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THELOOKOUTBy John F* Kenney, Sphrts Editor' A * » .G ROVER CLEVELAND. ALEXANDER, twenty years in-Hie major leagues and a--war-horse- stylist-whose- memory-will ..live,long..in. baseball, is weathering the shoals of life, tlmt always fallow (he famous.when their glories have.passed. Alexander must live, and baseball is the only real business lie knows. ‘So he barnstorms with the most publicized novelty ontfit in baseball, those hirsute ones who scorn the razor but know how to flip a base; ball around—tlic much-traveled House of David nine, -I ‘' Alex did not appear with the combiimtioiv'of baseball and vaudq-1 ville actat Laurier park last night and a*goodly crowd' was'disappointed, but only 'temporarily,' for'''the'' dizzy “donkey ganie”- that •’ '-'followed Lowell's K to' 1 •'defeat by the IIouso-of David leaht, created• 'enough Taifgb ter to drive any-blues awfly. Alexander, -sftrocori© '*afd, iswith the western version of the IIouse:of David forc'es. Tlier'e are^tw’p ’'-'ijeVvislcered clans of baseball 'toilers :it-’ seems, aiid both arc making• money, which Jafgely explains- why' 'there' are' two and maybcArtore.' '•••■• Conquering His “Worst Enemy” ,’-y •Be. that as rt-'may,' they say that■ Alexhindei-'is-In'a'kitig. good in his ilraiige way,' not* alone financially, but also on'■the'high paths '■ sonielimc's called the straight and 'imrrowv ‘•.Alex' had' a weak ness ‘{Hat gave'managers many-headaches,-'when Alex' should have ,been the one with the aching skull. He spent money freely, broke training ' freqiifcntfy to'set ’em up fill 'around and would- have been' washed' ■ -up years ago had hc'notbecn a jbhysical marvel-and ar pitfthing genius.' 1 ^Today, we are told that Alex has1 hanies's'eb'-bis fault and is doing ': ‘■hotter tH'ah'during the stormy'period of his* lnte; major'league career, -One of’the towns the House of David hit before trekking to ' Lowell last night was'Eric, Pennsylvania, and there The Suti'isvisyii-* ’ -''dicatc eolrimhist, Harry Drayton, had a chat-witli the great Alex: : Workinglip to the-point] ’’Grayson-asked ‘Alex about his'-pl-fcseiit-day ' 'views' on' the 'national-'-gaifler?fA'leifanfieV isAftbt- A 'School hoy’ 'or n ’ rookie. He has - be'eii in'the game long Andpgh' to ball things . as he . sc'es; them, and thc: answer 'he shot hack'at Hrnyson was.’typical of ‘ the straightforward' character of 'the: nian. “There-is -an-: unmistakable'decline in baseball,” he said, “and- T bhime the-' automobile.-'*' The game may be going oyer in Boston, always a .‘gdo'dTtowin and f especially so 'flow' WtVj Tonr- Vfttt-Eoy^-Spfiiiditig .'lfttllions; -but elsefa where, especially in dhe'iniddle-west, :the public has goife sour’ on'the game.” ■*•'T-. ; . Game Slipping, Thinks Grover :’ “Thete's no-getting a^ay from the fact' that'the'kids-aren’t playing the'game'-as-riUiqli as they did,”' continued the renowned 4 fiinger. Too many amusements and; too convonienfc transportation A 'are giving the game’ the jaundice..; When P-tvas a buy -in-'St. Paul,' \s, ;Neb'.,',‘there whs nV way of jumping over-to the next’'town to .' see' = what was going on there We had :t6‘stay'put and wcplayed'base-ballvbecause ,wc liked do,” ?••*..• -'' '’Alexander,-now 47, believes ;h;e;'can still win in Class A basey ball.; On. his control-.alone, he-doesn’t hesitate to declare, he, .can', ipour that old convincer thrbagh The slot 'now and than;..'OB-Alex-is iiotito be pitied,- as in-ihost cases where , a famous one in baseball passes out of the' big picture, sympathies •can be 'yya.sted-,by bringing in ■'the .sob -stuff. .Most- major leaguers always '''- havlt;; a little' put away, and while Alexander didn’t.have a whole lot, ' ,,he-is receiving a better straight salary today dhan that-contained in-., any one, of a dozen offers and. he is/quick-, to, ppiftt out ithe. advantages■ol^having no pennant ta worry -abput.. , ... , 'A.......■ vSHJs H’.« ;:.}1', ;f ,'ekfcst thrill? . He lists his ..striking out-Tony Lazzeri under 1. that heading. . The mcinory . of. that is.. still fresh.-. s . the,, dr.arnatio A Sjii^lc ,of . the. old Alexander across. the field -tp,,tbe..hor, with the bases .loaded in . the1 seventh, inning :of,.the.:final world'series game •' ip 1820 between the. Yankees, and the .Qardinals, Horns by, sent, him put there,. told .him that, ho was. still regarded as one of the greatest ‘ pitchers who ever,.lived, aiid asked, him! to bear down and try to ■prove it, , . .'Alex raised his creaking old airin'-and shot the bullet in '.where. Lazzeri’s. bat..couldn’t find, it—and fanned ;the’,most dangci'ous hitter of the, sqries fqy jthe. finul.putoutl .. V, ’.That’s one of mmiy reasons why iHrqyer Cleveland Alexander .A trillbe listed with-the game's-immortuls' some;day' when hew gen- ' srations will hear legends-about-him. ■ ?.- A. .- - . ..
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Lowell Sun
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Jul 24, 1934
Page 31
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