Show I THE SPORT LIGHT HT I Dr By GRANTLAND GR T Copyright 1026 1028 New 10 Tork In Inc Trademark I Registered U S S Patent Of- Of Of Of C A STRANGERS TO IA IL There will bu bo a a number of strangers to world settee tame fame in inthis this next holocaust fracas or what you will who will suddenly find themselves headlined all nil over the map Many o of these have suddenly popped themselves into public no- no no notice tice and yet tor for any wido reputation are almost unknown For or example there are Douthitt the tho Cardinal center conter fielder an and w th the tha c Cardinal shortstop You haven't haven't heard the names ot Douthitt and shouted along the highways but both are great ball players who are arc likely at any moment to up nn and find a number of laurel sprigs twisted around their sun blistered sua brows WHO WIL WILL HE JlE IL THE HEROES Naming tho the heroes or the tile ble ble heroes of this next series aeries Is ii I one onao of the tho hardest prophecies yet un- un unfurled un unfurled furled in the advance chatter of post season parties One may be bo Douthitt and one on may bo ho And no two have a I bettor better chance chanco than and Gehr Gehrig two world series de- de debutantes debutantes de butantes debutantes and ehrig have bave a won won- J shot hot at the shining target ot of r fame because they can both rise rue up and wallop he be ball Into open coun coun- country try country They are natural hitters bitters and dangerouS bitters hitters for they havo bave punch as well as precision OLD AND NEW This will be a Q series erles of old and new striving with gr great at for tor the thu th a winners winner's end nd on both sides Among the veteran hitters the Yankees will have Ruth and leusel to In shoot against Hornsby and lot lot- Bottomley And there will III be two former world series pitching stars In action with Herb Pennock arrayed against Grover Cleveland Alexander Both have havo done fine tine pitching un UI der world series fire tire before this and they are still primed to do brilliant work In anyone any one game THU TUE me BIG CHANCE 1 Names that you rarely hear heard mentioned before will 11 now start reo re- resounding sounding almost any certain day for or these youngsters are going out outto to take a cr crack ck at their chance They can pick Up o of the hullabaloo In one week now than they could find in an entire season ot of o pennant play For or when a world series aeries break breaks it Is the focal point object for tor or the week the main sportive ob- ob ob of ot national interest In this case clue It will be mor more so than for tor or many years because St Louis reaches further west and there will be more partisanship and more Intersectional Interest No two men will be more closely watched than Hornsby and Bot- Bot two great hitters who fell this season from their high estate of ot other years Under the Inspiration o of the big show how they may may rush ruta back to th Ii form which made them famous amous and dangerous tor or they were a mur mur- mur dering murdering pair of hitters just a II eal ago and they have S been locating the range In better fashion late lately I SOME YOUNG PITCHERS The it Cardinal chance wilt will depend upon how Rhem and Ken KeLn their two young star pitchers pitcher can canace face ace the big tire fire In their first big performances It Isn't so much a n matter of ot stuff stutt and nerve It Tt often otten la Js a 0 matter ot of r experience where time la Js needed to round out the ct ct ct They undoubtedly will wll be good and either and elther has It in him to be one ona ot or the shining heroes before another er or week has hu passed possibly another er cc Babe Dabe Adams o of 1909 And alwa always there Is the problem o 0 of Babe Dabe Ruth who may take the show away from the field at any anytime time The Babe Dahe has iras no easy caS road for tor he Is always the tho target they are aro almin aiming at He lie has been the big starIn star starin In more than one series but a few years ars ago ngo the Giants suppressed him with two hits for tor an average e eno no larger lar-er than the size of his hat The Babe nabe la Is not easily suppressed and this has been one of ot his best years In every wa way Certainly there Is no one around who has drawn moro more world series ence or who enters the argument with an any greater zest zeat So on one sl side le there are Ruth t 4 Hornsby Bottomley Pennock and tha tho th older guard g On the tho other side Bide there are aro Douthitt Lessen Koenig There There- now Rhem Rhein I Keen een and Gehrig An Any one who can draw the right name from tho rho hat o of tame fame In this collection Is a II pretty fair picker after aCter the Roman Greco-Roman or catch can the catch can fashion |