sports is a 15 pain to ballplayers By MORT LEVE play host to the roaming clubs, than the Northern loop, seems Baseball’s Grapefruit league ac- but the “no complexion to strongly a Smead serve as a publicity count” resemble tivities build- hardly represents regular compe- Joley style in defense. up regular outfield Little crystal ball says for season play. Play- tition. Bobby in a Florida wires were buzzing ers freely Feller drew with state that two or three record crowd at L.A. last week sizzling adjectives about the weeks is ample time to shed the Cards, Tigers gave a sorry showing as he new shortstop '47 pennant suet get but Phillies’ phenom, for and in shape for the 154- experimented freely with pitches. COME along here and we’U pull down the Puddinhead Jones. Good color- shades and sit in game grind. lul * » « moniker, never played pro the darkened room, a faint light glowing from the crystal ball on spring i Ambitious exhibition baseball—Ah!!j copy. and eerie schedules, THERE ARE always wonderful IHt the table tappings around us. No smoking, please. We ll involving as many as second Ty What happens? Mr. Puddinhead, quiet and the 42 games, with to flung Cobbs, Ruths, | I •it let future show itself in the crystal. travel far Babe and Walter instead of making tosses to such as Johnsons, sprinkled liberally i his his See it now? It is sunny September, a middling rainy sum- lands Venezuela, Panama, 1 ! sacker, off after and around the training first dusts the custom- mer and a lot of Hawaii, are a pain in the camps, if we; ers spread in the baseball. Two managers have been fired. Attend- neck general vicinity to the performers. A little are to believe the scribes the is off sharply from that! behind initial sack. guy like trek along. * * the 1946 “Scooter” Rizznute found * season. Tempers in Brooklyn are himself fagged out last August, Payoff Clint is Harlung, UNKNOWNS lucky enough and throughout and corresponding sad to IHICAW volcanic Bumdom the show- billed as a combination Rulh- get trials at the big league SI there are pinched faces ing of 1946 Yank teamates gives isn't train- drawn Johnson—one good enough. ing bases rarely the the MacPhail deal no boosts. The towerling Hondo, ink after and hoarse voices. Down the Texas the April gong. Brooklyn’s AH, Warmup contests do give non- kid, fresh the army, Pis- stretch in the the from never tol Pete Reiser was an exception. major towns the opportunity to played in any league stronger Dodgers and Cardinals are bat- Lip Durocher stuck him at short tling it out for the bunting. Leo in two inter-squad games and was Durocher, he who reformed early j sold when Pete rattled off seven | straight hits. in the season, has unzipped the Red Sox first MAHUt lip and is tossing five to eight baseman. Rudy York, spoke for many of his 29 pitchers into every game. But the cohorts when he said, upon re- Cardinals are moving along solidly porting two weeks late this year. (34/ behind the booming bat of a citi- "I was no holdout. I just don’t zen named Musial, pushing their like spring training.'' And. the championship noses steadily in big Cherokee Indian is not lazy; front and due to win by five he's played in over 150 games in each of the last seven years, Sian Musial the full stint five times. * * • NOTHING astounding about that. That’s clear as crystal. But what about the American league? There's a big news here. the 1946Hancechampion Sox in It CLASSIFIED It isn’t Red front. isn’t the Yankees 7c either. The Red are a strong SHIRT numbers of these Brooklyn Dodgers training at per word. 6 words to the Sox second, the Yankees a slightly Havana, RATES: es Cuba, seem to say 1947 might nig^ deadline Mon- battered third. The Browns and Senators are paired behind them, that be the Brooks' year. Left to I right Wee the Indians next, and then the White Sox and the Athletics far back are Pee Reese. . Butch Woyt, Pete apt. wanted in the dust. Reiser. Desperatej mother. we 4 » * • 5 room need the night all the snow that was ior unfurnished apartment From 1935 to 1945 the total cX he re PU aSe Ca ” That leaves only one club to be accounted for, the Tigers. And on ground had melted, and ] o£fice ‘ the disabling to miners was te here they are, coming in three games ahead of the Red Sox for the I had accidents tied my horse to the greater than CLEANING American league 22% the total of men SERVICES pennant! church steeple! working in mines. 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