OCR Text |
Show In case Lew Tendler lails to give Bqpny T.eoiiard a worthy argument, the lightweight chr.mploji has easy-sailing easy-sailing ahead for ibme time to come He can then drift alon v.llh a pile Of eas Icalo in iglit io bp collected v.iiliutit much effort. There has always al-ways been sonic doubt as to whether Leonard slipped by gg easily because his exc ptlonul .skill was so uronounr ed or because his superiority was due i to lack of class in his field. 1 II l certainty that he has had no such opponents op-ponents lo iiK-.t ts "Bat" Nilr.m once taced in Gans. Britt, Young Corbet t and Ad Wolgaut Ben's road has boon, fairly soft. The one tough spot BCOnlS to be ahead, but from tho inside Leonard Leon-ard circle there se.,ms to be a strong feeling that Benny will close OU.1 the .'bow within a few stirring rounds an! then stand on the crest with no worthy wor-thy challenger in sight. The struggle thut St. Louis is uvak ms io trash Into at least ono sector of the world series is among the nost notable sportive turns in the year. Something like four generations Of rabid St. Ixiuis lans have come and gone Without looking upon a winning team. Now it ... bapp. n, that one season has brought le two stoutest Si. LouLm combination since the old days ol Brown glory, and in each case I Is a matter of displacing a pennant winner from the year before. The Browns have the easier Job ahead. On form, considering all the talent they have lugged In through the last two years, tho Giants appeal ' r. i (rr too much class to be beaten off, even by a club that can toss the marvelous Hornsby Into action The Browns have no such combination to overthrow The Yankee? lack the all round power and strength of the Giants, as well as the latter's con. Is-fncy Is-fncy over most of tin stretch. And consistency is no light factor In any COQtent 'hat calls fof a six months'1 test Reverting iv the Leonard-Tendler s i are, we interviewed two welll known students of the situation who have kept ln close touch with both liners "Leonard" said the first, 'will win with a. knockout inside ot four rounds. He Is going into the fight at grenter speed and with more determination deter-mination than he has ever shown ' Tendler hasn't got a chance." The second opinion was one the oth- er side ol the roof "If there la any ' knockout, Leonard will be on the floor kicking, around the eighth round. I don't think there will be. Il ls my dope that the muss will end . In a draw. If there is any advantage, advan-tage, it rests with Tendler, who ls the toughest opponent Leonard has ever j met." 1 . in them 'o opinions you can think il over and draw your own conclusions. con-clusions. i "What i ihe hardest ball club in pa .bull to handle." inquires a by-1 slander. The general opinion ex-pressed ex-pressed by a few managers seems to be In favor of the Yankees. The ' amount of temperament there Is thicker than anywhere else, leaving j Miller Hugglns a Job few other mana- ! igers envy When you begin to over-star over-star the earnest athlete the result is j nearly always a cinch. By a strange turn of fortune both ! Horry Yardon and Abe Mitchell have! , had their putting affected by neuritis neu-ritis in the right forearms, where the nerves refuse to respond on any delicate deli-cate work Vardon offering no alibi But B statement of fact, told us at ! Inverness, ls that he had never been , able to control his right forearm on a short putt through this reason. "Thero are times," he remarked, "when I can ieel a nervo quiver between the wrist and elbow, and this uncertainty kills off all confidence." In the sam way Abe Mitchell ha-come ha-come upon exactly the same physical i delect "When my putting went off: for a week or two," said Abe, "I felt that it would soon come fcck, but j when I went week after week, and then month after month, without being be-ing able to control the putter around tho cup on any short range, I knew something was wrong For it was J not a case of nervousness. It I had ' been nervous, this also would have af-J fected my short chip shots and approaches ap-proaches over traps." |