Show Hawkeye Athlete Piles Up Enviable Record By HUGH FULLERTON Wide World Sports Columnist I NEW YORK June 4 Lee 4 Lee Farmer Fanner sprint and broad- broad I jump champ was a star in high school basketball and does all allright allright I right in baseball boxing wrestling horseshoe pitching tennis checkers and table tennis tennis and and he reached the quarterfinals of the national marbles tournament at the Chicago worlds world's fair in hi 1933 1 I DETERMINATION June Graves who pitched a no- no hit no run no-run run game for Carthage against Mesquite in the Texas high school baseball tourney wanted to attend a school that had hada a ball team So every morning he walked five miles to the main highway and hitch-hiked hitch 20 more to get to Carthage And Leonard De DeMasters DeMasters DeMasters Masters 17 year old for forthe forthe forthe the Owensboro Ky Kitty league club recently pitched two games with the ilie index finger of his salary hand broken He lost both but fanned 21 batters SERVICE DEPT Ed the big end who used to get air sick every time the Green Bay Packers made a trip by plane has just earned his wings in the naval air corps Private Cecil Travis former Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington infielder reports that his Senator sidekick B Buddy Lewis is impatient to get into the air i Buddy started out at Fort Knox Ky in the armored force but has I shifted to Kelly field Texas to become an air cadet Since Joe Marty the ex Phil ex-Phil Phil became player manager the Mather field California ball team has lost only one game When Captain 1 Jay Vessels who used to cover a alot alot alot lot of football for the AP came east t from Minneapolis for a new assignment with the army air forces he had just about convinced the boys that Minnesota football is the best brand anywhere when he ran into Lieutenant Al Beane Then Jay remembered that Al AI hadn't been so bad himself in ina ina ina a couple of games with Albie Booths Booth's Yale team which Captain Vessels had watched from the press box some years ago TODAY'S GUEST STAR Jake Wade Charlotte N. N C. C Observer Papa Papa law in law Jimmy Smith over whose head Billy Conn recently broke his hand is a former former former for for- mer New York Giant outfielder Manager Mel Ott who seems to tobe tobe tobe be recalling many of the old Giant hands should bring in Smith to todo todo todo do his umpire baiting g and to be around in case the Dodgers get too rough |