Show I I Sixto Escobar Was as Handy at Baseball Sixto Escobar bantamweight e ex- ex expert ex expert pert was v aces as a baseball and volley ball player during his school schooldays schooldays schooldays days at Barceloneta in Puerto Rico Carlos Indian Quintana claims to be the first Cholo Indian ever to become a prize fighter Hirsch Jacobs Jacobs the nations nation's leading horse trainer Is a movie fan He lie seldom misses the dinner after-dinner show Mathias Mathias 1 L L Daiger head man at Pimlico would win almost any turf writers poll for the most courteous racetrack official Lou Little the noted football coach and broad broad- broadcaster broadcaster broadcaster caster Is a teetotaler from way back When he was playing at Penn he used to refuse even to taste the champagne served at the training table on Friday nights The own own- owner owner er of Kate Smiths Smith's Original Celtics feels that Colonel Jake ke Ruppert is a handicap to an ambitious am- am ambitious am ambitious girL The reason Is that Rup Rup- Ruppert Ruppert s pert has Marius Russo signed to a baseball contract which bars the for for- former former for former mer L I U star from playing pro basketball this win win- winter winter winter ter Jim Jordan Col Cul Ruppert of ot the Dad Dodgers C e r s stumbled on the front steps the other day and now is buying a new set of front teeth One of Manhattans Manhattan's plays is a douba shift which frequently catches an opposing lineman offside Then before he can cm get beck brck into position the Jaspers wall him in snap the ball and get five yards for nothing Cecil Hart seems to be bethe bethe ithe the Casey Stengel of hockey man man- managers agers alters At least New Yorks York's hockey writers used their own money for a testimonial dinner to the very pop pop- popular popular ular Les pilot recently Bill Marks Princeton frosh end coach says the Tiger cub line is capable of playing varsity football right now If U the the New New York State Athletic Commission would depart from Its provincial attitude altitude and invite young Joe McGuigan of Philadelphia to referee occasionally the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Stale State Athletic Commissio would Improve its staff starr of referee per cent Paul Waner believes that he led the the National Leagues League's 1936 hitters bitters because c he spent the winter playing golf goll Says Sas that con con- constant constant constant stant practice in trying to locate I Ithe the green so sharpened his bis touch t that it became second nature for him to place his bis base hits bits accurate accurate- accurately accurately ly Iy Regis Monohan l Detroit Lions guard has lias used the same pair of football shoes for four years Be- Be it would he be b bad had luck to change them and besides they feel eel good The foul most frequently over over- overlooked overlooked overlooked looked by officials who like the hours and the pay is holding in theline the line ibe Charles Francis Socker Coe the celebrated writer and broadcaster has lost so much weight that he now looks like only one man Jamaica and Aqueduct will use some of that mat con conn contributed by bookmakers to metro metropolitan metropolitan politan courses this year to Im Improve Im- Im Improve improve prove their tracks before spring i Dan McGugin l was coach at Van Van- Vanderbilt thirty years during which time he be had bad but one undefeated untied season season his his first Six years cars his record was spoiled by a single lossi loss three years by a tic lie In n 1911 I his bis single defeat by a point was admInistered by Michigan l coached by Fieldin Fielding Yost wasI I |