Show SPORT PARADE By Oscar Fraley NEW V YORK Jan 17 UP racket Fearless s Fraley covered the cover girls Tuesday y and got paid for it too Ordinarily sports is a market where the movement Is on muscles the bigger the better with the premium premium premium pre pre- on perspiration Sound effects effects effects ef ef- ef- ef are supplied usually in grunts and groans whether the characters involved are busting a ball or just getting busted But not the cover girls a a. basketball basketball basketball bas bas- team which perspires Chanel No 5 and draws involuntary involuntary involuntary tary cheers of and These kids cannot only plop the ball through the basket but they look sharp doing it and its it's the sk skill JJ not the smiles which be bedazzle bedazzle bedazzle be- be dazzle the opposition Slick Chick There is for instance blond Audrey Erickson Elickson a slick chick who models women's pretties bowls an average of and displays a toothpaste smile and a classy chassis She bounces around the American Girls' Girls Baseball conference conference conference confer confer- ence like a hopped hopped up up Ty Cobb yet was picked by a national magazine magazine magazine mag mag- azine as the American all-American girl irl and generally makes the American all-American average man feel like a muscle- muscle bound Methuselah Siding her on this quintet quintet- here here beauty outweighs hs the beast but science Is as necessary necessary necessary sary as pigs In a sausage factory are arc are four of pulchritude who can pitch as well as they can pose Classy Convert Teeny Petras is another of the classic converts who in the good old summertime slide around the girls girls' baseball diamonds of the midwest Teen Teeny is modestly advertised advertised advertised ad ad- as the worlds greatest defensive infielder That may be bea a slightly exaggerated statement But old fearless will wm say one thing for the little one She's a lot prettier prettier prettier pret pret- tier than Slats Marion Wee Pee Reese or Phil Rizzuto and Rizzuto-and and their batting averages arent aren't ago o hot either The center of or this curvaceous crew i is Ellie Mullen a a. six-foot six schoolteacher from New York Basketball aside with something like this teaching the and arithmetic the old little red schoolhouse might have turned out something besides wack wacky sportswriters In between the halves of their some 10 odd games the cover girls put on a show that has and nd Larry MacPhail's MacPhail s model shows backed right off the boards Take Miss Erickson a pastime I which I assure you comes under the distinct heading of pleasure I She twirls the baton tap daces while skipping rope pitches baseballs baseballs baseballs base base- balls and punts and dropkicks a a. football over the backboard with backboard with or without shoes Can they play basketball Last year they beat the Georgia Tech football team by three points Just Justin in case anybody cares |