Show cage game brakes bahal basketballs ASKET BALLIS racehorse speed that some authorities regarded as detrimental to the athletes health will be slowed down a bit next season by two brakes applied recently by the rules committee ot of the ile national association of basketball coaches meeting in chicago the coaches increased the perm permissible is number of timeouts time outs for the college game to five and provided tor for optional use of four ten minute periods instead of the usual twenty minute halves for high school games a ne new W rule on ties will make the first overtime a sudden death period for the first score made will decide the game this will eliminate possibly harmful long drawn out overtime games while no extra timeouts were added to the high school game officials were instructed to take an official timeout in the second and fourth quarters provided no time has been called during the first four minutes of play by either team among additional rule changes approved tor for the college game were optional use of a tour four toot foot instead of a two foot out of bounds margin behind the face of backboards buckboards back boards and the barring of substitutions after a goal is made until the be ball is back in in play the outer half of the foul circle was exempted from present provisions of the three second rule in the case of a player who does not have possession of the ball the change eliminates last years penalty for lingering in the area by players without the ball the rule remains unchanged in regard tc players having the ball he threw Thre ivErn em fast WHO VHO was the speediest ediest pitcher you ever ever watched throw a base baseball ball was it smoky joe wood bob feller or fireball mungo or was it lefty grove bazzy vance or ed walsh all ali these lads have or had plenty of swift but take it from al schacht the baseball clown who is really serious in this instance he still spotted a pitcher rookie or veteran who can throw a baseball as fast as walter johnson used to for years al has been making the rounds every spring working out with different teams and he has been watching the young pitchers searching for the easy flowing mo M 4 44 walter johnson tion that made johnson his idol he has just about decided that heu hell never find it schacht who was a teammate team mate of johnson for years on the washington club gets vehement on the subject he asks why do people keep talking about who was the greatest pitcher when anybody with any sense knows there was never one even close to walter ask any man who ever tried to hit that fast ball of his when I 1 look at some of these guys they call fast ball pitchers these days it hands me a laugh why johnson threw a ball harder when he was loafing along behind a one run lead than anybody else ever has here and there THE HE consensus of opinion is that Sl ingin sammy baugh recently transferred to columbus by the st louis cardinals will eventually stick to football training camp verdict was that hell never be a big league hitter a difficulty which has beset other gridiron immortals like jim thorpe who tried baseball but sammy should worry iles hes certain of at least a year from the washington red skins for throwing forward passes in the fall fail joe louis whose li horatio oratio alger career led from an alabama cotton field to the worlds heavyweight championship has earned almost in the prize e ring since 1934 new yorks york s three major league ball clubs the yankees giants and brooklyn dodgers will advertise the 1939 worlds fair with blue and orange emblems attached to the sl sleeve aeve of each players uniform when goose goslin signed a contract with washington it marked the third time the former detroit outfielder has been a member of the senators 0 western newspaper union |