Show I 1 Class Stands Out In Modern B Baseball By Dr BILLY EVANS NS EVANSS S CLEVELAND LEVELAND Feb Eddie Eddle 2 Colllns Collins the th smartest ball play play- i or I evor ever came cam Into contact with wIlli I tarred at football U as a well wll ell as a baseball when he be attended Colum bla bill University While football and have hae lia but little In Ip common most of of the th coll college lIo athletes who shine on 01 th In grIdIron ue are ar pretty prell coo 1001 diamond performers Without out exception practically every big ble league IlaU collea lan frankly frank frank- frankly 1 ly IY admits admit that at ee he li fall far preferred football to baseball bare ball de de dc- 1 spite spit Its I IOne One day last summer r while Col- Col Collins Col Colllns I Uns lins and I 1 were wre discussing a t football game cam oth otho that both of us u had I o attended the th previous fall tall I put pu tills this Question qu to him Youve both both- Eddie Ed- Ed Eddie Ed Eddie played games die which do you regard as aa a the themore th more scientific I knew that I would J get an ai analytical r reply ply from colllns who t Is always al the tho til stud student nt Here Her It ItI itis 1 I Is IS e VIEWS 8 11 op OF COLLINS COLLIS Football from the tb anile angle to fo leant play calls cilli for tor more science than baseball Th The diamond guns game offer oHen more n possibilities for tor the Individual Ty Cobb with his hb remarkable batting ye C greet cr ret it screed Ud td deceptive ive dc t slide and keen kelD mind would have been an outstanding star t r on on l au any ball clu club b Walter Waller Johnson Johnsons Johnson's ability to win consistently con even een when with witha a hopeless Is further of how a 1 a star can can all assert In lit baseball Class ClAM on limo tho th part of the tho Indi Individual vidual player will assert Ila Itself lf In baseball regardless s ot of condition In football there havo been few star atar players who have hav shown with with the brilliancy ot of Cobb but ut merit was wu not entirely r as ii in Tys Ty's Ty C caw ciso to In- In Invariably Invariably In Invariably variably much needed assistance l IOU op the th part of their teammates blade the th fame fam that tune came 11 way ay I It It ill le 1 unfortunate but In foot foot- bILl bAll footbAll foot tho th glory dory alway goes roea to the I ball although the Ih men to In the ill line lIoe and the tho players player forming I II Ithe I the play an equally Important important part I I Strikes me in that E reply r will satisfy both Id alder aides of the th ques- ques question quei tion AR All Au alwa always alwy he h was decidedly S e KS ri-AY ri p n Baks play II a a bill big part put In all Sports ports but It always alway struck me that possibilIties nOne non offered more mor for fickle fortune fortun to cut cast the deciding die dl than baseball A pitcher to win consistently In the th majors major must be favored favor d bythe by bythe byth the breaks It H is I not enough that h he p effectively Ii I team must give Ivo him able ablo abl support us In the th field and at the th bat and luck smile mills smil on him I 1 don t a believe I 1 ever ner observed a SL better example of ot the th above truth than the tb experience of Waite Walto Hoyt during the th early stages of ot Ute the th 1925 1326 race Waite Walto Hoyt to my way ny way of thInking Is a great t pitcher pitcher-IIa pitcher has that that floes coea Oel to mako make maka a star liar speed peed curve c curves s find change of pace and a Yo wise also lae noodle Yet despite alltIs all his natural Itay Itay backed b by an Intelligent nt mind Walt Waite W ite loyt during the tho first two months of the tho lU 1026 13 season wasn't able abl to finish a ball bait game came t C e e CONCRETE n E In n his bis first 13 15 attempts that season Hoyt Hot was unable to regis regis- register regi ler ter ler a 11 single victory Ju Just Juit t to Illustrate what hat th the breaks nt mean an In his attempt to l eo n over It seamed as It If he was VILlI about abort to ucc ed against the tho nt to Louis Louie Drowns Drown With Wills two Vo out In the first half halt of Ute the th nInth the score acore cor stood 62 C In iii favor of New York Hoyt lOoked licked a ur Curd winner Inner Hoyt tumbled fumbled d an easy eay tap that should have hav been the tb third out The next batter balter hit the Jh first ball bait for tor a home homo run making the th score corf 4 6 4 The Tho Th n next man up also 1110 hit the first t pitch for Cor a homer bomer bom r th the iho game cam ame wax was tied and Hoyt was as on onh onh i his h hway way to the tho th u c Pennock finished the game cam and the lIe Yanks Tanks won welt In 10 Inning |