Show TZAN V sphere HERE a are r e in more 0 r e shattered dreams dislocated hopes and tragedies in a training camp than non combatants could ever guess this is no sob story no crying match it is a true story affecting I 1 the future lives and hopes of many i very f ne young men such as char he keller ol 01 the yankees keber keller la is 1 as clean and as fine a citizen as I 1 ever have known he was a top stu stu dent at maryland I 1 he was a young er star with the yank yankees e he has known more than one bad break he was lust just edging into the money when he was called to war service last sea son a growth on his sp ne cut him down keller has been working desper abely to get back the old pain is gone the suffering Is over ever but back muscles take time romend to 0 mend I 1 can hit the ball solidly he told me but it doesn doean t go very far I 1 need time to rebuild those destroy i ed muscles what about the future who knows I 1 can only hope there is spud chandler nearing 40 a great pitcher with a great heart the chunk they cut from his elbow is still a st petersburg ex hibit I 1 rn aiming at 15 wins chandler told me I 1 wont won t be tar r away maybe maybe not but t here a a man mans s career hanging in the balance tex hughson of the red sox one of the best chandler rated hughson the best in the american league last year hughson won 12 and lost 11 II mot not too hot but he also had a sore arm that called tor for an opera tion how good will hughson be th s seasons who can say hughson in old time shape can win the american league pennant for joe mccarthy and the red sox A wavering hugh son can bring about their defeat if you saw the sellers kellers the chan diers the Hugh sons and others on the borderline at work you could sense their background of tragedy or their hopes of better and brighter days A job is pretty important when you have a wife and a few kids I 1 mean a job ob where you belong a job such as these veterans and others deserve there happens to be more than you might know on the human s d de in a spring training camp where men from SO 30 to 39 might be wonder ing what the next move will be football coaches the new football season of 1943 al ready is under way with the great est coach ng shift in history there are new men at yale harvard in diana navy michigan washington and kansas to ment on only a few they are all good men and those who have the best material will win those who haven t won t the most d st net shift belongs to herman hickman who left army tor for yale the poet laureate of the smoky mountains who as a fat coun try boy reached stardom as a guard at tennessee over 20 years ago had no early dream that some day he would be he head ad football man beneath new haven s class c elms at west pont po nt hickman became the best I 1 ne coach I 1 ever saw H also became one of the most inspire dional factors in all football no one can say just yet how hick man will work out as a head coach in his first year my guess is that the smoky mountain bard will do a tine fine iob job with even fair material even at football footballs s middle ae ape herman knows in advance th that at he can handle any man on his squad physically this was true at army when he had coulter foldberg steffy and a L few other brawny linemen I 1 ve seen hickman take them on two at a time with his amazingly active or more pounds hickman should make a t f ne bead head coach he has been a great football player and also a great fellow be tween seasons he can take over the chair of mountain poetry at yale in which h s kinfolk might figure the croat great bambino there is a story marching the rounds that is beyond all tell ng its setting is deep in tragedy but its outline is as brilliant as any rim of stars it is the story of babe ruth sut suf fering beyond all comprehension yet valiantly retracing his path of nearly 30 years ago for the good of baseball for the good of all kids and for the good of suffering human ty in gen gea eral whatever the cause may be it Is the story of a man who is much greater nearing the trail a end of glory than he ever was hitting bitting his home runs and giving a vast nation the greatest thrills that sport ever has known babe ruth has been my friend tor for over SO 30 years a great guy set in mammoth proportions of build heart and appetite especially when he was starring from 1914 through 1935 in m the box in the field and above all at bat broken but not beaten a relic of the king that was he be Is an even greater man today his bead head may be bloody but it remains on un bowed I 1 have watched his drawn face where anyone could see his inward suffering as he autographed base balls and score cards f |