Show Pro p Football Team Makes BidI Bid I 4 For Place in Rose Bowl Battle t f i y By HENRY McLEMORE v l United Press Sports Writer V 0 NEW YORK Nov 21 21 UP UP Tim Mara ex bookmaker t the theman man eman who wed sued Tunney promoter of at the o Baer scrap and proprietor of the New York Football Giants today made one of the finest sporting features of of- the decade Right out of a clear sky Mara dispatched dispatched dis dis- dis- dis patched a Telegram to the Ro Rose Rove Bowl Bowl committee in which he expressed sympathy for for the trouble It Itis is having in itt finding an eastern representative for the New Years Year's game and volun volun- t red the services of at his professional Giants Well come right out there and play anybody you name Maras Mara's message read r. r i f Some Pin Fin Money loney t Now that way was pretty decent Nobody Nobody No No- r body hates long tr train in rides rIde lik like Mara i Especially specially one to California in the 1 winter Moreover Mara hates the pitiless beam of the spotlight a and aid d a I. I trip to the New Years Year's game would I I no flO doubt subject him to much pub pub- t Yet Yel hes he's willing to go through t with all the in inconveniences just to help the Rose Bowl committee o out t t and perhaps pick thirty up or thirty thirty- fj five thousand dollars in pin pm money l. l 1 t. t J Its It's a real sporting gesture Its It's entirely probable that the Rose Bowl committee unwilling for Mara Marato to make such a n sacrifice sacrifice- wont won't answer answer an an- his wire This would be regret table First because he deserves a n reply and secondly because selection of the Giants would be a swell idea The Giants are professionals its it's true but so 0 o is the idea of the Rose Bowl game which unless our in information Is haywire is sponsored by the chamber cham chain ber of commerce The Rose Bowl fathers ne need ned d have no fear rear about the Giants as a drawing card Maras Mara's te team m positively drips with col colorful ful players including Harry Newman and Ken Strong and it it plays wide open town to football A game between betwee the Giants and Southern South ern California ern say would settle once anti and for all the argument concerning the relative merits of the pro and college ollege game No Argument Personally I dont don't on t see ace where theres there's any argument Ive I've seen half halfa a dozen of the hired and when and when I say hired I mean opet openly y hired outfits this season and any anyone one of them could take any college team I ever saw and bust it wide open The talk about abou prof professional players taking it easy casy in tackling and blackIngs is heard no more The boys are out there performing performing per per- forming for board and md room and let no one tell you that combination isn't just as us much an Incentive as dear old Rutgers dear old Harvard or dear dearold dearold dearold old West Coast Marines But I must say no more Mara will be sore as the d devil vU at me me- for writing this much for lor he wanted to keep his gesture secret The fact that thata a cop copy of his wire landed landed on on my desk w was pure accident r ij l It t 11 lI J to f I 1 f t. t |