Show Famous Sports Figures Banking On Santa Claus a Ric Rickard ard Wants Sock Full of Fighters Heydler Needs Umpire By United Press 1 Wonder If it Santa Claus has done I his duty by the great and near- near I great of or the sports world For Instance did he drop his con con- girth down Tex chamney and deposit two or more good heavyweights eights In the promoters promoter's Carefully hUn hung stocking Tex also would have welcomed a big biS' batch of pugilistic interest In the southland especially around Miami VISITS BOSTON And did Santa visit John He Heydler leaving a a. package labeled More consideration for the player 10 er plan That would have been a gift highly I appreciated John likewise likewise like like- wise wanted a nice neat solution of ot the Umpire Klein Klem resignation Santa Claus visited Boston on election day giving Sunday baseball baseball base base- ball to the Red Sox and Braves But today he be certainly should have provided baseball teams to do something something some some- thing with the prior gift If Kris Kringle were the gladsome benefactor he ho is cracked up to be behe behe belie he lie should have gone during durinS' the tho night light to the home of ot each one of ot the Phillies and left contracts to Play in 1929 for the the New York Yankees But such beneficence as that probably would prove fatal tala I WHAT FOR JACK DEMPSEY I Jack Dempsey could have used a I lessened waistline a sturdier pair of legs and an Inclination His former i ring mate Gene Tunney might ha have hae e been pleased with a a. bit of ot isolation from cameramen and of course a ac c complete set of Shakespeare The fight ht fan incidentally wrote Santa a long tong letter asking for more and better fights but his plea bly wound up at the ilie dead ead letter office of of- of t- t fice That was T too much to hope for Santa Claus could have hae been extremely extremely extremely ex ex- s generous with the tite railroad companies by bv giving more football football foot foot- ball baU teams like Notre Dame Knute Rockne and his trained troupe by the wa way needed new traveling bags All AU of ot the gridiron teams on the eastern seaboard spent Christmas eve e praying for a a. defense against the west But if it Santa could have brought that he ire could do any anything thinS thinS' and miracles are such surly rarities HELENS HELEN'S WISH Helen Wills of ot course wanted some seine competition Big Bill Tilden hun hung up hIs Ills stocking In the nope hope that the burl burly Invader would leave a a. afew afew few less rules and more tennis i l French rench tennis players said advices from abroad wanted only ny a status quo As for amateur golfers golfers it such there be the be-the the general Christmas wish was for the Ule retirement from the game of ot Robert Tyre Jones Jones himself wanted a new mantelpiece mantelpiece mantelpiece mantel mantel- piece the old one sagging dangerously dangerously danger danger- from the weight of trophies The American Olympic team never satisfied was hoping for more victories on the track C C. C C. C Pyle I expressed a yearning for more en endurance en- en i durance durance both both physical and finan finan- I cial All In all San Santa ta was as faced with quite a large largo order We doubt Ithe if It he could get et around around everywhere I |