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Show TIIE JOURNAL urday, SPORTUGHT Where Are the Arms of Yesteryeari? was topped in the majors he said. Mathewson, of the of Christopher pitching The new season has certainly New York Giants, by name. In 1903, Matty won 30 games for the Giants. eliminated the short spring train- In the next two years he won 33 bases season for 1951, Twenty ing and 31. In the next nine years be on balls per game 15 and 20 runs won, in order, 22, 24, 37, 25, 27, 26, ball games running beyond three 23, 25, and 24 games per season. and a half hours wild medleys of He won 20 games in 1901, and alhave home runs won 20 games or left the natives in together in Matty 13 seasons. Maybe Ty better a badly dazed conCobb's record of leading the league dition all around in batting nine years in succession the map. is better, or Babe Ruths 714 home Next spring pitchor Cobbs 4,191 hits. Ill take ers will be put to runs, Mathewson work running as 0 well as throwing around the middle Right and " Ill take a lefty of February. Maykibitzer. I'll another said be that wont help any day any too much. But take Lefty Grove against the field. at least it might. Cutting off a few arms couldnt make it much worse. The ball fields are littered with pitchers as it is. A few friends of mine were about pitching and talking throwing the other night," writes R. T., an accurate observer, "and one of them said the it was Just age, the pitchers BART HODGES had lived in was ever. he were Just as good as for two years and Felmentioned tired of it. Country bred, Somebody Bobby getting Cleve348 strikeouts with he longed for the smell of sweet, ler's land In 1946 and 28 strikeouts fresh air, the sound of roosters In consecutive games In 1938 crowing as being Just about tops. cows lowing. H a wanted to "Good, yes our friend yawned, go to bed to the but I want to remind you of a guy tune of crickets who never left one club, pitched and cheeping every game for one team, and that team was almost always fighting bullfrogs It wasnt as if the city hadn't with all its might to get out of the cellar. Heres a sample in 10 con- been kind to Bert. It had. It had secutive years these are the games taken him to its bosom, and he had that pitcher won: 25, 23, 32, 36, 28, prospered. Nor had he been un27, 24, 23, and 20 per season. If a happy. He loved the lights, the pitcher wins 20 games nowadays noise, the hustle and bustle. And hes a national hero. This man won most of all he loved a girl. 20 games or more for 10 straight Tonight, lying on the divan in the living room of his apartment, seasons, with a miserable ball club, a club that sometimes won only Bart was troubled with an annoywhen this man pitched. In his life- ing thought. He wondered, strangetime the average pitcher, wins 100 ly, which he wanted most: Sabinas to 150 games. The real stars win love or the country. It was at this particular moment 200 (Bucky Walters missed it by a in Barts speculation that the telewhisker). Once in a great while the champion of champions comes phone rang. A strangely familiar along and wins 300 games in a life- feminine voice answered. time in the major leagues. This man . "Hello, there, Bar ft' the won 413; And in 21 years of e voice said. "This Is Sadie baseball his earned-ruaverBlake, fresh In from the old was below three runs per game age home town. Come down and 75 per cent of the time. The year talk to one of your forgotten he won 36 games and lost only sevfriends." en, his ERA was 1.141 His name? Barts pulse leaped. Sadlet His Walter Johnson, of course, rightboyhood pall Sadie, whom one day hander, Washington he expected to marryl Sadie, in "Our other friend had heard of the city. Herel Nowl Fresh from him. with news and notes " But even Walter Johnsons rec- Centerville, of the old home town galore. ord for consecutive years At that moment Sabina -- GoodBy GRANTLAND n'f FARM TOPICS RICE frightful Left-Hande- rs 'Right-hander- s! Connie Mack (who still calls him That Grove) judges Grove the of all time, greatest and that includes George (Rube) Waddell, whom Mack once named the lefty king. Groves record in 1931, when be won 31 games and lost only four, with an ERA of 2.05, is the finest pitching in modern baseball. Maybe Johnson and Mathewson did have to face Cobb and Wagner and Speaker game after game. Grove had to face Babe Ruth and Harry Heilmann and a guy named Gehrig. Grove won 300 games in only 17 seasons but thats not the most Important statistic Grove lost only 141 games. His e winning percentage of .680 will never be equalled. It is just too high. left-hand- er all-tim- Mounted Blower Inexpensive Hay springs and early frosts aren't the headaches they once were to a growing number of farmers. For they have discovered that immature grain can be cured just as effectively in storage buildings as in the field. The average farmer will find that mechanical drying of hay and grain is not as expensive as it would appear. Hay and grain saved will soon pay for equipment. Equipment for mechanical drying of grain is simple, and present farm structures can be converted easily, quickly and inexpensively to handle this newest of farm production chores. Farmers, who have hay curing equipment will find that the same fan and motor Wet '7 Drying i, uc,l(ul h ature is CO or ove humidity above 63 P low. he.t u bL should be insul,ttl ventilated. Warm storage shed, by fans. Thermostat, trola perature and efficient drying ieveU ,S m'H thfM$ core-arme- d and . jug-a-rummin- g. big-tim- n 20-ga- D3U(DP RMKBBSIs! ? rrTSBURGH SLUGGER, OAE major-leagu- RUNS e Hf-- N N'5 P,RST seasons. TO PY HAS COME CLOSE By JOE MAHONEY now was forgotten. There was just one girl in the world for Bart. And that girl was Sadie Blake. He felt suddenly ashamed he had neglected to. write, to remember her at Christmas ... Sadie, pink cheeked, blooming with good health and freshness, met him in the lobby of her hotel. "Hello, pal," she cried. "Looking just the same. Thinner, maybe. But otherwise old Bart him- self." "Sadlet" Bob stared In open admiration. "Sadie! How good It Is to see you. Tell me, how are things In Centerville? How are the folks? Tell me every- thing. "Same old town Bart. Your folks are fine. Your dad owns a new tractor. Polly, the horse, died, you know. But I suppose they wrote you that. The voters decided to run town water up to Williams Hill at the last town meeting. Not so much danger if fire breaks out now. Ed Salmon ran off with Bob Evans wife. She came back two weeks ago, and Bob took her in. Shame. Poor kid . . ." THEY TALKED for hours. By evening Bart was fully appraised of all the events and happenings in Centerville during the past two years, and assured that his folks were Well. He took Sadie out to dinner, and delighted in showing her around She seemed a little awed by it all. and more awed by Barts indifference to the many wonders. You get used to it . after a while," he said indifferently, and stood gazing thoughtfully at the many lights along Broadway. He felt enlightened and no longer homesick. Strangely enough the noise and bustle associated .them selves in his mind with Sabina. H was glad to be a part of it all. He gazed furtively at the comely Sadie and pictured her in the rural setting of Centerville. They attended a theater and dined afterward at an- - exclusive night club. Sadie would have liked to go back to her hotel, but she wanted to please Bart. "Bart," she said, when at last they stood outside the door to her room. "When are you coming home? When are you going to give up all this and come back where you belong?" Bart looked down into her eyes and saw something that two years ago he had longed to witness. He sighed deeply. "Sadie, its been just great seeing you. Just what I needed. A sort of tonic. He smiled at her gently. not "Im going back just yet, Sadie. Theres something keeping me here, something that before I never knew existed. I know now that its something greater than anything. Some time Im coming back, and when I do therell be two of us. , ft! k.Jks6i Mounted on wheels, this motor and blower takes the headaches out of curing Immature grain for farmers. Here the equipment is shown being used for hay drying. can be used for both drying grain and finishing forage crops. The accompanying illustration shows what can be done in the way g of hay curing and grain drying equipment. When the hay curing season is over, this farmer mounts his ian and motor on a cart and hauls them to a crib where they are put to use blowing moisture out of his immature com. An outlet, into which he plugs his motor, is located in an adjacent building. When double cribs are used, as in the case shown, the air blast enters through one end of the driveway. The opposite end is sealed up, and heavy paper placed on walls of the crib from the peak of the roof to the top of the corn layer. Openings around the fan and in the floor also are closed. In single cribs, wooden ducts or "A" frames are layed down the center of the floor and the air blown directly into them. inter-changin- five-horsepow- er HOW Heres a right smart Ida 1 a feed and grain scoep eliminates the i 5 scoops with the usual pni ing handles. For a large e; one that can be used in wrist grain, terial is about 20-gau- ge galvanbdr right. The C Iron brace to which the fc end of the handle is bolted hold light metal in ships Year's Fruit Prospects Hit by Widespread caused eetT Explosive April able damage to budding fruit f great drop in the yew v is indicated. South Carolina, Virginia isL gia suffered damaged and Oregal Washington, Idaho tsa a 100 percent bud loss soutk trees killed. Damage In linois ranged fromSjtolOW according to some bureaus. report dj l i 6 ( ii r |