Show T- Pro Football Awaits Big Season By GRANTLAND RICE 1 N A FEW DAYS close to a thousand mastodons and gazelles will be turned loose on the public These There will be 13 teams in l f where each the earlier the pruning knife Rice Just what the aggregate weight of these 13 squads will be is beyond our guess but the weights run from to pounds and there are more players over than under The 13 head coaches and their aids have a tough job to face in reducing the oil and fat content where steaming blubber must be taken off In The new season will open with a Philadelphia explosion where Eagles and Browns are figured to draw some So many good and have been shifted back and that it is only a raw guess now to start picking any but you can be pretty sure the Browns and Bears will be up Bo Detroit squad will be another effective especially with Leon Hart's pounds in the Hart may not weigh quite that much but It won't be far according to Frank Leahy's Judgment last boy Is still Frank when Hart reached la only 20 years Among those who will bs featured this season are Van Buren of the Lujack of the of the Graham of the Conerly of the and other good passers with the Both leagues are well fixed for passers but the Eagles still look to have the better passing and running combination for an all-around The getting first call in the draft have all been well strengthened where Greasy Neale had to stand pat or nearly The Williams Goal Ted Williams has apparently fixed both eyes on the Babe Ruth home-run mark of Ted sensed the fact that 1950 was about as good a season as any other with the baU at least giving a good Imitation of jack rabbit In Ted also remembered that he isn't getting any He will be 32 years old in which Isn't but which also isn't too In other years Ted has mixed his home-run hitting with more attention to mere base This season he is really giving it the full treatment at a time where as Ford Frick says the pitchers are trying for home Williams will have plenty in thc way of competition the rest of the way from Snider and a few Including DiMaggio and But from the way long Ted is taking his cut at the he is the one more likely to reach the If anyone Ralph Kiner Is leading the National league and he is sure to pick up his pace As a rule he falls Into the groove after July A year ago he hit 20 home runs the last 30 days of the The same output in 1050 might just push Kiner over the He is the one drawing factor the Pirates have left for the It might interest Joe McCarthy to know that no manager ever left the scene with a better press than the departing Red Sox leader drew around the Maybe a manager who wins nine pennants and seven world series doesn't need too many What's With It has become pretty evident that something has been shaken loose from the baseball we all knew as it Is now played in the two big leagues and the leading Either an extra charge of TNT has been inserted in the ball or an extra zip has been removed from pitching something is wrong to break the news We have the Red Sox scoring 20 runs against the Browns in one game and a day later the Red Sox piling up 29 runs against the same Then the Cleveland Indians pile up 14 runs in the first inning against Mack's disintegrating Athletics who have hit the soapy chute at record Ia this baseball or Scores ranging from 12 to 16 runs are Few ever complete seven The pitching can't be that The war has been over five So the war can't be used as an alibi for so much inferior all over both |