Show luke easter eyes babes babe s record by GRANTLAND RICE i THOSE interested in i ging side of baseball should now turn to the west coast ted wll wil clams came up from san diego but they have two younger m men on inhabiting ha biting the paci bics slope thomay who may pick most of the laurel this now new season one la Js ralph kiner of the pitts burgh pirates and the other la Is luke luka easter with the t h 0 grantland live cleveland indians it so happens that I 1 astner has passed the BO 50 home hom run er mark twice reaching tile tho GO mark Is a different story ralph tells you hank greenberg and jimmy foxx found that out and both could hit bit the ho ball a i long way once you get into the so 60 zone I 1 guess you be begin 9 in to i overtly as the days begin to run out the babo babe never bothered 1 lie just kept swinging kiner is still a young ballplayer he should have his best hitting 1 years on ahead ile he takes good care of his physical fitness and he has a workshop where ho he keeps the equip equla ment needed to strengthen this ails grip and wrists his ball club tell fell apart 1 I last year and this help him a lot let actually no one thinks about beat ing tho the babes old mark of go 60 it T may happen some day as 58 50 has been tied twice and be 56 has been reached on two occasions greenberg foxx hack wilson and kiner have hava been the four main challen gers so far now hank greenberg berg enters luke easter the S san an elego 1 giant as another likely challenger i el easter astir Is around six feet four and weighs some pounds that hank says 1 he has what you might call a a s homo home run swing I 1 mean by that a full free swing tho type ty pe that babe had I 1 believe E easter aster cau can hit the ball as hard as ruth did 1 and drive it just as far lie may not be able to do this as often however E caster aster will be a cleve land rookie and you cant expect too much of him the ho first year I 1 bellevo believe his power will still aull win many a giltne gamo for usi us and either bring Clev cleveland elud la in as a pennant winner or st at least one odthe of the leading challengers you cant afford to crawl too far out on tile the end of a llma limb for a rookie but ill go quite a als tance for easter aster R all aa ted williams and joe dicag glo are west coast entries this gives the pacific a big edge edga in long distance gallopers wallo pers they will havo hava most of the crop give demag games and he may them all big coast gamo game red blanks army team Is headed for the west coast next fall to start an entanglement with stanford they doy are already rating this one of the big games of the 1950 1930 season theres pretty fair reason for this rating with pollard a los angeles product playing in ardys backfield the west coast experts figure A army amy will have one of the tha star bac backs its of the season season at least he ha made a big name in a hurry at loyola where he played only a year before heading for the faraway far away banks of the hudson ivo ive heard nothing but boosts for or the ex cx loyola halfback add pollard to bob ulala stephen son aon bcd cain and you got get one oba 0 ta abo e best back backfields fields army ever sent bent into it football inel melee ee you can always bank on red blaak and his staff for A fast chang ing hard hitting defensive platoon so it tile expected takes place army will again havo have ono one of tile the strong teams of tho the country possibly the strongest strone cst with domany so many veterans leaving notre noire name dame but dont figure the 1050 1950 stanford squad will bo be easy for anyone a stanford grad said when the iho discussion cams came up marchy schwartz had a fine sophomore crop this last fall all t they hey needed was experience they got plenty of that also I 1 could say that stan fords freshman team this last fall wa was the best in many years palo alto will be packed with high class football players this should be tho the best stanford team since dark clark turned out the bunch that had frankle albert co it will be big fast and three dep deep and by tho the time of the army game it will bo be well seasoned 0 0 0 joe louis and 1950 just what plans joo joe louis hrs has for the rest of 1950 is guess including joes but you can enter one auro aura answer if joe tights fights again it will bo be a morbid spectacle that only the morbid in heart would care to see in recent months louis has been working beyond exhibition purposes to get back in shape he has been doing road work of fair proportions and a certain amount of gymnasium I 1 boxing |