Show e New York P Post t Clint Frank Rams Leading Performers in Football WorldS World S COME OME dayd day I am going to learn to say ay No tn In the tim manner of f those big personality h boys boy s whose square dims adorn the lie success ads ada Mean lean Meanwhile Meanwhile while it looks as though I am Mm hooked aln again On the bo desk there Is tire tir reg- reg reg regular aJar ular weekly assortment of invite invite- Invitations lions to servo serve gratis on n committees to nam name the tir sports greats of f th the last lut eleven leven months Obviously such a task tas should only be undertaken by those supremely con confident ent that they ar lire are divinely guided With millions of boy boys boy and girls straining mus les dally daily for the sake of Alma Maters Meters or merely for forthe forthe orthe the fun of it a lone mortals mortal's a n suck suck- sucker sucker er for tor thinking lie he has a chance chanc to guess right Neve beless having always been beena a pushover for f r guessing games I have been devot the last two tw and quarter three quarter minutes to the tir re- re requests re request quests quest Herewith are ara the answers Bet Best football player of f tb the year year rear Clint Frank of Yale Talc Best Eastern football team team Ford ford barn ham bern Best kiest football team Fordham team Fordham Best nest amateur athlete Johnny Goodman Five greatest t athletes of the th year Henry Henry Clint Frank Don Budge Dudge Charley Chancy Gehringer Johnny Goodman S millionaire stockholders U UNTIL ers eu were overcome by their own ineptitude Madison SQuare Garden was the biggest name inthe in inthe inthe the prize fight business Watching the show at the St Nicks the other night and listening to the irs rs rs gossip I 1 was reminded though of something It Is that boxing nev nev- never never nev- nev never er could have hav prospered in to NewYork New NewYork NewYork York save through the diligent et ef efforts forts of the small club promoters St Nicholas Palace Rich in Memories l I In recognition of these men the I ambitious kids willing to chance beatings and small purses for the sake of future fame tame and the tans fans long have supported them so loyally I am starting a new se series se- se series series ries Other fragmentary sketches written in the attempt to catch the spirit of these Bulwarks of Boxing will follow from time to time St Nicholas Palace this year rear re- re renamed renamed re renamed named the tir Royal It Windsor It was here that Diamond Jim Brady Drady a regular ringside patron Jumped up from Irom his bis seat to p Ted r-Id r Lewis with a diamond pin from Crom his hisIe Un Ie after one of Lewis swell well brawls A boisterous place it was soon aft aft- after after er or it came into being 38 36 years ago Jim Buckley heaved a cop out of the window one night when boxing was banned in New York and the law tried to stop one of Buckleys Buckley's membership shows An injunction granted by the late Mayor Gaynor permitted Buckley to run his shows and he refused to let anything pre pre- prevent prevent pre pre- prevent vent him from doing so Many a pickpocket was wax loose In I those unhallowed days too It II was 1 here that Joe Humphries jumped Into the ring one on night when two battlers were heaving leather Bet Det Bet ter keep your bands in your pockets p boys You too loo Al AI Smith Joe roared A couple of bos bOJI bo from downtown just walked in When Willie Winie Jackson Fought Johnny Dundee Of Or course there were more dignified dIgnified fied fled proceedings upstairs just as there were down in the basement where Princeton s great treat Hobey DeL BaL BaLer DeLer EnL er er started his hock y career Jimmy Johnston brought Jem Driscoll and Owen Moran loran M r n here bere ber first to astound local fight fans with their skill and speed Gunboat Smith In his debut at St Nicks lilt hit his opo op opponent so ISO bard hard that the be fellows fellow's ft b-ft shoe went flying Oln through the theair air Abe used to come here bere Stand with the gambling gentry inthe in inthe inthe the back and wager all the bob bobs he could on himself After Alter a hasty visit to the dressing room room rush into the ring and give one of his greatest exhibitions mill Jackson Jacks n here bere Life Lite has bas not Dot been entirely kind to Willie ne lie gets in on AnnIe Annia Oakley now when he be visits fight clubs dabs But once he be drew over ver against Johnny Dundee at this A guy had to be good to draw that kind of money But good ones were always fighting at the St NI Nicks s Jack trainer of Joe Louis got his start here So did Mexican Joe Rivers K K 0 Brown Jack Dillon Mike Gibbons Tom Kennedy Leach Cross and and oh so 10 many others tit i I I NOT IN TIlE THE BOX SCORE COMMANDER COI C ANDY 1 Mel ALL graduate manager of athletics at Annapolis thinks thing the present Bill DiU Ingram is th the greatest of all aU that lemons NaY Navy family so far as aU all allaround around athletic ability 1 lit Is concerned Bill a a baseball slugger er as all well all as A smooth basketball guard cuard and almost everybody knows w what he hcan can call do d on ox a football Now field Held Now that King Clancy has haa retired Aurel Jo- Jo JolIat Jo list lIat the Ir National Hockey league continuous service record lies lie's starting Ills his sixteenth season with Lea Les Among Among other very good fd reasons why Helen will not turn pro is the fact that tennis promoters will not net offer enough m money ney They say she atie would be a good c cd draw with the Park ave eve avenue flue nue trade on a one night eight stand but Mould flop Cop on the road road herb McCracken 1 former lormer Lafayette foot toot football football ball coach now n w devotes himself to t publishing a n magazine and scouting Columbia for Stanford lIe rates ratos Maberry MB L berry of f Florida as AI the best back hes he's seen in years Wrestling moguls are in the midst of a new under cover peace confer conter- conference conference ence This time tim they Uley claim order can be b established In their pretty profession it if the tho Dusek boys are t left out in the cold cold Dill Bill Stewart Na National Na- Na National league umpire and Chicago Black Dlack Hawks manager is the only American born hockey boss but h his he heis heis is not the only American citizen clUzen Detroit s Jack Adams AdamI took toole out hi his final papers last Jast summer summer- Funny thing about lt that touchdown we w scored against Navy says Colum Colum- Columbia's Columbia's bia bias bia's Sid Luckman I yelled gang lets Its go 75 yards for fora fora tora a touchdown And we did Pudge rudge all time Yale Tale great picks hector r Cowan of Princeton ai ni a the tir best lineman he be beever trever ever saw lie He II calls Bum Dum l of Yal Yale and earl Willie Heston of oll gan the best barks backs Chuck Go Good whose dad dai writes sports ports for lor the To Toronto To- To Toronto Star will play center for lor the Bronx h hockey Tigers this winter Cuyler Slated for Syracuse Manager 1 Word is out olit that Kiki Cuyler will manage Syracuse in the International al nl league next sum sum- summer sum 1 mer The reason for Minnesota's failure tail fall ure ur to score more mor 1 often was the ab absence sence of Ed Wid r seth's down field f blocking The big kV 1 fellow really wiped 4 cm em out last season t 17 t just as he ha recently r idid t did for tor the Ule Giants n Although the jobs 25 a night plus pay KIll 1011 Cuyler Cu y 6 for ref referees referees shy away from Canadian Canadian- Canadian American American Hockey league assign assign- assignments ments Too many fans like to heave pop bottles in too many of the towns Harry Morrissey the race starter who died last week weck liked to be called a Brenner flashy Plebe Fiche back who lost out cut at Navy last year because of 01 eye Is expected to tD star for lor Stanford In 1938 The Tir MiddIes stand t to loh loo another buddIng Grange in a Hardin liard In a husky smacker line line line- smacker who is having study dif dif- difficulties dif dif- difficulties difficulties Harwood center and Lenz back are the best bed prospects now with the Plebes Down In InI I Maryland they say that a pound US-pound I college collect senior named Hugh Gibbons Young could make any team in the lh country lie II Is la D a triple threat who wb never gets hurt backs up a line like a lall l Mallory ry and runs the In 9 P 6 Lou rink Fink who used t to train Gene Gena Tunney andT and Tony ny Canzoneri now Is d doing time tir same Bama for or John Jha Hay flay Whitney the boss hoss man War Admiral end and American Flag both sons of Man In are arc the tIme only celebrated three three- year three olds year of 01 the last seventeen years to go fo through ush their season wide nude Bowling shares popularity with hockey as Winnipeg s winter mad mad- madness madness madness ness with alleys being grouped in one on area near the center of the town town-A A week neck or so ago while mentioning the number of married men among the hockey Rangers this clean forgot that Ott Heller HeUer became a husband last summer Informed football men will tell teU you that the field judge whose job is the newest est of the tourIs four Is the most Important official operating operating ing tag in n rm the gridiron U It he Is as active as Tommy Degnan or Shorty Miller to mention two very good goodone ones he is always In a position to spot those down the field fouls which win or lote lo e games toe games Jo broke Into professional baseball un tin under tinder under der the name of Mickey New King King NewYork York will bid for the public parks tennis championships for tor 1939 1039 the Worlds World's Fair year Noire ro Dames Dame's Dame first football tame fame i ae as played against Michigan an in 11 1887 1881 The Wolverines came to South Bend a day In advance of at the contest so that they might Instruct the green reen Irish as to bow tho the game came should be placed They did such h a aI good coachIng Job that they won on only only ly 11 by S to t Marshall O 0 Marshall Newell one of f the tir four lour men to be pl ced on Walter Camps Camp's All AU America team for lor roW four years was wal one n of f the tackles of all time line rull Fulls equipped with a Harvard rd accent b he weighed only Yale pounds pounds Yale beef bea Dartmouth to 0 O in iq I 1881 t but eves evel at that there wire Vue some campen- campen compensations tn In being an Indian In those thosa days Time The were fed red rare roast beef bed three time a day and for dinner each of or them theD them had bach two iw mugs muss of 01 ale |