Show Baseball Oldster WHEN W a man reaches the ripe old age of thirty five In base- base baseball baseball ball all he has arrived at the patri patri- patriarch patriarch arch stage and Is permitted the privilege of ot becoming oracular Such uch a man Is Charley Chancy Gehringer brilliant second baseman of the De- De Detroit Detroit troit Tigers who seems to have caught aught his Ws second wind as he romps a e. e y y x CHARLEY through his thirteenth season In the tho big leagues One of ot Charleys Charley's contentions Is that the pitching today Is better than han when he came into the Amer Amer- AmerIcan Ican can league in 1925 There were some star pitchers when I came up and they were real stars he recalls but the ordinary pitchers were not as good as the ordinary pitchers of today Charley doesn't have any trouble naming the best pitcher he ever I faced Lefty Grove he says without hesitation And Grove he be says was much faster In La his prime of ot speed speed- balling bailing than Is Cleveland's Bob Dob Feller FeUer today O e Western Newspaper Union |