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Show y h SPOR TLIGH T Baseball Galaxy Changes Little By GRANTLAND RICE ANOTHER SPRING Is about p break open with new bliz-; bliz-; : ys in the North and warmer Jin the South, the time seems about ripe for naming in ad- . vance the baseball stars who will be crowned next fall and winter. This is a simple enough job if you wait until October or November. It has many more tangles if you try it with 16 clubs Lemon, Ed Garcia, Indians; Art Houteman, Tigers. National league: Most valuable valu-able player Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campa-nella, Campa-nella, Dodgers; Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter, Red Schoen-dlenst. Schoen-dlenst. Cardinals; Ralph Ktner, Pirates; Whitey Lockman, Giants; Gi-ants; Richie Asburn, Phillies; Sid Gordon, Braves. Leading pitchers Don New-combe, New-combe, Preacher Roe, Dodgers; Howie Pollet, Harry Brecheen. Cardinals; Ken Heintzleman, Robin Rob-in Roberts, Phillies; Jansen, Giants. Gi-ants. A Few Stabs in the Dark Here are a few wavering stabs, delivered through the spring dark ness, as far as 1950's awards are concerned. American league: Most valuable player Joe Di-Maggio, Di-Maggio, now in perfect health. Leading challenger, Ted Williams. Leading all-around hitter Ted Williams. Leading pitcher Mel Parnell. Leading challenger Allie Reynolds. Reyn-olds. Leading relief pitcher Joe Page. Leading home-run hitter Luke Easter Indians (if his doctored knee holds up.) Leading rookie Luke Easter, Indians. National league: Most valuable player Stan Musial, Mu-sial, Cardinals; leading challengers, challen-gers, Roy Campanella, Bob Morgan, Morg-an, Jackie Robinson, Dodgers. Leading all-around hitter Stan Musial. Leading pitcher Don New-combe. New-combe. Leading power hitter Ralph Kiner, Pirates. Leading rookie Sam Jethroe, Braves; leading challenger, Bot Morgan. Dodgers. Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggic should put on a brilliant American league batting duel. Football's Spring Fever Out of the shuffling and reshuff ling of football coaches since the last season closed, we have a faint idea that Tom Hamilton and Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh captured one of the best oj them all in the person of Len Casanova, Casa-nova, the ex-head coach at Santa Clara. For one reason or another more than a dozen well-known colleges suddenly found themselves with out a head coach shortly after the last pass was thrown in 1949. i .tland Rice J u 8 ""ding for the sun. re were some of the leaders of 1 National league Jackie Rob- I, Brooklyn; Don Newcombe, klyn; Ralph Kiner, Pitts-r- ,i; Stan Musial, Cardinals. ' firican league Ted Williams, -Sox; George Kell, Tigers; Phil $,ito and Joe Page, Yankees; 'jj Kinder and Mel Parnell, Red i Roy Sievers, Browns. A n 1949 the American league, "Varently, had more stars -Jin the National league car-The car-The all-star game and the rid series helped to prove s. So did the year's set of erages. The American league -d no home-run hitter to itch young Kiner. The Na-nal Na-nal league had no all-around 'v,ter to match Ted Williams. .e National league had no ! l 5r of pitchers to match Kind- !, J and Parnell, no shortstops J match Rizzuto and no relief f cher to match Page. j it 1950 is another year. A new ' lg has arrived and some 500 eague ballplayers are all itch- Y to start from scratch, as you i 'it or might not say. io will be the two most valu-I valu-I players, the two leading pitch-j pitch-j the leading home-run hitter, j best all-around hitter and the j best rookies of the new sea-J sea-J Here are some of the candi-; candi-; s reporting to southern and i em turf American league: Most valu-i valu-i le player Ted Williams, Mel irnell, Red Sox; Joe DiMag-f DiMag-f ), Tommy Benrich, Joe Page, ' lil Rizzuto, Yankees; Dale itchell, Lou Boudreau, In- ins; Johnny Groth, Tigers. :ading home-run hitter Ted " lams, Boston; Joe DiMaggio, kees; Luke Easter, Indians; j ; Chapman, Athletics, 'i lading Pitcher Mel Parnell, i Kinder, Red Sox; Vic Raschi, ; Reynolds, Yankees; Bob |