Show yv wiell WHAT HAT sort of baseball property felko ta theloa of bob lianne hanna gan and his st louis associates recently the answer Is a cardinal 0 outfit u tilt that still will be extremely d dangerous ang erous next season eddie dyer got the shock of his life when he returned to st louis last spring to find stan a sick man and the better part of his pitching staff 3 t a ff including include na howle howie pollet and nd murry dick dackson on unfit n for winning in ng actton action through the first weeks of the season a team that looked to be the pick of both leagues DYER beat the crab apple blues from the fried chicken circuit normally a hitter hovered around the tha mark for several weeks pollet still had a kink in his left shoulder and dickson was about as bad hit and terry moore was lame so in place of jumping the gun and taking an early lead the odds on favorites were parked in i last place from this dismal start the cardinals moved into second place but th the dodgers had too much of a lead to out cut down the cardinals are not getting any younger but they are still a much better ball club than they looked to be for most of last year they still have country slaughter one of the best they still have and marion whitey Kurows kl may be fading but he is still a valuable man terry moore is over the hill one of the star outfielders of all time the pitching stall staff is the main problem but red munger has hag the stuff to be a 25 game winner dyer rates munger one of the best pitchers he ever has handled he will be a better pitcher next season that he was last year jim hearn the ex georgia tech star will be one of the best next campaign at least he be should be joe garagiola Garag Gara glola tola and del rice are two good catchers but to beat out the dodgers dodges and the braves the cardinals still need help another good IA fielder at least one more good ut elder and two good pitchers the dodgers should be even better and so should the braves dyer has two tough teams to roll back two improving teams who have more youth and more speed 0 best heavyweight fights in the wake of the last heavyweight fight between joe louis and joe walcott the battle of the joes there is still a hum of gossip concerning the best of all the heavyweight fights the records show there been too many such thrilling 1 encounters the top of all time was the demp sey firpo two round hurly burly in new york that never had an equal where a million dollars and the title were hanging banging on two or three seconds this was the big brawl more than 20 years ago before this the meeting be tween jim corbett and jim jet jef fries had all the thrills and all the color that anyone could ask for corbett far iu in front had the fight won until jeffries finally nailed hims but most of the heavyweight fights nave have been on the drab side corbett had no trouble against sullivan his battle against bob fitzsimmons was entirely different hete here was another thriller with corbett well in front until fitz nailed him in the so called solar plexus in the round jet jef fries had little trouble with fitz later on then jeffries Jel fries retired from that point oa on there was no sizzling action jeffries was a fat bald headed starter against jack johnson at reno johnson holmson was a weary disgruntled fighter against willard in havana and willard was a setup set up for dempsey at toledo dempsey was a big thrill until he started meeting boxers he was wrecking all the heavyweights heavy weights until he ran across tom gibbons and gene tunney where in 35 rounds he had only one knockdown killing hilling punchers dont doht care for good boxers they never have and they never will A hard bard puncher cant getret get set against a good boxer who knows how to handle himself and keep out of the road harry greb could have done bet ter against any heavyweight than he be could against a tiger flowers or some e smaller faster opponent greb loved the slower moving targets he met such fine heavyweights heavy weights as gibbons and tunney until he began going blind lie he wanted dempsey but jack never wanted greb joo joe louis has had bad trouble in the post past with tommy farr godoy and bob pastor but joe also has taken part in more than one fantastic contest his finest fight was the second max mg encounter louis his has had several exciting contests because he quite absorb a right hand punch to the head this has seemed to be his only weak point ile he always came back but he wag still in trouble just how he would have made out agal ft salost jack dempsey Is I 1 know |