Show TODAY'S TODA YS Y'S SPORT PARADE By Oscar Fraley ey NEW NE YORK March 1 17 UP UP- UP After a a careful study of last years year's standings the 1948 batting avera averages averages aver aver- a ages es and the 1947 1047 pitching records Fearless s Fraley announced d with some pride Friday that it will be bethe bethe bethe the Boston Red Sox and the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn Dodgers in the 1950 Brook I world series It cant can't miss Because B cause in addition addition addi addi- tion lion to my well-known well policy of getting there with the I devised a new selection system this year to figure out in advance anc just where each team is I going oin to finish in the major league pennant races This being St St. Patricks Patrick's day its it's simple So simple it would frighten n na a sane man which leaves lea me simply simply sim sim- ply Old Fearless One way would be to In take lake the team with the most mp mo t Irishmen on It It divide by bv f four ur multiply multiply multiply mul mul- by one take one take tw two and hit to right t A Better Way But theres there's a better betler way th than n that Abstaining from spring training training train train- i ing g where you ou might get so 50 close e eto to the woods you couldn't 5 see e the Hie trees you take the juice of ot four our oranges half haU Florida Florida and half h lf C California add one half cup of ot grapefruit juice add two jig jiggers ers of wait of wait waif a second theres there's something something some some- thin thing wrong there Well VeIl it probably wouldn't make sense anyhow But it came out like this American League ue 1 Boston Red Sox 2 Detroit Tigers 3 New York Yankees 4 Cleveland Indians 5 Philadelphia Athletics 6 Chicago White Sox 7 7 i J. J St. St Louis Browns 7 J Washington Senators National Lea League c 1 Brooklyn Dodgers 2 St. St Louis Cardinals 3 Philadelphia Phillies es 4 New Neu York Giants 5 Boston Braves 6 6 Pittsburgh Pirates Pirates Pirates Pi Pi- Pi- Pi rates 7 Chicago Cubs 7 Cincinnati Reds That 7 1 is just to denote the mellowness which comes with a age e. e Old Fearless F arless just doesn't like to put an anybody body in eighth place and place and its it's nic nice that there arent aren't 10 clubs in the lea leagues ues Nice for Washington Washing Washing- ton and Cincinnati On this of all days you have to topo to toco togo po go along with a gent named Mc Mc- Carthy And besides its it's time he heran heran I Iran ran those 1918 and 1949 snakes out of Boston Tig Tigers rs Trouble Detroit will be up there for lor those Tigers will cause more tio trouble ble than Oklahoma h ma City's leopard As the Yanks ranks this guy cuy u must be be m the south of Missouri I I still d dont don't think they won last year In Cleveland anybody caught I sitting on a flagpole should be bc I farmed out to lo the Booby Hatch league The As Asare A are ruining Connie's Connies Connies Connie's Connies Connie's Con Con- nies nie's dreams of pf a nifty fifty and the White Sox come up with a sleeper leeper which wont won't wake up In or for Jor the Browns and Washington Washington Wash Wash- ing ington on they'll probably share the same psychiatrist until psychiatrist until until he needs help for Ifor himself Over in the National league Prex Branch Rickey isn't worried about anything but the series So why should we Th Tile The Cards the v ne new supreme court still will mana manace manage man- man a age ace e to get their nine old men topside top- top side enough to grab second and the Phillies look dangerous erous They've start started d moaning so look out I once played gin rummy with a moaner but it got so I couldn't afford it Leo the Lip Durocher and Eddie ought to be able to talk the Giants up at least la a notch Boston's Braves have buried the hatchet but the q question estion is In whose back Pittsburgh has Ralph Kiner and lets let's see Kiner and I Well Vell he ought to finish sixth The Cubs and Reds and eighth place are strictly up for gra grabs bs Now that weve we've set settled tIed that lets let's get set on on with the world series |