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Show TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951 Paxa 6 V- - SPORTUGHT Changes Make Sport Comparison Hard - ' ' V' RICE By GRANTLAND to a 1920 had passed out. Football is days. There are many more playraps. no longer a team game. It Is prac- ers. These players are getting betThe loud noises and the squawks tically one college meeting another ter bulk training and smarter 7 coaching in general. usually come from a group of gray- college. veterans haired panning the present There is no Cobb or Ruth around Today you have 30 or 40 men on generation. It may be a group of each side throwing from 30 to 40 today and well likely never have e ballplayers So again how can you com- another pair like this. But there I attacking the me passes. old time football stars with the have been some pretty fair ball, diocrity of the pres pare modern bunch, who either never players Musial, Williams, DiMag-giy crop RobRizzuto, Slaughter, Reese, make a tackle or else never run may come from a with the ball? inson, Terry Moore, Johnny Mize, e bunch of Marty Marion, Yogi Berra, etc. e It might be well for all congolfers or H Bin Dickey ranks Berra up with cerned to remember this in the w fighters giving the and he ever saw, catchers best the In words of Bernard Gimbel world proof that ... Arkansas Bill knows about all there measurcan be that those hanging every sport 'Ijs is to know about catching. around today are ed or timed records are imGrantland Rice largely bums. The proving year by year. The game . When it comes do comparisons, the Is getting better and better, same is true of football where old and modern play are entirely platoon system has been composed adtoo far apart to start any definite well be should Every sport of according to the vanced today over bygone yester ranking. veterans of older wars. Those who can run or pass cant block or taekla and those who can tackle cant run or pass. Only recently Ty Cobb and . I s along Time marches of knocks and w Sf ? J' yi;, old-tim- - o, ' ' ent-da- 4 old-tim- ft old-tim- v, ' C-- 5 . if: " v y. V ! I 4 ' 7' , f' . , jJ , t - half-player- s, Rogers Hornsby, baseballs hitters Cobb, the two-grea- 's vf ' 4 .. I dividual named Brooks, told me to WAS PROBABLY suicide, said, looking around the cabin. Why? Capt. Rhodes asked.. I nodded toward the walls. At least a half dozen photographs of Arthur Kimball hung there. Any man, 1 remarked, who was so vain as to take all those pictures of himself to along a two weeks' decorate his cabin on cruise, must have been vain about other things. You mean hed probably suffered financial reverses or something, and was too proud to face the facts, so he shot himself? Thats about it, I nodded, pleased that the captain should give so much consideration to my theory. A very dull fellow this Capt. Rhodes. The captain looked down at the lifeless body of Arthur Kimball. He had apparently been sitting at his desk, writing. There was a bullet wound in his temple. An automatic was clutched in the fingers of liis right hand. The captain looked at the pic- tures. Im probably right, dont Same Everywhere Football is also an entirely differ ent game from what it used to be. The first big change came in with the forward pass in 1906. The pass began to dominate the attack around 1915. Now it is a big fart of football. The two platoon system changed football completely. The game of 1909 even the game of said. Captain Rhodes grunted. No, he said, I don't. He turned abruptly and went out. confirmed my Wellr this-o- nly ideas about the Captains stupidity. To me the thing was dead open and shut. The first mate, a tall, rugged in- you think. Captain? t 1 a By JOE MAHONEY 1 go to my quarters and stay there until I was called. WASNT UNTIL evening that the ITmate summoned me. I followed NATIONALISTS 4 L'.. ' . V O' HUSIUNS I f,naU''S SLD SERIES AggSiiflp WtTH turned serratcn! WH1 S?HE HIGH COST OF EVEN UVlNQ HAS ' HU THE HORSES. BARBERS horseHIALEAH at i N0W GET o BUCKS FOR TRIMMING A 0THOROBRED. l&LOS ANGELES COURT fWt IT LEGAL I THAT GEORGE RAYMOND WAGNER IS NOW 16&WX& I ORCHIDS .the human CHILDREN ALWAYS THOUGHT, 1HB LAST NAME WAS GEORGE ANYHOW. '' ' '' V W ' .. y' 'i. j y . ' Formosa are forging their fighting force into a tough unit which will he prepared for eventual landing on the China coast. Sailors of the Chinese navy are being instructed in the use of infantry weapons against the day when they may have to defend a beachhead perimeter. him down the corridor to Arthur Kimballs cabin. Captain Rhodes was there and several other men In KATHLEEN NORRIS uniform, and a strange man and woman. That was a very logical theory you advanced," the' captain said, looking at me. But weve proven f'TJrOW CAN WE HELP our it to be dead wrong. daughter? writes Lucy Cot Wrong? I said. ton, from Duluth. Fay is 24, our Mr. Kimball was murdered! only child, but we had my nieces, I didnt say anything. The captain whom I will call Meg and Emily, was not only a dull fellow, but now living with us for many years.' he was revealing a tendency towarc Emily married at 19, three years dramatics. ago, and has a baby son. Meg As soon, went on the captain, worked in an insurance office and as I decided that Mr. Kimball was was married last year. murdered, I began to look for some is Neither girl actually as pretone who knew him before he sailed our Fay, but both are attracThis wasnt as easy as it sounds ty as Kimball was traveling alone. Still, tive, confident and popular. Of their I figured that someone had engagec small estate only a few hundreds are left, but Fay will inherit enough passage on the same boat with the idea of murdering him. That some- from us and her grandparents to Howone, I reasoned, would have taken a bd financially independent. both I and thought Harry cabin as near to his as possible. So ever, we began inquiring into the careers that she should find occupation, too. of all the cabin occupants along this She completed a course as a kinder-gartne-r, but did not care for the corridor. The only two people whom she and a friend opened later we discovered who might have work; known Kigiball are Mr. and Mrs John Cole, these people here. The captain glanced toward the strange Lost Confidence and Illusions couple. But, he conclusively in the main murder was continued, they have proven that they were salon at the time the committed. "How did they know when the murder was committed? I askec importantly. I told them, Capt. Rhodes said So 1 continued my hunt, and presently I discovered there was only one other person on board who knew Kimball. I discovered that this manhad suffered financial losses through Kimballs' activities. And who? I asked quietly, this man? ' You, said Capt. Rhodes. It was a remote possibility, and had not believed it' would occur, but nevertheless I was prepared Capt. Rhodes was prepared too. Thats why the uniformed men were present. One of them had sidled in behind me, and as I sprang landed in his arms. The captain grunted. If," he remarked dryly, you ever have occasion to plan another murder, consider the details. He pointed to one of the pictures of Arthur Kimball. It was the picture in which Kimball was seated at his desk writing. Note, said the taptain, .that Mr. Kimball is holding his pen in his left hand, as he is the riding crop and polo mallet In the other pictures. He must have been left handed, yet .you placed the murder gun in his right hand. A dull fellow, the captain. -- I 4 3 v LEARN WARFARE . . . Chinese Nationalists on advised care, love and time as the cure.) From what she told him he gathered that jealousy of her cousins, perhaps unconscious, was partly the cause. Fay seemed better, and for a few months was more like her old self. But now there is a new phase, infinitely distrubing to me. It began, I see now, when she told me last summer that her psychologist was not only in love with her, but had made improper advances. As he is a married man of 50, with three sons, I was at first shocked, and then incredulous. I persuaded my husband to talk her into giving up treatments from this man, which she did. To make the rest of the story short. Fay now believes, or at least asserts, that at least half the men she meets are infatuated with her. Her cousins husbands, their male relatives, - our clergyman,- - even the postman and grocer are all by turns supposedly under her sway, and she relates her affairs with these men with a relish that makes my heart ache with pity and shame. Yesterday she announced to the papers her engagement to a man I am convinced never had the slightest romantic feeling for her. He is a business " b s -' X - y.' ' .... 0. iitT s y- i test greatest Hornsby, the games greatest righthand hitter do elded there were no modern players who belonged among the first 20 of other years. I dont believe this will quite stand up. Id say an outfield composed of Muslal, DiMagglo and Williams would have been awarded many sprigs of laurel or olive over 20 or 30 or 40 years ago. This trio would have been a great outfield back in the peak years of Cobb and Ruth. trouble which One main arises in all comparisons is the change that has come to all games. For example, baseball has changed in many ways since the days of Cobb, Ruth and Hornsby. Or in the big days of Bonus Wagner. Those were the days of the dead or much deader ball the days of the steal not the days of the home run. Speed and quickness ruled over sheer power. Nine home runs would lead a league In one season. But it would take 70 or 80 or 90 stolen bases to lead a league.. Baseball from 1900 to 1920 was an entirely different game from baseball In 1920 on to 1950. A big part of the games old science had given way to the home run hitters. -- V thers associate of her which makes it the more ' Reporters faem-barrasi- telephoned him, and he went to see Harry, and ,we were saved publicity, at least, but Fay took the matter very lightly, laughing it off by saying that . . . best mental man . . J the apparently man , a tea and gift shop, in which her in- terest did not last long. The girls sold out, and Fay went in seriously for amateur theatricals, having real talent in character and ' comic parts. She also v worked hard as and prompter, property woman and we hoped she was really started. However, a year ago, she began to give unmistakable signs of nerv ous disorder. She shut herself away from us, sometimes was absolutely silent and moody, sometimes talked fast in what a psychologist later called elation. (We took her to our best mental man, who did help, and . had Whom your changed his mind. fastidious daughter had the honor to refuse! she will say when any mans name is in the paper; whether he is engaged,' or going to the front, or has been given some honor or promotion. My husband and I cant bear to see her going on into middle-ag- e like this. When she was a small girl she did romance about things; we expected her to outgrow it. But it sterns she never has. How can we help her? Since she is still very young, and since she has some property to give her a sense of security, I would, in her case, spike her guns in advance. You and her father love her enough to do this subtly" and tenderly. Dont harp on it. But remind her often that you see through ' it Released by WN O Feature |