Show on the record coaltown Coal town s bist best r by GRANTLAND RICE theres something moving and if iff still a blur esaw I 1 taw it is start star with a dizzy spin eisaw I 1 law it is start and I 1 taw saw it is stir then the race was dons done it in the me deadly din laflash A flash and a whirr I 1 saw it then it was Coal fown sown cracking the mark again yes maa afan bowar was a likely steed big rod red could move with a zip sip and ting ring citation Citati oti struck with the winning breed he raced last year at as the she uncrowned kins king but bus now theres a now new theme for our pen its iff coaltown Coal town tracking cracking the she mark again again 4 0 0 Coal lown vs citation it Is something out of the ordinary when one stable has hag a horse to be entered with the best of 0 all time now calumet has two last winter the debate rested with cita tion and man 0 war now warren wright jimmy and ben jones have an other starter known sia as coaltown Coal town coal grantland nia luce itice town Is the fastest horse that ever ran up to a mile and even longer this a matter of opinion this is a matter of record ills mile in in chicago o recently is the fastest mile by 18 15 of a second that any thoroughbred ough bred has t traveled the eight furlongs lie ile ran every section of the mile faster than any horse ever did before who was running the mile distance Coal towns 15 for the six furlongs Is a big part of the answer when Is considered exceptionally fast bin ben and jimmy jones have always rated citation over coal latown do pen and jimmy jones belleve believe that citation could run a mile and a quarter faster than 45 or run a mile faster aster than 1347 1 I doubt it very much it must be admitted that citation had the better of the argument at the end of his bis three year old career but there are other years beyond the 3 year old mark it Is quite certain that citation as a three year 0 old 14 was never as fast or sensa lional as aa coaltown Coal town has been as a four year old this also goes for man ol 01 0 w war ar who never ran distances from six furlongs to a mile and a quarter in the time that coaltown Coal town has handled coaltown Coal town Is undoubtedly a taster faster horse than Citati citation onor or man 0 war up through a mile and a quarter it might be that ho he quite tako take care of the mlle mile and a halt half or tha two mile test but he be has greater speed than the two facings rac ings greats mentioned above A has been over seven I 1 months since citation ran we his last race in california ills his in jury A hopping bopping of os or at least cast a popping of the he same eaic was pronounced slight at the lime but be his has been out a long time for a horse borse with i a minor injury coaltown Coal town started with an injury and an illness but he was sound as a a three year old ancho and ho ls is even sounder as a tour four year old the closest scrap A fw few days ago we mentioned the closeness of the race brace for the most valuable player the of the american league at this stage of the conflict etwas a casual reference ference with some five ave or six fix weeks left but it had a serious beriou side to a number of bystanders who nave have definite ideas on the subject those listed by various read ers include rage page Il enrich and of the dom dimaggio DiMagg agelo to williams stephens and parnell odthe of the redson red box and georgo george kell kall of the he tigers in opening two successive letters we find these two viewpoints you cant leave off tommy Hen henrych tich remember the games he won when joe dimaggio DIMagg lo was out when the yankees needed this uplift the weakest spot in the yankee lineup line up is their pitching where would this pitching have been without joe page he won the pennant for them in 1947 and if the yankees win in 1949 it will be page again ive checked back and have found that verne stephens stepheni has won more games for or the he bed box than any one else another writes ile he has been their best home run hitter bitter lie ile has driven in n more run sAnd and a shortstop Is far more valuable than sin an outfielder dom da 1 imaggio and Te ted williams dWillIams are about on a par williams has driven in more runs but dom is a lead leadoff off man the mite odd part Is that nobody seems able to locate an on the cleveland squad |