Show P CE CARL HUBBELL brought out a neat point the other day It was Carl s idea that too many good ban ball ballplayers players were left in the minors too long and often were facing baseball middle age before e ethey SI they were gIVen a abig abig big league chance We u 11 give you a leading example r along th s line Ime The t name IS Roaring RIp L Sewell at 01 the PI Pirates rates now the lead leading t ing p in both t 1 4 leagues Carl Hubbell Rip Sewell was born in Decatur Ala 35 years ago For the first e a years of his rus wanderings Sewell pitched for Nash Nashville Nashville ville Rale gh Toronto Beaumont DetrOit Sea Seattle tUe Toledo Lou and Buffalo R p was 30 years old before he reported to Pittsburgh at atan atan an age of baseball servitude when most pitchers are supposed to be over the hi hill Or at least facing m in that general direction In spite of this late start Alabama RIp turned in 57 victories in four years for Pittsburgh up through 1942 A year yar ago at the age of 34 Sewell I Iwon won 17 games for the Pirates Wm Win Winning ning 17 games for the Pirates last season was no kindergarten work Late last winter in company WIth Frank Graham and Lou Little Littlee we e listened to Frank Frisch g ye ve out his sobbing notes The Fordham Flash that winter i afternoon was lD in a low and melan melancholy melancholy choly state statene ne lie was especially shy on pitchers ne lie admitted that RIp Sewell was smart and game but at the age of 35 after so 50 many pitching years he wasn t to be compared to such men as Mort lort Cooper Pollet Van Vander Vander der leer Meer Passe au Riddle and many others But the snows sno of winter have given en away to the blazing heat of late August And who vho is m in front of the parade A fellow by the name of R p Sewell the first p m in e ther league to wm win his game the first pitcher in either league to make It eight in ina ina a row As Mort Cooper of the Cardinals told me- me meR R p is one of the smart smart- smartest smartest est pitchers I ever saw He can drive a na nail with his rus contro controL The Mystery What we can t understand IS why hy pitchers such as Carl Hubbell and andR andR R p Sewell were allowed to dr drift t around year after year before they were finally given a b g league chance Carl Hubbell was a first class p and a promising prospect In 1923 and it was 1928 before the Giants finally decided he might have something packed away in that left arm The same IS true of Rip Sewell There are any number of ballplay ballplayers ers today in minor leagues who are much better than any number of big leaguers One answer is that after the war there should be a new dIstribution of big league cities To this list st you youcan youcan can add such places as Los Angeles Baltimore San Francisco and Bat Bul falo all major sporting centers The major majer league situation was set up many years ago before cen centers I of population and sportIng in interest interest terest took a big switch U If the present setup Is continued there IS almost certain to be a thud third major league There can be a large number of changes m in the general sporting Situ situation ahon after thiS war IS over Left Handed Golfers In this m d summer beason it is easy enough to start an argument Especially camp arguments The latest one that has broken out or rather has been renewed is whether the right hander or the deft hander has a better average m in sport There are more right handers banders than left handers banders so the former get the Jump when it comes to quantity The quality sIde can stand a brief debate debateD D Different games have different an answers answers For example ample no len left bander that I can recall has ever won a National Open or a NatIOnal Ama Anra Amateur golf championship TI ere are and have bave been good goodleft goodleft left golfers But no Bobby Jones alter 11 alter flagon Dagen Gene S Byron Bron nelson or Ben No one has been able to explain th s peculiar s de of go golf It lust Just lusth h that way You would think that once m in a wh le Ie at least a left handed golfer goer would slip in and nIp off a b g title I It hint t happened et et Baseball IS entirely different Here the proud southpaw can hold his own in either rutting hitting or pitching C Cl tennis has known a afew few tew tine fine left handers Heading the list IS Norman Brookes of Australia Then there was Murray I Left handers in tennis nevertheless nevertheless less have had a much better aver average age than left handers in go golf golfIn In the courSe of the last 20 years I or so we have probably heard a thousand different reasons why left lett lettI I handers banders can t win major champion sh ps Few of at them make any sense I i |