The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-23

oal players carry away too many
kinks in shoulder, knee or ankle
to be good ball players. And too
many are also muscle-bound.
With CeOrgids Best
Chandler was a star back and
star kicker at Georgia around 10
years ago. He went north with three
Georgia teams that beat good Yale
teams three years in a row. His
Georgia teams also made it two out
of three from N.Y.U. when Chick
Meehan had the Violet at violent
tide. Those were among the best
teams Georgia ever turned out.
81 was lucky" Spud said. az was
never hurt although we played tough
schedules every year. didn't take
any battering that ever cracked a
igament or strained muscle"
Now at the age of 80 it would not
be any too surprising to see Chand-
Ter stepping into his best season.
Last season, although pitching well,
he dropped his first four starts. Then
he won his next ten straight.
The Georgian, now living at Moul-
trie, has husky son who is just
nine months old.
Laughing, he wakes me every
morning at six o'clock" Spud says.
''He laughs all the time"
Which shows in these times what
wonderful thing it must be to be
nine months old.
After the football-baseball argu-
ment had subsidized, someone opened
another debate, namely, what is the
easiest job to handle on ball club?
Bill Dickey picked right field. At
which point some indignant right
fielder named catching. Words flew
In various directions until the final
verdict pointed directly at third
base.
Mel OFT, who has played many
jobs, voted for third. So did Jimmy
Foxx who has also caught, played
first and third. Their angle was that
at third you either door you don't.
It's either hit-or an out.
''The toughest play a third base
man has to make is handling a
swinging bunt," Bill Dickey said.
"But there are not so many of those.
And, when they come off they are
generally hits, anyway"
The RebuttdL
This final decision failed to lift any
cheers put of the third basemen in
sight.
ga third baseman has to be set
for the two opposites," one of them
said. EITHER smoke ball or a
bunt. The majority of those balls
driven down our way leave tail of
fire behind. They are moving in a
hurry. And we have to move in a
hurry to kill off the hit.
cat the same time we have to
be ready to come in fast on hunts
or slow-hit balls. We haven't the
time shortstop or a second base
man has. And we have a longer
throw to make-a throw that often
has to be made in hurry"
In that football-baseball debate we
overlooked Eddie Collins, a good
quarterback at Columbia before he
went to the Athletics.
But such crack football players as
Sammy Baugh, Ernie Nevers, Har-
ry Hopp, Jim Thorpe, Dixie Howell
and many others couldn't make the
grade. They couldn't hit.
We started another argument as to
whether golf hurt baseball playing
whether the golf swing helped or
hurt the correct operation of bat.
We began this one with Ty Cobb
over rs years ago. 1t Is always good
for churning up the atmosphere.
But someone discovered that it
was time to quit, so the final deci-
sion on this topic must be postponed
for while. / still say, however,
that a golf swing didn't quite wreck
the hitting of Babe Ruth, Iris Speak
er and Stiffy McInnis. Or Jimmy
Foxx. Or Ducky Medwick. Or Paul
Waner. Or SO others.