| Show T- Old Pitchers Were Best I By GRANTLAND RICE 1 a new baseball season WHEN opens or a new racing season begins there is usually one important argument you can wade into without much This is the matter of an important factor known as speed speed of the faster race horses fastest From talks Rice with managers and umpires at various I would establish this Walter 2 Bob Robert Moses Rube Dizzy Joe I would say that Rube Wad-dell and Vance had the fastest-breaking curve ball of the But for sheer speed there was no one quite up to the Big His strike-out record speaks for And Johnson did this with a fast unaided by a Waddell and Feller set their remarkable strike-out marks with speed plus a fast-breaking curve When Feller first broke he depended almost entirely on blinding speed that almost equalled Johnson's flame But the Big Train was the only pitcher I recall who forced a sick roll call on the day he was nominated to Good hitters usually like In the case of Johnson they knew that only speed was coming up and that it was also well But they wanted no part of They were not too keen to hit against Feller and for that Amos Rusie with his small hands had blazing and so did Dizzy Dean when he cared to use His was close to the Johnson There have been a lot of fastball pitchers who had too many to mention them Addle who pitched a large number of one-hit had fine but he also had a great curve ball and unusual Rex Barney has enough speed If Rex only had vague idea of where his fast ball would wind There is no one pitching today who can match Feller and Grove at their Speed Horses You can slip into Just as many arguments over speed horses as you can over speed Who are Certainly Man Citation and Coaltown belong In this are you going to beat Johnstown on the day he is Harry Grayson asked one day at a Derby I don't see how you He won the 1939 beating by eight But Johnstown had head trouble and he disliked a muddy Yet according to accurate dockers he had more than one mile workout below One report had a certain workout at Johnstown's speed was Citation Is credited with the world mark of made at Golden and Coal-town Is marked up with two or three These were all set on lightning-fast Both Man and John P. Grier turned on killing speed in their famous meeting in New York around 30 years Count Fleet was another who could burn up a track when he had to Count Fleet is close to the top although 1 still believe Johnstown in his earlier days as a three-year-old was as fast as any thoroughbred I ever saw I haven't seen any horse around today that had Johnstown's or Count Fleet's capacity to handle a fast Or to run with Citation and Noor had fine plus the ability to go a But it is difficult to judge horses who made their time on California tracks where it is not uncommon tor horses to run six furlongs in 25 or The track has more to do with speed than the horse on many Freak Sizes in One wrought-up correspondent writes in to say that basketball's main trouble came when the game went out for freak sizes usually somewhere between six-foot-six and seven-foot tall you ever hear of another game that centered on or human he We can't see that a man's height has anything to do with his But It does In For football is a good deal rougher game than basketball ever Yet such as Frank Albie Cotton Frank Frisch and many others of less than average height weighing from to could never have made a modern basketball |
