Hide Article Text (OCR)
tANDOM NOTES OF AIASEBALL TRAVELERThe story drifted Into New Orleans at I he training camp of the Cleveland In- ^ liana that Grover Cleveland Alexander lt;pj »ne day in the early spring had stopped ►iff for lunch at Ei Paso on his way to ^ baseball training camp at Bisbee, Aria.Ii aeems that the train which Alexmd been riding didn't carry a diner. It vas in fact a slow freight.The man who bade his mates keep 1 he our shirts on”. in the crucial game of w he 1926 world series, and then stepped HiamPeprreprInseWhilaDO YOU KNOW THAT— **Joe Vosmik, of the Kinsman road Wi(Cleveland) Vosmiks, may be the party in left field when the season 11 ^opens April 14 ... of course, if hetakes the veteran Jamieson’s place he will have to hustle after lots of fly balls. . . . This Dizzy Dean really I . is not so Dizzy as the name implies I N ... he waited until spring training season had started to have his tonsils removed . . . tonsils or not, that old Dlzz has the stuff they need to win . . . including the talk . . .and his 1931 salary already has been practically advanced, they tell me, and the Dizz is eking out his livelihood on a dollar a day from the club . . . but he admits that after he wins 25 games this season, he will be a $20,000 a year man.sefcwscpftAlcnao:aup and won the game with splendid pitching, was wearing a mackinaw I sweater that dated back to the old days | ^ of the C'Jcago Cubs under Bill Killefer.He was trying to find some kind of a Job that time to tide him over until his pay I ^ checks as a pitcher for the House of David team started drifting in.eoKILLE FEE’S MEMORIES I £When your correspondent visited the Brownies at West Palm Beach, Bill Killefer explained carefully the dilemma he was facing. He had heard that Alex was to pitch for the House of David in an exhibition game with the Browns.I wish I could have one of Phil Ball’s I j airplanes that day/’ said Bill, so I 2 could fly about 88 miles away the day ^ tills team plays tlie House of David with t Grover Alexander pitching. I can think of a million things I’d rather see than Alex barnstorming With a freak team.Bill used to catch Grover and tried to I j befriend him in Big Alex’s best days. He t was traded with him to the Cubs in 1917 ] and he was behind the log in that sea- i son of 1920, when Alex won 27 games j for the Chicago team. (icWHY, BILL!He was too human,” said Killefer. He had absolutely no regard for money. If the people who owe money to Alex would repay him he would have a small fortune. He was a ‘good fellow’ with all of them when he had it. He's still a ‘good fellow/ but he hasn’t got it.Bill Killefer’s face wears an intensely serious look now’ and then. Almost like tliat of a boy who has been spanked. Bill felt pretty bad about it.In fact it appeared to me that Bill was at that moment within 1-100th of an inch of having a good cryt
Newspaper Details
Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Oklahoma, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1931
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Michael W.
NA, 10 Mar 2023
Other Publications Near Ardmore, Oklahoma
Ardmore Sunday Ardmoreite Press
Ardmore Daily Press
Ardmore Sunday Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore Daily Ardmoreite
