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Show COMMENTS By Guy Stevens Ask Coach Frank Leahy about his team before game time and he'll start crying on your shoulder. It's an old custom of his his the boys never have a chance. Against Army last year, he bemoaned the fact that his team would go down to defeat. Notre Dame won 27 to 7. Against Southern California he was sad because so many of the players had suffered injuries. ' Notre Dame won 38 to 7. That's the way it's been the past two years. But for once Leahy's lamenting la-menting backfired. In the All Star-Chicago Cardinal game, he gave out his usual pre-game wailing. wail-ing. And what happened? The All Stars actually lost. No doubt it surprised him as much as many of the others. Joe Louis announced the other day that his official retirement notice would contain a clause permitting per-mitting him to defend his title within six months. Evidently, Mike Jacobs' pep talks have not been in vain. He's wanted Louis for another battle and it now begins to look as though the Brown Bomber will defend his title once more. No doubt Louis some day will retire after losing the title. all down. He was making plenty of money with the Kansas City Monarchs and none of the offers were good enough to lure him away. He wanted something like $50,000 for his services. Veeck signed Satchel on a percentage deal which may net him an average aver-age close to that sum. . One thing about New York's new promotional outfit, the Tournament Tour-nament of Champions they've got several millionaires behind them which means they're going to be a tough bunch to buck. It's very evident that they're out to break Mike Jacobs' monopoly on big time fights. Whether or not they'll be successful remains to be seen. At least the possibility of a promotional warfare has created new interest among fistic fans. Jacobs has his major bout scheduled for Sept. 22nd. The Tournament of Champions will offer their big attraction the following fol-lowing night, Sept. 23rd. The exhibition football game between the New York Yankees B V Boss Bill Veeck of the Cleveland Indians is a pretty smart baseball man. When he signed Satchel Paige, he knew that he was signing sign-ing not only a great pitcher but a great attraction also. To date, or Satch has won five and lost one, two of those games being shutouts. That's proof enough that he knows a thing or two about pitching. As far as being an attraction, over 200,000 customers cus-tomers turned out to see him in his three major league starts. That's averaging nearly 70,000 per game. It's perhaps safe to say that the day Veeck got Satchel to sign on the dotted line, he probably prob-ably got himself a pennant too. If it wasn't for his five wins, the Indians would be down in fourth place. Many fans have wondered how come Veek was able to step in and sign Paige without any competitive com-petitive bidding from other major league clubs. Satchel had received many offers but he turned them |