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Old Guard ofThe Red lensSports MirrorHas DepartedB ITampa, Fla., March 15—^P— This is a different Cincinnati training camp. The old guard is gone. No Bucky Walters. No Johnny VanderMeer. The last. •emnants of the! 1940 champions ! have vanished.Luke Sewell is the manager in | this Cincinnati j new deal. It’s j the same Luke who won a measure of fame bydMSPiiP leading the St.M Louis BrownsVanderMeer out of the wilderness to their first and only pennant in 1944.“We’ll win more games than ; ; we did last season,“ Sewell said i today with conviction. He knows I the 1949 details because he served I as coach under Manager Wal- j j ters.FOR THE SECOND straight I spring, Ewell Blackwell is the j i big question mark. Virtually useless last summer after a serious [ j kidney operation, “Blacky” piled | on some 30 pounds during the j winter. The gangling right-hand- j | er with the baffling sidearm mo- i j tion now weighs more than 200. j Last spring he was a “ghost” at j 165.“Blacky looks too good to be | true,” said Sewell. “That weight I j ought to help him. Last spring he j was thin as a rail. He never re-gained his full strength. I’m quite optimistic about him.“WE’RE GOING to have a better bench this year. We’ll have i | more reserves to throw in when we need them. Then fellows like j Grady Hatton, Red Stallcup, Ted | I Kluszewski and Lloyd Merriman | have another year under their I belts.”Sewell, feeling his way slowly, counts only two Reds sure of I their jobs—Hatton at third and | Stallcup at short. He has a fourway fight at second. First is a battle between Kluszewski and I injured Joe Adcock, up from Tul-! sa.By the Associated PressToday a year ago—Bill Cis-sell, 45, former Chicago White Sox shortstop, died in a Chicago hospital.Five years ago—Melio Bet-tina and Jimmy Bivins fought a 10-round draw at Madison Square Garden.Ten years ago—Colorado downed Duquesne, 51-40, to win the National Invitation basketball tournament.Fifteen years ago—Primo Camera, 268, stopped Ray Impellitiere, 258, in the ninth round before 18,904 at Madison Square Garden.going to be tough to beat and Johnny Wyrostek hit three hom- j ers against Detroit Sunday.” Merriman, a bonus player, must remain with tiie club. Among the other candidates, j Sewell has such proved major leaguers as Ron Northey, Danny j Litwhiler, Marv Rackley, Peanuts Lowrey and Wyrostek. Also a rookie named Russ Burns, a -340 hitter at Tulsa.Exhibition Baseball(By the Associated Press)Yesterday's results.New York IN) 5. Cleveland (A) 3 Cleveland “B” (A) 5. Oakland (PCL) 4.Detroit (A) 3, New York (A) 1. Chicago (N) 8, St. Louis (A) 2.St. Louis (N) 5, Boston lt;N) 3. Cincinnati lt;N) 7. Philadelphia (N) 5. . Pittsburgh (N) 12. Chicago (A) 7. Brooklyn (N) 4, Mobile iSA) 1.nnVi4nhCi“PICKING MY outfield is thebig problem,” said Sewell. “We I have nine in camp. Merriman isThe new kind of furnacedestined to sweep America!AUTOMATIC V! COLEMAN CAS
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Wed, Mar 15, 1950
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