Show OY TIE E toughest sporting job tor for 1945 JL belongs to the committee who must make the next nominations for baseballs hall of fame there are now from twenty to thirty present and former stars who stand along the border line where the dividing margin is thinner than a razor blade such men as jimmy col uns roger bresnahan mel ott bill klem dark clark grita nth frank chance johnny evers ed walsh fred clarke miller huggins grantland rice lefty ty grove carl ilu abbell rube wad dell dollon dellon on and on most of these players numbering twenty or thirty will have tp te wait for or another year all ali left deep impression on baseball fans and their mark in baseball history but only a few can be chosen any hall of fame that 1 becomes too L crowded and has too many names loses at least a part of Us enduring darlng cn value hut the long list of available names still left proves again why baseball for over sixty years has contributed so much to the sporting side of american life there are any number of old stars who wont even get a vote who wont even be mentioned and yat these are not so far away from top rank your correspondent hns has been covering and watching baseball tor for over forty years yet the problem of selecting leaders from the long parade of stars becomes a blur how we keep muttering can anyone leave so and so out you might suggest that if 1 a ballplayer a standout why should he be considered but what are you going to do about so many standouts stan douts at least so many who have given so enuch skill and color to the game that they wind up in a photo finish ed delch delehanty anty frank frisch dizzy dean mickey cochrane herb pennock gabby hartnett once again it Is on and on frank chance for example i theres frank fank chance named as the peerless leader of the old cubs chance led his cubs to tour four pennants and two world ivald series from 1000 1900 through 1910 1910 ills his cubs set an allame all oll ame ume up to date daie winning record in 1800 the cubs of chance the giants of graw and the athletics of connie M mack ack were among the greatest of all ball clubs avei over a period of years it was F PA also known as franklin pierre adams who sound ed the best remembered tocsin of chance and his bis cubs after more than thirty orty years where our memory may be vague we recall these lines after the cubs had slaughtered the grants giants these are the saddest of i possible words tinker to evers to chance trio of bearcats aud fleeter than birds tinker and evers and chance pricking forever our gonfalon gon falon bubble forcing a giant to hit bit into ft a double words word that are heavy with nothing but trouble tinker to evers even to chance As I 1 recall it charles dryden was the first to call chance the peerless leader later on charley shortened this title to P L chance was a great fighting field manager he was a fine first baseman a dangerous hitter but above all a game scrappy battler fearing nothing not even a hock flock of bran bean balls I 1 gamest camest players which reminds me that the two gameau gamest baU ballplayers players I 1 ever knew were johnny evers and walter mar anville they played together for the he boston braves of 1814 1914 the overlooked team that whipped the famous athletics four straight games evers evera was as smart emart as he was game the ile human splinter is a big part of our baseball history he is now of at his oad home troy N V Y and it if the chance drop him abejo at hebo pepper martin was another who belonged in this class by that I 1 mean any one of the three mentioned would break a leg ora or a back or a neck to win a ball gambor even to got get an extra base maybe you can name me a gamer ballplayer then than evers maranville or martin maybe you can but I 1 doubt it they were the three musketeers of baseball who could take it no matter what it was take it and like lt it passing marvel ft Is still my belief that chat harry gilmer Alaba mas crack crack rifleman is 1 the best college passer I 1 ever saw including sammy baugh this might tx be taken Rs as a rather large order the alabama kid barely 18 weighing to pounds narrow shouldered and and thin vilh cheated is the top iop artist 0 if them gill all gilmer Is 3 not only a brilliant long and short passer accurate to the inch but he is the only passer I 1 ever taw saw who can keep nailing ft a target 60 yards away t |