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Show IPS J L . ,N, ficp Jj , . The Slugging Sector PHOSE INTERESTED In the slug ging side of baseball should nov turn to the West coast. Ted Wil liams came up from San Dieeo bu Grantland Rice they have twi younger men in habiting the Pacl fic's slope who ma; pick most of th laurel this new sea son. One is Ralpt Kiner of the Pitts burgh Pirates anc the other is Luk Easter with t h Cleveland Indians. It so happens that Kiner has passed the 50-home-run mark twice. "-teaching the 60 mark Is a different story," Ralph tells you. "Hank Greenberg and Jimmy Foxx found that out, and both could hit the ball a long way. Once you get Into the SO zone, I guess you begin to overtry as the days begin to run out. The Babe never bothered. He just kept swinging." Kiner is still a young ballplayer. He should have his best hitting years on ahead. He takes good care of his physical fitness and he has a workshop where he keeps the equipment equip-ment needed to strengthen his grip and wrists. His ball club fell apart last year and this didn't help him a lot. Actually no one thinks about beating beat-ing the Babe's old mark of 60. It may happen some day as 58 has been tied twice and 56 has been reached . on two occasions. Greenberg, Green-berg, Foxx, Hack Wilson and Kiner have been the four main challengers challen-gers so far. Now Hank Greenberg enters Luke Easter, the San Diego giant, as another likely challenger. Easter is around six feet four, and weighs some 240 pounds. "Beyond that," Hank says, "he has what you might call a home run swing. I mean by that a full, free swing the type that Babe had. I believe Easter can hit the ball as hard as Ruth did and drive it just as far. He may not be able to do this as often, however. Easter will be a Cleve- land rookie and you can't expect ex-pect too much of him the first year. I believe his power will still win many a game for us and either bring Cleveland in as a pennant winner or at least one of the leading challengers. You can't afford to crawl too far out on the end of a limb for a rookie, but I'll go quite a distance dis-tance for Easter." As Ted Williams and Joe DiMag-gio DiMag-gio are West coast entries, this gives the Pacific a big edge in longdistance long-distance wallopers. They will have most of the crop. Give DiMag 130 games and he may outslug them all. Big Coast Game Red Blalk's Army team Is headed fox the West coast next fall to start an entanglement with Stanford. They are already rating this one of the big games of the 1950 season. There's pretty fair reason for this rating. With Pollard, a Los Angeles product, pro-duct, playing in Army's backfield, the West coast experts figure Army will have one of the star backs of the season. At least he made a big name in a hurry at Loyola, where he played only a year before heading head-ing for the far-away banks of the Hudson. I've heard nothing but boosts for the ex-Loyola halfback. Add Pollard to Bob Blaik, Stephenson Stephen-son and Cain and yon get one of the best backfields Army evet sent into a football melee. Tou can always bank on Red Blaik and his staff for a fast-charging, hard-hitting defensive pla- ' toon. So if the expected takes place, Army will again have one of the strong teams of the country possibly the strongest with so many veterans leaving Notre Dame. ' "But don't figure the 1950 Stanford Stan-ford squad will be easy for anyone," any-one," a Stanford grad said when the discussion came up. "Marchy Schwartz had a fine sophomore crop this last fall. All they needed was experience. They got plenty of that. Also I could say that Stanford's Stan-ford's freshman team this last fall was the best in many years. Palo Alto will be packed with high-class football players. This should be the best Stanford team since Clark Shaughnessy turned out the bunch that had Frankie Albert & Co. It will be big, fast and three-deep. And by the time of the Army game it will be well seasoned." Joe Louis and 1950 Just what plans Joe Louis has for the rest of 1950 is anybody's guess including Joe's. But you can enter en-ter one sure answer if Joe fights again, it will be a morbid spectacle that only the morbid in heart would care to see. In recent months Louis has been working beyond exhibition purposes to get back in shape. He has been doing road work of fair proportions and a certain amount of gymnasium gymnasi-um boxing. I LYNN SAYS: Use These Tricks For Food Preparation When recipes call for seasoned flour to dredge meat or fish, use the following proportions: 1 cup flour, 1 tablespoon salt and teaspoon tea-spoon pepper. To make butter balls, scald and chill a pair of wooden butter paddles pad-dles in ice water. Drop butter in heaping teaspoonfuls into iced water. When these are cold, roll each piece slightly between the chilled paddles. Fried foods should be well drained before serving so they are not excessively greasy. Use crumpled crump-led absorbent paper such as toweling tow-eling arranged on a baking pan or a colander. For shallow frying in a skillet, have at least 1 inches of melted fat or oil in the pan before placing the food in to cook. Pari-broiling a cut of meat means that it is cooked in a skillet or frying pan without the use of extra fat. Make certain the pan is hot before placing in chops or steaks. |