Show A WHO would like tc t youngsters make good money a few yean from now and not work too hard should start throwing baseballs a various targets the N P slang for national pas time is running out of pitchers the N P needs more than doubli ils its present allotment of right 01 0 left eft arms that can get the ball ove the plate with enough stuff to baa the batter now and then last year for example the doag ers were good enough to um m a pennant with a pitching staff corn com posed of three or four mn inning mg hurl ers they usually needed four oi 01 five pitchers to finish out one game yet they won a pennant the american league had eight or 10 pitchers who were able to finish games both leagues were shy of arms that could locate a plate or go the distance old time pitchers such as ed walsh walter johnson christy mathewson pete alexander and cy young could individually out pitch the greater part of an entire modern staff bob feller could and can handle his share of work so can ha hal ewell blackwell and warren spahn few pitchers today can work innings in a season johnson walsh and other old timers were pitching more than innings a year any pitcher who cant work innings dat be listed as a starting pitcher he is certainly no part of a regular yet few pitchers now getting relieved around the fourth inning could think oi of working innings without an at tack of palsy hurlers hurler pitch less today feller blackwell Blackw eU dickson munger marchildon there wasn gasn t a pitcher in the amer lean ican league last season who worked no innings feller and were the closest there wasn gasn t a pitcher in the na t onal tonal league who worked in n spahn blackwell and branca were the closest up around today someone you d rate as an average good pitcher works in less than innings say the decline in pitching old fashioned pitching has been startling this cleans in games pitched in games finished in innings pitched in bases on balls in games won from 30 to 41 a season walsh worked in 67 6 games one season winning 40 and saving 12 others today the pitcher who can go nine innings without bei beag mg re moved is a local hero this is why we advise all kids to start throwing you wont have to be too good the pitchers we rate as real pitchers this season are blackwell feller spahn dickson son brecheen and pos sibly sib munger trout houtteman and one or two from connie mack s athletic group very likely brissie he may be the best A championship score the finest championship golf score of the year to date was claude harmon s at the augusta national nationals s masters show it was better than ben hogan s at riviera where the next open will be played there have been endless discussions of what a championship score should be but harmon has slipped in the best answer to date the augusta national was keyed to its toughest test in every way riviera wasn gasn t with its rough cut its baked out fairways and its soft greens I 1 doubt very much that will be broken at riviera in the na dional open and harmon happens to be a golfer who is quite capable of winning a U S open or the P GA arcaris Ar caros comeback A year ago there was pretty fair evidence that eddie arcaro was ng the slender italian from kentucky was still riding fairly well but he was no centaur he was booed around new york tracks whether he won or lost it came to the po point 14 t where it didn dian t matter to him whether they booed or cheered this was the situation when ar caro headed for santa anita last december but on this on his health was better he was in better condition and suddenly a new ambition was born it will be different out here this ame t me he sad sa d it will be a lot different edae began winning ile began longden peeves and the rest of the outfit when be he aw he couldn coulden t win he was no longer content to pull up and let other horses place and show now he was riding them out all the way ke he also was taking narrow openings open riding recklessly at tares he was the old arcara of va w ann years then he came back east again he ile began winn ng on open ng day at jama jaa ca he has been winning river ever since |