Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                The stars and strikes weekly a s ready Tor Hogg saturday june 19, 1943 umpires really rough on boys who Alk Back Jimmy Wilson manager of the cubs is our authority for observation of the War time changes in baseball. The changes do not begin and end with the loss of outstanding stars. Jimmy remarked a even the umpires Are different. I can remember when you could argue All Alterman and they d Sass you Back and let it go at Fiat but they re awfully Touchy this year. A a they re very sensitive you can hardly finish a sentence before they re gone. It must be the War. Wilson has been in several tangles with the boys in Blue this season and once was even challenged. An arbiter barked recently a you Are not so Tough. I can kick the hell out of you a whereupon Jim completely forgot what lie had been complaining about and said a you name the place and the time 1 11 be  however the event has not come off As yet. In throwing Eddie Stanky out of the game the other Day Umpire Al Barlick made himself audible to the rival benches and even the Box seaters in language usually reserved for the players. Stanky got As far As a let me Tell you when Barlick blew up. Arbiters easily Iii it it was Umpire Larry Goetz who tossed Chico Hernandez for holding in Ball alter lie was warned not to do it. One is forced to believe that the arbiters Are very easily Hurt these Days. An Umpire s biggest asset is a sense of humor and those possessing it Are rarely in trouble. Fellows like a Beans a Reardon babe Pinelli Bill Summers Cal Hubbard and occasionally George Magerkurth have Hie Knack of easing the tension in a bothersome situation. Wilson remembers the Day when he was managing the phils and they were playing a game at Wrigley Field. A close play came up at second base where Pomelli was presiding. Wilson jumped off the Bench and rushed to the scene. Before Jim could say a word Pinelli reached in his pocket and came up with a handful of Licorie drops and said a there go Back and sit Down. Why do you want to waste time arguing for this gang  Jim went chewing the Licorie. Kennedy speechless big Cal Hubbard was working behind the plate one Day when Vernon Kennedy was pitching for the White sox. Vein thought that Cal was not doing so Well and periodically struggled to the plate to question a decision. Finaly Hubbard whipped off hrs mask and met Kennedy Halfway and said a if you say one More thing about my umpiring i won t go Hunting with you this interleaving Kennedy speechless. Among the most arresting sights in the world was any argument involving Magerkurth and Charley Grimm when Grimm was the cub skipper. They d Roar at one another gesturing wildly and invariably Grimm would finally yell at George a quit spitting on me a and would run for a Towel. Magerkurth s physical dimensions made men like Frankie Frisch and Leo Durocher look like Banty roosters and their ferocious antics laughable. One Day Frisch said a i hate to fight Magerkurth because i look so silly. I never realized it. A r a. My a Pic tilings Wincn a so until i watched George and Dur j Brooklyn Catcher to order a pitch actually flashed. A Dressen a. L _ a a % .1 a r Ralit Ca Civ to Iron Tho late amid Arr Page 15 imagine Baers now Are both corporals Sacramento. Cal the Pup ill tic Baer Brothers. Max and buddy have been promoted to corporals. They enlisted last december and received their Basic training at Camp Tan Loran then were assigned As physical training instructors in the army air Force ground Crews and taught boxing and wrestling to thousands of enlisted men. Sports world is nuts about Vitamin pills training Rice race the race or races of the Century soon will begin with Greg Rice world Champion two Miler opposing Gunder Hagg. Great swedish Middle Lista Nee Ace w to has set phenomenal times in his Homeland heres Rice tuning up the underpinnings in a two mile event at Philly he won new. I y. When he a not galloping around a track Rice t. In chief specialist in the i United states maritime service where he serves As a physical training instructor. Stealing foe s signals is Dressen s specially by Arthur Daley Chuck Dressen had singled and was parked on i inst base not watching Walter Christensen the next hitter but peering with Sharp eyes at John Mcgraw in the giant dugout. The Little Napoleon gave his wrist an almost Imi it perceptible twist. Dressen signalled his Cincinnati teammate that a curve was on the Way and the forewarned Christensen hit solidly to right driving in the winning run. For Over 20 years Dressen has been brazenly pilfering enemy signals and detecting tip offs. All of them have been extremely profitable undertakings As if to prove tile falsity of the statement that crime does t pay. Baseball larceny is Legal of course and Chuck has been one of the most valuable men on any Board of strategy. Tricks of the Trade a couple of seasons ago. The dodgers were playing the cardinals in a very tight game with the Brooks leading by one run Louis had a Man pm thud. As the Batter strolled plate Ward. Sharp eyed Dressen screamed to Durocher a a they be got on a  lip signalled Blimp Phelps St. Ing his of their Windup when throwing a curve but not when releasing their fast one. Some have other tip off characteristics which a Sharp Eye can read. A Lew hold the Ball Tho same for a Hook As for a straight one. Some have to have the seams i in a precise pattern. Players puzzled the tip off is always there however but it is remarkable that so few baseball men Are Able to detect the messages that Are always confronting them. The signals that a Ball club uses Are comparatively few. There is the a a take sign calling for the Batter to take the next pitch without swinging. Then there is the hit and run the steal Aud tile squeeze bunt. Signs for these should always be Given with a natural gesture. The coach for instance. Keeps tugging his be it pulling the Peak of his Cap or brushes hands across the letters on shirt front. A coach goes through antics when theres no sign being Given in order to apparently be doing the same things when a signal is Hanover. N. He Guilder Hagg. Training in the open Woods at his own , took time out to Tell reporters that if he wins in America he will hang up the spikes and go Home to tend the1 three alar Ruers. The swedish Dis Tance runner is amazing observers Here with his unusual training methods. Hagg Hast a special diet. He said that he was astounded at the size of the Steak he got at Antoine a in new Orleans shortly after he arrived in this country. A it was a month s meat ration Iii our country said Gunder in an awed whisper. His main concern is our heat which he thinks will keep him from coming very close to the world Marks that he holds for every distance from 1.500 to 5.000 meters. Hagg thinks that somebody will run a mile in four minutes one of these Days but it won t be him. His we orld record is 4 04.6. The record he a proudest of is the 1.500 meter Mark of 3 45 8 and thinks that it will be the toughest to beat. He does not know what it is that makes him a Good runner. Certainly not his stride As it is Only average. He does not run with a Stopwatch in his hand and the training he does in the Snow is just incidental. Somebody asked him How he happened to be a runner and Hagg after staring bleakly at the questioner asked in swedish a How did you happen to become a sportswriter a no More was heard from the Ink stained wretch. Somebody offended Hagg slightly when asked if his fire department was a bucket brigade. He replied that it was fully motorized. Mutual friends will introduce him to new York s v Eil known fireman. Mayor Laguardia Ami they May run to several 4-Alarmers tether. The mayor is said to be holding out for a too Yard dash. By Dan Parker in Early summer the sports writer turns to becoming a spill personality. We Are a sportswriter and As schizophrenic As the rest of Mem this time of the year i lie reason Lor the widespread screening Mee Mies among the i men who get paid for discussing sundry muscular feats is that the j Basket Baller have folded Tii ii seven Odd feet into whatever basketball players sit in their Xiet season collapse and tile base Baller. Crewmen trackman and other athletic spirits Are hard at it. So with our Tongue hanging limply on our Chin our right Eye to the East and our Lei i Eye u tile West. We turn to putting in writing anything occurring Iii Otu schizophrenic head we remember away Back when a Pill wits something babe Ruth hit out of the lot with the bases loaded in the ninth or Walter Huron dropped into the cup with u 30-foot putt to win the United states open Golf title. In hos it it Vitamin a fortified Days. Tighten and Ball players got along is bes they would with Juicy Beefsteak fresh Eguis and vegetables novel knowing the Joy of wolfing a a Complex capsule or crunching i Vitamin a Tablet. Zivic wants rematch with Jake Lamotta ocher in a Jam. I wondered if i looked like that when arguing and i apparently  also rans will get heave to in Chicago Chicago John d. Jackson. Gen ral manager of the Combine i Arlington and Washington Park 67-Day meeting opening on Jim cd said that the tracks wont permit registration or starting in any lace of a Livorse which in it lat six starts has not placed in at least one race. L ins unprecedented of Striction is intended to Weed Cut the genuinely bad horses protect the Long Sho players and provide adequate  room for Good horses. Hank Edwards Hurt Cleveland a Hank Edwards. The Cleveland indians outfielder broke his Collar Bone when he collided with Jeff lit Atli during the recent Philadelphia series. He will be out for a month leaving Cleveland minus a Reserve outfielder. Out so As to trap the incoming runner but Blimp either forgot or neglected to do so. The Ball sailed in. The Batter bunted and the runner scored. The game ended in a tie too. Dressen had Johnny Vandermeer spotted so completely that the Lethander had a dreadful time against the dodgers. His grip on the Ball i toy a curve is different from that for a fast Ball and Eagle eyed Chuck was Able to Call every pitch. Key words Dressen warned the hitters in this fashion when a Hook was coining he d Call a be ready or Quot be  any phrase having a by keyword. The fast Ball keyword was. Quot get a a a get in there get on base a Dressen had dizzy Vance equally catalogued. The Dazzler used to ii u 114 r his fingers at tire top of his Windup when a curve was coming. At Bat against Vance once. Chuck caught the curve Tirol and saw die1 Ball coming straight at his head yet he knew it had to break past him so he stayed up at the plate instead of backing away As instinct warned and singled to right. Some pitchers have a habit of glancing at their gup at the top or a Del Baker can probably spot the real one but the Ordinary individual sees nothing. Hornsby baffled the Only Hitler in a certain i never guessed a says Dressen a a was Rogers Hornsby. He never took a half Cut at tile Ball As Many guess hitters Are Apt to do. He lashed away firmly the Odd tiling about him was that he always hit curves towards left Center and straight balls to right Field i played against him for seven and a half years and in All that time he never hit a Ball to me at third  the majority of big league baseball players Are in in Ali gent men yet to some signals Are As mysterious  the russian alphabet. They miss signals Day after Day and no amount of drilling seems to Tea it h them the Del Lei once Between take. Hit. Or run a simple lesson in memorizing is All that a necessary but it in i done. Why nobody know. A Strong Airn and a Strong Back Are vital baseball attn utes. But a Quick brain never impeded anyone in any sphere of activity. Chuck Dressen became a Success by using a Sharp mind and Sharp eyes to Good advantage. Pittsburgh sex a Citer Wright Champion Fritzie Zivic has asked the Pennsylvania boxing commission to sponsor a rematch with Jake Lamotta of the Bronx. To whom Zivic lost a split derision which had been widely criticized and against which the fans wildly demonstrated Zivic said Quot i thought that j won and think that i can beat him easily. I want a rematch for ten. 15 or even 20  commissioner George j. Jones i d that the commission would consider his plea at its next meeting counting on Clay Chicago the Phillips Are counting on dam Clay whom they obtained from the cards along with outfielders Coaker Triplett and Buster Adams to tx1 their regular shortstop. Clay was a shortstop until three years ago and manager Bucky Harris is counting on Clay to fill the position All four members of the Phillies in Field Are subject to an Early draft Call. Kra of pills but today pills Are the thing and the hindmost Are Lett for flu Devil to take More Likely than not it is the poor oaf who forgo to take vitamins. Tile sports world became Vitamin conscious two years ago when the St. Louis cards started daily Pill taking. The Yankees adopted the fad a year ago and by gosh who was fighting it out for the work series championship last fall but these two teams of Vitamin Swallower. However the yanks Pill bottles must have been spiked with something besides i-1 amins because those critical series games found the Yankees performing like athletes who a been slipped Mickey finns. Even race horses Are getting Vitamin pills now instead of the fast and slow pills which were formerly their fare before the Ileal old game went straight. A Man in Toledo Ohio concocted a Seel d formula a few years ago which win supposed to be alive with v i Tammi calculated to make a race hours throw Back flips while winning Thi race by lapping the Field. Colons Bradley tried pills on his horse at Idle Hoar farm where he Alm had Violet Ray Sun lamps installed for the Benefit of the nags. Hosse Experiment Willis Kizhner whose Fortune a made on Patent Medicine was another Vitamin enthusiast. Taking 12 yearlings Kilmer fed six of them Dally Vitamin pills the other Hay bum Era were fed no pills. A the next yearling sales in 8ara-Toga, the six horses raised on vitamins had glossier Coats a heal Thier look and commanded higher prices than those going minus that pills it Breaks our heart to say thai after All this Vitamin Uiki up that we be got to Knock Down the Castle now by calling attention to the fact that the new York rangers the National league hockey team which recently closed its worst season yet took Vitamin pills All season lore and wound up lower than the water main. P. 8. Another Vitamin Swallower. Pean Jack was de Vitamin sized by Fob Montgomery who probably never even heard of a Complex capsules. May withdraw Albany. N  Albany chamber of Commerce has announced that the Albany baseball club will probably have to withdraw from the Eastern league unless transportation facilities Are improved fur the club. Baseballs to army Chicago a baseball commissioner k. M. Landis announced unit both major leagues will hold a a Relief Days on june 30 and july 28 scheduling night games or doubleheaders. The proceeds will go to various War Relief agencies and the baseball equipment fund. Good neighbor san Juan. Puerto Rico Sixte Escobar puerto Rico s pugilistic Pride started u. S. Army training by saying a i m Happy to contribute to our common  Carideo in Navy Des Moines. Iowa a flank Cai Ideo Backfield coach of tile University of Iowa has been ordered to report for naval training As a lieutenant  tile entire Hawkeye football coaching stall is now in the armed services. Sailors Haven new York the United states Navy is taking or the travers Island country dub former Home of the new York athletic club. It will be used a rest and training Cento for norwegian sailors