Show r Backseat Driving Melange l I l. l c I r tov Loves Lovs s to 10 Barter ii By FRANK EL IL BAKER I Telegram Sports Ed Editor tor Illinois Hard to Scout I J Because of Medley ledley of Systems 1 Ohio State observers insist that Illinois Is the toughest football team to scout In what is often described as the toughest league In football The answer seems to be that Bob the artistic and resourceful resourceful resource resource- ful head hend coach of the uses a little of nearly every known system with a few dashes of his own ingenuity His warn team has run from live five the short punt similar formations tins this y year ar the famed Z or Grange to Michigan's the close double wing back characteristic of the Warner plan of attack the open double and the long punt formation which used to be popular when Harvard was on top under the late I Percy D. D Houghton also uses three different line shUts shift pla plays his ends close or wide and resorts to either the balanced or unbalanced d line as asa asa asa a final measure calculated to baffle the opposition Branch Rickey W Would Have Enjoyed oyed Hi Himself I In Ancient Horse Trading Days DaysI 1 I Any time theres there's a baseball deal to be swung in the National league of at Branch Rickey the toe its it's a good idea to be within calling distance manager of the Farm Board and Home Loan departments of the St. St Cardinal organization Louis Louls Rickey c is a a. born trader a restless spirit always on the lookout for fort t deal If It he cant can't swap anything else he will swap baseball yarns yams A until nm new he has softened up his hi himan man to the point of making a a. trade with him Generally he is three trades ahead of the other fellow Rickey and S his Ms boss Sam Breadon traded off Rogers Hornsby for Frankie FrIsch when everyone said they were getting the worst of it The answer is that Frisch now the Cardinal manager played with championship Cardinal teams when Hornsby was trough through f as a ball ballplayer baseball deals and deals and he player Rickey has wasted no sentiment in his haS made mistakes but not often C Consequently It isn't strange to find him making the first Important major league deal this winter by which the Cards get slugging Virgil in the backstopping de- de Davis Pavis in exchange for capable Jimmy Wilson their aching feet From now until the major league magnates ease I around I the hotel lobbies of at Chicago for the annual powwow December m 14 Branch Rickey will be found in the middle of or in proximity to every baseball huddle i 1 In the last few years the Phillies have themselves nowhere with great ferocity Anyone who looked mt t the batting averages and then noted the standing of the teams ml might ht rain gain the Idea that the Phillies were battering each other Instead of opposing PP teams To make things more complicated the new f logger flogger Is 15 a Hawaiian and a a. prince of or the royal raal line Une Or nearly so BO Ills His name Is Henry K Oana He fib ran up a lot of at Impressive totals for Portland leading the Coast league In extra base hits and runs batted in Big Debate in Store About Use of Same Ball by Both Leagues I One of the things that will agitate the baseball magnates at Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago tago is adoption of a ball ban to be used by both major l leagues agues in 1934 The question is whether the National league will agree to adopt the I somewhat livelier sphere of the American league or whether they will compromise on something in between the two The National league should be well satisfied with the 1933 results marked by a a. full return of at pitchers to power and the triumph of the Giants in the world series but it is considered certain the American f leaguers will not adopt the ball used by their rivals rl The magnates like t to watch the old fashioned game themselves themselves them them- selves but they are deeply concerned whether the cash customers will battles In terms of hard the toe respond to the lure of pi pitching hing money home run has meant more th then than n the no-hit no game I Maybe layhe That Item Can Be Found Somewhere in Here The champion of or the toe bands is the University of or Illinois outfit of pieces at home and on the road the late John Philip Sousa willed led his band library to the Urbana boys bos a huge pile of at 1 music and bestowed upon the band the title toe the best college band bandIn In America Director A. A A. A Harding has worked out two especially attractive formations formations' this year one is an an airplane formation with sound round effects b the other Time depicts a clock with changing dial S Another feature is the tribal dance led by Chief competition for the chiefs chief's Job has been so sa stiff in recent years that sev several eral contestants have spent their summers in Oklahoma and various vacation points in the west learning the Indian dance steps from the redskins S |