Show f 0 PASADENA CALIF A tall wll wil lowy figure drifted recently across the california scene he was headed tor for the solace of the south seas to pon ahry pi der his problems atif 1 and adjust himself R f r j to a strange future sy L l ne he had annever ac never con 1 I soldered byear a year ago fa jle 4 one ot of the top wms tars stars ot of his probes profs ton slon one of the smartest this ad laj will can call alf tor for exchanging an annual salary of a year tor for a grantland on j nice i pay check calling for 30 a month and this Is to happen after one of the greatest years he had ever known im speaking of hank greenberg of the detroit tigers there Is a big difference in what the owner of a big alf league ball club can pay an outstanding star and what our uncle sam can afford to offer a private vate soldier in this c case a sa the difference happens to be to 1 if you happen appen to get the wrong number inthe lo 10 the draft greenberg for example Is older th than a n either bobby feller or joe lo 10 louis u is who are not exactly starving T the he r spin pin of that draft wheel happened p en e d to cost him a year wh which ch is the way it should be and has to be in an existence which is now a trifle cockeyed cock eyed long hank was on his way to honolulu when I 1 ran across him inspecting spec ting the floral beauty of santa anita before taking a chunk chunk of the pacific in his stride okay by hank As you know he said ld 1 I have sal a 8 low draft number s and I 1 may be called in june or earl early r july which Is all right with m me 5 from the tha way things are moving there may as be a lot more of us called out by U then than many people figure today hank la Is already looking in the old P of C sometimes known as the pink of condition this season he said 1 I hope to be in the best early season shape I 1 have ever known I 1 may not have many weeks to travel so I 1 cant afford to waste any time getting started I 1 ought to be in good shape anyway to play on some army team there Is a good chance that by next summer army competition in baseball will be quite sharp and t y there will be loud cheers from any division or corps that happens to bag the tall tiger well have a tough job this season defending our title greenberg said the two toughest opponents we mu must st face should be new york and cleveland bob feller can make almost any team look good but cleveland has more than feller dont forget boudreau and mack at short and second the yankees are sure to be better than they were a year ago wh when en they got away badly their young pitchers will be ready to pick up where the veterans begin to leave oft off through 1940 they had become fed up with too much winning you know that can happen while I 1 still think new york and cleveland are the teams to beat the white sox wont be tar far away and see a much better team in fred haneas haneys st louis browns the red sox must still get better pit pitching ching aside from that they can pi play ay W with ith anybody about the tigers what about the tige tigers rs I 1 asked greenberg hank grinned we were picked to finish fifth or sixth or maybe seventh last april in the south he said still we won the pennant ill tell you why I 1 think we had the finest spirit ive ever seen in baseball we hustled bustled through every inning of every game we played there was no time out tor for inter missions dont forget we still have a good pitching staff coming on headed by buck newsom and at least three or four fine young pitchers we still have rudy yorks hitting and his greatly improved play at first we I 1 have three infield veterans left who will be just as good as they were a year ago why because they are ball players at heart because they have brains and spirit they are not through suppose you are called away early in june I 1 asked the tigers are no one man team hank said im just another fellow out there doing the best I 1 con can you can never tell in baseball dont sell us too short hank greenberg is something more than a fellow who bats over y who drives in from to runs a year who can shift from a one first baseman to a fine outfield tt tr in one quick season not only as a ball player fred haney of the browns told me but in inthe the way of spirit id like to have nine greenbergh Green bergs on my team I 1 remember one year year when he hit camp ahead of schedule he asked it it would be all right to take a workout he worked three hours a day when he have to work a sin gin gle cle minute |