Show Giants Have Caught Pennant Scent By GRANTLAND RICE 1 TT WOULD START a breezy ment if the at St. Petersburg this should win the National League Especially if at the same time the training In Arizona and should American League The sunny state Florida would V f j have something to about a situation of this 1 Anc western rebuttal would be packed n. Rice with Whatever Leo Dur-ocher expects to win the National League with anything like an even break from that cockeyed known as Dame one can say what will happen to any one club from the Leo we haven't many young Most of our squad have been around for some time and we certainly shouldn't be hit any harder than anyone to the Giants have had less than their share of good At least we'll say our pitching has been We were already out of the race last season when we got Jim Hearn from the Cardinals and Sal Maglie began to I know from that spot on we played the best ball in the For the first starting this spring at St. we have the ball club I've been hoping to That means first-class pitching with the probability of six good starting We have a fine especially strong around second with and We have a high-grade outfield and we have our share of We can get Dodgers will be good again this new season and so will the The Phillies will miss Curt Simmons more than a little bit Simmons would have been ready for a big Boston will be good Losing practically none of their the Cardinals will be dangerous for a while at But I like the I like them better each week as the season draws The club is well as well rounded as the and I'd rather have our Maglie and Jan-sen outmatch any three in the league on any single Condition and Hustling You can rate one thing about Leo there is no manager In baseball who handles his team better on the And there is no manager who works harder for condition ir i the old hustling I've seen Leo work many a team into a He is a great believer in condition and Just as great a believer in hustling all the way No team that keeps hustling will be I never thought the Giants of the last few years had any sort of chance to run But it's different this season or It will be different when get their working arms ready for the long You can use up a lot of pitching between April and October and this time the Giants have It in greater abundance than any other National League Last winter at waa confident that his Improved especially at and would take care of his pitching But it wasn't until Hearn and Maglie got busy winning games that his shaky pitching problem was It has been a long time since the Giants had any Intimate association with a National League In the past 10 years the Dodgers and Cardinals have dominated the older league and when any outside teams broke into the pennant business they were the Braves and the Phillies not the It can be different this Horace Stoneham has collected the best team he has known since Bill Terry's He and Durocher have a bunch of ballplayers who can hustle their way into first place with any needed They still have the Phillies and Braves to shove but this is no impossible At least Durocher feels he has the he has wanted for some Concerning the Customers said one of the best-known club owners In the one bad It has never paid enough attention to the care and comfort of the customer or the Most of the stands are out of Most of them are The seats are too narrow and There are many thousands of women fans In this country but they get little Even racing is more thoughtful In this it may be Impossible to make needed Improvements with the war scare over the But the change is bound to come if baseball is to hold Its Baseball today is getting more competition than It ever knew For example there is a little thing known as Television is holding the attention ol almost numberless millions |