Show M SPEAKING OF SPORTS I By bawd ROBERT by W it rn McSHANE Union Fifth Pennant Yanks Think So THE TIIE Yankees whose courage and optimism are much higher than the teams team's batting average still expect expect ex ex- to win the American league pennant The strategy they thoy expect to employ employ em- em ploy is simple They're going to make a powerhouse drive In late August and September r. r At least that's thal's the present hope I The Yanks have bave It all figured out and and not without Considerable logic They point to the fact that they're not so far behind even with so many of their better hitters below It wasn't so very long ago that Murderers Mur derer's Row Itow dwindled to a puny average average and and a bit lower Even the I St St. Louis Drowns Browns were above the I Yanks with a II Still Good Defensively You can guess what will happen to the present race if the Yanks Yanks- particularly the sluggers sluggers really really wake up and climb back to their 1939 hitting tilling form It It wouldn't take a avery avery avery very big Increase in hitting to put them at the top of the league once more The figure Cleveland Cleve land as the team to beat due largely to the Indians' Indians pitching stag staff Then too loo they feel that Cleveland has a better beller Infield than either Boston Doston or Detroit The Red Sox are a gang of hitters hillers but their own pitchers dont don't help win enough ball games games The Yanks it may be remembered remembered lost th their lr first six extra inning inning in in- ning games Some of the previous years year's punch was l lacking It isn't isn inconceivable that four pennants anc and four World series in a II row had quite a bit to do with the lack of snap Why the Slump Hitting slumps are hard to pin down too down too many things enter In to tomake tomake tomake make definition or solution easy A slump might start out from purely n natural causes such causes such as bad body motion Then It turns into worry The hitter tries too hard becoming tighter with each trip to the plate Then the lack of confidence disappears disappears disappears pears after a few hits The hitter has his eye once more But Dut dont don't count the Yanks out yet They've done aU all right with a miserably miserably mis mist poor batting balling average and when they find themselves even a anine anine anine nine or ten game lead wont won't look loot too secure Trick Shot Artist Artist- Wizard of Fairways JACK TACK REDMOND one of the mos most successful golfers currently pounding Americas America's fairways didn't get that way because he won a lo loof lot lotof lotof of tournaments Redmond is a trickster Possibly and and very probably probably probably-he he couldn't couldn take the measure of Sammy Sam my Snead or Jimmy Thompson in inn ina n a 3 hole holc hole match but neither could caul 4 x r s t Zy et etTrick q J Trick golfer Jack Redmond prepares prepares pre pre- pares parcs to drive one off a human tee tec Sam or Jimmy equal Redmond in sheer entertainment for the gallery Redmond got his start during the World war when when when-so so the story goes an an officer took a liking to him and asked the young recruit to play a around around around round of golf Our hero didn't know a tee from a trap but that day he shot an 81 to defeat his amazed host Eight fight months later he became a professional But tournament competition was just a bit too rugged Redmond Hedmond now recalls and he wasn't very happy teaching rookie golfers the finer points of the game Gradually he developed a n bag of tr trick lk shots such as driving a ball off olY somebody's somebody nose and blasting four balls out of ofa a with one Olle swing of his mammoth niblick The spectators lapped it up and soon Redmond found himself giving demonstrations To make a long story short hes he's been following this unique profession on for 16 years If It his caddy is sufficiently cooperative cooperative co co- cooperative operative Redmond claims he can drive a II ball into his golf bag yards away its away its it's the caddy's job to j move the bag a little Or if you I dont don't think that's Olat's hard enough hell he'll knock a ball oft of the top of a bottle I without breaking the bottle bottle or or even jarring it Redmond's most extensive stunt incidentally was to play his way around the world in 30 holes of golf goU completing one hole at each stop atop on a tour which carried d him through India Hawaii South America Amer ica lea Australia and Europe |