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Show - : c IS mm oporcs Here and There , , By Al Ablett A good many things have happened hap-pened since I wrote my last column: col-umn: Cincinnati won the world series; Fred Zivic beat Henry Armstrong for the welterweight title; Southern California has been tied twice; Gemmell club won the second half of the Industrial In-dustrial league, thereby winning the pennant without a playoff; and Bingham high school has come up with another good football foot-ball team. The world series was a hard-fought hard-fought battle with pitching finally fi-nally telling the tale. This was truly a national league year. They won the all-star game this summer sum-mer 4-0, the mid-summer classic, and copped the climax in the world series. I have always said that it was foolish to think that the baseball played in one league was faster than that played in another. I am speaking of the big leagues, of course. When people cite the Yanks as an example I always remember that they dominated their own league as much as they did the world series. They were, of course, a team that had everything, every-thing, pitching, hitting, fielding field-ing and speed. Cincinnati had a great defensive defen-sive team, if we are to take the records of the best fielding team in the history of the game. They had the fewest errors of any team in baseball. Their hitting wasn't outstanding, but they made speed offset weakness at the plate, and with that great defense de-fense they , didn't have to have many runs. Detroit, on the other hand, won on power. Of course they had one I of the really great pitchers in baseball in Big Buck Newsom. Wasn't he great in the series? School Eoy Rowe proved again that a pitcher without a good fast ball can't win in the series. Maybe it was because his arm had done just a little too much during the regular season. You know he was making good a comeback after having been .sent to the minors, marked as done. But the Tigers relied on power, and when Paul Derringer and "Bucky" Walters silenced the big bats of the Tiger clan it was all over. To name an outstanding player would be quite a job, because both teams played great ball. But Newsom and "Pinky" Hig-gins Hig-gins played a big part for Detroit. De-troit. Walters and Derringer were the big shots for the Reds. In my book this fellow Jimmy Jim-my Wilson will go down as No. 1. Here is a fellow who had been out of actual play for a couple of years and on the books at 40 years old. But he stepped in when Ernie Lorn-bardi Lorn-bardi was hurt and gave as great an exhibition of catching catch-ing as has ever been seen in any world series. This ball classic went out like a world series should: in a two to one game that was packed with thrills from start to finish, again showing by the crowds and the money they paid to see it, that baseball is still the national game. So until next year, baseball base-ball we bid you adieu. The passing of Henry Armstrong Arm-strong as world's welterweight chamDion marks a milestone in pugilfslic history.-1 don't think there ever was another one like him and I don't think that we will see one again for some time. He was the only man to ever hold three titles at once: featherweight, lightweight and welterweight. He defended his welterweight title more than any other fighter who ever held the crown: truly a fighting champion. He went down fighting the only way he knew how: boring in, punching with both hands. Zivic fought a smart battle, pacing pac-ing himself perfectly. It was his first 15 rounder and from the second until the seventh he coasted, coas-ted, pacing himself and letting let-ting the hammer punch out. This strategy paid off in the end, for when the bell rang for the finish Zivic was strong and punching sharp while Henry collapsed. I picked Zivic to win in my column. The tip-off came when Tommy Furr, a few weeks before, be-fore, gave Henry unabated hell for five rounds, but wasn't as smart as Zivic, and the pace got see Jackie Burke of Ogden is trying to get a match with the new champion. Jack has fought him twice and the last time the crowd booed the decision that gave the bout to Zivic. The fight was held in St. Louis. Football is in full swing. After the first few weeks it looks like Cornell in the East, Minesota in (Continued on Supplement) |