| Show t Backseat Backseat Backs t Driving ng l H Hard Luck b ic By FRANK K BAKER 4 Telegram Sports Editor I r Drama Hides Behind Ankle Injury t to One of Players 4 The word world Is 15 still full of drama dram although we oftentimes overlook f I some ome of or the gems A Aroutine routine dispatch from Urbana III Ill the other day read as follows 4 j University of Illinois freshmen gave the varsity stiff competition r in a practice game One of the first casualties of or the season WM was Douglas Doug Doug- las Ins a junior from Chicago who sustained a broken ankle In Inthe I the scrimmage Two bones in the ankle were fractured and It Is 15 be believed be- be will be out all season t r But that isn't all the story Heres Here's a a bit of background that ought to be added I Nine years ago a young man named Charles Douglas MOD On Just L If fr r P turned 21 21 matriculated at the University of Illinois Football was hist hisk his I f k passion He wanted to wear a n letter earned playing Ing under Bob Y j t I He Re went out for the freshman team played hard bard and earned the commendation com corn of the Year Yearling nG c coaches es Then he be was as called home Dou had to work to help support the family One thing and another c came me up this form fonn of hard luck lude and that to prevent his returning to school to get ret that cherished letter Jetter desire persisted Doug often sat in the stands I to watch Illinois play and hope for the day when he hec could be down there on the field with the boys After seven years yeats the wish tIU sUU burned undimmed So he went back to school and announced he was ready to play out for the r football team I Thirty years old old and and READY TO GO PLACES looked him over and studied his record A fellow who stuck I to his youthful ambition through nine nineS years of disappointments musti must i t I be ready to go places Doug was In In the long arduous practice his spirit helped to make the squad forget its weariness This old man man had lii v. v the frosh froth The coach Came Caine then the practice scrimmage against I. I PU put him in hi at guard against the yearlings with the command Show em emOW l how an old man can go Doug I Old OW M Man vent os as hard as ac he could a little too hard perhaps per- per J. J haps for after one of the fierce charges there he was spread out on ont the thC racked by pain grass t t. t went out and bent over looked up 1 I 1 couldn't help it That perhaps was his farewell to the t gridiron gridiron and and after nine years of waiting and hoping I Odds and Ends of I Interest terest Here Herc and There From W World of Sports We w could Hunk Anderson reported recently lose one or two con contests ts along the line and that line Ike Includes Kansas Indiana Car Car- negle neBie Tech Pittsburgh Navy Purdue Northwestern Southern California California Califor- Califor nia rda and Army all aU of or of which is interesting now that the Irish were tied by Kansas and md licked by Ca Carnegie egie Tech I It t didn't seem m like a a. Notre Dame team what with fourth down I and 45 yards to go goas goM aS It was once in the fourth quarter or again I when the Irish lost 30 yards yards' on three downs as the powerful K UJ Uy U U. L I after loss forwards forwards' kept rushing them for loss oss J y I If f weight means anything Alabama should have a dandy team 1 with nine tackles averaging pounds the lightest being I and Se the heaviest for It is said sofa that a team Is as good as its I I tackles I I I The ranking rankin of Jack Crawford at the top of of the tennis heap by byI I A. A Wallace British tennis exp expert must have been a diplomatic dip dip- gesture since the thc critic seems to have forgotten England land I has a chap named Fred Perry using a racquet and that Perry beat Crawford In the U. U S. S national singles besides besIde doln doing some great I work in to the Davis cup victory It goes roes to show though how much emphasis is II placed on Wimbledon In Great Britain for Crawford I walked off with that title this year yea n I THIS IS A TOUGH ONE An eastern sports columnist Is is' in a quandary wondering whether it is 15 an example of ol cause and effect after getting the thern following letter r Dear Mr Will wm you please put in your column at your r first charu ease this communicate paragraph with me Your ma mais is worried ed AnI An- An I His boy reads your column every day and has been en from torn home for frn a week Thank you A SINCERE READER |
