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Show SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1952 THE JOURNAL Pace 7 SPORT LIGHT Yanks, Indians, Giants and Dodgers GRANTLAND RICE IS GENERALLY conceded in the two big leagues that Cleve-lan- d and New York will settle the A.L. pennant and th?.' New York and Brooklyn will take over the N.L. flag. Briefly, this means Yankees, Indians, Giants and Dodgers, leav-inthe other 12 teams to supply any TTTTn upset or challenge that may take place J and probably will. What teams from the two leagues may break into the spring and summer arguments, outside of the four mentioned? Right now I would Eddie suggest Nationals Stankys Cardinals in the plus the erratic Phillies. From this lookout, 1 cant quite see the Braves, Reds, Cubs or Pirates. One of these latter four teams might erupt and play a lot of baseball but I doubt it. The Cardinals might come on with a rush under Stankys drive, Stan Musials great ability and the promise of good pitching. Sawyer should get his somnolent Phillies bustling again, if it can be done. So you can see four good teams in the National League and four others By r' g fog-ridd- ber of young legs and young arms should be heard from often enough. So at this spot the American League race should carry more general interest than the National. Maybe it wont. Extremely odd things can happen In six months of baseball. 20 Year Race Twenty years ago a kid left Newport, Kentucky, to try his luck in the saddle. His name was Eddie Arcaro. Twenty years later he is still riding as hard and battling as furiously as he ever did against both age and youth. Riding again at Santa Anita, Arcaro has Bill Shoemaker, the Texan, competing on one side of the big run and Johnny Longden, the veteran, on another. BUDDY POPPY GIRL . . . Teen-ag- e Ginger Crowley, Warner film Brothers starlet, has been selected as the 1952 Buddy Poppy Girl, it was announced by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Miss Crowley Is the daughter of Commander Dennis Stafford Crowley, U.S. Navy, retired. en that dont look too hot. Stanky and his Cardinals will be one of the seasons early features. If they stay up around baseballs polite society they will continue to be a feature. Its the standing of the clubs that tells most of the story after the first few weeks. Baseball can pack most of its lore into two details the standing of the clubs and the box score. These two sections carry most of the answers. In the National League Sawyers Phillies will have a rougher journey than the Cardinals, due largely to uncertain pitching. The American League IT was about six-thir- and Jenny ty and I were eating supper. The phone had rung several times but, it being a rural line with nine parties on it we didnt even bother to listen. That was our ring! Jenny suddenly exclaimed. I answered the phone. Your Uncle Joe went to town this morning and he aint back. It was Aunt Martha and she sounded a bit worried. Maybe he had trouble with his car. What was he in town for? Took four fat hogs to market. Perhaps you should have gone with him. The last time he took pigs to the market, they didnt want to stay in the trailer so he made me get in with them and if you think thats a nice way for a woman to ride to town I dont! Hardly had I hung up the receiver when Aunt Marthas number rang. I stuck my hand over the mouthpiece and listened. It was the police department and Uncle Joe was in jail. One of the constables had found him trying to open the door of his car, the only trouble was that Uncle Joe insisted the radiator was the door, so he was locked up for safetys sake. I hung up and a short time later she phoned and told me her trouble. I Now dont get so excited, over. be Ill soothed, right The miscreant was stretched oat in a stupor when the officer opened the cell door. . The seasons outlook for more widespread hilarity is brighter in the A.L. This league has the Indians and Yankees as the two chief targets. Both will be good. The Tigers with Art Houtteman back should move up again. No one can say now what the Red Sox will be minus Bobby Doerr and Ted Williams, two star ballplayers. You dont fill gaps like this with straw men. The Red Sox must get more consistent pitching than they have drawn so far. Maurice McDermott should be due by now to prove his high place. ever-winni- But one of the main turns in the American League should belong to the White Sox and Athletics. Both teams were mnh stronger last season than either had been in some time. Both kept throwing the poisoned harpoon into various leaders. Both kept bowling over Yankees. Indians and Red Sox. They look even better this spring, or the spring that will soon meet us around the greener comer. Bucky Harris and his Senators are unknown quantities, but you will soon see the dust kicked up by Hornsby and Veeck of the Browns. No one knows just what sort of an act the Browns will put on this season, but it should be something worth looking at. Any team that has a smart, hustling owner, a smart, hustling manager and quite a num ng SPOKTOC0IPIE Joe MAHONEY X JUU YSfc THE SCORING DEMON FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON -A FAR CRY TODAY FROM THE GANGLING THAT I SKINNY FIRST REPORTED FOR v 5 R ol frosh ball. LED NOW STANDS 6-- 7, ACGOAL IN FIELD THE NATION CURACY IN 19 50 51, AND IS THE SIXTH COLLEGE PLAYER TO SCORE IOOO POINTS IN HlS he FIRST TWO SEASONS. HAL LITTIEFORD BET BRISTOL, MD., BARBER HARRISON CLAY 25 HAIRCUTS THAT MARYLAND WOULD BEAT TENNESSEE IN THE '52 TO 13 SUGAR BOWL GAME, THEY DlD-- 28 HE HOW CAN PROBLEM. A HAS HAL NOW AND COLLECT SINCE HE IS VIRTUALLY BALD ? PLACED A STUFFED PHEASANT ON HlS FENCE AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE FUN. ONLY TWO OUT OF flkN ILLINOIS FARMER OVER A HUNDRED PASSING HUNTERS ASKED HIS PERMISSION BEFORE THEY TOOK A SHOT 1 1 Aunt Martha sniffed, The Huh! WASHINGTON nerve I You can still smell the stuff. It boded no good for Uncle Joe. WHEN we reached their place I put the still groggy to bed. Uncle Joe Uncle Joe was just beginning to be himself. Oh, my head! he groaned, my poor head. He raised himself up on his elbows. Did he get away? Did who get away? Aunt Martha asked, belligerently. Uncle Joe ignored her. I parked our car down near the lakeshore, I wasnt paying a nlckle to park on the main street, and when I was cornin back across the short-cu- t, you know where its all growed up with brambles and bushes, someone came up right smart behind and knocked me out. I think he used a bottle. He shook his head. Huh! A fine way to account for that smell! Aunt Martha snorted. Did he git my money? He suddenly remembered it. Well, you havent got it if thats what you mean. Aunt Martha informed him tartly. Here, you get back into bed, youre wobbly, and let me have a look at your head. Still growling and protesting he did as he was bid. Now you, Joe Quinn, stay quiet! She wagged a finger under his nose. Ill get something for your bump and your supper also. Aunt Martha grinned at me as we went out to the kitchen. A car pulled up by the door. "Good heavens! she cried with dismay, Its Mr. Morrison, the minister! Everything is in a mess and the condition Joes You keep mum, Joe Quinn, Ill shut the door and he wont know anything about you. I wont stay quiet, Uncle Joe cried, Yoa cant treat me like a culprit. Cmon In! Uncle Joe yelled at the top of his voice. . Well, Joe, you certainly had a spot of trouble, Mr. Morrison said when he came into the room. That bottle must have been strong stuff. Aunt Martha gasped. Mr. Morrison dug into his pocket and brought out a pocketbook. Whered you get that? Well, Joe, the man that hit you with that bottle and robbed you had a very bad accident and 1 was called. Im glad.to be a help to both of you, he said handing him his pocketbook.' By that time Uncle Joe bad a grin a mile wide, all his money was In tact and I could tell from the gleam in his eyes that. Aunt Martha would have to dance attendance on him to get back in his good graces. . in! : .Not Encouraged ' Although " most of the 19 ful course (four years beyond collegi U.S. veterinary schools do not e; . courage applications from womei 100 women vets. there are over MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Cynical Americans Are Blaming Washington for U.S. Troubles By DREW PEARSON pRAVELING across the U.S.A. these days you are struck with a new cynicism on the part of the merican public. Its a rebellious cynicism, inclined to lay all our troubles on the doorstep of Washington, a feeling of frustration, of disgust with corruption, and weariness with the Korean war. Its an atmosphere that lends itself to any who wants to or take advantage of this cynicism by running for office. This is exactly the atmosphere that swept a lot of Democratic screwballs into office with the tide of Roosevelt victory in 1932, and it may sweep a lot of Republican screwballs into office this fall. flag-wav- tub-thump- er er anti-Hoov- er One dangerous part of the current feeling has been a certain disal-lusionme- nt with our electoral system. Folks are resentful of the bosses in both parties and they figure that though President Trumanprob-pbl- y didnt mean to blurt out what he did about "eyewash primaries, nevertheless he was telling the truth. On the other hand there Is growing interest In the proposal of Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois and Rep. Charles Bennett of Florida to hold a nation-widpresidential primary, which, e thongh not binding on the delegates, might put a crimp In the party bosses and prevent the traditional picking of presidents In the 3 A.M. quiet of a smoke-fille- d room. The smartest thing Mr. Truman could do, in view of his eyewash remark and this public cynicism is to exert some altruistic leadership and help put across the Douglas-Benne- tt nation-wid- e primary. Bossed Delegates In five states its a fact that the people have no say whatever in the selection of delegates attending the presidential conventions. In Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana, the delegates are chosen by party leaders and are simply told how they are to vote. In 27 other states democracy fares little better. These states for the most part follow the plan of state conventions, where the party bosses can railroad the selection of delegates. The bigger states which foln low this convention system are: Michigan, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Texas and Virginia. hand-me-dow- Best Primary The state generally conceded to have the best primary system is Oregon, where presidential aspirants are unable to keep their name off the ballot If they feel they wont make a good showing, Eisenhowers name, for- instance, has been kept out of the Wisconsin primary on the belief that he wouldnt make a good showing there but in Oregon, any candidates name can be entered without his permission, which makes for a genuine popular test. Nebraska voters had the same free filing privilege until 1951 4 when, a reactionary legislature abolished it. New Hampshire, in connection with which. President Truman used his eyewash term, happens to have one of the nations fairer primaries. - -- Flynns Bailiwick In New York, which controls the largest bloc of delegates and therefore is most influential in nominating our presidential candidates, the delegates' do not have to reveal which candidate they favor. Thus, when New Yorkers vote in primary, they are forced to vote for pledged party stooges. They do not know whether those delegates will favor Truman, Kefauver or Stevenson; all they know is that the delegates will vote the way Boss Flynn of the Bronx and State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick tell them to. Ohios Tricks Ohio has still another gimmick which plays into the hands of the bosses. In Ohio, delegates must re- main pledged to a certain delegate only as long as their best judgment and ability so dictate'. Thongh its never happened, this conceivably conld mean that delegates could decide the day before balloting started that their man didnt have a chance, and switch to someone the boss- es liked better, Illinois has a similar loophole for countermanding the peoples choice. Hoover vs. Ike e Herbert Hoover, isolationist, is secretly trying to line up delegates against Eisenhower in long-tim- New York and New Hampshire . . . By an ironic twist of fate. Hoover underwent exactly the same criticism as Taft now makes against Eisenhower. When Hoover ran for President, he had never registered as a Republican . . . The growing unpopularity of President Truman in the southwest is similar to that of Hoover in days. pre-Roosev- (Beleaaad by WNU Featarea.) |