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Show . , - I SPORTUGHT : 1 Draft Could Leave Yankees Intact I By GRANTLAND RICE 1 NO BIG-LEAGUE MANAGER, whether it be trouble from the draft or opposing teams, can look into a more cheerful future than Casey Stengel. The somewhat griz-rlprt griz-rlprt Yankee man- Henrich's place. Tommy is too great a ballplayer. But we didn't have too much of him last year. "We have a fine catcher a good pitching staff three-fourths of) a good infield and at least a good outfield. No one can say how many games Joe DiMaggio can play, but he played 138 or more last year. That's quite a bunch for a veteran 1 I ager has hit two pennant shots in a row and nothing much that happens in 1951 can leave much of a dent in his fame. When I rode from New York to Los Angeles around 35. Then look at our coaching coach-ing staff again Dickey, Turner, and Crosetti with Henrich added. Why that bunch could run two or three teams." They could and do a good job but Casey Is still the boss. One point Is that George Weiss had arranged for more farm strength than he ever drew credit for. Be had more than a few good ballplayers In the offing off-ing when they were needed Including In-cluding such people as Bauer and Coleman and Woodling. It may be that Rlzzuto won't have quite as good a year as he had last season. But yon can gamble gam-ble he will have a very good year just the same. Be was at his all-time best In 1950. Be won't be far away In 1951. So Casey Stengel looks out upon an upset world and an upsetting game with his philosophy in good working order. He hasn't started borrowing any trouble yet. "Why look for it," he says. "It'll find you, sooner or later." e Looking Ahead A real prophet is the fellow who UrantlandRice with Casey In 1948 he gave complete evidence of being a philosopher first and a manager second. You could figure from his conversation con-versation that he intended to give the Yankees all he had and let fate and nature take their courses. "We'll have a good year," he said then, "a very good year. But not everyone can win." Casey says the same thing in the gray dawn of a new year 1951. "We'll have another good year. If we don't win again well, who can win them all? "No one knows what the draft Is going to do," Casey said. "Here Is one angle about which no one can complain. We have already lost a young and very promising star In Whitey Ford. Be should have been better than a 20-game winner this next season. But the Phillies, Tigers and others have also lost stars and many more will go. Good veterans can mean more to a team today than promising rookies or younger players." Casey survived a 75-game absence on the part of Joe DiMaggio in 1949. He also survived 74 serious illnesses or injuries on the part of his players. play-ers. Same for 1951 He will have the same rough road for 1951. The Red Sox, with Scarborough Scar-borough and Wight added to their pitching staff, will be or should be much harder to cudgel out. They till have the big guns ready. Their defense has been their weakness Cleveland can be better and the Tigers can be rough. But Casey views the future, as fog-ridden as it is, with an undisturbed mind. It requires a considerable amount of morbid detail to disturb Stengel. "We have something of a familj team," he says. "Not many kids ' around now. Most of us are married ' men with families. Our pitchers are no longer kids after losing Ford Raschi, Reynolds and Lopat are all far past the rookie stage, not so likely to be called. You can't fill i;au ten yvu Wlldb eigiu luumau teams will be in the four major bowls on January 1, 1952. That's only a year off. This time we had California, Michigan, Texas, Tennessee, Ten-nessee, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Clem-son Clem-son and Miami. How many of these will be out at the next bowl chow? Michigan, for one. The Wolverine can't return now In the next three years. At this time last year Stanford was the team named as the likely West Coast Bowl candidate for Jan. 1, 1951. But Stanford didn't come close to making it. My guess for next year's Rose Bowl would be Howie Odell's Washington team with U.C.L.A. next., Washington gets a flying start with a brilliant backfield, headed by passer Heinrich. Stanford still lacks depth. TJ.S.C. will be a problem once more, an unguessable guess. Wash ington has the better chance out here. From the Big Ten, I like Illinois. This team barely missed out in a snowstorm this last time. Ohio State and Michigan can't come. So the Rose Bowl looks to be Washington Washing-ton and Illinois. All this, of course, is dependent almost entirely in the course of the draft. Spattered grease on the wallpaper wall-paper behind your stove can be removed easily if you paint the paper, while it's new, with a coat of colorless shellac. To be more elaborate, you can hang an oilcloth oil-cloth wall rug behind the stove. 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