Show or t Q CE AS A rule we can usually check on this date just where the leaders leader belong and who should dominate the remainder of the campaign It doesn't happen to work in that direction di di this passing year of ot 1940 When we have Max Bacr Darr and Tony Galento fighting to see which entry will be tossed in a s baseball for tor 1939 and 1940 They were leading the league a year rear ago and they are still the team to beat for 1940 They have more opposition this season than they fa faced last sum mer But they are still slid the most consistent consistent con can ball club at the mile half against Joe Louis you get a general idea of the heavyweight heavy weight weigh t ma matter Un Which means that Joe Louis is still the main standout almost al most the only standout stand out in sport today This goes for lor all aU sports A year ago the Grantland Rice Yankees were again running a away way with the American league pennant Dut But not this season flack Back in April was I picked as another wonder horse bOise lie He still tops the year three but be he I Isn't any wonder horse borse Two defeats de de- de I feats teats Including the Kentucky Derby have cut Into Inlo his laurel collection I With Challedon under repairs I with Kayak sick there have been I Ino no top handicap horses One wins and then another Again no stand stand- I outs Some year three-year-old maybe Dim Bim- I elech will have to hurry to save the crop The golfers have been In the same fix Byron Nelson failed tailed in his 1940 defense of the title as Lawson Little moved in With the confidence developed deVeloped de de- from this victory Little may set another smoking pace such as ashe ashe ashe he put through in fn the amateur divi divi- sion sian But he is in a much tougher league now Anyway the ama ex star has a great chance to become become be be- come one of the outstanding figures of golf He has a tough title to defend when you must beat off 1100 challengers challengers chal chal- lengers In place of one or two This in a way is nil all the better for building up public interest Yanks Now on Short End Take up the difference shown In ID Inthe Inthe the American league leape ra rate rae e. e A year ago we had bad only the Yankees Yankees practically losing the rest of the league Now we have bave four ball bail clubs with a m chance and the Yankees have only an outside chance Rated 1 to 3 when the season opened they are far from being favorites with the race about half halt run This has bat trebled interest interest in in- terest In ID Cleveland Detroit and aDd Boston Boston Bos floe ton ion as a. well wei as other cities A race to the mob is always more interesting than a runaway Bill BIU McKechnie's McKechnie Reds Redl represent the most consistent combination in Bill post They have the better pitching pitch pitch- pitching ing day in and day out 19 to call caU upon Tennis Crop Blighted Amateur tennis had bad little left when Don noo Budge Badge retired With Wimbledon Wimble Wimble- don cion and the Davis Cup eliminated tennis had to take lake one on the point pointe e of t the Hie chin The game is still looking for tor some personality such personality such as McLoughlin Bill Dill Johnston Bill BiU Tilden Ellsworth Vines or Budge Badge There is no such party around at this writing So far the crop is colorless In baseball the slump of go gin Dickey and others has been offset by such pitching stars as 81 Bob Dob Feller and Buck Newsom There Is only a slight chance that an any run home hitter bitter will reach the 50 SO mark Feller has lias the best chance to pick up 30 victories and he be may reach this highly desirable spot Bob Dob Feller might easily be baseballs baseballs baseballs baseball's base balls ball's standout for the present year yeara a a star pitcher hooked up with a leading ball ban club But Dut when you sum up the list theone the theone one the the lone eagle in the sporting eyrie eyrie is is still Joe Louis He is champion of ot the champs And this goes for all aU the sporting fields we know today horse or man or Jr man or horse Not only as a fighter but In the way he has conducted conducted con con- ducted himself Louis Is U practically all alone Only a 11 big upheaval through the remainder of 1940 can change this rating or ranking Buck Back Newsom Rides Ride Again No one can say gay that Louis Norman Buck Duck Newsom hasn't seen his share of at baseball scenery In the tho thelast thelast last 12 lZ years Buck Duck bas baa played with at least 12 different teams in six or seven leagues and here he is today burning up the American with a varied assortment of at wares Buck Duck was torn born in Hartsville S S. C. C 32 2 years ago He had to wander wandera a long time to reach his bis peak veale Ills His first and tallest upward lunge took place two years ago when bewon he be hewon hewon won 20 ball games game for the Browns I |