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Youngsters Helping Red Sox Click Have Given Team Speed and Spirit SpiritPiersall Piersall Lepcio Throneberry White Henry and DelqckGet Pat on Back From Veterans VeteransBy By MILTON EICHMAN EICHMANUnited United Press Sports Writer WriterNEW NEW YORK N Y May 10 Dom Di Maggio Vein Stephens and Johnny Pesky the old guard of the Red Sox unani ¬ mously agreed today that the inclusion of new young blood in the lineup is the best thing that has happened to Boston in years yearsThe The veteran trio admitted that such new rookies as Jim Piersall Ted Lepcio Faye Throneberry Sammy White Bill Henry and Ivan Delock have added immeasurable speed and spirit to the Red Sox SoxThorneberry Thorneberry is a ball player whom I liked the first time I saw him in Sara ¬ toga said the 34yearold DiMaggio who has been with Boston 12 years The others are equally as good goodPiersall Piersall has been a standout at short ¬ stop for us Hes fast has a good arm and is hustling every second That Lepcio alongside him has been making plays as if hes been in the big league all his life lifePesky Pesky who has been forced to ride the bench a majority of the time since Piersall and Lepcio took over showed no bitterness over the fact factPerform Perform Well in Infield InfieldThose Those two kids have been excellent in the infield he said and the young pitchers like Henry and Delock have won several important games for us usIts Its funny remarked Pesky we tried for many years to get the players from all over who might help us win a pennant and now weve come up with them in our very own farm system systemTheyve Theyve all played wonderful ball for us Theyve helped us get off to a fine start startStephens Stephens one of the Red Sox top slug ¬ gers also paid tribute to the newcomers al ¬ though one of them Piersall appears to have taken away his old shortstop job jobThose Those kids have been helping us win and thats what they pay off on declared the chunky infielder You cant criticize suc ¬ cess I think they all look like theyll be here a long time Henry and Delock have given the pitching staff a big hand handThe The youngsters admittedly have made mistakes but thats to be expected DiMag ¬ gio explained explainedThat That cant be helped said the bespec ¬ tacled Boston outfielder but those kids more than make up for any mistakes they make by their great overall play and their continuous hustle hustleTheyre Theyre full of pepper and chatter all the time They certainly came along at the right time because we were hurting after Bobby Doerr and Ted Williams left leftSo So its ironic that the Red Sox who spent over a million dollars trying to buy a pen ¬ nant may get it for 120 the price For all of Bostons redhot rookies are drawing the minimum salary of 5000 or very close to it
