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Show By Chick Meehan FOING a guest column for Hugh Bradley la a cheerful reminder of the pleasant visits we had every Saturday night during the football season. 'ft if t I At the end of last season the football interest of the country coun-try was concentrated concen-trated on the Southwest and many people have wondered how that came about. The only explanation that I can give Is that football, with Chick Meehan its Interest and wild enthusiasm, has reached fever heat in different territories throughout the United States at different times. Texas was the latest Back In the old days when football foot-ball was getting Its foothold as a national na-tional game the Big Three dominated dom-inated the East to such an extent that when All-Amerlcan teams were picked at the end of the season eight of the eleven would be members mem-bers of the Big Three and the few remaining selections would be made mostly from the other large colleges col-leges in the East From the East the enthusiasm spread to the Midwest Mid-west and reached such glowing heights that the Western conference, confer-ence, composed of the Big Ten in-situtions in-situtions in the Mid-west, was formed. This was a fine move for football, as well as the Individual colleges, since each college In the Midwest was anxious to outdo the others and the conference served as a check on t York PMt.-W.NU Brvlc. jYslVacalion Time So tet Guests fain the Column ;,Jk Bradley is vacationing. 'And v'titit wk his shoes ar filled by C J. ftcolj Kuppert, owner of the New 5 ,iki)'unkees. Chick Meehan, Man-ytu-JcuUege football coach and John G, M'"""' Pre'dent t tne United ;,,;; jG'o' association. y Col. Jacob Ruppert TGUlSS I was born with a couple 1 0f silver spoons In my mouth. r?jlh;tt I mean that the man is t , plucky who can combine recre-, recre-, i'with business the way I have i -i trioing the last twenty-odd ;. J since I bought the Yankees f . Tnliinel Huston. And seven tiuflater I owned the club all by r , .. If. I never regretted either : tkm. I I Jeuld do it all over again glad-SVery glad-SVery day I like baseball bet- , The game has its headaches H its thrills, too. And what busl-I busl-I jhesn't have a headache? The '.tfjig hit in the ninth Inning with i e beses full leaves me as limp as I i J-and just owning a ball club I Ets kick, too. ; Jt mi v I've discovered a new -.. Ii llio chain store system. 1 every member of the group. . From the Midwest, football moved Into the Missouri valley, and I be. lieve the game in the Missouri valley, val-ley, over a long period of years, hai progressed on a more even keel than in any section in the United States. The South came along next, with John Helseman's Georgia Tech Golden Gold-en Tornado lending the parade. Every southern institution has had great teams at one time or another ever since, and In my opinion, southern south-ern football always will be of the the first grade, because the preliminary prelim-inary training season comes In February. Feb-ruary. All the Dixie coaches take advantage of six or eight weeks of practice, with the result that their teams are the best ball hundlers In the country. Southwest Is Now Football Stronghold f i ! x ! I & 1 I ' ' I t P. 1 ' 1 i ' didn't believe In the Branch Rickey Idea at first; then I realized that it was the fairest system sys-tem to the ball player. Tying a string to a young player and sending send-ing bim out on option op-tion doesn't give him a fair chance to make the most Following the South, the wild wave of enthusiasm brought great football teams to the west coast. A man named Uenderson, who coached Southern California, and hns since been forgotten, did more to stimulate interest in the sport on the coast than any of the famous men that have succeeded him. Now we come to the Southwest When S. M. U. and Louisiana State, which is considered a southwestern team, although it Is In the Southern conference, stepped out and showed the way, it didn't take long for Texas Christian, Texas U., and Texas A. and M. to fall In line. This is the sizzling hotbed of football of Cij Ruppert of his ability. Now there are Si cities in the Yankee chain, v i developing our own players : 'MMagglo will probably be our i g purchase. ' I Ike to sit back in my grand-seat grand-seat and watch the youngsters : their way up through the dif-: dif-: t classifications to their big ' : pnt opening day at the Tan-1 Tan-1 laillum. ; Ii psychologist could ask for a j r opportunity to study charac-It's charac-It's a study of temperament Jctions. It's mighty Interesting e how the boy reacts to his ii ing. Some of them keep hus-I hus-I all the time. Others let well f "iljh alone. l$e hardest thing Is to change a ."fjoungster Into a hustler of the I' fcolib type. It's really seldom 1 Hall playing is a natural gift Icing nn actor, a lawyer or a ! singer. There is always the who slops to the front, first love was horse racing, t doesn't wear as well as base- 5 The thrill in a horse race lasts a couple of minutes. A ball - $ lasts two hours. 'ft baseball Is a game for sun-' sun-' f- That's why I'm against night for the big leagues. It will r come to stay. The fan llks "''it In the sun. .I'jpkccs of '27 " $ie Best Club Ever 4 bcun asked if I ever expect $t another Babe Ruth. If I said ' ft would he In the nature of a il'all bromide. About all I can lilie. That's one of the charms ' 'e game you never know what "Imay uig up. , fc host ball club was the Yanks It was the best club ever ftugetlier. It could come through !itime. the nation today and, with the Texas Centennial going on this year, it should be even hotter. By John G. Jackson Cities throughout the country are becoming aware of the fact that many of the prominent competitorsof today are drawn from the ranks of public links golfers and are hnstening to complete bigger and better public courses such as the one at Beth-page Beth-page State park In Farmlngdale, L I., where the national championship is to be played. This development of public link golf Is bound, In an extremely short time, to react to the benefit of prl. vate clubs and the game of golf it-self. it-self. Youngsters, now unable to stand the tariff of private club mem-bership, mem-bership, are getting a sound grounding ground-ing In the game, one that will stand them In good stead when, as adults, they can afford to join a club where their friends and business associates are already members. The growth of public links is merely another indication that the game is ever growing, never static. It is improving and developing from year to year, with promising young sters continually popping up into thn hpniiiines to serve as a spur to 5ut don't make the mistake of '"tling my present Yankees. l ia and Gomez are sure to have r -er years, and the operation on isetti't knee was successful, fe and Selkirk are Improved Vers and Roy Johnson shapes up for the outfield. I wouldn't ; P my pitching staff for any in M league. -1turally the Tigers are the team J)eat They have come through 1 Vv in a row. The Ited Sox still H pitchers, but are pretty power-U'loklng power-U'loklng otherwise. I always fear ' Indlnns. fell, It's still a great game the 5 e we all love, player and fan f owner alike. If I could develop 1 her Ruth In my chain store I ; - to say that It would make up -sail the losses you have to take ; h0 minors. It would make up r them financially and In the pride Schlevement. ;t 4ut there's no kick in winning all --f time. I don't even know that I ' !Secty IankCeS t0 be 100 Per cent ! i other youthful competitors. Golf Attendance Ruled by Talent We have found, In the past, tnat golf attendance is ruled more by the caliber of the competition than by the location of the tournament As the outstanding example of that principle, I can best refer to the case of Bobby Jones. When Bobby was In his prime he could Jam the galleries and make the marshals-work marshals-work a nightmare no matter where he was playing. The average golfer probably does not realize Just how much tournament tourna-ment receipts mean to golf and the United States Golf association. In proof 1 offer figures from a recent report of the executive committee, which show that over a period of nine years a net disbursement of 98 per cent of the dues paid by member mem-ber clubs was devoted to the work of the greens section. |