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Lane Out to Shatter Yankee Myth White Sox Official Spares No Effort EffortHas Has Sold Players on Theory ThatWorldChampionsArent Invincible Drums Up Allies AlliesBy By STEVE SNIDER SNIDERUnited United Press Sports Writer WriterNEW NEW YORK N YM May 3 Fiery Frank Lane of the White Sox is out to shatter the myth of Yankee invincibility with a twopronged campaign campaignFirst First he spares no effort to make his own club a winner Second he rarely misses a chance to put a public rap on the Yankees in an effort to show they arent supermen after all allThe The White Sox general manager is mak ¬ ing slow but sure progress in both cate ¬ goric He has an improving team and the Yankees havent looked like supermen since they clipped the Dodgers in the World Series last fall fallLane Lane has sold his own players on the theory the world champs are ready to be taken but now he is drumming up some new allies alliesMaybe Maybe we wont win the pennant he has said on several occasions but some ¬ body will and it wont be the Yankees Theyre too old to win it again againRichards Richards Goes Along With Theory TheoryHis His manager Paul Richards goes along with the theory and will keep preaching it until the White Sox collapse or the Yankees pull away from the field as usual usualLanes Lanes 1954 target is manager Casey Stengel erstwhile National league clown of some repute Frank put a big blast on Casey in a national magazine indicating everyone else connected with the Yankees except Stengel was responsible for the current streak of five straight worldcham ¬ pionships pionshipsStengel Stengel is vulnerable to the barbs for he admittedly was a colorful character while serving as a losing manager with National league clubs He still retains some of the mannerisms developed then when his per ¬ sonal antics and statements were the only items of interest on the dreary clubs he directed directedMost Most of Lanes boundless energy how ¬ ever is employed in trying to strengthen his own team and antiYankee blasts usu ¬ ally are reserved to fill in the void when his trading efforts happen to be stymied stymiedSince Since taking over six years ago Lane has made a complete turnover of personnel all players and the manager managerI I cant understand caution and inertia Lane said A team stands pat with whatj its got and it starts to stagnate stagnateProbably Probably Lanes greatest effort was out j talking Branch Rickey then with the Dodgers in a deal for shortstop Chico Carrasquel several years back But a three j way deal in 1951 was equally amazing When Frank landed Richards as his manager Pauls first request was get Minnie Minoso from Cleveland So Lane came to New York and started telephon ¬ ing He knew Cleveland was interested in pitcher Lou Brissie of the Athletics and that the As liked Gus Zernial of the White Sox SoxSeveral Several days and 265 worth of phone calls later seven players including the Ssey men changed uniforms uniformsBut But the Yankees as usual won the pennant
