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Show NtthinaVanJ$tDT)JLllJmerica-RressAaents But enough of that. The latest super player to be brought to my attention is George Kara-matic, Kara-matic, a grocer's aon who holds down the chair of fullback at Conzaga university of this northwestern north-western city. George Is not a stranger to me. He was selected as all-Pacific coast fullback last year, and gave Sam Francis of Nebraska a close run for top honors, hon-ors, and you've got to be better than a fair hand at fullbacklng to give Francis a close shake. It seems that Karamatlc Is (Continued on Following Ptgtl By HENRY M LEMORE ' Vnitfd Press Sport Writer SPOKANE. Wash., Nov. 11 (UP) Today Is Armistice day and million mil-lion j of Americans will and should observe a minute of complete silence. si-lence. I will bet my Kohinoor diamond stickpin, however, that there will be one group of Americans who won't be silent for even 30 seconds today, tomorrow, or any time until un-til after the Rose bowl teams art picked, and the annual all-America selections are made. The group I refer to Is composed com-posed of those football fanatics who think that their local teams, i and the players thereon, are the bald eagle or the ring-tailed tit ; mouse, the habitat of this group j is not restricted to one area. It feeds as -well off Boston baked ' beans as it does off New Orleans pralines or Texas frjjoles or Columbia Co-lumbia river trout. I have covered the baked bean, praline, frijole and trout sections since I left New York, and I have yet to visit a town which doesn't have a potential Rose bowl team, and a super all-America player. And. so help me Martha (Martha's (Mar-tha's a sister of the capable and oft-called-on Hannah , the town is usually right in its estimate. Please remember, all all-America's don't get their name In the papers. For every man who is honored publicly each December, there are a dozen who played just wall. To -torsjattes. mm m happened to do their playing in the wrong place, ballyhoo-ly speaking. Nothing Can Stop Grid Press Mills (Coetloustf from Preceding Pass) even better this year. He has added a few pounds to his chassis, a few twists and shimmies to his hips, and upstairs has made the moat modern improvements in hia mental den. My authoritiea for theaa remarka are all tha Spokane voters I have seen since arriving hsrs yestsrday. All of them went overboard for Kara-matlc, Kara-matlc, with and without life preservers. pre-servers. They swear that he ia the beat back this section meaning mean-ing all of tha northwest and tha Pacific coast has seen since George Wilson hung up his tackle at the University Of Washington. The very mention of him in the same sentence with Wilson is a tribute, because more than one coach haa told me that Wilson, all things considered, was ths best football player ever to help a coach build character. And, as you know, nothing helps a coach build character and mold young manhood so much as a back who can pick up those yards, throw that ball, and kick that ball. Karamatic has mads his repu- ' tation with a team that well, 1 well, has ten other men in pants, shoes and shirts. And he's msde it at a achool whose student body numbers no more than 400 (which ia about tha aame number that some of the nation's schools bavs on their football aquads). Ha must be good. So, until further fur-ther notice, be has a place alongside along-side Cousin Morris McLemore of Vanderbilt Tipton of Duke, Shirley Shir-ley of Nebraska. White of Colorado, Colo-rado, Jordan of Georgia Tech and Popovich of Montana, on my dis- ! tinguished eleven. i |