Show J CATLAND i Pr HE Pacific Coast league it Is a major league and should be so recognized Part of this belle belie will come true In a day not too fai away At least mone m mi mione one can deny tha thai thaiS S I Frank Lefty ODou of San arid and Casey I i of Oakland are bit 5 5 league managers 5 slightly better thai the average brand Casey believes th Pacific Coast S 5 be set up as an in independent S. S dependent bis bif STENGEL STE-iGEL league I Where do most of th the stars come from he asks Joe DiMaggio Dom Don DiMaggio I Ted W Williams Ralph Kiner Ewer Blackwell Joe Gordon Johnnj Johnn Pesky Pesky Pesky-I I could keep on all day Wh WhIs Is the Coast league surrounded b bj big league scouts They hey are thicket than ballplayers I asked Casey who were the l I imen men coming up this next spring You can keep your eye on two he be said Chesnes and Fitzgerald both with Pittsburgh Chesnes Chesnes' can caD canS S pitch play the Infield and outfield and hit plenty good He is one ol of the most valuable around all-around ballplayers ball players I ever saw The only hitch Is that he finished last season with witha a sore arm That wont won't hurt him inthe in inthe inthe the infield or outfield Fitzgerald Is a fine young catcher who will Improve and soon be a star These two players cost costI I I Pittsburgh plenty I believe Chesnes Chesne and Fitzgerald under Meyers wilbe will wil willbe willbe I be two valuable men Prospects for Season I The new owners In Pittsburgh are out to get a winning team anc and given a little time I know they'll arrive It probably wont won't happen I this year with the Dodgers Braves Cardinals and Giants in the way Ill give you a team that can win that National league pennant Casey said I mean the Cardinals If they get only fair pitching this season they still have the best ball bal club In their league They can also use one more good catcher Their pitching wrecked them a year ago when Pollet and Dickson blew v so badly They'll have a better staff this season and will be hard to beat Another club that will cause a alot alot alot lot of ot trouble will be Cincinnati Blackwell alone can upset a pennant pen n nant race even I If It he cant can't quite win one This Cincinnati team isn't bad badat badat badat at all Neither is Boston with Spahn and Sam Sain around They were great pitchers when I was managing the Braves They are even better now I The race in the National should be one of the best in many years Stengel is quite happy on the coast and his jousts with Lefty ODoul have lured in many a cus cus- tomer torner All AU we need at Oakland Casey said is a ball park about abou twice or three times as big Wed We'd fill it S S S T Value lue of Concentration The long cavalcade of ot golfers goUers which started from Los Angeles will cover terrain from rom the Pacific to the Atlantic across Arizona Texas Louisiana into Florida then Florida then I up the coast through the Carolinas Carolinas Carolinas' I and finally to the Masters' Masters tournament tournament ment in Georgia I Its It's a long long hike and a tough way to make a living especially for 80 per cent of the parade who must pay their own way and dont don't cut Into the money any too often Every shot can be worth from to 1000 Those with a chance to win know It IL The toughest part of the trip Is to keep on concentrating one of ot the leaders said You c can m concentrate only just so long then something I snaps For example you come to a ashot ashot ashot shot that calls for tor a No 3 or a No 4 iron You are not certain which The right thing to do is to say this needs a three iron or a four tour iron iron iron- and forget torget the rest of it But the odds are you'll be undecided when you hit the shot shot maybe maybe trying to press a four or spare a three three any any anyway way still wondering The pressure Is terrific Locke added Recently I had two lour four four under par for tor the first two rounds That isn't bad golf There is nothing wicked about it Yet I was eight strokes back of the leader I who by then was 12 strokes under I par There are times when you get geta a feeling of hopelessness of of the use use four four under par yourself I and eight strokes rom the top I Too Many Good Ones I There are few lew golfers in this pack who can approach the old consistency consistency consist consist- ency of ot Jones Hagen and Sara zen zenon on big days But there are any number number number num num- ber who suddenly can turn and rip ripa a course to pieces Ben Hogan Demaret Mangrum Dutch Harrison Harri HarrI- son Snead Furgol Palmer these and many others who suddenly can get hot and burn up things and later cool off oft This concentration hits you yon hardest hardest hardest hard hard- est on the short side one veteran campaigner ner said On short pitches I chips and putts you need touch and timing full control If II you are a little litHe jerky here you are gone Full shots dont don't bother us too much Its It's those short ones ones that demand smoothness and touch I |