Show Umpire Sees Sports As s War Benefit By HUGH FULLERTON JR NEW YORK Jan 8 UP Um UP-Um- Um Umpire pire Bill Stewart who was the first pro baseball player to enlist in the other war has come around to the conclusion that sports still I Iare are useful so the home folks can let off steam and get things off their chest And those things usually land right on Bills Bill's bald head Although Although Although Al Al- though plans still are nebulous Ned Irish has reserved March 27 three days after the end of the invitation basketball tournament as the date for a war charities court game Brigham Young U has come up with a new reason why a star athlete cant can't play Dwane Esplin conference all-conference basketball basketball basketball bas bas- forward in 1941 dropped out of school to look after his sheep If the Dodgers train in Yale's Coxe Memorial field fieldhouse fieldhouse fieldhouse house do you suppose Dem Bums will become Coxes army 7 QUOTE UNQUOTE Joe Cronin en route to his new Red Cross job at Pearl Harbor There is a lot of ot difference in the physical condition of the average ball player of today when he re reports reports reports re- re ports for spring work-outs work as compared compared compared com com- pared to the shape in which the average player reported J say aYt 10 to 15 years years' ago Very few players let themselves get far out of condition condition condition con con- now ONE MINUTE SPORTS PAGE Manager Charley Jones is noncommittal noncommittal noncommittal non non- committal but Buck Louisville Times Weaver insists that Sammy Sammy Sammy Sam Sam- my Angott the retired lightweight champion is planning to return to the ring as a welterweight welterweight and and andin in the not too distant future Maybe Sammy never heard theold the theold theold old saying Y i cant can't abdicate and eat it it too The Phillips Texas Country club recently held a rabbit rabbit rabbit rab rab- bit hunt to rid the golf course of the pests The local fussy foursome foursome foursome four four- some promptly took to the woods When Marquette plays De Paul at basketball Saturday Marquette's Marquette's Marquette's Mar- Mar quette's starting up line-up will be five Milwaukee boys and De Paul will start five Chicagoans Tub-thumper Tub Earl Hilligan reports that the Browns were night game game champs of the American league last season At least they kept the opposition in the dark as asto asto asto to how they got into third place TODAY'S GUEST STAR Deak Morse St st. Johnsbury Vt Caledonian Record Frankie Sink- Sink and were named athlete of the year and horse of the year respectively thus marking marking marking mark mark- ing the first time in history that six flat feet Ceet have won such signal honors SERVICE DEPT Corporal Raymond White the pound marine corps clouter who looked like a heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight prospect has been transferred transferred transferred trans trans- at his request from Norfolk to an outward-bound outward west coast outfit But before he leaves hed he'd like a shot at Turkey Thompson Navy Lieutenant Carl Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm Stock Stock- holm former six-day six bike racer has been appointed executive officer officer officer of the shore patrol battalion in the Chicago area Private Werner Keaney pound son of the Rhode Island basketball coach and a fair court performer for his dad is in charge of oC recreation at White Horse Alaska Freddie Archer crack Newark N. N J. J welterweight welterweight welterweight wel- wel wel wel- has joined the Seabees and is stationed at the Camp Endicott Endicott Endi- Endi I cott R. R I. I training center |