Show VA mma you brought out an important octant point in connection with carl hubbell writes old timer that I 1 dont think you stressed enough this was about hubbell after 20 years of pitching 15 years as a big leaguer still trying to learn something new or something better 1 I always knew that carl hubbell was one of the smartest pitchers in baseball this proves that he is even smarter than I 1 thought he was for the great ma bority espe especially cialli those who are above the average in skill think they know most of it they are no longer interested in learning something new and carl hubbell something better this is a great human weakness too many think they know enough when no one knows much especially in these days no one knows nearly enough what a fine thing it would be to have many more people adopting cart carl Hub hubbells bells method of still trying to learn after so many years at the top the meager minority this happens to be per cent true well take the argument back to sport those who happen to lack certain qualifications in the way of skill or knack get discouraged too easily and give up they either lack the he determination to keep trying or they fail to understand how much they might learn from others that would carry them out of the rut many of those who happen to be rigged out with speed or skill or the winning inning knack take it for granted they are approaching the superman class and so need no further instruction or improvement there never was a hum human an being who knew it all or anything even approaching the ultimate find that cobb and tilden were still experimenting studying working on new angles after more than twenty years of championship competition we could also name a number of others who stopped learning quickly and showed no particular improvement in later years they had nothing to learn from coaches or trainers old timers were jokes they already had the answers speaks one of the big thrills ive gotten gotte n out of golf gene says is is thi this sIve ive learned something every year ive played ive found out that things I 1 thought were important 20 years ago are not so important after all ive found other things I 1 little litile attention to meant a lot hagen was always a great guy in this respect he was always trying to learn something that might improve his game after he had been open champion I 1 saw al k i him one day taking a lesson or at least friendly advice from harry vardon on how to play a certain type of shot walter never thought he knew it all or any big part walter hagen of it ive tried to learn something that would help my play for the last ten or fifteen years I 1 thought as a kid I 1 knew most of it it was only when I 1 began to find out how little I 1 really knew that I 1 started winning again aft after er a lapse you get a lot of foolish and useless advice but here and there you can pick up something that will help a lot walter camp and pudge e years ago walter camp told me an interesting experience he had had with pudge heffele inger a football star who lasted over 30 years pudge was so good camp said that I 1 was afraid he would be an other know it au all in place of that he kept coming to me for more advice on guard play I 1 showed him inree new variations later on he came back and told me he had learned four new angles one of 0 these was the possibility ot of the running n ing guard how many people know that pudge had worked out and developed the correct method of the running guard around 1889 or 1890 all I 1 know is that as late or 1922 Heffel fingert then 53 years old kept telling bo mcmillin then 22 to speed up his start and give him a chance to lead that interference ask bo the more you know the easier any game is an old time trainer said recently you can save yourself so much and last so much longer you can often handle superior physical power and even greater natural skill by knowing more than your rival does but this can only come from trying to learn ever everything Y you can as you go along |