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Daily News from New York, New York • 374

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iV TT I chink el Shows Up i J. 4 -He'll Play Tonight By Jim McCulley '1 -77 I Believing: that Ken Schinkel'had been knocked out of Stanley Cup competition with a broken toe, the Rangers 1 yesterday broujrht Rod Gilbert, their brilliant Kitchener risrht winder, to New York. 1 winger. Mil, Playoffs A SKKIKS It W.l. A W.I.

A Thouurh the 21-vear-old farni- l.j-.rtd arrived in time for practice yesterday morniner, Muzz rat-lick's hurry-up call for help proved unnecessary. Schinkle Also showed up for the workout i I on Garden ice, took a full-scale drill and skated as though noth-1 ing was wrong with his right toe. I SO, WHEN the Blues resume their Cup series against the Maple Leafs here tonight before i an SRO crowd of their attacking forces will be the sanie as they were when the I series semi-finals opened in Toronto last Tuesday; the same 1 1 VKW 1 4 it nui ytw 1 litiir I fi I Manager harley Dresst-n, one of game's arknow 1 edged sien stealers, uses binoculars as he scouts Yankees for 1953 World Series with his Dodgers. Ilressen. who had run in with Joe DiMaggio about flashing wrong stolen sin.

dropped Fall Classic to Hront Itomhers, 4 games to two. echanicaB Monlrcal il rt 4'Trtnl. II 3 II 4 KS 3 6 Kt-t -f nirro I TOMtiHT Toronto at HVINS-lIO. P. Tl K.SIMV Toaonlu KAMiKKS.

I INs-UMO. 4 r. Montreal at Clitt-Hifa. win again Tuesday," Gump sid. "Then they'll be in troub.e.' A shutout performat.ee by Gump would be just the tic tee bling efforts in Toronto last week.

Chicago, March 31 Black liawks faced (AT). The a board of told in plain language target tough with the Canadien-? tomor-: row night. The defending Stanley- Cup starts at Montreal in the best-of- that is, unless player-coach Doug the Rangers need at this tryin? Harvey makes 'a last-minute time. It's unlikely Johnny iJowtr, switch. He said he's not contem-' as good as he is, can blank the plating any line changes, how- Rangers not on Garden ice, any-cver, as long as Schinkel remains way, which is 14-feet shorter and available.

a yard wider than the sur.aee at "The damned thing must be Maple Leaf Gardens, Schink growled aft-; BLUKS were full of that er skating off the ice yesterday, i so-called winning spirit uuring Pointing to his right foot, en- yesterday's hour and a half drill, cased in a shoe a half size larger They appeared ready and anxious than his left one. Ken said: "I to make amends for their "stum- Majors iiirering got rapped the toe again to- day. It's hurting a little bit now, but I'll play tomorrow night. "GILBKRT IS useless to us i a. i ir By Dick Young St.

Petersburg, March 31. In springtime, baseball's wormy little secrets, which have hibernated all winter, crawl out of their cocoons. This year's larva was a lulu filled with doak-and-t latter spv stuff, challenged ethics, binoculars, surreptitious now. sa.a rair.cK w.e meeting todav and were after Schinkel performed so rJ in practice." He was brought here in an emergency, under the rules, but now we don't have an c.t. ul lost their first two nounced C.il-bear will stay here seven semi-final playoffs the National Hockey League titlists.

"WE'VE GOT 'EM on our home ice now and we're ffoing to show 'em how we can play for keeps." said Hawk coach Rudy Pilous. "I told the team to take off its kid gloves. This is the key game tomorrow. We're going out to wear 'em down. We've got to win this one." The fourth game will be at Chicago Stadium, Tuesday night, and the fifth, if needed, will be in Montreal, Thursday.

I. mj? Grayto IXttts Washington, March 31 (AP. Sid dray, former sports writer for the New York Herald Tribune and the Post, today was named public relations director for the Washington Senators baseball" club. Cray is vice president of the iseball Writers' Association. from the hunting grounds to the bailfieid.

tney are able to see past the coverups of the pitcher and catcher, and pick up the clue that tips off the pitch." BASKKALL IS spotted with incidents of games that have been won and lost through sign-stealing, legal and illict. One of the more famous occurred in '41, when the Dodgers and Cards were wrapped in their fiery pennant race. Whit Wyatt and Mort Cooper, the stars of their time, had fired blanks through eight innings. Billy Herman banged Cooper for a double in the ninth, stole the catcher's sign for the next pitch to Dixie Walker, and the game was gone as re-cfiving the signal from Herman, stroke! a single. Second base is the principal vantage point of the slick sign-stealer.

Leading off the base, he cieai suoi ai wie finger-wigwagging by theVatcher. Jo cnmiiat tnis, an nig league teams have "switches" in signs. Thus, with a man on second, the normal signal for a. curve may automatically become the sign for. a breaking ball.

Or, in the multiple sign-system, the second set of wig-waggeil fingers could become the true call, rather than the first set. IT BKCO.MF.S pretty compli-i cated at times, and explains why. particularly with a runner on second, the catcher is "crossed-up" by the pitcher, who didn't quite understand the switch. A wild pitch or passed ball often results. To guard against such cross-ups, the catcher often calls timeout and holds a refresher course on the This is the ac- YOUNG MEN Begin a Ban pA of Eraenny ignis cursed by-product of modern-day sign-stealing.

"That's the main reason games i taKe so long to piay tnese aays savs So Hemus. Met coach, "Switching signs, and conferences between catcher and pitcher, add 20 minutes to a game. BURDETTE, vet- SAYS LOU eran Braves pitcher: "If you want to speed up games, do away with stealing signs from scoreboards.1 The legal sign-stealing isn't bad. We can beat that with simple switches. It's the other takes all the time." stuff that Riirrierre i a headv nitcher who sometimes calls his own i n-s witch.

Early Wynn is another. With a man on second, the catcher flashes, say, the sign for a curve. The cautious pitcher, wary of a sign-steal, then makes a subtle move, perhaps with his hand, perhaps with a foot." By pre-arrangement, this tells the catcher that the pitcher intends to throw, not the signalled curve, but a fastball. Having the pitcher make the sign-switch, rather than the catcher, affords extra protec tion. A clever baserunner might detect the catcher's switch, but has no view of the pitcher's ever-so-slight movement.

Sl'CH Ol'N'TER espionage has disillusioned many a batter. There's something about crouching over the plate, confident that a curve is coming, onlv to have a fastball buzz something -to under your chin; make a man lose all taste for "getting the pich" from a teammate. The DiMaggio-Dressen incident of years ago i a case in point Charley, widely famed for his sign-detection, flashed the sign to Joe Di, who was almost skulled Continued on page 137, col. 4) BLOOD DONORS ln-Yimn Ihy. rally Arrrftiihle ARE PAID 340 SECOND AYE.

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Sat. to 4 Rewarding Career as a i for a day or so, just in case." That Schinkel. right wing on the Blues' Xo. 3 line and a valu- able operator as a penalty killer, showed up. yesterday came as no surprise to Harvey, the old pro from Montreal.

Doug had remarked on Friday, despite Dr. Kazuo Yanagisawa's professional opinion that Schinkel possibly was through for the season, that "manv hockey plavers have skated with broken toes, "Skating with a broken toe and walking with one are different things," the coach had said, "Maybe Ken will play' WITH OR without i.ch.'nker, in any case the Rangers will take the Garden ice tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in desperate ttraits. Down, 0-2, in their first Stanley Cup competition in four years, the Blues must win eitf.tr this evening or in game No 4 here 1 uesday night, to avoid t.weep. It will take two wins ir r. row at home to give them "a lighting chance to reach the Cup fi.

als. The Rangers, themselves think they can Iteat the Leafs i. both games here, especially oalie Gump Worsley. And, let's face it, the Rangers chances to stay alive hang on The Gumr-ers ability to fend off big forwards especially the eon- Armstrong-Duff line which cave him so many headaches in 'lor-onto. "WE WIN tomorrow night we INT.

TRACK ROAD 1 11 4 DAYS I jfQ, APRIL 1 THUiO 1 1 sui8u 1b2) P.M. SI rial relays, confessions, and. of course, blanket de nials. The entire yarn only now is wi'igling entirely into the open, line team tried to swipe signals illegally during the past World Series, it develops, and was quickly and iiietly stepped on by Commissioner luinl Krick. This led.

it develops further, to passage of winter never of finally announced prohibiting such nefarious practices, and providing punishment of violators. "Sllori.ll A TKAM be proven have employed mechanical means to steal signs during a bill game," says an XL official, revealing the heretofore semi- secret legislation, "the shall be declared forfeited. game There are two key words in the new law: "Mechanica anl proven. A mechanical device, obviously, pet tains to the use of binoculars iti t'te bullpen, scoreboard, grandstand, or elsewhere; the use of bltnkeV lights to transmit information, or the use of phones; or SUNDAY PORT SPECIAL wived towe been, and proper for etc. It alwavs has remains, perfectly team toi steal signs wuh the naked eye aj.one, and to relay them via a shouted word, a subtly crossed leg, a whistle (not store-bought etc.

SIGN-STEALING without me-ch iiin al devices is, in fact, not only permissible but respected. It is part of a coach's job, and is engaged in by many of the better ballplayers. Some of the epeits in the art ate among baseball's elite: Stan M.isial, Bob Turley, Billy Herman and such. Others come as something of a surprise loe Adcock, Rudy York; fellows considered not exactly candidates for Nobel Prizes in science. "Kelhiws like Adcock" and York." says Braves prexy Johnny McHale.

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