Show or ap 4 4 N TP F YOU look over the lis list bof of all the leading ball players or the tha lost last 30 years include including b baseballs b 11 hall of fame at cooperstown coopertown Coopers Cooper town find that over 00 per cent of them came from cities and towns under cobb speaker jackson mathewson alexander cy cr young johnson grove 1 I eddie colllns collins hornsby foxx la jole home run baker wagner bob feller the cooper brothers keller dickey the demag glos hartnett th deans carl hubbell and so on came to their tame fame mort cooper from isolated and unknown spots on the map such instances run I 1 into n to the hundreds new yorks main contributions have been gehrig greenberg and frisch chicago has turned out a few stars including phil caa aretta baltimore gave the game gam e babe ruth but new york chi cago philadelphia boston and other crowded cities in proportion have lagged far behind in towns running from 1000 to to population there Is always t room for a ball field in these S sweet et auburne Au burns loveliest villages of the plains there is space in which kids can hit run throw and slide they can play the game up to the hilt but in a city such as new york you can see thousands trying to play play on crowded r ded streets as cars come through to drive them back to the sidewalks ever try to slide over cobblestones while eluding a fast moving automobile few stars from cities take a look at the now I 1 famous amous cardinal roster which embraces at least 30 stars at least 95 per cent of these came along and up from places you never heard about if these players had been born in new york chicago philadelphia etc possibly two or three would have made the big leagues that is the way the percentage runs gehrig and frisch came along through columbia and fordham but few street kids have a chance to get any college course and find 6 a ball field where they can develop baseballs hall of tame fame now and in years to come would be extreme ly thin if it had to look to the crowd ed thoughtless larger cities for its talent if K there enough within these cities there Is always space enough outside and there are still busses running and there will soon be motor cars available complaining about juvenile deian quincy youthful dime crime Is a waste I 1 of time the responsibility belongs to older people who through sport and the full support of so many hard working organizations can change the entire picture in a fe few years athletes an and d condition what group of athletes keep in b better ett er physical condition or r worst physical condition so far as professional f fess dional ional sport is concerned at a recent jabbing gabbing session wei we ran into a number of 0 coaches as distant coaches trainers and assistant trainers who know their way around who have been in charge of various sports tor for many years it was their belief that professional foot football b all players and professional tournament golfers on the average were in better physical condition than any oilier group and that professional fess ional baseball players trailed the list this statement will bring a loud and lusty squawk irom from many ball players ers but it happens to carry more than a mere shade of 0 truth anyway tile the coaches and trainers alio felt this way nay about it should know k ow what they are talking about this of course I 1 include all ball players one trainer said ald but it includes too many of them h am most of them do halt half the job a pro football player has to face ace watch most of them hit a triple and find them puffing at third base and that s less than yards they d ont dont turn in enough road work to build up their legs A pro baseball player should last far longer than a pro f football dball player considering the punishment the footballer has to take but few or of them do last season the new york giants had mel hem hein herber and ken strong each with nearly 20 years of football behind him there have been many others such as hutson with 30 10 or 12 years already cashed in for example I 1 see where de trolas tigers this season have 43 exhibition games this means a total of contests from march to october a long march that demands m ands the best sort fort of physical shape many blany of them will be ready for or this endurance test but qui quite te a lot wont be unless they make a far harder effort to get la in shape and keep in shape chanso th ban anso so many have made in the he past those fel lows heading south early ar are the smart ones this will be the be toughest season any of them will have to tackle |