Show A 11 mer ul might not know it but the YOU next spring training trip is lust just around the corner comer the two managers who can anora afford to sit back and yawn are joe alc mccarthy of the new york yankees and billy southworth of the st louis cardinals with most of his stars young and ana active with people such as dimaggio gora gordon ion and keller around with his younger pitchers moving up mccarthy have to hang out his christmas stocking it was already packed billy South main worry will be getting rid of ent egnat not t aking it on othe the cardinal cal grantland gra rice ce leader has 19 good looking pitchers and 11 good outfielders waiting for the spring call billy needs more bau ball players just as minnesota needs more tackles or guards but its different in 14 other camps larry macphail and leo durocher understand they cant afford to stand pat even on a pennant winner their world series pitching staff averaged over 33 years the dodgers need another good pitcher at least one more good infielder and one more hitting outfielder to defend their place against a cardinal club that should be better in the next nest race the reds still have a great pitching staff on hand with vander meer and riddle due for even better seasons plus walters and derringer and a rookie or two this will be derringers Der ringers sixteenth season and at the age of 35 paul was 35 in october the big red cant be expected to be what he used to be but there are more than one or two red spots that need improving which bill mckechnie understands der stands better than anyone else what the ame american ri league can do to keep the yan paul derringer kees from winning the 1942 pennant around mid m id august is something more than we can figure out this far ahead but it will have to be something on the miracle side leading grid section there is an old saying to the effect that fools rush in and get away with it where angels fear to tread certainly after the emotional swirls of this late football season no sane person would attempt to open a new argument any more than one would attempt to throw gasoline upon a burning building but under pressure from so many inquisitive letter writers an attempt will be made to straighten out this debate ie viz what was the strangest football section or sector for 1941 my answer is the middle west for these five reasons minnesota notre dame blich michigan igan ohio state and northwestern the east can counter with fordham navy pennsylvania duquesne and perm penn state or harvard the south can offer duke georgia mississippi state alabama and mississippi tennessee vanderbilt tulane or louisiana state the southwest can present texas texas A and M texas christian southern Methodi stand rice from the far west we get oregon state washington state and thes then a terrible snarl from stanford I 1 oregon washington santa clara and others massouris Mis souris elegant team hold a habitat in any of these locations looking over the lists offered above my guy vote tor for the present season still goes to the midwest when it comes to the combi combination natto I 1 I 1 of size speed man power running blocking passing and what it takes in general to win tough games another Arg argument weve always been toi told d to keep your eye on the ball in golf writes one of the harassed 1 I notice the duffer tries to do this and ties himself into knots the pro gives no sign of this I 1 dont believe anyone can actually see the club head hitting the ball the use ol of keeping your eye on the bau ball if you cant see what happens at impact the main idea back of 0 au all this advice is to hold the lead head in a correct position through impact and not to swing with a moving head 0 0 0 there was another slogan keep your mind on the ball there have been many slogans but the point to remember is this the head is the anchor for the swing a jim barnes tip the fault of head rating lifting usually comes from some earlier fau fault it such as too much tension or from swing ing too fast also from thinking ahead of the swing in terms of r re e suits and not in terms of what wha causes results |