Show LIGHT able play breakup break up perilous by GRANTLAND RICE ME TINE TIME BACK dr george bronett bennett the noted medical surgical e expert x pert from balde was as t talking a about th the tie play break up at second this is the play used to break up double plays he said it is the most dangerous play in baseball and should be abolished it should be abolished because it Is unfair and e cowardly and also hand ad rice itice because it I 1 t hurts ballplayers players ali than you know iad had any number come to me treatment reat ment of back or leg toi ini indue due to collisions at second I 1 cant understand why base tolerates such a play it will or r shorten the careers of many players ayers in the course ot of time debennett Dr r bennett Is per cent act in the first place the ly is unfair and cowardly e player placer handling the ball aslop or second baseman basc man s no chance to protect him 9 ills job is to take the throw d make the relay to first se the base runner coming the ie bag has a clear shot at F unprotected 1 c 1 d opponent the ment I 1 is often f cin completely at b base r runners u rs mercy the le aser ase aline er handling ba in the ball can ve back muscles torn loose ils his legs or knees badly maged cd recent cent example was the eddie A case ase joost Is one of the star rans as of baseball he was con blacks icks most useful player or of his more useful players at I 1 he was taken out by cliff pes ot of the yankees in a recent a ut it the main trouble was he ant merely taken out of that nicular play he was taken out the rest of the season or the capart er cr part of 0 it ile he may have been 23 n out for the rest of his career anly ali mapes intend to ck k a fellow players baseball ler but in the speed and heat of on n such as this play calls for s impossible to tell what the ret rei might be there is no one who knows knos ore lire about the lie handling oil 0 UP players layers in trouble than dr licit when he rates this 4 y the roost most dangerous and oleu in the rame game he happens 1 0 know what he be Is talking bout out ne of the first moves at the 1311 t fall or winter league meetings lid id be to abolish this play basei supposed to be football two games are entirely differ baseball ba a sebal is more a game 0 of than an football can ever be the chances are nothing will be done about the play until two or three stars are wrecked possibly for life and then some change will be made later when aben it I 1 is too late for the already injured most graceful player help us settle an argument writes L r F who in your opinion is or was the most graceful ballplayer you ever saw among those mentioned by the group were tris speaker nap lajoie joe demag gio joe gordon george burns and george elsler nap lajoie Is the most graceful ballplayer we ever saw in action one proof of greatness Is that we cant recall any spectacular play larry ever made ile he made every t ape p e of play seem easy there was no waste motion for example in covering second on a steal let lajoie used only his gloved hand lie ile hail had the knack of sweeping the bill ball to the base runner avith one motion tins this grace extended to the bat you never saw lajoie crouched and tense as most hitters are today ile he boud stand st the plate aith the bat in his left hand and it up just in time to swing at the bau ball in spring training pitchers would test out lajocies Laj oies timing they would get to him the first day or two in camp before his batting eye was adjusted to the ball they would throw in front of him back of him in the ground at hi his feet feel over his head but larry kept knocking the ball back on a hit and run ive seen him throw his bat at a wide pitch and single over first base lajoie was no small man ile he was over six feet and he weighed around pounds ketchel and greb the meeting of this pair would have been a ring classic the west still goes with ketchel the east rides with greb of the two ketchel was the better puncher greb was much the better boxer philadel phia jack 0 obrien anen out boxed ketchel for nine rounds by a wide margin and then finished the dreaming of the hour after the manner of byrons turk ketchel practically be headed obrien 0 brien kid might have been a tough opponent tor for either cither ketchel or greb at his peak the kid was a 1 brilliant boxer and a punishing puncher greb at his best almost annial tom gibbons and gene tun this was the ney in in one season worst beating that tunney ever got I 1 also saw greb take jack jach nillon dillon part apart |