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Show FRANK K. BAKER. TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR. fed If you're feeling gay and want to rib somebody ai a football game, jut be sure you don't pick'on the official For definite proof, you might ask Dtek-Romney, coach oi the Utah Aggies. . Dick tried it once in a moment of light heartedness anc found out that it didn't work, all because Don Reddish had th Farmer mentor in a spot where he didn't dare talk back. Some months earlier, Don and a group of coaches and othet officials had been Dick's guest at his summer cabin near the Heb-gin Heb-gin dam in Montana. And, being a conscientious soul, Don had tried his level best to help make the party click. In fact, he volunteered to do the cooking one evening for the party, and 1 have it on good authority that some cookies he sought to make didn't pan out any too well. - Came then the afternoon when Don was "working" one of the. Aggie games. It was one of those frays in which the Aggiet were romping to victory almost as readily as Brigham Young university did over the 1937 Aggies last Saturday. In fact, Dick was so far ahead, he had long since forgotten to keep up his relentless paring to and fro in front of the Aggie bench. He was lolling peacefully in the sun, too rontented to be mad arisnvbody.-TIcnce riissudden Inspiralion lo Tiave some sport with Reddish. Dick shouted for a substitute. As the young recruit stood impatiently at his coach's side, Romney scribbled hurriedly hur-riedly upon one of the cards the Rocky Mountain players submit sub-mit to the umpire in reporting for duty. "Be sure Reddish reads this," the A. C. mentor said to his substitute. "Yea, sir. Coach, and the hoy galloped onto the field. Reddish took one look at the card and flushed. It read: "Don, you referee like you bake cookies." Tooting his whistle furiously, Reddish stamped toward to-ward the Aggie bench. "Coach Romney," he shouted, "that attempt to send signals to your team will cost you just 1 J yards." Lugger Seahiwuit Dinlikea Dull Track Samuel D. Riddle's willingness to match War Admiral with all cgmert gives you an idea of how high his handlers rate the greatest son of Man o' War . . . Big Red himself wasn't asked to do that . . . C. S. Howard refused to send . Seabiseuit against the Admiral on a dull Laurel track because be-cause the son of Hardtack doesn't favor that kind of going . . . Moreover, Seabiseuit has a tendency to lug in toward the rail, and Howard didn't especially like the Laurel turns . . . Seabiseuit is going to California for the $100,000 Santa Anita . . . War Admiral is entered in both that rich event and the $50,000 Widener cup at Hialeah, but Riddle and Trainer George Conway are as yet undecided as to their great money winner's winter program ... An injured foot accounts for the fact that Bronko Nagurskl failed to live up to expectations expecta-tions in the Chicago Bears' 3-3 tie with the Gianta Jn New York ... It was about time they handicapped the mightiest of the Minnesotans. Nebraska really has twin tackles .. . . Fred Shircy and Ted Doyle each weigh 210 pounds, stand 6 feet 2 inches, and were born January 12, 1914 . . . Thirty ski jumping and cross country competitiona and 49 slalom and downhill contests are listed for thii winter . . . Chris Cagle, one-time Army football luminary, la performing with an all-star aggregation in New York . . . Philadelphia has been awarded the national figure skating championships cham-pionships for 1938 . . . They will be held in mid-February. |