Show C WD R CE TF IF F you will win pardon us for pointing big league baseball today has at et extremely high average of leadership leader leaders leadership ship in its managers now after the thi golden fleece The 1948 crop can match any anything thin I we have known in baseball As the they will figure largely in the headlines of the new year they should be worth just a 8 bit more space than they have received to date Who are they Even if you dont don't remember they include Joe Jot McCarthy of the Red Sox Bucky Ducky Harris of the Yankees and Lou Boudreau Boudreau Bou Bou- dreau of the Indians It might be Steve ONeil O'Neil of the Tigers also be be- longs We are not so well acquainted acquaint ed with his work It might be that Connie Mack can be Included in this list list we we mean 1948 the 1948 the only year that matters now You can throw out all the others The American league battle will willbe willbe willbe be a to hand-to-hand throat cutting duel duet between McCarthy 1 and Har liar ris It ought to be They have most of the good ballplayers McCarthy is a n brilliant manager But dont don't underrate Harris the most human leader of the lot Harris can handle his squad and when you ask him a question point blank he answers answers answers an an- point blank protecting nobody nobody nobody no- no body telling you the truth as he sees it IL Harris is a rarity I haven't seen since the days of John J J. J McGraw McGraw as I knew him was a helpful helpful helpful help help- ful friend when you needed a story So is Harris Managers Need Players Boudreau a great ballplayer has never had the material to prove his place Boudreau might have churned churned churn churn- ed up a mess of trouble this season if it the Yankees and Reds hadn't reached out and lassoed most of the good floating material A fellow can be honest have an honest opinion and still be wrong In the opinion of this restless roamer roamer the best manager In the National league Is Billy Southworth South South- worth of the Braves possibly Braves possibly the best manager In baseball today Next to Southworth we put Eddie Dyer and Leo Durocher on level terms Both are something better than good managers We like Dyers Dyer's system of handling his men and working with umpires better but we can be quite wrong here Burt Shotton is one of the great managers of baseball Rickey should have given him 50 per cent of every dollar he took In through 1947 For all of that Durocher is an BD able leader lie He isn't a McCarthy a Harris Harris Har Har- ris or a n Southworth but he is good goodenough enough Mel Olt OU has another chance to prove his place Ott is one of the most likeable persons in the game today He lie had the power last year and he should have it this year Charley Grimm Johnny Bill BiU Meyer and Ben Chapman are all good managers With better material they might be much better better better bet bet- ter managers But they will chuck In ln a number of grenades when the Cardinals Dodgers Braves and Giants come along a e e Florida the tile Beautiful ul Florida may have many things that other states lack lack and and that includes includes includes in in- California In the Everglades Everglades Everglades Ever Ever- glades for instance the state that Ponce de Leon helped make famous has the last frontier of sport the most famous 10 thousand square miles in the United States Here Here within a brief whirl of the social softness and glamour of or Palm Beach and Miami Beach you can come upon both beauty and savage savage wildness fang and claw the rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattle rattle- snake and moccasin the copperhead and the coral snake the puma or what is known here as the panther bear up to pounds or more deer alligator egret pelican heron and crane almost every known variety of bird life and fish beyond all ima ima- In one days day's haul in a small boat we returned with 12 varieties of fish The boat was half full of fish by 2 o'clock There were wild duck and geese flying overhead and there was quail in the dryer spots The jungles of India and Africa have nothing to match the variety or beauty of the Everglades or its look of wildness in certain sectors There are n no tigers lions elephants elephants ele ele- or leopards around But the puma or panther ranging nine rune feet from tip to tip Up weighing close to pounds Is a replica of the West's Vests mountain lion The puma Isn't a tiger or a leopard It Isn't even a jaguar but It is still nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing to meet on on a narrow trail The mangrove swamps and ghost is here can get you lost in 10 minutes lost beyond recall without a guide I was lost in less than 10 minutes Would I ever find my way back I asked after clearing a few mangrove mangrove man man- grove spots Not in a hundred years my guide fulde said unless you youcan youcan youcan can beat a to l shot Florida has something that too many of its people never have ap ap- predated It is about time they understood For what they have is fa invaluable in the long run a more important part of the nation naUen than thaD Washington D D. 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