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Show t 'V - I My PROOF that a guy can return from Florida with something more than a big expense account and a bad sunburn. The dearest ambition of one of Chicago's most eminent racketeers Is to own a blg-tlme baseball club-Johnny club-Johnny Mlze, the hard hitting Cardinal, Cardi-nal, believes he would be jlnxed If be did not step on home plate each time he goes from first base to the bench Johnny Hroaca Is the champion cham-pion lobby sitter among the Yankees. Yan-kees. When he cannot find any one to sit and listen to him be Just sits and watches the other guests Dobby Crulckshank will tell you that he learned to putt by watching Hobby Jones In the play off at In-wood In-wood In 1928. Previously Crulckshank Crulck-shank had been putting In the British Brit-ish manner, hitting the ball full. Now he bits only half of the ball and gives It plenty of overspln. Not to numerous fans who have been writing In to ask whether Hitler Hit-ler has taken over the National league In the matter of the Jew who happens to be the game's best umpireWhy um-pireWhy not Inquire of the league president or the club owners whom you support? My own Impression is that if these gentlemen so desired de-sired they could easily persuade e Naw York Post. WNU Berries. Parson Tabs Rival Flag-Winners, but Ignores Statistics IF ANYBODY ever conducts a poll to determine the most mulish person per-son in history or poesy, my vote will go to the boy who stood on the burning burn-ing deck. He probably had business busi-ness elsewhere and his folks must Dolly Stark to return to the game he loves. Gossip now is that there was a woman In the case when Discovery r fatr 1 r J .y was trimmed at Santa Anita. It seems that a celebrated cele-brated movie actress ac-tress who attended workouts likes to Bee horses go fast and so young Al Vandm'bllt gave dally orders to that effect Just to prove that they still are pals, Charley have warned him about playing around with fire, but he persisted Just the same. That's a fine way to get a reputation, reputa-tion, but It's not old Parson brad-ley's brad-ley's way. If anybody should ask him what la his way, the best be could do in the shape of a snappy comeback would be to nifty that It Is something some-thing he hns not been having recently, recent-ly, but that probably Is beside the point. What Is right on top of the point Is the fact that the venerable Parson Is about to pick some winners win-ners and he is not the sort of person to fool around with burning decks plied, high with the figures of experts. ex-perts. , Instead he' Is going to hop right overboard and name the lucky lads who will participate In the World Series Se-ries In September or October or whenever the ever chnnoreahle niMif. Bill Terry Grimm presented Freddy Llndstrora with six new bats when the Cubs met the Dodgers the other day P.lll Terry recently purchased a $50,000 annuity Rookies who are having their heartbreaks now might nates have decided to hold the annual an-nual gold and glory classic. Made Cubs Cinch in 1935 by Picking the Cards Perhaps he could make 6,500,000 people happy by saying that the Giants, Yankees and Dodgers are going go-ing to triumph, but he Is something more than Just a crowd pleaser. So he Is going to keep faith with Brooklyn Brook-lyn by continuing to live there, while concentrating his prophetic powers upon the other entries. While doing so he Is going to reveal a few secrets (the tattletale). One of them concerns Chnrley Grimm. Most people think Charley SC 4 kh V.V.V.'U&.t.Y.'. Wfk : j'.'. t'nVi3 Is a St. Louis boy who master-minded his own way to fame In Chicago, but there are those behind the scenes who know better. He could never have done It If It hadn't been for the Parson. When the baldest of the Brad-leys Brad-leys had finished ime iu kuow inai ins speaser once was left In Little Rock by the Red Sox as part payment for the ball park they had been using In the Arkansas Ar-kansas metropolis. Throwers of Harlem rent parties should take a tip from Tampa socialites. so-cialites. Slot machine- are legal In Florida and the license fee Is camparatively smull. So the boys and girls have taken to Installing them In tbelr homes, calling up their friends and then letting nature na-ture take Its course. Since the machines ma-chines can be regulated so that the customers get as little as 5 per cent, such entertainment Is highly profitable for the hosts Old-timers say that the late Kid Uleason was the roughest ; fighting man ever to don a big-time uniform Fans walked off with 1,082 baseballs that were bit into the Brooklyn stands last year, but the record still Is held by Wrigley field, where sixty baseballs base-balls often are used in a game. Baseball Still Retrenches, Though Receipts Are Up Baseball still is retrenching, although al-though the gate receipts have in-creased in-creased vastly during the past two seasons. Players will tell you that no more than ten athletes draw $3,000 or better In the Double A (International, American association, associa-tion, Pacific Coast) leagues. Six years or so ago Newark alone paid that much money to as many men. In the lower loops it Is even worse, with $55 -a -month salaries being common In Class D circuits Van Mungo has a deep yearning to be a racing ear driver Ben Geraghty, the Villanova collegian who may become the best shortstop ever .0 perform in Brooklyn, also is an expert ex-pert checker player and a fair hand at bridge While other athletes are complaining that the gloves are not big enough, Charley Grimm contin-uer contin-uer to hold his rating as the game's best first basemen by practicing bare-handed. Charley dallying with the Grimm statistics 12 months ago, be was convinced con-vinced that the Cards were going to win. So Just to show what he cared for figures he picked the Giants. Gi-ants. That left only the Pirates, Dodgers and I'hlls for the Cubs to attend to (since the Reds and Bees always can handle their own losing. los-ing. So, naturally, the Cubs won the pennant This senson the same system Is being used at the earnest request ot Mr. Hoiace Stoneham. owner of the Giants. Even though Mr. Sam Breadon, who collects the receipts (if any) In St. Louis, does not like It, the Parson first must be true to his home-towuers. So he Is selecting select-ing the Cards to win and the Cubs to finish second. Tigers Should Win in American League Hitherto when asked to name the winners of this younger organization organiza-tion (which quite often also is known as the American league) the Parson bus displayed his versatility as an expert by maintaining a dig-, nl tied silence. From what he could gather while sojourning in the South, It seemed to the Parson that the Tigers were already In. Then he met Colonel Ruppert and heard different The Colonel spends most of his time dodging In and out from under the grandstand to Inquire hoarsely of total strangers, "How we doing?" "Do you think we're gonna bold that five-run leadJ" But even though he may be all wet the Parson at least Is not going to get burned by statistics. Instead, he merely is laying the two pennant races on the line as follows: NATIONAL AMERICAN St Louis Detroit Chicago Cleveland New York New York Pittsburgh Boston Brooklyn Washington Cincinnati 6t Louis Philadelphia . Chicago Boston Philadelphia When they finish the home stretch next September, you'll be able to tell whether the Parson Is a good prophet A former xsew ions Judge wants to take up the causj of Don Meade, the ace Jockey recently banned in Florida. He would like to carry the case to the highest court In order to test the constitutionality of racing rac-ing In the state It is fillies' year at the breeding farms. The turf birth notices reveal that the femmes are leading the colts live to one If the New York State. Racing commission is not too busy it might Investigate those loud squawks concerning the type of . electric eye to be used at metropolitan tracks this year. Reporter asked 93 major league ball players what club was the best they had seen this year. Fifty-two replied the Cards, while forty-one favored the Tigers. What's become of: Ned Harlan, Princeton's all-America back of twenty-five years or so ago, practices law at Bel Air, Mil Winnie O'Connor, who won a bike race, flat and steeplechase horse races and a prize tight all In a day In Paris, is running a Jamaica tavern. , Eddie Burke, a mighty power among the bookmakers on metropolitan metropol-itan race-tracks In tbe long, long ago, now manages Havre de Grace, a mutuel plant Milton Henry, who ran the American Ameri-can Bar In Paris for several years after starring as a crack rider, la back at his first love galloping horses at tbe Long Island courses. |