Show t y FRANK K BAKER TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR For a 1 fellow who never ever played football in his life Frank J. J Murray of Marquette university is a 1 decided I coach coaching ng success and now enjoys the distinction of having havinga a 1 potential Rose Bowl performer with the Golden Avalanche Ava Ava- 1 lanche which threatens to swe sweep p through its regular campaign cam- cam l without defeat t In 14 years with the Murray has coached the ther I r j team through three undefeated seasons In which time his charges have chalked up 83 victories against 30 defeats and six ties tics Although Murray never played football he was an excellent athlete in his younger days In fact he vas was a star baseball and b basketball performer for Tufts college f S He broke into football in a roundabout way His basketball l ability got him a high school coaching job in New England and andr t a r after going west for a graduate course at Chicago he began coachIng coaching coaching coach- coach ing football at St. St Viator in Milwaukee In 1920 1020 he became as- as w Distant to Jack Ryan of Marquette and took over the reins when r Ryan moved to Wisconsin in 1922 S S S S S SS t S S Marquette l carry its campaign for national recognition recognition to Omaha Saturday for a tilt with CreIghton which may not be bo as easy for the Avalanche as it seems Marquette S was heavily favored over the Omaha team in 1927 1921 1928 and andS S 1929 but lost each time Creighton's chief problem this time will be the stopping S of Ray Buivid Marquette's great halfback who unS un- un S will be prominently mentioned this year whenever S there is talk about America all-America teams No Marquette not nent-not not even the tho Galloping Gaels Cads from St. St Marys Mary's has he been beenS n F f. f S S L tS Lable able to dim Bulvid's Buivids football brilliance and it seems unlikely J S 4 tha thaS Creighton's sophomore ag aggregation will he be able to turn turnS S the tho trick this week S iS Buivid is not the whole hol Marquette attack There is for example the touchdown twins Art Arc and Al Guepe S Ward Vard Cuff and Ray all backfield stars of S the hc first magnitude And all names incidentally which t r S the whole football populace may do well to remember if 1 Marquette docs does come through with an unsullied record and nd get the Rose Bowl invitation S From Cleveland Ohio the press dispatches credit Jim Mc- Mc t. t S Millen former Illinois star later a pro and now a heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy- heavy weight grappler with advising graduating grid stars to take up S 5 wrestling in m preference to pro football Wrestling is easier on S the toe neck he says f A IIA wrestler can survive such trivial thin things s as chairs broken 1 over his head and falls faIls out of the ring g on n his noggin far more moree e jr f readily than a pro can run the greater risks he takes in inI inV ini i V his game McMillen says I f V t S. S In n football y you u have 21 other men to watch Any Anyone one of I Athena r them is apt to inflict injury on your our person Even one of your H wn J. mates may bump or kick you In wrestling you flaVo bayo only one man to watch and you generally can do a better T trOD of ot taking care of yourself than you can canon on the pro gridiron j. j all sounds pretty good but Wrestler McMillen forgets S I ij i riots which often take place in the ring If he were to visit f McCullough's McCulloughs 1 arena here sone night he might have the whole T 3 crowd to watch A Only last week Dr Freddie Me Meyers ers of California came pretty close to having a pop bottle shattered over his cranium i an usher came rushing to the assistance of Wild Bill BilI Longion Longi Long- Long t i S I ion on whose leg was being twisted d ar around und one of the ring ropes S. S S S S SS I r. r At least a score of stalwarts rushed to the ringside dur- dur S S t ing the tho melee The fhe usher grabbed the bottle sometimes used S t j by the gladiators to quench th their thir ir thirst and waded into the ther r rt- rt throng swinging with a vengeance His llis intended target was wasp p Dr Meyers' Meyers noggin but a lot of other craniums were in danger dan dan- ger too Mr Usher who ought to be able to keep his mental S. S equilibrium in such a situation if anybody can would have haveS have'S S 'S felt Celt mighty might foolish had he be cracked the bottle over a custo- custo Si iv to ers n head possibly inflicting serious injury S As a safety precaution this department urges that such uch suchS r S implements be removed from the ringside so they cant can't beS become become be- be S come weapons in the hands of the frenzied And the ushers may well bo be instructed to stay where they belong belong belong-at at theS the tho S back of the tho house These frequent riots may be fun un to their theirS S t participants but tho the whole thin thing would be spoiled should S'S somebody get hurt S S S 5 i. i 5 Thankerton the old 3 British thoroughbred which ran ranS S third in the derby on the famed Epsom Downs track this year may ay be the first race horse to fly the Atlantic Thankerton is entered in the Santa Anita Handicap at Los Losi i 5 Angeles on February 27 21 and Mrs James Sh Shand nd his owner is attempting to book passage for her horse on the German airship for the return trip to England Should arrangements f successfully completed Thankerton will not be the first horse horseS S to fly however as a number of horses have been moved by air in Australia |