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Show Backseat Driving "By FRANK K. BAKER- I Telegram Sports Editor Take it from Ken McShane, local sports enthusiast and business man, it's no wonder Chicago university quit football Ken was in Chicago New Year's night when the University of Utah basketeers beat the Maroon cagers in a game that went two overtime periods. Kan went to the game, but declares he all but missed the start because Chicago students didn't even know how to direct him to their gymnasium. "I walked four or five blocks out of the way trying to follow fol-low their hazy directions," Ken told me the other evening. "During my ramblings about the campus, I asked four different chaps, who said they were students at the university, but not one of them knew how to direct me to the gym. "Finally, I bumped lata a newsboy selling newspapers ' ant an th street Aad I know now why folks have always told ma that If I wanted to find my way about In tba city ta ask tha newsboy for directions. That chap told how t find tha building right away. Of course, yau can't expect m achool ta ga far la athletics If tha students don't even knew bow to find the gymnasium and football field. I feel sorry for a school and group of students Ilk thai.'' An additional angle of interest to the prospect that Mayor Ab Jenkins will continue his test and endurance racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats next summer is the fact that he may share the driving assignments with his ' ton, Marvin. Ab has already notified Contest Board officials offi-cials of the American Automobile association that he would like to make such an arrangement and Secretary Ted Allen indicated here last week that the necessary license could probably be arranged. If it materializes, it will provide one of the most interesting father and ton combination! in the sports field. Tha Cyprus high school coaching arrangement at Magna raaanta a surprising situation. Buss Magleby, who was an a 11 -conference basketball star at B. Y. V tot example, la coaching football and baseball On tha other hand, Rollia Sloator, who was a baekfleld alar with Utah's gridders a few years ago, la coaching tha Pirate basketball and track squads. The Idea of exposing an $80,000 piece of baseball property to the hazards of basketball did not appeal to Walter O. Briggs Jr, owner of the Detroit Tigers, so Freddie Hutchinson has retired re-tired from independent basketball at Seattle ... A. T. Nicholl, the Rio Grande fireman who did some parachute Jumping here a couple of years ago, was passing out the cigars recently ... in celebration of a new-born son ... The Nicholla have another child, 17 months old. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vara won the women's national ama- ' teur championship six times . . . 1822, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 193S , . . Joey Sewell, the one-time Cleveland infielder, struck out only four times in 155 games during the 1925 season and whiffed but four times in 152 games during the 1929 cam- . paign for the best mark of this kind on record. |