Show go aou brought out an important point in connection with carl hubbell writes old timer that I 1 dont dolit think you stressed enough this was about hubbell after 20 years of pitching 15 years as a big leaguer still trying to learn something new or something better 1 I always knew that carl hubbell was one of the smartest pitchers in baseball this F 1 proves that he is even smarter than I 1 thought he was for the great majority I 1 especially those who are above the average in skill think they know most ost of it they are no longer interested in learning something new and carl hubbell something better this is a great human weakness tod many think they know enough when no one knows much especially in these days no one knows nearly enough what a fine thing it would be to have many more people adopting carl Hub hubbells bells method of still trying to learn after so many years at the top the meager minority this happens to be per cent true well take the argument back to sport those who happen to lack certain qualifications in the way of skill or knack get discouraged too easily and give up they either lack the determination to keep trying or they fail to understand how much they might learn from others that would carry them out of the rut many of those who happen to be rigged out with speed or skill or the winning knack take it for granted they are approaching the superman class and so need no further instruction or improvement there never was a human being who knew it all or anything even approaching the ultimate find that cobb and tilden were still experimenting studying working on new angles after more than twenty years of championship competition we could also name a number of others who stopped learning quickly and showed no particular improvement in later years they had nothing to learn from coaches or trainers old timers were jokes they already had the answers speaks one of the big thrills ive gotten out of golf gene says is this ive learned something every year ive played ive found out that things I 1 thought were important 20 years ago are not so important after all ive found other things I 1 little attention to meant alot a lot hagen was always a great guy in this chii respect he was always trying to learn something that might improve r his game after he ME had been open y champion I 1 saw 11 1 A him one day taking a lesson or at least p az friendly advice from harry vardon on how to play a certain type of shot 7 walter never thought he knew it all or any big part walter hagen of it ive tried to learn something that would help my play for the tha last ten or fifteen years I 1 thought as a kid I 1 knew most of it it was only when I 1 began to find out how little I 1 really knew that I 1 started winning again after a lapse you get a lot of foolish and useless advice but here and there you can pick up something that will help a lot walter camp and pudge years ago walter camp told me an interesting experience he had had with pudge a football star who lasted over 30 years pudge was so good camp said that I 1 was afraid he would be another know it all in place of that he kept coming to me for more advice on guard play I 1 showed hi him in three new variations later on he came back and told me he had learned tour four new angles one of these was the possibility of the running guard how many people know that pudge heff neff elfinger had worked out and developed the correct method adof of the running guard around 1889 or 1890 |