Show i SPORT LIGHT pro football awaits big season by GRANTLAND RICE N A FEW DAYS NOW close to a IN thousand mammoths mam moths maito mastodons dons and gazelles will be turned loose on the public domain these represent the pro football crop for 1950 with pence peace finally esta established bUshed there will be 13 teams in action where each squad will be large at least in the earlier days of practice before b le 10 r e the pruning knife grantland rice falls just what the aggregate weight of these 13 squads will be Is beyond our guess but the weights run from to pounds and there are ire more mare players over than under the 13 head coaches and the their lr aids have a tough job tot tm face ace in reducing th the eoll oil and at content where steaming blubber must be taken off in tons the me new season will open with a philadelphia explosion where eagles and browns are figured to draw some clients so many players good aliani arid average have been shifted around back and forth that it is only a raw guess fuess now to start picking any winners but you can be pretty sure sura the i eagles browns will alwill be up there bo Millins Mc detroit squad win will be another effective outfit especially with leon harts pounds in thelast the cast hart may riot not weigh quite that much but it wont be faraway tar away according to frank leahra Lea hya hys judgment last fall the boy is still growing frank franka said when hart reached la A only 20 years year sold old among those thos who W be featured this season ar are van buren buien of the Eagles Lujack of the bears of the rams graham of the browns conerly of the giants and other good passers passers with the yankees colts etc both leagues are well fixed for passers but tho the eagles still look to have the better lr passing and running combination for an allaround all around attack the others however getting first cauin the draft have all been well strengthened where greasy neale had to stand pat or nearly io the rho williams goal ted Willi arps has apparently fixed both eyes on the babe ruth home run mark of 60 ted sensed the he tact i that 1950 was about as good a season as any ally other with the ball at least giving a good imitation of jack rabbit in action ted also remembered that he islet getting any younger he will be 32 years old in october which venerable but which also too youthful in other years ted has mixed his home run hitting with more attention to mere base hits this season hegis bet is really giving it the full treatment at a time where as ford prick frick says even the pitchers are trying or home runs williams will have plenty in the way of competition the rest of the way from rosen kosen kiner dropo stephens campanella snider and a few others including and easter but from the way long ted Is taking his cut at the ball he is the one more likely to reach the goal it if anyone does ralph kiner ainer is leading the national league and he is sure to pick up his pace later As a rule he bs falls into the groove after july fourth A year ago he be hit bit 20 home runs the last 30 days of the season the same output in 1950 might just push kiner over the top he is the orie one drawing factor the tho pirates have left tor for the season it might interest joe mccarthy to know that no manager ever left the scene with a better press than the depart departing ingRed red sox box leader drew around the circuit maybe a manager who wins nine pennants and seven world series need too many boosts with baseball it has become pretty evident that something has been shaken loose the baseball we e an all knew as at it is inow BOW play played edgin 6 in the two big leagues leaguess 1 and the leading minors either an extra charge of TNT has been inser inserted in the ball or an I 1 extra zip alp has been removed from pitching arms something is wrong to break the news mildly I 1 we have the red sox scoring 20 runs against the browns in one game anda day later the red sox piling up 29 20 runs against the same team then the cleveland indians pile up 14 runs in the first inning against mr macks disintegrating athletics who have hit the soapy chute at record speed Is this baseball ar or cricket scores ranging from 12 to 16 runs are common few pitchers er sever ever complete seven innings the pitching cant be that bad the war has been over five years so the war ce cant nabe be used as an alibi for so much inferiors inferior playing allover all over both leagues |