Show OF lay W WHAT HAT sort of baseball property fell ell to the lot of bob hanne gan and his st louis associates recently the answer is a cardinal outfit that still will be extremely dangerous next season eddie dyer got the shock of his life when he returned to st louis last spring to find stan a sick man and the better part of his pitching s staff t a f f including howie pollet and murry marry dickson unfit tor for winning action through the first weeks of the season a team that looked to be the pick of both leagues DYER beat the crab cra b apple blues from the fried chicken circuit normally a hitter bitter hovered around the mark tor for several weeks pollet still had a link kink in his left shoulder and dickson was about as bad hit and terry moore was lame so in place ol of jumping the gun and taking an early lead the odds on favorites were parked la in last place from this his dismal start the cardinals moved into second place but the dodgers had too much of a lead t to 0 cut down the cardinals are not getting any younger but they are still a much better ball club than they looked to be tor for most of last year they still have country slaughter one of the best they still have and marion whitey kurowski Kurows kl may be fading but he Is still a valuable man terry moore Is over the hill one of the star outfielders of all time the pitching staff is the main problem but red munger has the stuff to be a 25 game winner dyer rates munger one of the best pitchers he ever has handled he will be a better pitcher next season that he was last year jim hearn the ex georgia tech star will be one of the best next campaign at least he be should be joe garagiola and del rice are two good catchers but to beat out the dodgers and the braves the he cardinals still need help another good infielder at least one more good outfielder and two good pitchers rs the dodgers should be even better and so should the braves dyer has two tough teams to roll back two improving teams who have more youth and more speed best heavyweight fights in the wake of the last heavyweight fight between joe louis and joe walcott the battle of the joes there Is still a hum of gossip concerning the best of all the heavyweight fights the records show there been too many such thrilling encounters the top of all time was the demp sey firpo two round burly burly in new york that never had an equal where a million dollars and the title were hanging on two or three seconds this was the big brawl more than 20 years ago before this the meeting between jim corbett and jim jeffries had all the thrills and alt all the color that anyone could ask tor for corbett tar far in front had the fight won until jeffries finally nailed him but most of the heavyweight fights have been on the drab side corbett had no trouble against sullivan his battle against bob fitzsimmons was entirely different here was another thriller with corbett well in front until fitz nailed him in the so called solar plexus in the round jeffries had little trouble with fitz later on then jeffries retired from that point on there was no sizzling action jeffries was a tat fat bald headed starter against jack johnson at reno johnson was a weary disgruntled lighter fighter against willard in havana and willard was a setup set up for dempsey at toledo dempsey was a big thrill until he started meeting boxers he was wrecking all the heavyweights heavy weights until he ran across tom gibbons and gene tunney where in 35 rounds he had only one knockdown killing punchers dont care tor for good boxers they never have and they never will A hard puncher cant get set against a good boxer who knows how bow to handle himself and keep out of the road harry greb could have done better against any heavyweight than he could against a tiger flowers or some smaller taster faster opponent greb loved the slower moving targets he met such fine heavyweights heavy weights as gibbons and tunney until he began going blind ile he wanted dempsey but jack never wanted greb joe louis has had bad trouble in the past with tommy farr godoy and bob pastor but joe also has taken part in more than one fantastic contest his finest fight was the second max ng encounter louis has had bad several exciting contests because he be quite absorb a right hand punch to the bead this has seemed to be his bis only weak point lie ile always came back but he be was abill in trouble just how he would have made out against jack dempsey Is something I 1 know |