Show ivcak ws of sports t avely vs dead tau aall Is I 1 s riddle iff f 1938 season wai aby re GEORGE ORGE A BARCLAY rk ID the national league put itself out on a limb when adopted the deader ball for B albe e 1938 season while the american Ble rican league voted to con alle the lively 0 one ne 14 question will come in for that 11 alenty enty of attention from now ow until i mace e end 0 of f the world series next oc abber IN er it has already had a good eal AI of newspaper space but no she is really certain there is a rad I 1 al I 1 difference between the dead and k called abed lively ball ta government overn ment scientists have taken t amples pies of each shot them out of q like machines and record vf j their findan findings gs sluggers from A oth major leagues have tried trie d their ts ti on both dead and lively balls be e results are still a question 4 irk the real answer should be writ ita sn in the world series if the na ta 2 onal league wins the event and rea erses the trend that has given it 4 aly three wor worlds ids championships in in i he e past ten years credit will be 14 hi iven to president ford frick for N is owl like wisdom if the amer can an league wins there cant be it uch said in the way of alibis and ost people will th then en concede that tha t it s the league and not the ball that is i responsible s bi csome me critics have insisted that in u doting g for a change last december aj e national league clubs had come S 0 the conclusion that the ball the ankeles ees were pounding was too i angelous ang erous to continue in use in j birness to mr frick it should be that the national league A ras s trying to improve the game 1 if you are a devotee of strategic baseball there much ent about the ball being too lively M strategic baseball the sacrifice ccase ase stealing moving the infield in ko cut off a run at the plate the squeeze beeze play etc b been een H oft vh I 1 r y r ford frick i w played ayed seriously since babe ruth 3 made ade the fans home run conscious K gome e years ago in the american f league ague particularly the game has n been een a hitters market teams play j for r the big inning and a rally that will win when a man gets on first aase ase he try to steal he waits aits for his mates to drive him s home with their bats 0 harridge doubts s mr will harridge president of A I 1 the american league has some som e honest doubts about what happens aa when you begin tinkering with baseballs when you change the ball its biard b ard to tell what results get fi r lie he says for instance we had three experts appear at a meeting ot of the board of directors of the league to explain how they might v deaden the ball a trifle one said s the only way to do it was to cut size of the cork center the second said it would have to be done with the wool the yarn winding the third said the only way to get any change was to use a different alcover lc over it if the experts who make the au all differ like that how bow could we amow ow what the results of changing the ball would be its an e expert anent and there wont be an answer until a full seasons trial has been ri made 4 the consensus of opinion among baseball men is that if there is any 0 vast st amount of difference between the dead and lively ball the former wont ot bother the players who have v the eyes and the power to knock 01 fone one over the wall I 1 J it the dead ball assists the pitch in improving their perform inces ces the only fellows who will beauy be hurt are those who really rent first class batsmen batsman bats men the bar 14 k alln home run is something that should not belong in major league baseball t the difficulty in distinguishing the 0 difference ence between the dead and 41 i lively ball was illustrated by what 0 happened appended app ened at the chicago cubs train V ing B camp t this his spring in the early th 3 of the camp left leftover over baus balls of the le 1937 vintage first were used then n the e 1938 j r models were brought ft I 1 out u somehow the two vintages bek earn ame e mixed AU all the play wt coaches 00 and newspaper men 1 into a huddle but they y ddn t tell 11 ll one ball from the other by sight flight or touch baseball miracle tt TAKE x 1 it from joe JOC cronin who is something hi ng of a baseball student and in this instance sits in a neutral corner the chicago white sox and the washington senators have actually accomplished a baseball miracle in their swap of first bas basemen ernen zeke bonura for joe kuhel they consummated a trade in which both sides win it might appear at first firs t glance that dark clark griffith the old foxon fox of the senators had handed jimmy dykes of the sox a cold deck when he lured hi him into handing over a hitter for zeke bonura joe cronin one whose 1937 average was only but cronin son in law of griffith and manager of the boston red L sox says no jimmy dykes heres how he explains it kuhel will bat better than for or the sox he should drive tn in a lot of runs and be the best fielding first baseman seen around comiskey park for or a decade heres why kuhel will escape from many of the left handed pitchers who have been handcuffing him at the plate he is a left handed hitter like five other washington regulars who has had to face as many southpaws as the opposition could muster with the white sox so x I 1 kuhel joins a team that has six right hand ed hitters bitters so he will do most of his hitting against right handed pitchers Bon uras case is exactly opposite zeke a powerhouse power house right hander will be among a flock of left handed hitters with washington hell go to bat frequently frequent ly against southpaw pitchers pitch ers which should help him too all things considered its one of the smartest inside baseball deals in years olympic grobl problems UNCLE T SAMS monopoly of lead enship in the track and field events of the olympic games seems definitely menaced so far as the 1940 olympiad is concerned by booking the games in far off japan and on dates when our best athletes will be unable to compete the rest of the world has found a way to beat us not since the games were revived many years ago has the united states been defeated in track and field sections but by scheduling such events in october when college athletes obviously should be attending classes the olympic managing committee is in effect offering i the track and field championships to some other country the united states has two alternatives first not to send a team to the 1940 olympics second to induce the universities of this country to release star athletes long enough for them to compete in japan and let them make up their lost studies later since britain and several other countries have stated they will not send teams to japan the first alternative would be relatively easy fulfillment of the second would be tougher academic schedules are sacred cows in american universities they could not easily be disturbed in order to head germany italy and japan off from winning track and field events moreover many of the crack college athletes are wanted for football service by coaches tee and fairway francis RANCIS OUIMET veteran cap etain 1 tain of the united states walker cup team is worried lest the members who will make the british trip wont be in form he fears that be A 1 A francis Oll inlet cause the team sails so early a number of the players idle during the winter months wont be at peak form when they land at st andrews scotland he taking chances on too long a sea voyage any to take the c edge dge off ob instead of taking a slow boat to glasgow and spending ten to twelve days on the sea the players have booked passage 0 on n a tour four day boat on may ma 10 union 0 newspaper |