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ball with all its future troubles is
still in a far better way than it
looked to be some weeks ago. . j
Many teams have lost many good
men, but they still have some inter- ;
esting talent left.
The main point Is that we have
had too many gonfalonie gallops in
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sons where either
Yankees or Cardi
nals were so far in
front by August that
nothing remained of
the races except a
cloud of indigo dnst
far down on the
stretch.
This new season
there is a strong
possibility for two of
the closest races in
many years, where
umusi anyuiing cou ua^u.
We put this point up to Larry Mao
Phail and the always astute colonel
coyly confessed that such might
easily be the case.
"We no longer have the matter of
picking one or possibly two teams
from the two leagues and tagging
them on top in April. For one
example no manager knows today
just what ball players he will lose
next week or next month.
Grantland Rice
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"What team could you pick on top
in the American league at this
point? Or the National league? And
if you happened to have one or two
favorites, how do you know how
they'd look around the middle of
May or the middle of June?
"Take Detroit. The Tigers still
have Trout and Newhonser. Two
fine pitchers?two big 1944 winners.
But Wakefield is gone and so is
Pinky Higgins, and who is left to
give these two pitchers any runs
to work on? Ton know where the
Tigers were last summer until
Wakefield returned.
"The Browns look as good as
any other baseball team, but this
is April?not June or July. Even Joe
McCarthy doesn't know how the
Yankees will stack up two months
from now.
"But that isn't the important
point. The main idea is that each
league, might easily have five or six
clubs well-bunched through the sum
mer?all with a chance to win?and
that's what makes baseball. Natural
ly each home city likes to see its
team with at least a chance?some
where up with the bunch?not 20
games or even more away. You saw
what happened last fall when the
Browns, Tigers and Yankees were
all bunched up. No one ever accused
them of being great ball clubs. But
still you couldn't get near their
parks, with thousands turned away
in St. Louis."
Race Counts Most
We have had a few ball players
who could draw out the populace,
no matter how far out their clubs
were.
Babe Ruth was the top party in
this list. I recall one season when
the Babe played in Boston and
Philadelphia before overflow crowds,
although Boston and Philadelphia,
far out of tiie race, had been play
ing to fewer than a thousand morbid
souls daily. In later years Bob Fel
ler was a big attraction on the days
he worked. So was Ted Williams.
But in the main it has been the
ball club that drew the crowds?
the ball club up in the race. I have
always believed that a few seasons
ago the Dodgers, playing in the
Yankee stadium, would have passed
the 2,000,000 mark.
1 still rate Detroit and Brooklyn
As the two best ball towns in the
country, and that isn't barring New
York or Chicago. There was a time
when Boston belonged in this pre
ferred list. Bat when yon get right
down to the big eheek-np most of
them need a team somewhere in the
race.
For some odd reason, although
their ball players come from all
over the map, from the unknown
hamlets and the farms, from spots
more than 2,000 miles away, home
town pride is always concerned.
This has always been a deep mys
tery to me?but there it is.
For some years the National league
had two or three teams neck and
neck down the stretch?such as the
Cardinals and the Dodgers. When
that was happening, the Yankees
usually had their race packed away
on ice by late July or early August.
Then, last fall, the American
league suddenly switched into a
hot three-club finish as the Cardi
nals were wrecking the National.
This all speaks for the complete
honesty of baseball, which 1 believe
today is taken for granted by every
known proof, but it is of no vast
help to nationwide interest.
I agree with Larry MacPhail that
the 1945 season may easily give us
five or six clubs from each of the
two big leagues which might easily
be under a blanket from time to time
during the coming months.
It is my tip that baseball is on
its amy to aoe of the most interest
ing seasons in many years unless it
in no badly riddled that it isn't given
a chance.
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add height to a low room. Choose
plain material or one with a pat
tern that carries the eye up and
down from top to bottom. Tie
backs will break the . line and tend
to shorten a room.
Men's shirt collars will fray less
if turned up before being laun
dered.
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Never crowd the rinse tab.
Clothes must have room to move
about freely to get soap out.
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Rags should be swept or vacu
um cleaned, but never beaten,
shaken, or snapped, as this may
loosen or break the fabric and
binding or fringe.
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WHY GAMBLE?
It doesn't pay to let bruises,
cuts or burns go un tended . ..
even minor ones. Play safe ...
cleanse at once, and dress with
Dr .Porter's Antiseptic Oil.This
old reliable stand-by . . . the
formula of a long-experienced
railroad surgeon ... Is wonder
fully soothing, and tends to
promote nature's healing pro
cesses. Keep It on hand for
emergency use In taking care
of minor burns, bruises, abra
sions, chafing, sunburn, non
poisonous insect bites. Use only
as directed. Three different
sizes at your drugstore.
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