Show E 1 0 al c T THERE HERE was a certain cluttered up road leading somewhere between avocourt Avo court and montfaucon Mont faucon in in france late in september 1918 the night was dark and the rain was even wetter than usual there was an artillery captain getting his battery through this muddle and mire and he very gentle about getting the right of way these guns go through he barked and you could see he particular about how they got through through the jumble and the tangle and the rain and mud and darkness this battery moved on P 1 its way the artillery captain was a fellow by the name of larry Alac he was a rough and ready Grantlan Grantland dRice nice officer offic looking loo kide for action and he has been the same ever since now he is on his way back to his old artillery job and whether you like him or not the army will and that happens to be the main idea then and now larry macphail is no longer a kid it has been almost 24 years since that night in france where refugees stray army outfits and complete confusion almost blocked the road which macphail helped to open for his guns since that time he has been the major factor in building up two pennant winners in the national league first cincinnatus Cincin natis reds then brooklynn Brook lyns dodgers there have been many times when he looked to be hard and ruthless but he was always smart As someone has said MacPha ils mistakes and he had made many have always beeta been about minor matters he has yet to make a mistake that was important if the charge that he has been hard and ruthless is true there could be no bigger boost when it comet comes to the matter of winning this war mcphail and the dodgers macphail was talking about the dodgers of 1942 when the season opened he said 1 I thought we could win we had done all we could to strengthen a team good enough to win the pennant she he year before but when we were ten games in front you will remember I 1 told you that I 1 was worried about what might happen the year before we ve were only thinking about winning larry the pennant macphail through this summer we have been thinking only about meeting and beating the yankees it was easy enough to see our pitching was crumbling it was also easy to see that we were no longer hitting the box scores showed that better than any large bale of wo words ads could hope to do no one could figure at that time that the cardinals a young hustling team would suddenly move into a per cent pace but what they did then there came the injury to pete reiser who suddenly changed from a hitter to a hitter these thesel are no alibis the cardinals had their share of hard luck last year the main point is that we ran into a change in mental attitudes last season we were pennant hun gry and world series money hungry by this season wed gotten ours the cardinals hadri lt and dont forget this cardinal team is quite a ball club I 1 mean skill speed and spirit the difference mental attitude macphail continued is one of the big factors in any game ive heard bobby jones say it was at least 75 per cent of golf any football coach will tell you the big part it plays in his sport of course skill is important speed is important and power is important so is experience but mental attitude is even more important 1 I recall late last summer when whit anit wyatt would walk into th the e clubhouse before some hard game and say listen you bums give me one run today all I 1 need and when the pinch came all whit needed this season you had the feeling that for many of our pitchers even three or four runs were not quite enough about football lou little said some time ago that 1942 would be footballs best offen j sive season columbian Colum bias mandarin makes few bad guesses it will take some remarkable defensive formations to keep the combined speed and power under check which i most teams have to meet that missouri backa backfield beld will be one line of the best it has speed drive and experience headed by one of the best in ia a big fellow who can move |