Show THEY LET YOU in bach back WHEN of the scene you often car pick up a lot of information you can t get out front I 1 discovered that in talking things over with CA brecheen a card n nil a pitcher who is just about as good as they come or go I 1 would like I 1 said to the feline to have you explain one thing shoot said brecheen just a year ago around this time the cardinals were 3 to 5 ta f a korites they were the surest things in baseball they also were kick ing such teams as the yankees tigers red sox and others around as if the opposition had just emerged from the bush how could this happen when later the cardi nals looked like an orphan asylum with cramp colic the first two months of the season I 1 don t mein looked bad I 1 mean looked ter harry the cat fixed two shining eyes on me and started to talk that s very simple I 1 he be said the cardinal veterans were not belting the other teams around it was the cardinal rookies the kids we had wielders and out fielders who were knocking down the fences all rookies we had fine pitching mostly rookies naturally the veterans sat back and laughed what a push over sam breadon said it was the great est bunch of rookies ever known we thought so too howie pollet with a sore arm was taking things easy so was red munger so was murry D ck son so was marty marion bo so was stan most of them didn t feel any too well they needed time but why rush things with all those murderous rookies around so when the season opened the veterans were not ready and the rookies were no help the stars of the citrus circuit no longer starred beneath the great white spotlight we lost nine straight we kept on losing nobody could win the veterans were bad and the rookies outside of jim hearn were worse but that wont won t happen any more you can bet on that gene arrives ai rives like a robin blown from a snow drift or a bluebird wafted from an ice floe a short stocky fellow with a quick smile and piano legs came into the room H s name happens to be gene one of the best one of the smartest and one of the most popular golfers of all time gene had an idea that the younger and unknown pros should get more protection or help you don t have to help the ho gans sneads demarets nelsons or lockes he said they thy can take care of themselves but these younger fellows on a tour have to pay out rather important money from 2000 2 to 3 there should be bigger cash prizes extended to those who finish from to 20 place young ballplayers and young football players get paid something I 1 mean the pros can you lm agine these fellows being asked to fork over 2 each to get expert ence golf doesn doean t care for its own most of the money goes to just a few people we should have people ahead of a tour making arrangements for the younger tel fel lows at much cheaper prices not 90 0 a day give them a break tt if golf pro golf ever got a real commissioner my vote would go to maybe he wouldn t want it or wouldn t take it gene Is for the older golfer the kid golfer as well as tor for the star golfer the coming battle A few years ago bob then football coach at illinois was talk ing of the season ahead we can play tine fine football he said still lose every game this is the way ben chapman thinks about the national league race the phillies can play high grade baseball this season and still finish last that also goes for the cubs pirates and reds we are all improved over last year chapman continued the cubs pirates and reds are much stronger so are we all of BS us are shooting tor for the first division or the top of the second but someone has hat to finish last and next to last miller will help us a lot we 11 bit hit all right if we can get the pitching I 1 hope we can get well we 11 bother all of them eddie dyer the cardinal chief agreed with this angle it used to be you could save your best pitch ing tor for your leading rivals you can t do that any more the phil lies ties for example are likely to mur der lust just fair pitching any day you can t do any resting up now tor for there are no pushovers push overs left t don t think you 11 hear any teams cheering the ering when they have to meet blackwell ackwell 31 of the reds the pirates night be the most improved quad squad a baseball id rd bate hate to have to pick he team that win will finish with last 4 |