Show E v 1 1 slowing down tl pikey ley TELL YOU and they prove it that every record in sport that can be timed or measured has haa been broken the moderns keep setting new marks there is also another record the moderns are setting this is adopting the habits of the sloth the creeping pestilence the tha crawler and the time waster A few days ago on his television hour dizzy dean asked bill grieve the umpire u m p 1 r e why modern games lasted so long 1 I 1 pitched against carl hubbell diz said and I 1 bent beat him I 1 to 0 the game only lasted an hour and 29 minutes scoring in the southern 10 league a 9 u a Gran grantland granland dand rice some years ars before in atlanta Atlan taj I 1 timed one gamest game camest at 45 minutes wi grover cleveland alexander alexande r rarely took an hour and 40 minutes you ought to handle a game in an hour and 30 minutes old alex aiex once said christy mathewson was a quick worker maybe an hour and 60 50 minutes but today practically no pitcher can work a game under three hours or three and one half hours the real answer Is that it usually takes three erfour or four pitchers to work a game few lift pitchers chers ever last five ball games have practically I 1 All Y doubled 11 tn 11 the last 20 yc years ars i so far as time Is concerned what about golt golf gene and jim barnes once opened a big tournament and got around in two hours years ago golfers stepi stepped nd around in two hours and a halt half few rounds absorbed three hours two ho ursand ahall a half could be consi considered derid a standard almo measurement As a I 1 matter of record two hours and a halt half was considered slow time when albod a bob jones or I 1 agene a gene barazon was involved two hours Is plenty for a two ball match I 1 says two hous hours and a halt is enough for or a tour four batler baller the average ball game should last around an bourand hour and 50 minutes the faster ones should be completed in less time ball games today that remover two hours and a halt are ara disgraceful episodes naturally you cant have fast ball games with pitchers lift chrs handing out 10 or 12 passes andallo and also showing adeep R deep reluctance adlet to let the balago ball go As lefty gomez once said youre all right as long as you hold the ball its after you pitch the trouble starts in the same way these creeping pestilences who turn surveyor on every putting greenaae green gree nare are not joing going to fenish ansh insh any round of golf goa in three hours or even tour four hours the tougher mold there has been an argument life late lya as whether old time lighters fighters belonged to a roughed rough eF tougher tough jr mold than the present crop they were talking about such so called tough men as rocky graziano Graz lano jake lamotta ray no robinson binson the two french fighters and a few others with no heavy beavy weights mentioned are there any heavyweights heavy weights left who are they this debate recalled a turn in the life of tom sharkey the olds sailor allor at the time sharkey was training tor his light fight with jim jeffries Jeff rles at coney island it happened a little over 50 years ago i sharkey was doing ills his road work along the beach there was a restaurant irant la in the neighborhood where the sailor would stop for lunch Shar keys lunch ca consisted 11 of a 5 cent glass of beer and a frontal assault on an the free lunch day after day old tom would do his galloping pay for his beer and morup mop up shefree the free lunch finally the restaurant owner said to toi an asslie assistant this guy is eating up all the profits change ou our tree free lunch go out and get the toughest dog bis cults ever made 0 the assistant reported with dog biscuits you break up with an axe no one it seemed could even make a dent in one they were harder to bite bl than a hedw but this check tom shar ir keys dally daily assault on the free lunch counter ile he seemed to charge in with a keener attack each day he cleaned up after a week he ae restaurant 0 owner surrendered my clients cant ca eat this junk he said this big guy seems to like it even better junk the tae dog biscuits and put pui in the old stuff yeller feller and tho the war after watching bob feuer feller pitch so ao brilliantly against the yankees bankets recently your correspondent began to wonder what might have happened to the van meter entry it if it been for the war I 1 fellers case strikes me as aa the toughest brea kany ballplayer has known know n yeller feller had won 24 27 and 25 garnes games ln la 1939 1910 and 1941 78 games la in these three years |