| Show I Giants Stand Still at Fast Pace By GRANTLAND RICE K NY NUMBER of odd turns have happened In baseball this More than any I recall at the But it seems to me the luck or misfortune of the Giants for well over a month has been a record Early In June there were 12 games back of the top They were heading downhill In a the entire pitch- taff came From Grantland Rice and It became Leo Durocher had Insisted as far back as last winter that he had a But few of them were pitching good The change was Every pitcher on the squad suddenly looked like a or Also the team that hadn't been hitting began to Every section of the team began to blend In almost perfect During the next 29 games the Giants won and dropped only This is better than a They might just as well have won 28 and dropped It was the fastest clip either league had shown for that length of You might ask where any hard luck could be shown in a case of this The answer is that in those 34 days the Giants picked up only one game on the They began their drive 12 games back of the But in all this wild sprinting they had picked up only a solitary This left them 11 games To play better than ball for over a month and practically stand still at the same time Is one for two or three Anything Can Happen It has always struck me that the two games which belong on top in the can circuit are football and Certainly anything can happen in any In boxing and in swimming and in track and field and in Also In basketball and But in football a ball In golf you have over acres of ground to A day or two ago we were talking with a few football fanatics who know their Pete Frank Marshall Smith and Innis Innis was captain of the Vanderbilt team that battled Michigan and Germany Here was his was in a battle for the Southern Alabama's crack forward passer faded back to Auburn's safety man raised back to defend against Before the Auburn player far down the Alabama's player changed his mind and The Auburn thinking it was a pass coming his promptly batted the ball Alabama covered and scored on the next Golf Is so packed with weird happenings that picking the oddest is beyond I recall a match I played in many years ago in This was at the first tee in a tournament qualifying My partner or opponent had been playing extremely But on this first he topped his tee shot and the ball struck the steel rail of a track just beyond the first The ball bounded 50 yards back of the half stymied by a palm Attempting to hook around this tree the golfer struck It squarely and it bounded at least another 50 yards further He was again partly stymied by a palm His aim remained true as the ball struck the palm and bounded some 80 yards farther So he was now playing four over yards back of the first Manager's Year As a rule the middle of August or thereabouts is the time you begin to hear whisperings concerning the sad fate of many baseball But 1950 seems to be a different I can't recall a season where so many pilots have turned out as many fine For there is a leader known as Eddie Sawyer of the With a Improving young Sawyer was expected to run third and possibly move into second As the case even with Curt his star missing through the the Phi has a first-class chance of winning the He has been leading the more experienced and highly favored Dodders through most of the This year's leadership of the Phils is a Then there's a fellow by the name of Leo The Giant man-J irin waded into trouble up to his ears in thu earlier days of the He brought his team partly out of the rut only to skid and fall back in But in place of calling it a year Durocher got his squad going |
