| Show SPORT LIGHT d something on the boll ball his eyes 62 it acl fe by GRANTLAND RICE bitting A BASEBALL like hitting bitting ahting HITTING a golf ball Is a combination of many details working together bill dickey was wag talking about ted williams if you haat have ever caught b back a c k of williams dickey said you could understand why he is such luch a great hitter in the first place he has a remarkable pair of eyes he can usually tell whether the ball will pass lust just over the corner comer or Gra granted elce bice an inch or two away when it is still moving towards the plate it Is really amazing how he can can call these balls bails and strikes in advance but even more remarkable dickey continued Is the speed of his bands and wrists many hitters might wait as longas williams does to decide whether the pitch will be a ball bail or a strike but if it was to be a strike they could never get the bat into action quick enough I 1 recall there was many malay a time when I 1 would practically feel the ball in my glove only to hear bear the crack of williams bat meeting the bau bail and the ball upon its way williams is a great concentta con centra tor dickey says he follows the ball bail from the split second it leaves the pitchers hand he never makes the mistake of taking his eye off the ban ball or taking his mind off the ball bail once be decides it will be a strike his hands move with a rattlers speed tall ted came to the red sox box in 1939 lie ile lost three years of 0 baseball in the naval air force so EO 1949 Is his bis eighth season to show how consistent he Is williams seven year average Is just about what he be has been hitting this season he got away slowly this spring but has been the games best allaround all around hitter bitter to date his lowest mark was his first year his top mark was his third year 1941 when he be reached check back on all these statistics and find the boston bitter has done a pretty fair job of hitting a base ban ball lou little and hickman lou little of columbia and herman hickman of yale are without any question two of the ablest coaches football has known bi a this season they are caught in t thi ia k strongest highest grid ranking ly 1 T league the venerable ivy green hu has is known in many generations generation i this Is no advance alibi for or let ha man and lou for yale and colu colins i bla the raw facts are that yli yi and columbia material docot measure up to the manpower man powers power pa ties of 0 cornell darta olih pennsylvania brown Prince princets tM C harvard army and maybe tae 70 a 1 l navys young squad ll 11 but I 1 have a fe feeling eling that tea boll t yale and columbia are going coln to 10 lose more than a few games to to bei ter football teams A fine coache coach ii a big help but fine material lie Is la even bigger jump towards foo taw U 1 fame t no now it is quite possible that aall and columbia will move into scho C L with better material than one mitt look tor for but columbia has hai lost lal practically her entire first string including uch such brilliants brilliantz brilli ants as rol sides and kusserow no one can say yet what lin little has hickman lacked the he man power the material that most of his rivals had last fan fail levi jackson tales captain is a good player but in no BO seme a great one lie ile was injured in spring practice and no BO one can say how useful he be will be he was not up tip to many stir star east ease ern era backs last fall you YOM spears son of the famous doe doc spears may be a yale tale lifesaver but one man enough not la in a conference that has cornell dartmouth and Pennsyl pennsylvania varlia plus plas bron princeton and harvard it may be that herman hickmaa and lou little will wave the haec w wa an nd d of merlin and overturn tin the football dope but the point li is tbt football alter after au all Is a college game and not a matter of me life ad ri death the game Is packed wili able hardworking hard working coaches wh rt lack the material to compete with other coaches who are no better the mile no one can say definitely tit mile runner will be the first to reach the 4 minute spot tor for te mile the swedes have run within a stride or two of this mark tai and they may be the first to bit it IL the horse that could beat lit present mark of is the horse c that holds this mark his name Is 1 coaltown Coal town given the proper tract track which means lightning last fast coaltown Coal town can beat he BT not quite reach but hs be hullt be far away |
