Show R CE When the Clock Is Running Out You can look back to the pages through the ages when the sages Thought In terms of endless time When you reckoned by the second or the centuries that beckoned In a rhyme What Is lime time the sages asked you But the sages never knew The killing thrilling moment that Is only known yn to few To the teams In scrappy battle through the gridirons gridiron's reel and rout Where seconds tell the story of the glory of the bout To the team that's trailing slightly slightly- when the clock Is running running- out All AH time Is now split seconds seconds seconds-as as the wild cheer leaders shout For the pass or run that follows follows- I when the clock is running out Oh Ob th the reeling dizzy feeling In the wheeling spin of doubt doubt- Can they make it it break break or fake lake it It- It as the clock Is running out The Condition Pitcher Spud Chandler the Yankees star pitcher Is strong on the side of condition condition condition con con- I or physical fitness Part of this is due to Chandlers Chandler's I psychology and part to his football training where one had to keep in shape with the schedule Georgia faced in fn I I those those years often often 4 10 hard games n Spud is a terrific worker A few years year back this conditionIng condition condition- Ing process boomeranged boomeranged boomeranged boom- boom when he started to get ready M weeks ahead of r time by working Grantland Rice out out his legs over a aGeorgia aGeorgia aGeorgia Georgia track He broke an ankle I 1 which left him out of action most of the year I This concentration on condition has been largely responsible for Chandlers Chandler's best year at the age of 34 I I Few pitchers wait that long to have their best season which season which also was one of the best pitching seasons in over 20 years I One Great Pitch PitchA A bunch of us were arguing as usual over the greatest single pitch any any World series ever saw i M My y vote went to Christy Mathewson Mathew- Mathew son in the series of 1912 Giants 1912 Giants against the Red Sox This was the eighth game of the closest series yet played In the last of the tenth Inning the Giants were leading by a run with Boston at bat There were vere two on base with one out and Tris Trig Speaker up Mathewson piled two fast balls 1 through and then with the same pitching motion lobbed one over Speaker caught off oft balance lifted a high pop foul Coul that dropped safely In the coaching box near first base It should have been an easy out but the call came for Chief Myers to handle it and It-and and the slow Chief couldn't quite make it That pitch should have made two out and quite possibly have won the series for the Giants It took headwork and courage to feed Speaker that slow one under the circumstances But Mathewson always had just about everything a pitcher needs tobe to tobe tobe be tops Back in to 1905 a mere matter of 38 years ago your correspondent saw Christy shut out the Athletics three times in compact order in the finest finest fin fin- est pitching exhibition he has ever seen Christy Mathewson still sUll first place in many a fans fan's memory book I The Left-Handed Left Crop Good left left-handers are hard to lo lo- cate Any ball club that has one top southpaw Is lucky The Cardinals Cardinals Cardinals Cardi Cardi- nals in a way were lucky to have four hanging around this season season- Lanier White Brecheen and Brazle not not to overlook Pollet who was called into the service This Is the best left handed crop any team has ever known when you add up both quantity and quality Any team whose power depends on good left-handed left hitters is up against a heavy handicap facing handed left pitchers In the old days the Babe had most of his trouble facing southpaws with the curve breaking away from his swinging bat I Which reminds us that a good part partI of Connie Macks Mack's earlier success I was due to the great left-handers left he gathered In along the trail Rube trail Rube Waddell Eddie Plank Herb Pennock Pen Pen- nock and Bob Grove Grove to to mention four ol of the best in baseball history About 1944 I What about baseball ll through 1944 19 No one can say the outlook Is any anymore anymore anymore more promising than It was for lor 1943 19 a year ago The lathers lathers' draft will undoubtedly make a big difference So will the progress of the war After Alter looking at what happened I through 1943 19 there Is little use in making too many pessimistic guesses Judging from all reports receiver receive to date baseball played its p part rOt fm fo the service men both In c. c amps c ahome a It ahome home and those abroad |