Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-19 | Page 10 | Sport Slants

L SPORT SLANTS SLANTS' j By ALAN GOULD it Associated P Press Sports Writer I Things already are arc getting netting out of hand The bo boys s 's are o on th again with what is technically known as the oval or pigskin Its itS gallop from now on i iFor I For instance note the progress of Ralph LaForge halm halfback J Arkansas Razorbacks Ralph weighs only pounds about Ul tji th the f as Albie Booth did riH did nf at nt Yale Yale ft Aible got a Q lot more publicity than I LaForge will ever receive yet the Arkansas youngster may be just as asgood asgood asgood good or better than the utile little Eli Ell idol of a few years ago From all accounts account LaForge had plenty to do with Arkansas' Arkansas defeat of or the highly touted Texas Christian Horned Frogs early in October As witness these details furnished to us by Johnnie Porter of Fort Smith Ark Ark- The uThe pound US-pound back took the openIng open open- Ing kickoff and sprinted 90 yards toa to toa toa a touchdown Again In the third quarter quare ter he brought the kickoff from the 10 lo yard stripe to midfield and four players play play- ers later scooted 35 yards for Cor the only other touchdown of the day Lost Last week against Oklahoma Bap Bap- LaForge hauled In the third period kickoff and sped 90 yards for Cor a touchdown touch touch- down A week earlier he ran 78 yards for a touchdown against College of the Ozarks Later in the game he took a kickoff and ran 65 yards for a score which was called back when one of his teammates was declared offside Incidentally Arkansas I appears headed for its most successful season since the days when Hugo Bezdek commanded com the Razorbacks more than 20 years ago Fred Thomsen a fo former mer Schulte star at Nebraska Is head coach and doing a fine job after several lean years BABE TO BOSTON Colonel Jacob Ruppert has us so far tar refused refused re reo fused to commit himself but I suspect he and Business Manager Ed Barrow of at the Yankees might be willing to let Babe Ruth go back to Boston to manage the Red Sox Sax providing NewYork New NewYork NewYork York could get what it wanted In new player material Maybe I am all wrong and the colonel may insist on keeping Ruth for tor whom he has always had a special affection af at- and interest regardless of the Babes Babe's declining lure to the cash cus cus- But Ruppert demands a winner winner winnet win win- and It if the of Ruth is ner net passing essential essential essen e to achieving this aim I doubt if he would let sentiment stand too strongly in the way STILL PACKS A WALLOP Ruth of course is still a No 1 threat at the bat and will be so long as he can swing his big stick at the plate Pitchers have less fear of the big fellow fellow tellow fel tel low now than they ever showed be be- fore They had him hitting bitting into the dirt the latter part of the season but there is always the chance he will ob ob- J lain tain a toehold toe and break up UD t tofil i game The tougher the the tougher Lougher the Babe M MIn In Itt Boston where baseball bt bes wL I enjoy a substantial revival of this year the value of ofa a player manager of ot the R Red ly can be overestimated II f