Show I Bench Talk BY THE BENCH WARMERS Joe holds key to Yank success Ute ramblings Tid bits from here n there The Adage Joe DiMaggio so goes the is as when his booming bat put the true today as it was last year Yankees into the world series and won for him the American league distinction as the most valuable The Yankees are doing alright but that's not good They lack that certain punch and are not bearing down as they Thus the case of Joe DiMaggio is an important story because Joe is still the New York He is still the Big Guy the key the inspirational It's up to the Yankee Clipper to carry the destiny of the world's Joe has hit the worst slump in his ten years in big batting below the But ever since June 20 when he slapped one of Al prized pitches out of Sportsman's park in St. Louis for a yard Ruthian he is steadily regaining his batting Yankee Clipper is one of It is agreed unanimously that the the best fielders in the He can cover more ground and knows what to do when he gets the But his potent bat is that into the background by the obvious tact all this has been pushed is below the that his hitting average Joe has repeatedly complained that batting practice pitchers were trying to pitch to spots instead of grooving the causing him to lose his He asserted that he's not meeting the ball Joe complained that in one instance he spent trying to dodge and hit the most of his batting ball only after 15 balls were Last according to Frank Crosetti came out to the park before the World Series and pitched to him for an He was That timed him up for the His swing was back where it Joe's almost decided he'll have to hire a batting practice Will Joe get He will But it better be soon because it will be too late for the And believe it or the Yanks are not afraid of the pace setting Cleveland or the Athletics but the rampant Red Sox who are edging into the first The good word that officials are considering another track meet in Salt Lake was brought back by Coach Ike He said that national committee members were pleased with last year's and were considering returning the meet in the near Vadal Peterson is currently making a round of summer coaching This week he is conducting classes at the University of Utah will continue a home-and-home football schedule with the University of Colorado through This means that in addition to the homecoming game here October 1948 and the return battle in October the Buffs will make the trek to Salt Lake October and we go to Boulder for the windup of the present schedule November When the University of Oklahoma golf team played Nebraska at Lincoln the visitors were given the honor at the first They started out in two foursomes and neither Oklahoma pair lost the right to drive first through the entire eighteen Sooner pair had a score of 65 and the other 67 over a par 72 Lou Columbia grid is shedding an odd Because his scored in only cent of their courses that fifty-four received passing grades in of Lou claims he's in not achieving a perfect He must think he's Bill catching all those A rooster wins by knockdowns instead of It all came out in a Hawaiian court that roosters have been fighting with gloves Four tiny leather like boxing were produced as evidence of the gladiatorial Attorney claimed that it was no more murderous than boxing since in this cock-fight the roosters slugged each other with leather But a cock-fight was still a and since Hawaii bans such exhibits as cruelty to animals the 22 charged with watching the were fined |