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Show Psre The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, 6 SPORT LIGHT Big Business Shades Football Sport By GRANTLAND RICE NEW YEAR slid AS ANOTHER view the universities of Minnesota, Southern California, Stanford, Ohio State and a few others were looking for new football coaches. Texas contracts better ferences, plus a 'number of well offers. A coaching contract meant known institutions that dont bevery little, but the university al- long to any conference. ways got stung when a contract Notre Dame is on this latter list. had to be paid up. So is Virginia, Miami, Villanova, Now universities have tried Santa Clara, St Marys, Loyola, had Just comout the system of signing coachArmy and Navy. Now it seems to contracts. It repleted a n exes to be a reasonable thing to say that change for Blair mains to be seen how this all 100 of these universities cant Cherry, retired. scheme will work out when have winning teams. There must be Savage alumni better offers are made. At least a defeat against every victory. Copressure, the dethe universities won't be forced set up long winning that lleges. mand for a winby any alumni group into pickstreaks as a rule do so because ning team, had ing up slx or, seven years of a , have softer schedules or mach they caused most of e contract. Southern material. Xnd too often getbetter this turmoil and California had to pay Jeff this material defie- - any ting Cravath $30,000 to cancel , the just about reached sanity code. This isnt althe point of a two years remaining on their ways true. There are exceptions. scandal. It has been generally agreement. It may have been rough for them recognized that football, a great 100 uni- but Notre Dames bad season and to a are now close There game and a magnificent sport in versities that should be rated on Armys defeat by Navy were very the raw, had become big business e num- healthy for football. So were Michlist. This footballs in late years. Big business has, v ber takes in seven or eight big con igans three defeats. overshadowed the sporting side. Suppose we take the case of Jeff Cravath at Southern CaliTHE authority fornia, a out this way said. Cravath is FICTION a fine fellow and he, wasnt a CaliSouthern But bad coach. CORNER By Maud McCurdy Welch fornia has a big sporting program to support. Football does most of the supporting. Losing teams at Southern California In Bill Bowen was right. After all a WERE HARD in the little TIMES off two fallen the last years had of Centerville and Sam druggist has to take a stand somesome $400,000 from other norMeadows, the towns only druggist where. He has to protect himself. mal years. The fact that Sams next customer was Mary was finding it hard to meet his Cravath had won four Pacific bills. The shoe Neely, a tired looking little woman Coast championships was for was Sam knew what she wanted, a prefactory The problem had now : gotten. for her brothers shut' down, one scription become an economic matter. neuritis. lumber botherin him awful of the Its Southern California, being a prishe said. mills had moved today, vate institution, couldn't afford the husband and had had a good Marys away another bad year. I mean fiother one was running half time. Job in the shoe factory, but it had nancially. So Cravath had to Sam was a widower and lived been some time since hed had a go. , economically in two rooms in the steady job. Football has reached the point back of his store. Hed cut down on But Sam had made up his mind. where you must have a winning a few other things, but things kept He drew a painful breath. Mary, team or take a financial beating. getting worse. doyou already owe me thirty-fiv- e It has been shown that it costs Bill Bowen, one of Sams : good llars.. If you could pay for this preleading colleges from $250,000 to friends, came in one day to talk the scription maybe . . but Sams $275,000 a year to run a football situation over. The trouble with voice trailed off unhappily. season. , Marys eyes was .dazed with suryou, he told Sam, is that youre The alumni pressure on. football not business-like- . I havent any money, but How can you ex- prise. coaches has become r scandalous. pect to run a business successfully . she broke off. You mean This pressure became so heavy this if you dont collect? you .. . . you wont let me have the last fall that Blair Cherry of Texas, When people are sick, they have medicine? Wes Fesler of Ohio State and to have medicine whether they can Sam walked to the back of the Marchie Schwartz of Stanford all pay for it or not, Sam said rea- store, unable to answer. Then sudresigned. Cherry didnt even wait sonably. denly he whirled around. Mary was for the end of the campaign. It so gone. He hurried after her. the cant But, Sam, you carry happens that all three of these whole town bn your shoulders. If men are excellent sportsmen and you go on extending credit, youll DILL WAS wrong. A man had to on a high level as football coaches. probably find yourself in a bad & have faith. A man has to acCertainly Cherry and Fesler had spot. cept his responsibilities. The health two powerful teams, rated In Bill went to the turned back of the people in this town had been the national ranking most of the with a word of door, to him. He couldnt fail warning, Better entrusted fall. There was no demand for their think whether them, they could pay or it over, Sam. not. resignations. They all decided Sam sighed. He looked up at there must be, softer ways of mak- Sam overtook Mary and said, the small neon sign over the Come back. Ill fill the prescriping a living. entrance doors of which hed altion. Ill also put up some Vitamin The Coaching Tangle ways been so prond. B for your brother." Meadows Drug Store Part of the trouble first started Youre a good man, Sam, Mary Twenty-fiv- e when coaches began to Jump three- years of service. said.tc arfully. After that when people needed ' By JOE credit, they got it. Sam was as MAHONEY usual on call day or night Bill Bowen came to see him This time Sam told him a again. that a druggists responsibilities to his customers was as great M that of a doctor to his patients. Bill tried to argue with him, but Sam shook his head with a smile. Bill went out and almost collided with Tom Shaver, tne young cashier in the bank. Sam was filling a prescription for a shabby young man in overalls. H charged it and as the E.AD! youn man started to leave, Sam EOT gave him a doll for his little girl. toor five-ye- ar 10-ye- ar long-tim- so-calle- d big-tim- well-kno- wn AITHFUL SERVANT , re-fill- ed : -3 j t jtio tMnnooP SgfflSsSft the Then whats said, Well, Tom, mind?, Tom Shaver grinned. Just wanted you to know the old towns waking up. Shoe factory, opens next week, a furniture faictory coming in and the mills going to run full On M6 RALPH SCALAR Sam on your WAS LEAGUE MINIMUM. NOW THE time. Therell be' jobs for everybody and the people wont forget you, Sam. Tom went to the door, stopped under the neon sign. I think Im going to change that to SLUGGER DRAGS DOWN 165,000, PER YEAR1. M . , read, "Twenty-fiv- e years of Faithful service. Sam smiled at him. He was remembering a favorite Bible text: For we walk by faith, not by sight, CLEAR SAILING AHEAD . . . It summertime in Australia and that means sailing time for the amateur tars. Jock Sturrock of Melbourne is a simon pure mariner, and he is shown here with his Sue Ann as they cut through the water before a spanking breeze off Brighton. KATHLEEN NORRIS Families Will Suffer Austerity SOME AMERICAN FAMILIES are with butter substitute. to have a terrible time Mid-me- al cokes and chocolate bars and milk in the next few years, and they are shakes are out. If you dont like going to make difficulties for us one meal let us say you do not all, and remind us that we are in care for stuffed cabbage, baked a bad. way. sweets and prune shortcake why, Other American families will face this crisis as an adventure, then you will be all the hungrier for the next meal. and make it a period of such famthat it actually will ily Lights must be turned out the be enjoyable. minute you are through with them. It Is for Mother and in a lesser Towels must be used carefully. sense Dad to decide which path Clothes must be worn for more than the family is going to take. one season. Long distance calls are If you decide for the courageous out. If you children can find means way, get things in line right now. of making pocket money, by all Gather the family together and means do so, and take in Saturday make a little speech something like movies or Sunday hikes. But rethis; member that this household is doWe are now climbing up into a ing its share in the great governprairie schooner, popularly known ment effort by going through the as a Covered Wagon. We are going process known to mariners as shortto take along only the very neces- ening the sail. There must be no. sities of life. Here on this black- complaints. Any suggestions as to board your, father and I have made further economies of more appea note of what we owe. You will tising meals will be welcome, but see that it is something over $300. no grumbling. Our first job is to pay that off. And just get it into your young When that is paid, food limitaAmerican heads that whatever you tions, gas limitations and power sacrifice or suffer you are not enlimitations will have come to Amerh of what your big ica. They will not be as rigorous as during brothers and cousins are facing-ev- en those other nations almost all when they are only in army camps at home. Loneliness, homesickness, the deadly monotony of drill, the lack of personal freedom these things you are not expected to meet. And this is the best of war. The worst is the cold, the pain, the shock and fear of battle fronts; the misery of dying without one look from a loving home face; the dazed horror of coming home to be forever helpless, or in pain, or in the one-tent- dark. In gallant England children" now speak, and will always speak, of an ordinary egg as a shell egg: " . . the They have been allowed two shell family together eggs a month for a period of ten other nations have had to endure years. In Denmark because of fuel for the past 10 years. But to you and power conservation, there is no hot water after four oclock, exthey will seem severe. ' They will include meals that will' cept for hospitals. In Germany fill you warmly and appetisingly, children pick up the chocolate wrapbut that to you will not seem like pers our occupation forces drop meals at all. This means that such and suck them for the taste of dishes as macaroni and cheese, or sweet. In China small boats crowd beans, o t a thick soup, or waffles, about our service vessels, scooping will each form a whole supper. Once up for food the grapefruit shells, a day you will have po vegetables, the stale bread, the half-rotte- ii and perhaps a little meat, but put tatoes thatare thrown overboard. steaks and chops and roasts and Youll never come to that. Youll broilers out of your minds, once and emerge, as your country always for all. Breakfast will be an inex- has emerged, from 'this time of pensive fruit, like baked apples or trial, all the stronger. stewed apricots, oatmeal, and toast ' Released by WNU Features ... |