Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-10
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The top of the moraing, Francisco,
The top of the afternoon, too.
Our catches toe're pd,cning, Francisco,
To idV dozen a tcGger on you.
We sit IN the bieachers, Francisco,
Amd shout in the sun or the rain:
"We're taking Brodie on Bodie
TO crash the old apple again"
Tho kdle De're collecting, Pizsold,
Comes edsys rs altodps cinoh
To bet you're connecting, Pizzold,
When up at the plate IN a pinch,
Aud so through the summer, Pissold,
We're crodking this restless refrain:
We're taking Brodie on Bodie
TO crash the old apple again"
LESLIE ALAN TAYLOR.
Not Always the Champion
TT ISN'T always the proud possessor
L Of the tinted crown who comes back
wearing the purple.
In two of the recent invasions Bill
Johnston and Walter Hagen went
abroad carrying titles. They were the
headliners in the double cast. There
were no championship wreaths around
the brows of Bill Tilden, Bob Gardner
and Jim Barnes.
Yet this Is the trio that went the
longest way in the general direction Of
the crest. Johnston, the tennis cham
pion, was slaughtered early In the pro-
ceedings. Hagen. the golf champion,
was distanced and tossed into the dis
card.
Tilden, who had never won a turf
tennis championship of the United
States, was the citizen who broke
through ut Wimbledon. And the golf
showing made by Gardner and Barnes
the one in the amateur the other in
the open-was immeasurably beyond
Hagen's final return.
The Year Of the Blooie
MIR. PIZZOLA'S pet B.. phrase,
IN Crashing the old apple" is not
lightly thrown to the public. Some
years ago the old Athletics, with Col
Inns, Baker, McInnis, ETC., gave an
astounding performance by batting
around .2S0 for the year. 90,
As rule. the ball club that can
average .270 will lead the league. But
the Cleveland club, man for man, Is
batting .312, with st. Louis in second
place at .29S, Washington, .297, and
the New York Yankees in fourth place
with 200.
A club batting 900 and fourth among
| the swatsmen!
There was day when two or three
| 800 hitters upon club roster was held
to be a vulgar display of batting
wealth.
Now we have the roster of an entire
machine, something like twenty five
men, averaging .312 as the campaign
| swings into July. ,..,
No such powerful offensive against
pitching has been organized in the last
| two generations.
In the swirl of hits there were no less
than 1853 home runs, of which the Yam
KEGS laid claim to 4S, more than any
other brace of clubs in their league.
! Either the batting eye is being better
focused, the pitching arm is whiting Q
trifle or the hop that used to be on the
pitchers fast one is now in the center
of the ball.
The Old Argument
THE old argument returns as to
L whether the American League has
the harder hitters or the National
League has the better pitchers.
st. Louis and Cincinnati. leading tn,
National offensives at bat, are below
the White Sox, in fifth place among
club hitters in the American. Arr
Sisler, Jackson, Speaker, Ruth, etc.
better hitters than Hornsby, Robert.
son. Daubert, Roush, etc.?
Or, can Alexander, Ruether, Vaughn
Meadows, Cooper, Grimes, etc, out
pitch Bagby, Quinn, johnson, Coveles
kie, Williams and Shawkey?
If last falls world series is to bt