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Show I WONDER: If most of the over, grown Iambi set In front of Jo Louis during th past year were really jittery because of his punching punch-ing prowess and his well press-agented press-agented fighting face? Or whether they might not have been In an-guish an-guish because they knew their own defects made them pushovers for any reasonably able citizen? If Jack Dempsey thinks he has been divinely appointed to rescue t h e white race BSaMeBaeBBSaSBBSBSBSjenaei from the Joe Louis Lou-is peril and so must devote h I s precious time to n heavyweight elimination elim-ination tonrnnment with a Jim Crow clause? Or If Jack Dempsey does not know that the world probably will eo alone Just t) Sew Turk Font WNIJ Service, Ball Clubs' Need of Costly Training Belied by Facts A DAY or two ago I talked with a gentleman who owns most of the bank that very reluctantlyowns reluctant-lyowns most of a major league ball club. While he waved fingers which had been burned from laying too many loans on the line for those Central American republics which have such a rapid turnover In presidents, he scolded the fate that always keeps him playing with fire. "Do you know what it costs?" he said. "Wait," he hastened on. "Wait, I'll aliow you." lie gave an order. There was great activity in the outer office. One group of young men sprang to their adding machines. Another, far larger group, sprang to their subtracting ma chines. Then I knew that the ex cltement was caused by the mem ory of the $2.r),0K) which must be advanced for the club's spring training trip. "Do they have to go all the way down there?" he asked, pointing to a distant spot on the southern map. "Do they really have to take almost al-most two months to get ready?" Since It Is a pleasure to experiment experi-ment with the truth now and then I told him "No." I added that most sane baseball men believe that a team can be trained In any temper, ate climate. I recalled that John McGraw once said that any team should be in shape after two weeks of training, and that during the rest of the spring junket a manager mana-ger was most sorely beset in trying to keep the players that way. The r.nltlnitire Orioles, who won seven successive International league pennants, specialized In conquering con-quering big-time clubs In exhibition affairs and never trained farther jfoujh than Nurth , Carolina durlnjj uve of these years. Iiuiltl-Up Spoiled hy Poor Prc-Scason Showing Obviously the real purpose of long and expensive spring training periods Is to build up the expectant excitement of the home town fans. It Is an advertising means for creating cre-ating a definite demand for the product before it is placed on the market. This theory Is excellent, and yet In practice the resulls sometimes are unfortunate. Having gone through years in the belief that the home town fans will stand for anything, the club owners naturally do not have any higher opinion of so called tank towners. Occasionally some owner or manager, man-ager, hopeful that the victories of March will cause the home town fervor to endure well Into the defeats de-feats of May, insists upon a spirited spirit-ed performance. . But such urgency Is rare and the realistic young men very well know It. Cnseball, Jelly beans and movies all cost money. It Is true that In Macon, In Jackson, or In some tuch town, you can get the same Jelly beans or movies as you can on Broadway, and often the price Is less. So If the natives, with full knowledge of what big-time baseball base-ball offers them and asks for It. decide to stick to Jelly beans and movies there seems no "Hold on," Interrupted the gentleman. gen-tleman. "I get part of It, but Isn't it true that the the same If the Jack Dempsey clean - living and capable Joe 1-mils does take permanent perma-nent possession of the title? And if Jack Dempsey wouldn't do better If he stuck to his cooking? Whether that Puerto Rico train-Ing train-Ing trip of the Cincinnati Reds real-ly real-ly Is such a swell publicity and money getting stunt as the Nation-al Nation-al League president and the multi-mlllionalra multi-mlllionalra owner of the club seem to believer And Isn't It true that the Reds usually have wound up overtired even during those recent seasons when they did not start training a full month ahad of the other teams? Or are the Clncln-natl Clncln-natl fans supposed to go on forever for-ever being satisfied with a second division club, adorned with night baseball and other trimmings? Why the American League does not sign Dolly Stark, the best of all possible umpires, who recently cut himself loose from the National Nation-al League's bed and board? Six-Day Bike Arcs Are Born That Way Things the six-day bicycle riders who are now battling it out in Madison Square Garden probably never even knew about themselves: John Chapman, who promotes and profits, says that the cyclists are born with powerful legs and that if they do not have them in the cradle they seldom can develop them. Tino Reboll of Newark has the most highly extolled Dietrichs of the present era. Bike riding papas raise their boys to be bike riders. Alfred Buysse. the Belgian, Is the son of Marcel Buysee, who used to thrill the fans In the old Garden. And Cesar Mo-rettl's Mo-rettl's dad once was Italian champion. cham-pion. Norman Hill went to a San Jose, Calif., high school with Marvin Owen, the Detroit third baseman. Saysthat he (Hill) never could play ball but that Owen might have become be-come a swell bike rider. Franco Georgettl probably Is the wealthiest rider, lie makes It both In the races and In Wall Street and Is one of those people who have staged magnificent comebacks after being clipped in 1!)'0. Although most of the riders are covered with scars, only one man ever has been killed In a six-day race. That was Urban MacDonald, who went over the top of the track In the Garden In 1!H8. lie died In the hospital the next day as a result re-sult of his Injuries. Grid Stars Can't Resist Lehipli's Opportunities Big-time football players no longer long-er are passing up Lehigh's opportunities oppor-tunities for higher education. Within With-in two years the team is scheduled to rank with the best In the East. . . . Joe Cooper, "amateur bad man" with the Crescents last season, sea-son, picked on the wrong guy for his first pro hockey scrap. He swung his stick at Lionel Cona-cher, Cona-cher, Canada's best athlete, and was rewarded with six stitches. John Weller, Princeton's mighty lineman, has worn a monocle each football Saturday morning since the Tigers upset Columbia In ism. Once the glass dropped from his eye and was shattered on the ground. That was just three hours before Tale ruined the Princeton winning streak last fall. Did some one say that, while In Yankees charge the same prices as the other clubs and that they haven't always had the best team?" -Yes," I told him. "But, until In a moment of weakness weak-ness they parted with him, they al- the East, St Mary's signed up a metropolitan high school star, nine years removed from his studies, for delivery as a freshman next fall? And Is this twenty-seven-year-old athlete now playing semi-pro football foot-ball so that he will be prepared? Sammy Berne, the old-time lightweight, light-weight, who trained Benny Leonard Leon-ard for the two Lew Tendler fights. Is post otlice clerk for one of the nation's busiest publishing bouses. . . . There continues to be no great meeting of the minds between be-tween football folks at Holy Cross. ... Although the football team could stand some Improvement, Harvard's Har-vard's band could compete with I'enn for the eastern intercollegiate intercollegi-ate muslc-maklng honors. Johnny Scherf, Michigan graduate gradu-ate and Windsor wlngman, bas tak- j en the play away from the major j league veterans In the Internatlon-! al Hockey circuit, although this la only bis first season as a pro. Old-timers Old-timers say that be Is almost certain to become one of the few Americans Ameri-cans who have been able to keep up with the other stars la b!g Uro rink company. j ways had Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth And all you need to put on a show that will pack them in is one guy like" tfut the banking gentleman no longer was listening. Ring Title's Yours if You Have $20,000 If you can make the weight and have $20,000 o spare you can become be-come a world champion. One of the pugilistic tl"s la for sale at that price. N. T. U. students do not hold exclusive ex-clusive squawking rights about not being able to get into their own basketball games. Neither the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young O. nor the Colorado U. gyms are big enough to bold all the excited student ticket holders. |