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Public InterestMajot LeagueNoted In Training Camp*BY VI AN GOULDAssociated I’mss Sport* Editor.sr. PETERSBURG. i't,A.. March l7.--tAP -Ss mined up more or less in ft nutshell, tire chief developments of the 1934 major league spring training to date include the evidence of increased public interest, the rwhat mar.cd decline of the left handed pitching species and a growing conviction anions; the players thai the new .standard baseball is a .t iveher than advertised.The first and last of these items go hnnd-in-hatai. tor its already apparent there us glt; .n; to be nan apparent there is going to be more slugging with the spiyer ba. 1 thisyear and the major league magnates teol more spectacular batting willmean bigger crowdsIt is disclosing no secret to saythat the National De.eue club owners had the popular lure in mind when they decided to bring it up to the standard ot the American.In doing so, a number oi the bhhitters have nlready expressed theopinion privately that, the 1934 ball us noticeably livelier than either article used last season.Tins will test a favorite theory of the magnates that the fans at large are more interested in a homerun duel between Jimmy Foxx and Ijou Gehrig on a batting race between Chuck Klein and Bill Terry than they are in a pitchers battle between Cut I llubbcll and Dizzy Dan or lefty (trove and Vernon Gome/,. It. all goes back to the popular furor created by the exploits ol Babe Ruth, the greatest gate attraction of all time, and .'till the highest paid performer in baseball.Gehrig’s Star Rises.Gehrig, ireod this year from any sub-conscious worry about, keeping up his iron man' record, figures to overshadow Ruth in supplying ixiwor to the Yankee attack but the Babe remains the game’s most magnetic figure. The tourist trade besieges him upon every public appearance and tin1 41-year-old slugger is responsible with all the flourish oi a grand opera star on farewell tourThe popularity of the world chain-ipion Giants, at the same time tendsto demonstrate that slugging isn’tthe whole show and that the base-bad public appreciate the faie. more intricate points of the game. BUI Terry’s dynamic crew has played to overflow crowds in mast of its Florida engagements so far. JAll this enthusiasm, plus the fact the Yankees and Boston Braves played to capacity at the outset oftheir exhibition series, has helped jrevive t he spurts of financially harassed club owners. St. Petersburg has not seen such turnouts innine year.-;.The leit handed pitching situationis one of the mast unusual in spring training history, with the Boston Red Sox in possession of as much seasoned southpaw talent, as the other ten clubs m Florida combined.the Giants have llubbell, the Cardinals n lv on a comeback by Halla-ban. The Braves depend on Ed Brandt, the Yankees on Gomez and the IV.ers on Fischer, but these scattered lefties contrast with the jxirtside Red Sox galaxy of the teat. Grove, Walber, Pennock, Wieland, and 1 red OstermuelJer, the highly touted Rochester (N. Ydrecruit.Scutli |Kiv N Scarce.Among tlx* other clubs, the Ath-ltic.% haven’t eevn a rookie southpaw, the Reds and Dodgers have only a reeruit. or two an the Brown stall includes only n relief left hander, Ed Hausen and Elliott may aid the Phillies, Tom Zachery the Braves and Elon Hogsett, the Tigers. But 10 out of 11 pitching staffs hereabout are being built around right handers,All this talk about the shortage of southpaw.- is nothing to bother about, so long as we can get winning re ult.s with tin* right handers,’’ remarks Bob Quinn, general manager of the Brooklyn club. Mc-( Haw didn't worry nlout, left handers when In- had Mathewson and MeGinnlty. The Cubs won pennants in recent years without southpaw help. Johnson, Alexander, Walsh and Jri. s didn't t hrow leit, handed.It. isn't lii t,him llubbell and Groveare southpaws but be a use they aregreat pitchers that they stand out,.
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Jefferson City News and Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Sun, Mar 18, 1934
Page 29
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