Show 1 I c Off to a J Good Start I 4 t FRANK K BAKER BAER Its It's a a. long grind from a first week weck hero to the October success in baseball baseball base base- ball but there Is no denying ing that four rookies rookies- rookies orge Tut of the Cub Zeke Bonura of the White Sox Don a oZ the Yankees and Len Koenecke of the have DOdgers gotten away to a. a dandy start one or of the speediest rookies the National league has seen In years gathered ten hits in his first 26 tImes Umes at bat True he got his chance use because luck hard Hazen Cuyler injured a hand in preseason play lay but any man capable of cashing in on an unexpected opportunity cd x t I- I with R a batting average is certainly making the moSt of his chances compiled a batting average for the thc season In the thc Pacific Coast league last summer Bonura Heffner and Len e all have brought attention attention at- at to the their r efforts to make themselves indispensable with their hitting The pound first baseman from Dallas Bonura made three home runs in his first eight hits nc ner however has been the big surprise e. e A smooth second baseman from Baltimore r was rated a weak hitter whose brilliant fielding would nevertheless keep him in th Yankee lineup Whereupon the rookie went out and compiled himself a batting average Like his big chance through the thc injury of a regular Danny Taylor La- La a tt bust he hc was u the Giants a years cars ago Len pounded out ten hits ill in his bis first 27 times at bat Both Taylor Talor will ivill probably be bc kc t oh 01 the bench cven 1 though they recover either of their understudies fall into lItO a Indeed it be policy to bench lay like thc they have bee cue vc l. if they arc ro roOkies l cs Many l Movie l Heroes Boast Fine Athletic Reputations A dozen featured actors adors In the movIes were football players payers before they took to th the hero and love ove scenes of the cinema Probably the best known of the b John Mack Drown Brown one of Mae West's new leading men Brown probably has done nothing in so o dramatic however IS as some or of the passes he caught in Alabama's Ala Ala- Alabama's bama's 1926 Rose Bowl victory over Washington 20 Hollywoods Hollywood's athletic prowess do does not run anI only to football thO though z- z Johnn Johnny had no a corner on the swimming records or of the world t at one time before he left an Indelible record as Tarzan and Clarence Buster Crabbe was the 1932 meter Olympic games champion and re record holder before he entered the business business' of make j i Victor ic the arm army sergeant of Sc Me Mc fame was q a boxer Gcorge Raft was Kid Raft of the thc professional ri g until someone slap slapped h solidly night 1 Will and Holt each boast Rogers Jack goal 2 Jugs rd by the thc States Polo association The football list goes something tike like this Enrico Caruso Jr it played at Culver Military academy Dick Arlen played at St. St Thomas college Minnesota Herman Brix Washington George OBrien O'Brien Santa Clara Pat OBrien O'Brien Marquette l John Wayne Duke MorrIson Southern CalIfornia Charles Dartmouth Andy DevIne Santa Clara Richard Hemming Brown |