Show SPORT LIGHT we some pitchers can break 49 mark by GRANTLAND RICE nA DOPE Is an odd mx D ture of many unknown lites ties this has been the year when the pitching in the two ra major a j 0 r leagues h has a s been planned more e x R ten than ever before it has been the season when b e n IJ few pitchers pit chers ever drew a kind word and yet it is the jak year when we rak might have m more 0 r e I 1 20 game winners winners grantland Brant land uce than one can re I 1 member i As a starter bob lemon faced the ahe 1950 campaign as the only pitch tr r who had known two 20 game t seasons 1948 1943 and 1949 ile he was the r lone entry good enough to have two 1 m seasons in succession i L last S byear year we had parnell kinder lemon spahn pollet and nd kellner in the 20 game won division there were five american leaguers a and n d two national leaguers lea stiers they can break this in mark ark in I 1 1950 those who still hae ave at I 1 least a shot at the mark this season with some 50 games left are arc lemon and wynn of cleveland lopat and byrne of the N Y yankees and hutchinson of detroit roberts and simmons it if he has the chance to keep pitching of the phillies sain spahn a and in d bickford of t h e t I 1 braves jansen of the glints giants q poe KM and possibly newcombe of i tm 14 deers i i those who won 20 or more games abst st year and probably wont won t re peat xanthis this season include parnell and kinder of the red sox pollet of tte the cardinals and kellner of 0 the athletics 1 this leaves lemon and spahn as the only repeaters provided they can make the grade I 1 it must be admitted the pitching both big leagues improved con lider ably since late june before that it was something unspeakable lathe the great majority of cases teen is al the phillies Phil lles and giants have wn g getting ting excellent pitching hile yankees pitching has moved ill P from its earlier outlook of the cardinals Heln helman of it the h e phillies i branca and barney of the doag ers era pollet pallet of the t h e cardinals I 1 hlyer of the phillies parnell md and kinder of the he red sox and practically all of the athletic pitchers have been disappointing but apparently the fading earn laign will finish with a first class arti headed by dob bob lemon con i buting better than average sea long ions last of the sutherland breed back in the days when pitt was collecting a dream backfield and fordham had seven blocks of granite the last guy up off the ground in the many scoreless ties was johnny an affable bloke who had just the right size I 1 and speed to fit into the suthie sutherland re single wing system as a blocking back big john came to pitt with a reputation he was considered one ot of the greatest high school prospects in many a season ile he was a great runner and one of the best passers ever turned out in the sott soft coal region and incidentally he still holds the high school punt record but at pitt john never ran passed and maybe punted twice the late great dr jolln john bain jock sutherland took one look at the big ukrainian and he knew he had a great blocking prospect jock realize however that he had at long last found the heir apparent to his football dynasty the fellow who was going to carry on with the single wing system when most of his other students deserted to the T formation nor did jock realize then that would succeed him in the pro ranks and become the sole tutor of the he single wing if 11 big mike should fall fail in the newly formed national league then the sutherland warn er style of rock ern em sock em may pass completely from the football scene for the better part of his 34 years yearb john P has been a keen and active student of the game football for 1950 even with the two best pennant races in many years football is moving up in a hurry the allstar all star game in chicago has drawn its usual capacity crowd and the pros are now trying to find out just what they have by actual competition with one another one of the nicer notes so far a the colleges are concerned is the announcement that frank thomas is back on the job iob as graduate manager at alabama here 0 u r conference t the h e southeastern thomas writes 1 I would put the r ratings a t I 1 n 9 s in three thice groups no I 1 tennessee L S U tu lane georgia and kentucky no 2 alabama georgia tech mississippi and vanderbilt no 3 auburn florida a and n d mississippi state of course with the war situation as it is many of the boys are in the national guard and different reserve corps so many things can happen between now and kickoff kick off biml |