Show baseball abed A RACE KACE ot of slow tooted footed dull wit ted ball players will soon dominate the national game it if the present emphasis on slugging continues according to bill lange who 42 years ago stole bases tor for the chicago cubs and speeded his way into diamond immortality modern ball players think too much in terms of home runs and not enough about base stealing lange declared the slugger has supplanted the thinker in baseball base stealing makes a player more alert mentally he has to try to 0 outguess u tg u es s t the h e p pitcher it c h e r a and nd the to rest of t the h e 0 opposition p p os i ti on i instead n s t ea d of trying t to 0 knock the ball out of the lot by brute force As a rule the superior base stealer is also the brainier player one of your illustrato illus illustrations trat ons is ty cobb the greatest we ever had he was worth more to a team than a dozen babe ruths it is an interesting coincidence that lange in his day regarded as the outstanding player of the game and the immortal ty colb cobb now are neighboring country squires near san francisco calif lange now a prosperous real estate operator I 1 was a star tor for seven years from 1893 to 1899 he quit the game in his prime lange was the last man to steal as many as bases he reached that peak in 1896 leading the national league that year and in 1897 two men preceded and bettered him in stolen bases they were john M ward of the new york giants with ill in 1887 and billy hamilton of philadelphia with in 1890 and the major league record number of in 1891 wonder woman II 11 I I ELEN WILLS MOODYS recent 11 victory over helen jacobs at wimbledon Wimble don england confirmed her as the greatest woman player in the history of tennis whether you like pokerfaced poker faced helen or not you must agree that her championship comeback feat after a layoff of three years was unparalleled this latest comeback was the second in her career in 1935 after being inactive for the two previous years because of a back injury she triumphed at wimbledon Wimble don now e HELEN WILLS MOODY three years later she has repeated she dropped out of tennis so far as major competition was concerned after her 1935 triumph and stayed out until she hit the comeback trail this year in england helen has been a dominant figure I 1 in the world of tennis for 15 years ever since she won her first united states championship in 1923 before that for two years she was the girls national titleholder she took the national singles crown seven times L between tween 1923 and 1931 since 1921 she has won the wimbledon Wimble don singles title eight times including her recent victory just for good measure mrs moody has won four french championships and a respectable number of doubles and mixed doubles championships here and there W WHEN HEN bob feller was pitching for van meter there were only high schools in iowa playing baseball there were high schools entered in an iowa tournament this spring which climaxed in a three day competition at manson in calhoun county lefty grove takes a nap on a rubbing table before each game he pitches rud rudy y york fork needs only one more home run with the bases full to tie the season record of four held jointly by frank schulte of the west side cubs babe ruth and lou gehrig jack beynon former illinois Illin and ail AH star quarterback is prepared to demonstrate his new movable goal posts the posts which can be set on the end lines id wheeled up to the goal line wl a team attempts a field goal ar are designed to eliminate injury Q western newspaper New paper union |