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Show THERE seems to be a rathei widespread opinion that yoi nst look 'or value in baUplayen "long the averages. The averagei L you a prettv fair answer bu' at the entire story, for example we'll take the 194! ason. It is dead sure to furnish the ie hottest race ir years in locatin the most valuable ballplayer the on who has renderec greatest service tc his mates. There are certainly five men worth consideration consid-eration Ted Williams Wil-liams and Verne TFE Stephens of the Red ELUL Sox Joe DiMaggic 0 the Yankees Lou Boudreau of He Indians and Stan Musial of the Cardinals. Yet their averages are ride apart in many respects. In this group Williams, Musial Boudreau all have been hit-tinj hit-tinj over .360 most of the year. DiMafgio ni Stephens have teen under .300. Yet the effec-l effec-l tire play t DiMaggio and Stepaens lists them high up, practically on even terms with those having far higher batting iterages. The hottest race will be in th American league when it comes tc naming the most helpful star. Stan Musial should take over the National Na-tional league selection with several kilometers to spare. Keller's Good Nature You can get an idea of Charlie Keller's type from this Incident. ' When they wanted to give him a "Keller Day." the Yankee outfield- er insisted that all receipts taken in be used for a Maryland university univer-sity scholarship for some needy joaih. That would be Charlie Keller's my. The Yankee outfielder graduated grad-uated from Maryland 11 years ago, came to Newark in 1937 and reported report-ed to the Yankees in 1939. He was not only a great ballplayer at Maryland Mary-land but also an honor student and cue o( the most popular fellows on the Maryland campus. I asked him once where be got that pair of hands the most powerful looking I'd seen in baseball. "Milking 12 eowr erery morning," Charlie said with a grin. Keller was born In Middletown, Kd., in September, 1916, some 32 jears ago. He came from the right state as a slugger the state that lave the game Babe Ruth, Jimmy Fon and Home-Run Baker. In his first year with the Yankees, Keller tit -334 and followed this with a id series mark of .438. Except for the roughest luck you can cagine, he could have been one of , fte greatest power men of the .same. He "as on his way to lead the amencan league in all power departments de-partments when he broke an ankle. ns heading back when war ar-" ar-" and took him away from the jtaie in his Pme. Once again he : :3t his way up, then a spinal Uury cut nira down. Now he is along again in his fourth Maryland university, under the taofCurley ByrA is moving u both education and athletic Under Coach Jim Tatum's i3"06 id a few better tZ. V yers' " is a worthy p- for any team it meets-it Said her that Maryland ' ' fnd Maryland students of student KeUer and ball-,;,e ball-,;,e Ker, who has never brok-nlehhi, brok-nlehhi, career, ei. a'cohol or nicotine $!LV have accePted Kelir ., 'th , the usual thanks. In place 7fte!e Yankee mter tasisted l4T,ba!.eflt' t0 be derived 7o m!, day should be given in :Vtn asCholarshiP or scholar-:N scholar-:N yong men who V a college education. Prowess L 35 followed football CoVr311 biasout ,lt,!'ho r,i can t aSree with t 'r654 over I "than to 1 Id nthmg bet-I bet-I S.M.u t a substantial bet lL!,is' Kotr.XaT-aU- and ,V8arnt, and others wh 5! MiiWe7,nger remain-j remain-j est teams. !l'rfl8'ebuIta,Tne,W0Uld be hard to ; h J02bt that Leahy's 'ta ha, S'M-U- or Texas-s'tawmn" Texas-s'tawmn" great ""e but no ;? r!with 0,9 passers J'tbelf. Ve Texas. ' r t 'n is deep 8 """'tl TV, l0sses from 1947's H Michigan iS much deePer ' wteS? said that n S thiB" Notre "ble Sel aTe the lightest ' ,04 Texas " c,udlDS |