throw a Ball past a giant rooters undoubtedly would have been satisfied with a reasonable facsimile of either of these two men but it seems that even being classified among the pitchers Hast made Hartung abandon the idea that he is also a wicked Man with a As a matter of during his first four games As a full fledged he managed to make life doubly miserable for the opposition by hitting at with about half of his hits going for extra in one of this recent appearances at the plate he belted a 450foot triple which so impressed radio announcer Frankie Frisch that Frisch forgot whether the broadcast was being sponsored by Pabst Blue ribbon or Lux the name of Hartung began to be heard last when he finished a four year hitch with the army air although his experience had been confined to High army and class d league he had already built up enough respect in the mind of giant president Horace Stoneham to make Stoneham hand the Minneapolis Millers and four players for Hartung giant who feel they have a proprietary interest in every cent that comes out of the Stoneham demanded an is this High priced they wanted to the answer came in a barrage of pre season publicity that might hive been produced by a Drunken circus press the pretty attractive Iri were that Clinton har Tung was a 215pound country boy from who had climbed into organized base Ball on the strength of one Warmup pitching session just before a High school baseball the school principal had persuaded Mike owner of the Minneapolis Ball to look him and after watching the kid Cut Loose with a few dozen Kelly Laid Down five Hundred dollars for his name on the dotted strangely when he stepped directly into the top bracket of minor league Ball in Hartung showed signs of Green andhadn1 he already played three years for dear old Hondo High the Blond bomber asked to be shipped to another league for at Kelly probably should have Dis patched him immediately to the instead he sent him Down to eau Claire and Hartung responded to the change of landscape by Al Outing the Ball for a while connecting for twelve Home runs and driving across 120 recalled by he played Only five games before Uncle Sam stepped in and handed him a suit of ods to it place his baseball it was not a very Long Bitch in organized but he  have impressed Kelly More if hed been a lifelong fixture in the Millers Ball Kelly called Hartung the finest Young Prospect he had seen in fifty years of baseball Rojy Bill clients Boss at eau Claire chimed in with i never saw a boy who could hit a Ball any except possibly babe every one who has Ever heard of by this time every base Ball fan knows the familar with his Paul Bun Scanish baseball feats while in the he a Oneman team for the Hondo air base and he looked slightly better in Hono playing for the team that won the Pacific area championship last Chat pitched Twentyfive games and them while averaging something better than fifteen Striice outs a when not he played the Outfield or first base and compiled the  Bat Ting average of included in his assortment of base knocks during the  season were thirty that was the record when he reported to new York manager Mel Ott this Ott decided that if he had a Choice Between a Feller and a he would rather have a continued on Pope 22 even As a Hartung remains a menace with the Bat 18