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Show 'T'HE Great Lakes and the Norfolk service ball teami have been picking up most of the publicity a the two outstanding combination! along the war front. A new challenger challeng-er has now entered en-tered the field with a blast of bugles and a roll of drums. This challenger thinks it has been overlooked. We refer to the New ' Cumberland team Tom heB that meets the star-littered Norfolk bunch In Norfolk Nor-folk over this week-end. I can break the news to both Norfolk Nor-folk und Great Lakes that Nc,w Cum- i bcrliind's team is no soft touch. i It had won 22 straight games un- ' til Washington's Senators beat them 1 2 to 1 a few days ago on Vernon's ' homer in the eighth. Still 22 out of 1 23 isn't too moth-eaten. Over 4,000 i tackled a rain to see this game at 1 Harrisburg's Island Park. New Cumberland's crack pitcher ( is Tom Hughes of the Phillies. Lynn ; Myers from the Cardinals and Pat Mullen from the Tigers lead the attack. at-tack. These three are not the only high-class high-class players on the team's roster a team that expects to take Norfolk In tow by Sunday afternoon. Perhaps it won't, as Norfolk with Rizzuto and many other stars, is on a par with any big league squad. Great Lakes will also have something some-thing to say in a loud voice about any service title. Navy and Sport Our navy believes with a big part of our army that sport, handled in the proper way, Is something more than slightly important. It is now well understood that those colleges, for example, who have navy recruits can carry out at least some sort of a football program. pro-gram. Those colleges taken over by the army, so far as football Is concerned, con-cerned, will return to the deep-tangled wildwood, where the whang doodle mourneth. I have contacted athletic directors at many of these army campus grounds and they all tell me their case is hopeless unless army changes its plan. "Here's the way it works out at . Alabama," a former Rose Bowl star said. "We have now about 2,500 students stu-dents enrolled at the university. But they are all, or practically all, In the army. They are under army control, con-trol, army training, and no longer belong to the university. Many of these want to play football. They believe be-lieve they can keep up with their work, and still find some spare time for a few games with near-by rivals ri-vals such as Georgia and Georgia Tech. If Alabama was under navy control It would have a pretty fair team with Frank Thomas on hand. "But under army control, unless army gives its permission for football foot-ball to go on, there will be no Alabama Ala-bama team this fall. Most of the army men I have talked to I'd say over 95 per cent want competitive football to go along as It has at West Point and Annapolis where they also work 16 hours a day harder than any army recruits will work at any college. "I happen to know how keenly the cadets and midshipmen from the Hudson and the Severn want football. foot-ball. "I'm not speaking for morale on the so-called home front. I'm speak ing for those in active service and those headed in that same direction." 'Ride 'Em Out' Atkinson One of baseball's most important slogans has always been "run 'em out." Teddy Atkinson's racing slogan is "ride 'em out." Atkinson is one of the best jockeys riding around New , York and the best hustler on the track today. Too many jockeys stop riding when they see first-place beyond their reach. They overlook the fact that many large chunks of cold and hot cash are sent along for second and third spots. Atkinson keeps on riding. If he can't make it in front he goes after second money. If he can't get that he keeps shooting for the show. This, naturally, is the way it should be. It is tough enough to beat 11 or 12 per cent in fact it's impossiblewithout impossi-blewithout having this hostile margin mar-gin increased several points by riders rid-ers who ease up or pull up when they see they can't get there in front. Hagen Wanted to Win During Walter Hagen's long prime as a winning golfer, the able pro would tell you he had no interest in second or third place even In a U. S. or British Open. "Who remembers who finished second or third?" he used to say. This meant that Hagen would take any kind of gamble to win or lead where others would take no such risk. Hagen often knew that If any of his gambles failed, he would drop from second to fourth or fifth the money. Perhaps lower. |