Show St Sf s r ro Po o i r t f ts s 4 Mirror By JOHN MOONEY MOONEY MOONEY- Telegram Sports Editor Worthy Suggestion Dept Mel Ott new manager of the New York Giants suggests theman the theman man nian most deserving of at baseballs baseball's outstanding individual award In 1942 is none other than President F. F D. D Roosevelt This award is not based on F F D Rs R's s 's ability as a world series opening ball pitcher at which he heis heis heis is strictly bush league but for his green light letter to Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Landis advising the majors to go on as usual in plans plans' for the 1942 races Sod Dept Sure and who should have a better right to be getting up inthe in inthe inthe the Notre Dame athletic world than the Murphys l 1 Our keeper of Hibernian facts p points ints out that the aforementioned aforementioned aforementioned Murphys l are the leading high jump candidates at the Institution in institution in- in of the fighting Irl Irish h. h Captain John F. F Murphy of the 1922 Irish track team set indoor and outdoor high jumping records which stood until 1935 when Captain Vince Murphy broke them both The current squad has another Murphy who bas has cleared 6 feet 4 inches in practice Strange Fads Facts Dept Cornelius Dutch Who talked with us briefly last Week believes it is less dangerous to descend from 15 feet that 12 feet in pole vaulting Dutch should know for a week ago he set a anew anew anew new world mark by pole vaulting 15 feet 7 7 74 inches in Boston The higher the vault the safer the landing Dutch said for it gives me three additional feet to get straightened out in my fall I have time to unscramble my legs and nd relax for the drop and landing land land- ing Pitching Better Defter Dept T The te Old Timer who haunts this office during the baseball season eason comes conies out with the idea that there will be more game 20 winners in the majors this year and that the Pioneer league should hould find pitchers having ha better better better bet bet- ter luck lie He bases this statement on the fact that shortage of materials materials materials mate mate- rials for making baseballs will force the umpires to allow v the pitchers to keep scuffed and fouled baseballs in the game thereby giving gl th them m more pitching pitch pitch- pitching I I ing g aids I In recent years it has been the I tendency to throw balls out of the game at the slightest provocation provocation provocation provo provo- cation thereby making the pitcher work with shiny new baseballs most of the time This has a tendency tendency tendency ten ten- dency to make the ball harder to grip Crip Scuffed horsehides and those with rough scratched surfaces will wil have more stuff giving the chuck- chuck ers an edge over the hitters Service Dept George orge Strickler our former newspaper companion who now doles out publicity for the National National National Na Na- Professional Football league reports the pros are going ahead scheduling games with service elevens ens for 1942 Strickler says the pros will tote rote favorably on the matter when hen they meet March 28 26 In Chicago adding that most of the games will ill be played early in the season before the championship championship championship cham cham- race is under way or late in the fall when the race is pretty well decided Lame Duck Dept Twenty-five Twenty home runs were garnered by American league batsmen batsmen batsmen bats bats- men in 1941 with the bases loaded the American league Red Book re re- re The New York Yankees the most feared team with ducks duck duckson on the pond batted only five gran grand slam homers ranking second 1 to the Boston Red Sox who accomplished accomplished accomplished the feat nine times The Philadelphia delphia Athletics registered registered regis regis- four such wallops Detroit St. St Louis Louis' and Washington two tw each and the Cleveland Cry Babies not one But possibly the Cleveland Couldn't wouldn't cooperate with each otheto other othe to that extent |