Show r I Campbells Campbell's Flirtation With Gabriel Biggest Thrill Of Sports Year So Far FarAs As Henry McLemore Is Concerned I By HENRY J j I United Press Pres Sports Sport Writer NEW YORK Dec 20 20 0 Of the sports editors asked in a United Press poll oll t to name their greatest greatest great great- est thrill in 1933 a majority answered answered answered an an- Mel OUs OU's home run in inthe inthe inthe the fifth nUh and final game of the world series be between New York and Washington And that's not a bad answer It was a blase citizen indeed who wasn't lifted out of his seat when the boy belter belier from the Bayous smacked one of Jack Russells Russell's fast ones out to the flagpole It had the pro proper r setting too what with Mel Me hItless all nIl day and the Giants and Senators all tied up at t 3 in the tenth Several Other Candidates Yet it wasn't our nomination for the greatest thrill There were several we placed above it That time for example when running running run run- ning through h a weekly magazine we discovered the White House recipe for tapioca pudding written written writ wrIt- ten by Mrs DalL And the night Morton Morlon Downey passed us In the Stork club and said Hello John And then there was that after after- noon in the little press coop perched up on the dunes of Daytona Day Day- tona tons Beach when the cry went up Hes lies off oUt oHI I With the words came a humming hum hum- ming the ming thc the same ame ominous humming humming hum hum- ming of oC dynamos in a death death- house With the passing of each split second the humming increased increased in in- creased in intensity until when Campbells Campbell's Blue Bullet hove into si sight ht It has become a wild ear earsplitting earsplitting splitting shriek One second you OU saw a speck far down the crystal beach The next second that speck had grown Into a blazing blue comet a squirt of liquid fire licking along the oceans ocean's edge at blinding speed Inside that high balling projectile tile on wheels was a friend o of ours A fellow wed we'd eaten breakfast breakfast breakfast break break- fast with that same morning a n fellow wed we'd downed a few highballs high high- balls bills with ond a fellow whose only lucky charms were a picture of his wife and baby boy As Campbell hammered by the press stand he was traveling around miles an hour And just as he flashed by us his car went momentarily out of control For one shaved second it was on two wo wheels wheels wheels-on on two wheels at miles mUes an hour hourI That was wn wai thrill for 1933 that br ath stopping heart-stopping flash when d do tried to wrest the thc steering wh wb from Campbells Campbell's grasp And if you want thrill N No came when Bluebird righted h self and shimmying like a ac i dancer rocketed on down beach to a new worlds world's rec Yes Otts Ott's homer w was a la lu laa lua a honey and a beauty of a But if youve you've seen a 0 man you mired being fitted for wings an ani and see him come out o smiling and all aUm in one part you yon understand our choice v i |