Show l Speaking o of 0 Sports Baseball Color Most Powerful Drawing ving Card By ROBERT McSHANE THOUGH THOUGH baseball officials are prone to boast that the game a ame me IsI is I efficiently organized professional I and businesslike still it is beyond their earthly powers to subdue those I unconquerable souls who by their odd antics add vivid color to AmerIcas Americas America's Amer ica's teas own game Baseball color Isn't confined to the players One of the best known figures of the diamond world toda today Is Dill Bill Klem the Old Arbitrator Klem Is the dean of all major league t umpires with more than 30 years continuous service In big league lealUe circuits cir clr I i cults culls lie Ile has bal called em cm for no noless noless nothan less than 17 n World series He lie Is aman a aman man of supreme self confidence andt and once declared that he be had bad never t made an Incorrect decision j Nar Nary a one Dill BUI demanded questioners I Nar Nary a one onel he replied stoutly The famed tamed Klem line Is the thereal thereal thet real Maginot line of the Old Arbitrators Arbitrator's Arbitrators Arbitrator's Arbi t defenses against outraged ball players When an argument t a f a slay x r ors b a of BILL BELL KLEM KLE with a player reaches the white-hot white stage and threaten threatens actual ties Bill Klem makes his hi line Une With his bis right foot he be draws a real or imaginary line fine on the ground between between be be- tween himself and the player Then tie he backs away There is II not Dot one player In the major leagues who has bas ever dared to cross that line Nobody Nobody Nobody No No- body is quite sure what would happen happen happen hap hap- pen but Klem implies it would be something pretty dire Baseball color I U Is clearly definable definable definable able In the case of Klem whose mannerisms man man- are mostly unconscious the accumulated personality of ot SO 30 odd In the In the years tars game case of Joe Engel the color Is about as al subtle and unconscious as a five eve alarm fire Joe Engel Is the whoop- whoop up cm manager of the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern tion Idea Is ia that baseball baseballs is s just not baseball unless the grandstands grand grand- stands stand and bleachers are full tun of thundering shrieking fans Baseball as ball Circus Engel fills the stands by using everything except warrant officers and summonses Among other things he has staged elephant parades across the diamond hired brass bands and handed out free lunches to get spectators for tor the Lockouts He regards his bis system as fundamentally sound because a large percentage of those who answer answer answer an an- his attendance campaigns keep coming cuming back The fhe to riches angle adds color color cotor col- col or or to almost any ball player Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees is It high in m the gallery of young men v. v who ho walked In the footsteps of Ruth and Tris Speaker The slugging Yank star is not yet a rich man but hes he's well on his way Ills His present pres cat ent sal salary is a year Joe is the son of ot a San Francisco Fran cisco fisherman Because he be was fast tast on his feet and because he he learned earned to wallop the ball with one of the easiest smoothest batting swings in baseball he fairly sk sky docketed to baseball glory His Ills holdout fiasco of ot last year brought him additional fame tame though of ot a different sort lort At least he be was an individualist They Keep Fighting More I often orten than not the colorful player Is la the aggressive pugna clous cloDS Individual who puts pots his hearin heart hear in his bis work and makes every everybody bod on his bis side of ot the field k keep p up op with him Gabby Hartnett Is II that of a player So Is Ie Leo Durocher Du Du- rocher Gabb Gabby Is U a good hitter hUter and a great grea catcher In addition to 10 that he be Is Isa Isa isa a noisy jovial fire eater r alwa always on ou onha h hU ha toes toe and willing to put everything every thing he has bas Into each game Durocher has been In the big leagues steadily since 1928 1923 His ns batting balling average approximates only Yet hes he's been on top for tor more than han 10 years because of his ability to o make himself important HI He talked larked scrapped and played with un Wl unlimited limited pep He Ill made himself valuable valuable able because he made himself col col- A colorful player isn't necessarily a crackpot The players who reali reaU realty tickle Ukle the fans' fans are those who ho refuse to be regimented And that doesn't imply even eveD mild in in- sanity fi Who's the Best TODAY'S TODA YS Y'S ring addicts can be beA A into three segregated groups Those hose who ho believe Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis to be a good fighter those who think him a great fighter and those who believe him himo to o be the greatest fighter of all aU time Several of the nations nation's big ng boxing authorities are enough about the Drown Brown Somber Bomber to regard him not only as 10 today's ays ay's best fighter but as al the king of them all past and present Those same sports authorities will willInd find Ind many ninny to disagree with them And Ind the dissenters are bold enough to 10 o say that Louis isn't even the greatest fighter in the ring today They back that statement up with cold convincing logic Henry Armstrong Is th their lr choice Henrys Henry's recent knockout victory over Davey Day at Madison Square Garden was his sixth successful defense de de- f nse of f his welterweight title In the 10 months that have bave passed since he ic look Jook the toga from Barney Darney Ross Boss It II t was wal the forty fifth consecutive victory In la his featherweight lightweight light weight and welterweight division campaign Armstrong won all three titles Inthe in inthe inthe the course of a year relinquishing one voluntarily Day was his thirty ninth knockout in the string of fights That record stacks up very favorably favor favor- ably with the one hung up by Louis Lows In n one way It Is even more impressive impressive sive than the heavyweights heavyweight's string of victories Armstrong has gone out of his own weight class to account account ac ae ac- ac count for many of ot his wins When he IB conquered all aU contenders in the featherweight field field he abdicated moving into the lightweight circles where he removed the pound crown from the brow of ot Lou Ambers Am Am- bers aers Hammering Henry captured d his lis third crown in the heavier welterweight we welterweight wel wel- division Ill Ills natural fighting weight Is between between be be- tween and pounds When be he defends hi his welterweight title hi his opponent 1 It Ls aU allowed owed to pack In pounds ponds which means that Henry rives gives ives away from 12 to 14 It aU all tant taut pounds The busiest fighter In the ring today to to- day Henr Henry is one big big- barrage of ot fists from the minute he steps into the ring until he be has knocked out his opponent or has heard the final bell Usually his opposition isn't bothered a a great deal for tor the first few rounds But his bis constant clouting wears them down until victory Is within sight And once he be has it U sighted lighted be doesn't let It get awa away King of Golfers TWO TWO years Jears ago when be he was playing at Detroit's Oakland Hills Ralph Guldahl demonstrated the same relentless driving force that carried him to victory In the recent Masters' Masters golf tournament on the Augusta Ga National course While playing the Detroit course Guldahl was at the top of his swing when he be noticed a newspaper photographer photographer photographer pho pho- in direct line with the ball bail The cameraman was wal leaning far over the ropes Darel Barely pausing Ralph stated In even tones If U you yon want to Jo get your our face knocked off Its It's all right with me He lie followed through with a ter ler elfin poke as the photographer jerked back his hll camera and escaped cs es taped In the nick of time Guldahl is a mechanically precise pre pre- cise else cautious player He seems nerveless in fn action merely going r. r 33 a fl through the motions But every time he steps up to the tee he leaves little doubt that he is the super super- golfer of ot today Especially when the class of the field he dominates is considered He has won the Western Open tor for the past three years and the National Open Ohen the past two years In winning the Masters Masters' Guldahl called d his shot Before the tournament bourns bourns- ment meat began becan he be announced that be he would win it lt His Ris successive rounds were n 68 72 70 for a total of the lowest score b by three strokes stroke In to Inthe Inthe the year six history of the most exclusive ex ex- elusive tournament of the Ibe game came Though he doesn't like to gamble his boldness in the Masters' Masters was startling On one bole boie where a water hazard in front of the green calls caUl for a terrific second shot to reach the flag be he banged one five feet from the flag dag sinking his putt for an eagle three He played it the hard way with the same aplomb as 81 he would have playing It safe From the moment Guldahl steps up to the first tee the thought never occurs to him that he isn't the worlds world's best golfer Which be very well may be Ills His opponents and contemporaries ries rles conceded that be he is the toughest toughest tough tough- est of ot tournament players always at his best when the going Is rocky and cool as ice lee under fire lire O CI N Union i i r J n 1 t t fI |