Show 1 P CE A YANKEE veteran was talk ng about the next world series serles with the Card nals The veteran gave me three rea reasons reasons sons for p eking the Yankees to re recover recover cover the scalp and ri the w end i wh ch they lost a F r year ago If k i Here they are are- 1 Last fall I ll 11 admit we had them f s badly underrated underrated i 1 They were a better ball club than we J Ki expected to meet et This TIus time we ll II be beset beset set and ready Red Rutting Ruffing 2 The Cardinals have suffered much heavier losses than the Yankees have The three men that fed us pOison last fall were Johnny Beazley Terry Moore and Country Slaughter Pollet would have bothered us a lot We Wc ye ve lost D DiMagg o 0 and Rufling Ruffing whIle Etten has filled up Buddy Hassett s spot Beazley Moore and Slaughter could make a b g difference 3 With Spud Chandler working as he IS WIth Bonham and Wens loft loff ready we ll 11 have a big edge ill in pitching Chandler is hard for any team to beat Against thIS Mort Cooper has never been good throw throwing mg ing at our league Cooper IS a strong winning pItcher But he s sure to remember what happened In his tour four American league crashes The Cardinal Side There IS some sound stuff to this argument but here IS one point the Yankee entry the overlooked Cardinals have always thought they could beat the Yankees The Yankees also overlooked the fact that the Card nals had better p lust Just as good an outfield and lust Just as good an infeld The sudden collapse of Joe Gordon a former World Series Senes star a top tor under pressure was the heavIest Yankee Jolt They have had the better of their meetIngs In Florida Flonda I never saw a amore amore more confident World series senes club than they were ere last fall Even when Mort Cooper their crack p was hammered out and Red Rutting Ruffing was hold ng them hitless they were still full of scrap and hustle No team that has lost Beazley Pollet Terry Moore and Slaughter can be as good as It was But the same goes for fagg DiMagg o 0 and Rut flag fing At present the prospects for a first class show are bright enough Baseballs Baseball's War WaT Trip Branch RIckey has the best all allaround allaround around suggestion for baseball s pro proposed proposed posed all star w ar tour that I have run across HIs Idea IS to have t vo represent representative a aI I tive outfits from both b g leagues tour the home camps of the Un ted States with Ith some form of pennant emblem at stake where each con contest contest test will be a real game fought to the limit and not an tion scramble that wIll mean nothing to anyone including the camps and the ballplayers There are heavy hand caps in the way of transporting any teams over overseas overseas seas For instance I 1 The weather England Is now out on this account and II orth At Af Africa rica soon reaches her ber rainy season 2 Scarcity of sUItable ban ball parks where a first class game can be played 3 The competitive spark that means actIon and not e a ThIs leaves Australia as the bhe only available spot and this would be a doubtful tour Australia Is a long longway longway way off needing more fightIng men planes and supplies than ballplay ballplayers ers What s the matter WIth supply supplying supplying ing entertaInment md and on to the mIll ons of service men we have at home Mr RIckey asks Most of these men are camped far from home They could also tse ose entertaInment and recreation But It would have to be the real stuff No mere e a offering would ever get by These troops know what real baseball Is and they wouldn t stand for anything but the I best type of competition It If such a ser es was played a complete record of all games should be kept With the club standings car carried ried Also there should be some form of emblem or trophy to be awarded I agree WIth Branch RI Rickey key I doubt that any overseas exhibition would work out It would be better I for overseas work to use such men ab Babe Ruth DIZZY Dean Walter Johnson Frank Frisch and others well known wherever the old flag if fi es The esThe Master Motion Carl Hubbell is still talking about WaIter Johnson s pitching mot on Johnson must be around 57 now he saId But when I saw h m warming up WIth Bresnahan and pitching to Ruth a few days ago he might have been around 28 What impressed me was the free and easy motion of his lus arm As you get older especially after you ye ve passed 40 the old wing begins to tIghten up It must be worse after 50 But not for Walter WaIter He stIll has a 8 pretty fair share of the old speed left |