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Show White Says He'll Miss ! Grid Sport By DREW MIDDLETOM NEW YORK, Jan. 4 lPl It la a lone Jump from Wellington, Colo, (pop. 6A3 to Ivied Oxford, slumbering slum-bering by tho piaeld Thames, for Byron Raymond White, the bMU Ideal of football players. Tho Whluor nIM aboard tho a. S. Europa at midnight (or England and his Rhodes scholarship, "svsa Stephen" with football aftsr a four-month four-month dotour through, ths playing fields of ths National Professional football Isacus. Hs is, ho says, through with blf tlms football, but It's too sarly to know Just bow much hs'll miss It . Resting his big hands on a trunk as ths tug booted lonssomsly In ths liver, hs smiled. "But I guess I'll miss football like ths devil." Finishes) 'All Evea "I guess I finished ail even with ths gams," said Colorado's all-Amsiica all-Amsiica halfback of 1MT and the star rookls player of tho pro game of IBM. "I hsd s lot of fun, but I did a lot of work. I got paid well. I have most of ths 115,000 the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh Plrstes gavs ms for ths past season, but then I gave up certain things that I thought lot of for football. Ons of them was a start on this scholarship. There wssn't any truth to ths reports hs would coma back In ths fsll for another try at ths pro Mill ? "Gosh, not that I know of. They're always sending ms somewhere or having me do something else In the papers. But I guees I'm through. I'll never be able to repay football for ths things It has done for ms, but I have to get to work." The Whlsser Is as assured, as ' friendly and as straightforward as when hs cams to New York last wlntsr with his Colorado basketball team and the country waa going bug-eyed over his choice between football and a Rhoeda scholarship. Learned 'a Let "They were nice about that at Oxford," said Whisxsr. "Maybe I learned a lot out of the season, too. They hit hard In that league and you learn a lot Although I guess a struggling lawyer won't have to know much about running Inside tackle, will he?" "Hard? I gueas It la hard. It's ths coming game, too. I don't think it'll over push over thl college game out too many people Intsrestsd In that But it'll be right beside It In a couple of years that league of ours will be one of ths biggest things in sports. Say, I sound like promoter." |