Show e yr D DAICE AICE I I WAS standing with a brace of ballplayers ball ball- players player watching a number of pro golfers gOllen practicing before a recent I tournament Each one must have belted out a at t least shots shot I I wish we had that chance one I ballplayer said We get to the park and end probably get 10 or 12 swings We should have a chance to hit at or more pitches every day I This is quite true Early each spring Ty Cobb would practice hitting hit hit- ting tang at home for two hours a day Ty would get more batting practice In a month than all other ballplayers ballplayer got In a year I Ive I've been heading south for some 40 years yean of spring practice I can canI I recall ew W ball Players In that time who took the trouble I to get In extra work swinging a bat Cobb got his hi k work at home Ty 1 often otten was a holdout not for more money t but to really get i ready for a tough L J J campaign He lie was supposes supposed Ty Cobb to be De a holdout In loll 1011 That spring h he e ewas was working overtime hitting and sliding at home He reported at Terre Terre Ter Ter- re Haute on April 7 The season opened around April 12 Cobb was roughly criticized Only five days of training they said no way to treat his club They knew nothing about his homework home work at Royston All AU Cobb did that season was to bat and steal something like Uke 83 bases It was one of his best years I believe a Cobb would be better off training at home in to his own way than reporting reporting reporting re re- re- re porting at any spring training camp He De would have more time to build bund him himself sell up Cobb had the ambition that too many ballplayers lack possibly 70 10 per cent of them Too many many want It I the softer and easier way not not the hard way of training discipline and hard bard work I Among others therell there'll be two ballplayers ballplayers ball ball- players Im I'm rooting for this season One Is Ewell Blackwell the other Is Ralph Kiner Both have potential probabilities of greatness Both know their responsibilities which so maD many ballplayers ballplayer dont The Star All All All-A rounder Who Is your nomination for the best around all football ll player of all time We happened to be at a gathering that included such well known names as Jeff Jett Cravath of Southern California Mel Heln Hein of 01 the Giants Joe Bob Snyder Morley Morle y Drury and perhaps a a dozen others oth others others oth oth- ers known to gridiron fame More rore than a few names were entered en in the argument Jim Thorpe Ernie Nevers Red Grange Bronko George Gipp Don Hutson these were all aU among the leading candidates for this highly mythical honor bonor If II you were picking the greatest greatest greatest great great- est backs I suppose you'd have to name Thorpe and Nevers Cravath said Probably Thorpe on his bis big days But Out for the allaround allaround all all- around combination I 1 1 dont don't see how bow you can get et away from Na Na- gurski a great tackle a star end a wrecking fullback and passer I believe the Bronk would have made a good While he weighed around pounds he was also fast and shifty One answer is that 11 could wreck any other one-name one eleven although 11 Nevers and 11 wouldn't be any shove shove- arounds after a little line expert expert- ence Seven Bronks would be too good a line to run against Cravath's Cravath statement drew heavy backing from most of the others Oddly enough it happened to be Grange who led all others at the box office Red had an appeal beyond Thorpe or any other single star al although al though he be was only a fair passer Grange made more out of football than any other star star more more than double the amount when you con alder ilder all aU the cash that came his hii way through his football fame Joe Louis' Louis Last Stop Joe Louis says his hi return engagement engage ment with Jersey Joe Walcott InJune In InJune inJune June will be his last stop It It has been a long time since the tho Bomber came out of Detroit and the Golden Gloves to knock out Jack Kracken In one round in his hi first tint professional fight tight No one should expect ex ex- peel Louis to be the tame same fighter he be was at et that time or when he won the title tile When you reach the top you fOU usually begin to soften otten up In a short time and the wonder i is la that Louis Loul is still champion The main answer gnawer has haa been lack of competition tion Lion lack of quality in the tho other cor core I icar car cr I The public at large lure was badI badly bad bad- I ly jolted by the Bomber Bombers pere per pero against Walcott The They took It U for lor granted the Louis Lou of 1917 un WD w. w w still dill the Louis Loul of 1931 1937 There is 15 a mighty big bl difference Jack Dempsey was at his hi peak at athe atthe atthe the he age lie of 01 24 4 He lie was over the billat hill bill at it the age of 31 U and nd through at t the age ige of 32 Louts Louis is I now flOW three years Tears ld r than Dempsey was |