Show speaking OF SPORTS NJ gy ey ROBERT mcshane t j by wesleen union ts fifth th pennant yanks s think so 4 rahe yankees whose courage and Z 6 tl rn ar are much higher than op st still III teams batting average ex the tto g aul wul win the american Amo rican league ne strategy the they y expect to em is comparatively simple ploy to make a powerhouse going heyre feyre eyre drive in late august and september at least TW S the present hope the yanks yanks have ve it all figured out dij nij not without considerable logic ity fliey point to the fact that rot not so far behind behin d even with so many of their better hitters below it was aint t so very long ago that mur derer S row dwindled to a puny bit lower even eve the and a n aage st a louis leui browns were above the yanks with a still good defensively you can guess what will happen to lo the present race if the yanks particularly the sluggers really take jake up and climb back to their 1939 titling f form 0 rm it take a very y big increase in hitting to put them at the top of the league once more the McCar thymen figure cleveland as the team to beat due la largely to lo the indians pitching staff then too 00 they feel that cleveland has a bedier letter infield than either boston or detroit the red sox are a gang d hitters r but bu their own ditc pitchers hers dont t held help win in enough ball games the yanks it may be remembered lost their first six extra inning games ame s some of the previous years pur punch ic was lacking it inconceivable that four pennants and four world series in a row had quite 1 bit to do with the lack of snap why the slump hitting slumps are hard to pin town down too many things enter in to make definition or solution easy A gump dump might start out from purely natural causes such as bad body motion then it turns into borr worry y the hitter tries too hard becoming tighter fighter with each trip to the plate then the lack of confidence disappears after a few hits the hitter has his eye once more but dont count the yanks out yet done all right with a miserably poor batting average and rhen they find themselves even a nine or ten game lead wont look too secure |