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Show PAGE SEVEN THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE, DRAGERTON, UTAH Tuesday, April 25, 1950 SPORT LIGHT cininss Cy J:rvL Southpaws Can Match Right-Handers By GRANTLAND RICE EVEN nodded. So did HOMER Keats Kipling, and a few others. They were entitled to nod. Most c t us are not We havent earned any such breaks. So I apologize to the veteran fan from New Jersey who says that in picking Young, AlexanJohnson, n Mathew-soder and as baseballs four greatest pitch- left-handers- left-hander- s. Were there no he asks. Grantland Rice great mentioned I ers, no ?" to Were there no match the great There must have been. Who were they?" In order to appease the gentleman from New Jersey and all athletes and friends, well wade into the games greatest today and see how they match the games four greatest We are not going as far back as Toad Ramsay and southpaws of a forgotten era. This century is late enough. Who.have been the greatest left handers since 1900? Here are just a few: Carl Ilubbcll, New York Giants; Lefty Grove, Philadelphia Athletics; Rnbe Waddell, Philadelphia Athletics; Herb Pennock, Athletics, Red Sox and Yankees; Eddie Plank, Philadelphia Athletics; Doo White, Chicago White Sox; Art Nehf, New York Giants; Nap Rucker, Brooklyn Dodgers; Howie Pollet, St. Lonls Cardinals; Hal Newhonser, Detroit Tigers (one of the best); Rube Marquard, Babe Ruth, Lefty Gomez. Now there happens to be a pretty in this fair list of limited group. There are fine lefthanders not included. But we believe this list covers most of. the good ones and the great ones. You may notice such names as Ruth, Marquard and Gomez. Ruth has the finest pitching record. He could easily have been d the greatest pitcher of or tied an set all time. Marquard record. all time winning Lefty Gomez was the most devastating of his day. He was one of the greatest world series pitchleft-hande- rs right-hander- we right - handers some time ago. great picked No. 5 Eddie Plank, Athletics. have never yet been able to figure why Connie Mack had the d type of mind to go for hurlers. Yet it was Connie Mack who produced the best of them and the most of them. Connie Mack, or Mr. McGillicud-dy- , should have an evenly balanced mind. Among his righthanders he had Chief Bender and Jack Coombs. But among his lefthanders he had Eddie Plank, Rube Waddell, Lefty Grove, Herb Pennock, most of the great ones. Mr. d Mack must have been a dreamer. His phantasies must have roamed in the mystic heavens of the southpaws. We , The Four Top Southpaws left-hande- Here are the four top we have selected along with an alternate who is hard to leave out. W have seen them all under every form of competition. We admit in advance that yve can be wrong. But wrong or right, here they go No. 1 Carl n u b b e 1 1, New York Giants. No. 2 Herb Pennock, Athletics, Red Sox, Yankees. No. 3 Robert Moses (Lefty) Grove, Athletics. No. 4 George Edward (Rube) Waddell. Athletics. left-hande- rs 5 left-han- s? left-hand- ed left-hande- rs right-hander- s. left-hande- rs left-tiand- ed left-hande- left-hand- er ers. All of this goes to show you what a magnificent list we have all set from which to pick the four best men who might match the four HEN FELIX BRENDLINGER retired to private life he ceased to be a figure" in May-fielIf you took time to analyze the reason, the answer was simple. For 30 years Felix had left his home on Pleasant street at exactly 7:35 in the morning, walked a quarter mile to the railroad station, boarded the 7:48 train for Longview, and spent the day In that distant city at a desk in the insurBooth, Gill and of ance offices Dyer. Every evening he disembarked from the 5:52 train and to his the quarter-mil- e Pleasant street home. Mayfield citizens were used to the sight of Felix walking briskly to and from the railroad station. Sometimes some one would ask him to do an errand in Longview, and hed always oblige. Frequently he would deliver choice bits of news to friends and acquaintances. Booth, Gill and Dyer had for their clients two large steamship lines, and Felix could tell when the boats arrived in port, or when they were delayed by storms and when Important personages were arriving from abroad. j There were a hundred and one things that Felix could and did do that achieved for him a certain recognition, After he retired, Felix ceased to be a figure. He wasnt an especially imaginative person, nor were his neighbors. W d. ed By JOE sranipnMxrcp . MAHONEY The neighbors knew unconscious-- y that Felix was no longer differ ent from any of them. Felix knew X too. It troubled him. It hurt. It made him lonesome. It made him wonder. It threatened to develop in him n inferiority complex. Youll do no such thing!" Felix exclaimed, h 1 s eyes Im catching the gleaming. 7:48 In the morning. and occupied his time as much as le could. But it was a physical occupation, and this gave him plenty of opportunity to think. Eventually lis thinking changed to brooding, and the brooding nourished the growing inferiority complex. Felixs wife noticed the change. She tried to talk to him, to learn the source of his moodiness. But Felix couldnt explain it. He felt a little ashamed, and didnt want to talk. Another month passed and Felixs wife began to think he was a case for the family doctor. Then one day a letter arrived from Booth, Gill and Dyer. They wanted to know If Felix would consider coming in for a few days to assist in straightening out some matters about which they considered him an expert. Felix tried hard to find pleasure In his retirement. Ho planted a garden and bought some chickens "The Idea," Felixs wife ex claimed. "Dont they know but of course they dont Ill write im mediately and tell them how poor ly you are!" Youll do no such thing!" Felix Tm exclaimed, eyes gleaming. I" In the 7:48 the morning catching three weeks THE JOB lasted that time Felix became a figure once more. People became used to him going back and forth to the train. Unconsciously they fell into the old routine of asking him to do errands and demanding choice bits of news. Felix was happy again. He beamed. He put on weight. He felt important He was STAR DUST - Puzzles Hollywood Movie Men INEZ GERHARD By win $50,000 if the ice on the Yukon "The river starts breaking up at 6:09 a. STANLEY KRAMER made $800,-00- m. May 13. He entered the famous for less than it will gross more than two Alaskan Ice Pool" through his million. Then he made mother, who lives in Juneau. and one-haThe Home of the Brave" for the same amount; it had already search for a Columbia handsome young southpaw basegrossed even more, though highly controversial. Hollywood respects ball pitcher who can act a those figures but doesnt see how Tomantlc role, or a handsome1 this young producer does It.. His young actor who can pitch new picture, "The Men", will make ended with the signing them wonder still more. He does of Richard Taylor., for the ro-- s it by buying a really good story, mantio lead In Kill the Umk rehearsal beholding a pire", William Bendlx starrer. fore shooting starts, casting the was Taylor, a husky pick-in- g than actors stars, rather a right professional ball formerly his director for ability, not his player with Salem, Ore., in the name and then throwing in just Western International league. a touch of genius that is purely Stanley Kramer. John Garfield, director Michael ll writer Ronald Frank Lovejoy, who stood out as Curtiz, and holed up on a telephoneless, "Sergeant Mingo" in "Home of the mail-les- s ranch while, finishing with Kathleen Brave," will "The Breaking Point" wanted to Ryan in her American film debut the plot a secret. Garfield had in "The Sound of Fury", for United keep one request. !A11 I want," said Artists release. And Warners have but contract he, "is more guns than Humphrey signed him to a long-terWhich and are announcing that he Is one Bogart bad in Key Largo. of kind what some idea you of the brightest of the new crop of gives is. of it picture screen stars. His work in their so long ago when Adele JurNot Rock Bottom" convinced them. was, dancing in the chorus of gens York night club her favorite Jane Russells first car, a Ford a New autobought from the proceeds of her souvenir, was a program appearance as star of Howard graphed by Randolph Scott. When is released Hughes The Outlaw", still stands Warners "Sugarfoot with him. alsee her starring in her garage. She says shell youll ways keep it as a memento of the ' Addle Rlchton and Lyn Stone, picture that made her a sensation. who write CBS Hilltop Two young men whose family of a the story mythical House", names are known to movieorphanage, have travelled more goers wUl .make their screen than 13,000 miles In the last two in- a debuts Tripoli", ' ' years getting material With the important One is production. regular cast of characters, headOn the day that Felix finished Marshall Berle, nephew ed by Jan Miner, "Julie Erickup the special work, Mr. Gill apof Milton ; the other is Pat Ford, son", sample scripts are acted well-knoproached him. the son of John Ford, oui before an impartial jury of Felix, how about staying on been He has director. women, to make sure of getting with us awhile? Youre not old screen as a successfully working absolute realism. enough to retire. We need you writer for several years, but here. now wants to try his band at Need me?" , ODDS AND ENDS . . . Vinton acting,. As long as youll stay. Oh, Hayworth, who recently starred on sooner later oy Silver Theatre, was of course I realize that Beverly Hills, home of so many without to have get along movie stars, will receive s thorough nicknamed "Prince," though .hes u well your help but none of us realIn a Lonely Place", no relation to Rita . . . After more coverage-i- n of appearing on the ized how important you were. Humphrey Bogarts new film for than four years Thanks, Columbia. Director Nicholas Ray air in "Rosemary", Patsy CampFelixs face glowed. Mr. Gill. ;You couldnt have said chose representative spots all bell has given up her role.fbut she anything that would make me hap around town, which ought to give will still be heard in another daypier. But as far as staying with the public a pretty good idea of the time serial, "The Second Mrs. Buryou is concerned Im afraid Ill city they have read so much about, ton" . . . After three rides with her have to turn down the offer. You but have seen on the screen only in English chauffeur, when Jane Wyman was In London making "Stage see, Ive got some chickens and a isolated spots in the past. at need 'that home my out garden Fright," she began calling him tention. And well now Ill be Smitty. Steve Cochran, star of The Two Released by WNU Features able to retire with a clear con Million Dollar Bank Robbery", will science." 0; lf left-hand- ed, two-wee- six-foot- er, Mac-Douga- co-st- ar m . Pine-Thom- as wn -- Zpz C03HER I CARL HUBB6U SHUTOUT AN AGAINST THE ST. LOUIS. CARDS N 1033 AND HE DIDN'T ISSUE A SINGLE pitched BASE ON BALLS! .I TOCH HORSE WON THE MOST RACES IN A OR GALLANT POX? STiacOA ' 5 |