1940-08-22 — Page 15

THE CHINA-MAIL, AUGUST 22, 1940

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Catcher Reveals How He Curbs Then Cures Feller's Wildness

! Tells Pitching Star To Keep His Eye On The Bat

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Rapid Robert has yet to develop anything like a slider or knuckle

ball.

Tries To Catch With,

Youth And Veteran Hand In Leather Cast

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PATTY BERG

CONSIDERS TURNING PROFESSIONAL

Pastor's Bout:With

Conn Postponed

The heavyweight fight between Bob Pastor and Billy Conn, which was to have been held outdoors Hemsley has been out with a'

in New York on August 13, was ROLLY HEMSLEY, REVEALS how he first bruise on the butt of his left

postponed because of rain, Mike: curbed and then cured Bob Feller's wildness with hand. It was not caused by Fel-

Jacobs, promotor, announced the ler's cannon balls, as you might

fight would be staged on Septem- the simplest of pitching suggestions, writes Harry suspect, but is the result of the

ber 1 in Madison Square Garden. Old Rollicker falling over Jimmy

at 182/ Grayson from St. Louis, U.S.

Foxx in going to first base.

Patty Berg, the erstwhile little Pastor had weighed in

the When the now famou: baseball battery-mates- Hemsley, who until he straight-"freckle-faced, red-haired school pounds, while Conn tipped the kid, and the veteran-first were brought to-ened out didn't care if he ever girl" marvel of the links, recently beam at 175-United Press,

caught, is now trying to catch considered an offer to become a gether on a barnstorming tour in the fall of 1937, with the hand in a leather cast."business woman golfer." Hemsley immediately noticed that Feller looked the ground before pitching.

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That is how.proud Rolly Hems- I B. Icely, president of a .Chi-position "of an educational na- ley is of being the battery-mate of cago sporting goods concern, an-ture" with his company, and that and the man to whom, baseball's nounced that he had been..nego-the Minneapolis star would come "Keep your eye on the target, much more formidable than he greatest pitcher listens for pitch-tiating with the former, national to Chicago to discuss the proposal Bob. Never take it off," Hemsley is but Hemsley points out thatting advice.

women's champion concerning, a to turn professional.

told the youngster. "With your stuff all you have to do is get the

ball over the plate. Just try to| hit my glove."

The two have practically been playing catch ever since.

It was the pitching, knowledge | the then 19-year-old Feller ab- sorbed, on that barnstorming trip that led him to tell Cyril C. Slap- nicka that. Hemsley was. the best catcher. to whom he had ever | pitched and to suggest the Cleve-- Jand club make a déal, for the one-time. coal miner.

Hemsley Says Feller Will Be Even Better......

. Feller's influence had as much to do with Hemsley's reforma- tion as any other one thing. The faith which the upstanding farm boy showed in Hemsley did what abuse and neglect couldn't do in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis,

Hemsley, proud of having had a hand in the development of Feller, speaks of the strike-out king with the pride of a parent.

"He's as fine a boy as he is a pitcher", beams the 33-year-old backstop. "And he's going to be. an even better pitcher."

It is difficult to imagine Feller

WOMAN IN BIG CAR RACE

The first woman driver to par- ticipate in a major automobile race on the American Pacific) coast was signed recently to pilot a car in Portland's third annual stock car classic.

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Virta Warrens, pretty young Portland business woman, turned her official entry blank over Bobby Rowe, sponsor of the event, indicating that she will compete with some 25 of the coast's well- known race pilots for one of the purses ever biggest first spot offered in the north-west. Atlhough as a spectator the odour of "castor" is not new to Mrs. Warrens, Rowe had her driving technique exam- ined last week under the expert eye of Mel Kenealy, one of the coast's top flight race drivers, be-. fore accepting her application. Kenealy gave her an "A" rating, but further tests are in the offing before a definite make of car is assigned her for the event.

Follows Big Cars

Mrs. Warren long has been an enthusiast for automobile racing.. following "big" car races for years. When midgets were intro- duced to Portland fans some.flve years ago she was one of the first to further their development and she was the registered owner of car No. 28, which carried Jimmy Miller to midget championship in 1937.

"The entrance of Mrs. Warrens into the third annual stock car classic will add a new note to automobile racing in the north- west," Rowe commented, "This is to be a strictly stock, car race, over a smooth dustless track, and inasmuch as thousands of the fain sex drive under similar conditions every day we thought they should .have representation.”.

C,B.A, WITHDRAW FURTHER TEAM, The Hon. Secretary of the Lawn Tennis League announces that Central British Association; has withdrawn from "C" Division.

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