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Show DASEBALL'S YOUTHFUL SEASON SEA-SON is not very old, but enough has happened to prove this will be another rough year on the pitchers. Part of this is the half-rubber ball, and part is lack of pitching ability as compared to the stars of the past. Running into an old-timer, now one of the leading scouts, we picked up this opinion: "Pitching still will decide both pennants," he said, "as erratic as the pitching has been so far. The Cardinals will get the best pitching in the National league after things have settled down, and warm weather weath-er has come along. "The Dodgers have little quality on their pitching staff, but they have a world of quantity. They have about 10 pitchers who are just about the same, and few of these can go five innings. They are the wildest bunch of throwers, not pitchers, I've ever seen. They can be, and will be, dangerous. "I feel now the Dodgers have too much youth and speed too many good arms and legs for the Giants and Braves. The Cardinals are the only team that might handle them and the Cardinals will have to keep on getting the best pitching pitch-ing in the league. "Red Munger will have to improve, im-prove, for I'm afraid Howie Pollet can't go the distance any longer. The Giants, with any sort of pitching, pitch-ing, should win the pennant. I'm afraid they are not going to get the pitching they needl" "They have done pretty well so far," I suggested. "I'm only telling you what I think on ahead," he said. "They have too many pitchers who are in and out good one start and punk the next. You can't bank on any of them to give you a sound game. "Boy, how I'd like to see those Giants get good pitching. Outside of this, they have a better ball club than the Dodgers, Cardinals or Braves. The Pirates are the most Improved team in either league." "What's your slant in the American Amer-ican league?" I asked the old-timer. old-timer. "No change," he said. "Still the Red Sox and Yankees. Detroit'! great pitching has been a fizzle to tar. Anyhow; it won't be good enough to lift a bad ball club. Cleveland got a great start, but Cleveland Isn't that good. "Feller will have a good year. Bob probably will win 22 games. Cleveland is much better, but its pitching is only fair." Television and Sports Sport, any game you might mention, men-tion, has come face to face with its major problem television. One of the major promoters in this field, one with a tremendous interest involved had this to say: "Television is the biggest guess I've ever run across in sport. No. one can say for sure what will take place. With a half-million dollars involved in my own case-it case-it may amount to much more than that I've spent many an hour try-ing try-ing to figure it out. Ilere's what can happen: "NO. 1. It will help attendance, and gate receipts, just as radio did. It will bring about increased interest in various games, especially baseball. base-ball. It will give us double revenue. "NO. 2. It will cut down attendance attend-ance figures heavily. People can hear about something and want to see it But if they actually see it once, they won't be so eager about seeing it again. "NO. 3. If attendanca and the gate receipts are cut down, we can get our money back by lifting revenues rev-enues from television. Television will have to pay for it. But how will it look to see a ball game played before 500 or 1,000 fans? That won't be so good. How will it look to see football crowds cut in twoT That wouldn't look so good either. "NO. 4. Television will have little lit-tle effect on attendance, one way or another. In that case, we'll get our revenue from two sources, as we do right now. "This is the situation," he said. "We don't know. I believe it will build up additional interest, as radio did, and increase attendance. This would be wonderful." The Best Golf Crip Most professional golfers and most leading amateurs stand strongly by the overlapping grip. Alex Morrison always has claimed that the interlocking inter-locking loosens up the two wrists and Is far more useful for those who have passed 40. It might surprise you to know how many golfers have passed 40 or 43. It might surprise you to learn how many golfers no longer have the whipplness of youth In their hands and wrists, as the grizzled gray begins to appear at the edgi of their scalps. It Is much easier to break the wrists with the interlocking than it Is with the overlapping, where the Utile finger of the right hand Is placed over the forefinger of the left sort of wedged In between the first two fingers of the left. |