Show SPORT LIGHT something on the ball his eyes by GRANTLAND RICE A BASEBALL like hitting ahting HITTING a golf ball is a combination of many details working together bill dickey was talking about ted Wil williams Hams it if you have ever caught b back a c k of williams dickey said you could understand why he is such a great hitter in the first Z place he has a remarkable pair of eyes he can usually tell whether the ball will pass just over tho the corner conler or grantland rice an inch or two away when it is still moving towards the plate it is really amazing how he can call these balls and strikes in advance but even more remarkable dickey continued is the speed of his hands and wrists many hitters might wait as lo 10 long ng as williams does to decide whether the tha pitch will be a ball or a strike but it if tt it was to be a strike they could never get the bat loto into quick enough I 1 recall there was many a time when I 1 would practically feel fed the ball in my glove only to hear the crack of of williams bat meeting the ball and the ball upon its way williams is a great concentrator dickey says he follows the ball from the split second it leaves the pitchers hand he never makes the mistake of taking his eye off the ball or taking his mind off the ball once he decides it will be a strike his hands move with a rattlers speed tall ted came to the he red sox in 1939 lie ile lost three years of baseball in the naval air force so 1949 is his eighth season to show how consistent he is williams seven year average is just about what he has been hitting this season ile he got away slowly this spring b but ut has been the games best allaround all around hitter bitter to date ills his lowest mark was his first year ills top mark was his bis third year 1941 when he reached check back on all these statistics and find the boston bitter has done a pretty fair job of hitting a base basa ball lou loll little and hickman lou little of columbia and herman hickman of yale are without any question two of the ablest coaches football has known dut but this season they are caught in the strongest highest grid ranking ivy league the venerable ivy green has known in many generations generation this Is no advance alibi for herman and lou for yale and columbia the raw facts are that yale and columbia material measure u up p to the manpower man power possibilities ties of cornell dartmouth pennsylvania brown princeton harvard army and maybe even navys young squad but I 1 have a feeling that both yale and columbia are ara going to lose more than a few games to better football teams A fine coach la Is a big help but fino fine material is an even bigger jump towards football tame fame now it is quite possible that yale and columbia will move into action with better material than one might look for but columbia has lost practically her entire first string including such brilliants brilliantz brilli ants as ros sides and kusserow no one can say yet what lou little has hickman lacked the man power the material that hat most of his rivals had last fall levi lev jackson captain is A good player but in no sense a great one ife he was injured in spring practice and no one can say how useful he will be lie he was not up to many star eastern backs last fall young spears son eon of the famous doo doc spears may be a yale lifesaver but one man enough not in a conference that has cornell dartmouth and pennsylvania pennsylva la plus pius brown princeton and harvard it may be that herman hickman an and d lou little will wave the magic wand of merlin and overturn the football dope but the point is that football after all is a colle college e game and not a matter of life and death the game is pack packed ed with able hardworking hard working coaches who lack the maier material lal to compete with other coaches who are no better the mils me no one can say definitely what mile runner will be the first to reach the 4 minute spot for the mile mile the swedes have run m within a stride or two of this mark and they may be the first to hit it t the horse that could beat the present mark of is tho the horse that holds this mark his name is coalie coaltown Coal town wn given the proper track which ch means lightning fast coaltown Coal town can beat ile he may not quite reach but he wont be far away |