Show baseball oldster WHEN W HEN a man reaches the ripe old age of thirty five in base ball he has arrived at the patriarch stage and is permitted the privilege of becoming oracular X I 1 CHARLEY GERRINGER GEHRINGER such a maii man is charley gehringer brilliant second baseman of the detroit tigers who seems to have ca caught aught his second wind as he romps through his thirteenth season in the big leagues one of charleys contentions is that the pitching today is better than when he came into the american league in 1925 there were some star pitchers when I 1 came up and they were real stars he recalls but the ordinary pitchers were not as good as the ordinary pitchers of today charley have any trouble naming the best pitcher he ever faced lefty grove he says without hesitation and grove he says was much faster in his prime of speed balling than is Clev elands bob feller today 0 western newspaper union |