Show HIS 1042 season h already a new war managers and ball players especially in the league Y 0 u can gamble thit the umpires are right 95 per cent of the time heres one set reason no man sitting on the bench and this includes leo durocher and frank frisch is in position to call a pitched bau ball within a toot foot ot of where it travels their angle ot of vision is all out but ot of gear and focus fiand rice lia la our wandering do billed career we have ached the making of over feet of sports pictures to discover how much the right and wrong angles tai tant this goes for a ball same game 1 horse race and a stance in golf it goes lor for any game V iche the camera Is set at the wrong ang angle leonly only by afew feet the picture will tell an untrue story the same Is true of it the human eye 1 or i the inhuman eye at a race track if you are not dead set on the finish line you cn can easily disagree by a hall half length or even a length with the testimony ot of the camera which is aimed directly at the wire every horseman knows that same in baseball trained umpires iare are supposed to be in the cc correct spots for fat a correct decision they can make i mistakes ni stakes being only human managers Mana gerg and ball players on the bench are not in the right spot to call any decision correctly it the bench were the right place then u umpires would be sitting on the bench and not standing around on the ball field losing a ing two examples du djs va her and frisch know this they way ay a be many things but they 11 are not ink dumb a most of the loudest 7 squaw squawkers kers would make poor umpires even if parked in the proper places thesa fiery bery fellows 11 1 too often think ahead abea of 1 themselves goupil fin tod the thai leo 0 durocher most 01 the urn um explosions are used largely in behalf of the old alibi they are employed to cover up op mistakes or defeats in connection with critical crowds there is a belief also that crowds K e scrappy baseball crowds do ut t crowds would rather see the battle between two teams the speed and brains of a ty cobb the brains and power of a babe ruth or a lou gehrig or a ted williams thrown against the other team not against the umpires A ball player who bats is above the average yet that means he is a flop two thirds of the time umpires make mistakes but not as many mistakes as managers and ball players make if you happen to look at the daily box scores the greatest pitcher that ever lived walter waller johnson Job never bad an argument with an umpire he was concentrating on the main job pitch pitching big not on some rome umpires decision among a few other pretty fair country pitchers in this respect I 1 might include christy mathewson cy young grover cleveland alexander ed walsh mordecal mordecai brown ive nerver never seen a great pitcher who was an umpire fighter no one is great enough to split his con cent ration to look out first for the alibi tite the bail players pick ball players know what can hap fen n between june and october they ey are not the best guessers guessels gu essers in th the world but who Is in talking over ever the two big league campaigns with managers and vet veterans erana well leave althe the younger fellows out this is the way they figure the two races race american league gueThe Lea the yankees chased by the red sox and the indians national Natla nal league another rid red hot ai all I summer stretch run between cheers and the cardinals this was a majority vote vot e by a wide margin from the dozen or more respected opinions sought no one expects lou boudreaus indians to hold the dizzy pace they offered the league through the first few weeks the material minus bobby feller that good but boudreau has turned in a great job ato far so go has joe cron cronin yankees dodgers and cardinals began begaii the season with the better teams team much better teams they were dihe the headline entries I 1 still think either dodgers or cardinals will meet the yankees in the next series providing of course there Is a next world series put through the remainder of the race it seems to me managers and ball bau players will show more common sense in concentrating their attack on n rival teams and not on umpires who are seldom responsible for or the hit mistakes aa takes managers and ball blazei make |