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Show THE Thursday, December 19, 1940 s CDADTC By ROBERT McSHANE ftatooawd of football that pHE rarely lead to the major headlines can take you into a country Just as interesting as Minnesota, Stanford, Texas A. & M., Boston college and Tennessee. For example, during the late World Series in Cincinnati I ran across a number of old - time football players who told me about a back by the name of Jackie Hunt of Marshall college in Huntington, W. n iU4' ' ' T nlnvorl iTi i net . George Gipp," one said, "and 1 ? "Via rainer nave tiuni (; al.J&uM than Gipp." P'ayed against GranUand Rice Cliff Battles," another reported, "and I'll take Bunt over Battles. He is just as good a ball carrier, a great kicker, a fine passer and a star defensive back." When good football players tell you about a fellow who is better than Gipp and Battles you begin to take notice. So two months ago I crawled a trifle out on the limb for Jackie Hunt Being on the away from the beaten pack. Hunt was hard to follow. But he was the big factor In beating V. P. I. and also in scoring 19 points against Wake Forest, a team good enough to beat North Carolina, 12 to 0. Picking up what I could here and there, (after all, there are over 400 college teams playing 200 games each week), I discovered Jackie Hunt was doing aU right. The next Investigation discovered that he was the leading scorer of the country, well ahead of such people as Harmon and Kimbrough and the rest. t old-tim- kicker. Grange's superiority In other phases of the game help balance the books more evenly. Once past the line of scrimmage, he was a more elusive ball carrier than Terrible Tommy. He was harder to reach in the open. Few players have been as slippery, as hard to handle as Grange. off-tra- V;. hi W About Jackie Hunt About this time I ran into Jock Sutherland, the Dodger mandarin. "I know about Hunt," Jock said. "We wanted him at Pittsburgh. He was the best high school back In America that year. Big, fast, passer, ball carrier and kicker, loaded with exceptional football spirit. But Hunt wanted to stay in his home town at Huntington with Marshall. He felt that Hunting-towas where be belonged. Even as a high school player he was an outstanding star." More than a few leading colleges tried to explain to Hunt that he eould take the headlines away from Harmon and Kimbrough, from Reagan and O'Rourke. Hunt wasn't Interested In headlines. He loved football, but he wanted to play at home. A man who could do about everything, this West fame roll Virginian let nation-wid- e by as he went on scoring three or tour touchdowns in almost every game for dear old Marshall. This attitude was more important than all the touchdowns he scored, which lead the nation. itrim u r- - Debtor Set the Collector An Example in Conduct i - r- v Ir K.- - VVN I - NT " STrtGESCREENiMDlO By VIRGINIA VALE nelrnsctl by Wrutern Newspaper Union.! ..I i 'HIIE J- 1 if ,fl w5f.. fv 3 V". - 'XrtKAMiV..'. y an tit: v lie A t' ..veW 'Sa : Ukil Uu t...l.f,ilT.l.t ...wj k show held at Cuieago. L. to club members chosen as the nation's healthiest at the Left: R.: Veneta DeWitt, 15, Milford, Iowa; Tom Wiley, 17, Ashland, Ohio; Vernon Duncan, 16, Silver City, N. C; Robert Bolen, 19, Lauren, Iowa; and Edith Reynolds, 17, Seminole, Okla. Right: Charles Fischer, 33, of Shclby-vill- e, Ind., who won the title of corn king at the stock show. His land yielded 65 bushels to the acre. live-stoc- 4-- H Bad Luck for II Duce Good Luck for Tommy Busy Champion '"pHE world's heavyweight cham- - not quite as lucrative a possession as it once was, is going on a basis this winter. For the first time since the Marquis of Queensbury banished shillelahs from the ring, boxing's greatest prize will be offered regularly with the approval of its present owner. Champion Joe Louis, who has been demanding action from Promoter Mike Jacobs, will go to the post under this new plan every 30 days during the current season. Each time bis heavyweight title will be at stake. It Is an understatement to say that this recent development ts startling. TJntH Louis came along, the champ who defended his title more than once a year was either or in sore need of funds. announcement has No definite been made concerning a major portion of the schedule, but Mike Jacobs plans to have his No. 1 boy take 'em on from the Pacific to the Atlantic. As a followup to the December bout in Boston with Al McCoy, the Brown Bomber will meet Red Burman in Madison Square Garden in January. pionship, d month-to-mont- Hunt and Snead When Howard Hughes finishes waving his maglo wand over Jack Keutel we may have a new star on our movie screens. Beutel gets his chance as one of the leads in tho new Hughes film, "The Outlaw." He halls from Dallas, where he had experience, and wasn't getting far In his ambition to succeed In Hollywood when be got the Hughes assignment. little-theat- er card." The collector went out and sent card. Doublex picked it up and read it. "Tell the gentleman," he said sweetly, "that I am not in." In his DON'T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY eWhen you feel aaray, headachy, logy du to cluRged-u- p bowels, do aa million do tak 1 at bedtime. Next morning thorough, comfortable relief, atart the helping you day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a Feen-A-Mint million! doetn't disturb your night's rest or interfere with work tho t, next day. Try the chewing gum laxative, yourrelf. It tastes good, it's bandy and economical ... a family supply FEEN-A-M1IITT- 61 Live to Apply To live is not to learn, but to apply. E. Legouve. sh.1,,1 i im jjeaasB mm mum. inn Eleanor Powell has finally completely recovered from that operation that kept her on the sidelines all this time, and will start work soon In "Lady Be Good," which was ELEANOR POWELL Left: A British pilot with his mascot, beside his badly damaged plane, which be brought back to its base with most of the tail shot away. Right: A British soldier looking over the remains of one of II Dace's bombFourteen Italian planes were brought ers which was shot down in southeast England by British down the same day, according to the British. anti-aircra- ft. A few days ago I received a screed from a sport writing friend from West Virginia who knows his stuff. "Ton may remember," he wrote, "that I've only slipped you one tip. Tears ago I told yon that we had a hillbilly by the name of Sammy Snead who was on his way up with the greatest swing in golf. That was before anyone knew anything aboot Sammy Snead. Yoa printed what I wrote to yon. Now I'm telling yoa that Jackie Bant of Marshall college Is a better football player than Sammy Snead is a golfer. "I know his schedule Isn't what Minnesota or Michigan faces. But I know what he can do. I'd like to see him, on equal terms, play against Harmon or Kimbrough, for Dorazio and Conn I know he can do more things betAfter that, things are in a more football. He can run ter with with either and outkick and outpais or less tentative stage, but Jacobs better figures on taking the champ to Los both. And you can't find defensive pla)tr. Angeles In February to show against "Hunt is Id ttte same spot Dutch some rival he has met before. AnClark once held. A great player,' other probable match Is with Gus they said, 'but ae schedule.' Dutch Dorazio in Philadelphia. Somewhere Clark is still the e along in here Billy Conn may get the title shot for which he has been quarterback in your book and almost every other book. Ilunt Is clamoring. None of the bouts is likely to cause bigger and faster than Dutch Clark, and can do everything as well." any great amount of blood curdling. Burman la a good Journeyman A'o Fake Ballyhoo heavyweight and Conn Is clever, but This Is no fake ballyhoo for Jackie Louis carries too many guns for Hunt, whom I have never seen. But them. With this kind of competition. when Doc Spears, coach of Dart- It is not unlikely that Louis will be mouth, Minnesota and Oregon, now defending his title until bis at Toledo, who has seen Hunt play frame baa to be hoisted two years, adds his testimony, you over the rope. have to liten. Louis is forced to fight second Doc Spears doesn't believe there raters because no first raters are is a better back in Amer- available. Promoter Jacobs unica. And he has no exceptions. would be happy to find a doubtedly "One of the greatest," is the Doc brawler who could meet the champ Spears tribute. on more equal terms. float went te Marshall college knowing M would be almost Impossible for him te make an for this one reason the srbrd-slEddie Brannick, New York Giants The Important aoestloa would secretary, who for many years had te akeo "llont may look good toured Europe in the fall, settled against V. P. I. and Toledo and this year for warm, bombless FlorWake Forest, bat let blm try to ida . . . It's father and son on the rea against Big Tea teams. What Marquette university basketball Uiea?" squad this winter. Among Coach There is something to this angle. Bill Chandler's forward candidates But I know several pro coaches who is Bill Jr., a sophomore who was would Just as soon have Hunt, when oeven years old when his dad came he graduates, as either Harmon or to the Hilltop back In 1930 . . . Wilt Kimbrou eh except for the matter Guise, the Cincinnati of publicity and gate receipts. bails from Magazine. Ark. 'Mystery Man' Another 4Sub' for Uncle Sam h " fv s wj .1.1 K "71 -- all-tim- t ."V i Mtt : Tit- 4 C 1 ijiiri .ym.r s a .U avJv iait - ni - TT '. The submarine ,egd Grenadier, costing 13,500,000, and built la less than nine months, was launched recently at the Portsmouth, N, 11., navy yard. The craft, shown above, was the fourth to slide down the ways at this navy yard this year. It was christened by Mrs. Walter S. Anderson, wife of the rear admiral directing naval intelligence. Gen. Maxim Weygand, "mystery man of Europe," chatting with Mohammedans at Fes, French Morocco. Rumors persist that Weygand may Join forces with DeGauIle. To Aid Infantile Paralysis Sufferers Puerto Kico Draft c "HO'YOUR a successful musical comedy years Ann and years ago. It will Sothern (giving her a chance to get away from playing "Maisle" for awhile) and Tony Martin. Arthur Freed and Busby Berkeley, producer and director of "Strike Up the Band," will produce and direct, and the George Gershwin music will be co-st- ar used. -- r-" . j over-ambitio- I and how they are being welded into a defensive fighting force. The film shows what has been done to provide comfortable living quarters for the young soldiers; it shows as well how the nation's industry is concentrating on orders for the gigantic defenso program. It's a picture specially meant for all draft eligibles, their families and their friends. Doublex la noted for his nerve, his shortness of temper, and his scarcity of cash. While seated at a lonely breakfast in his club one morning a debt collector stormed in, and presented hi3 bill. "Sir," said Doublex, glaring at him, "is this all you know of the usages of decent society? To present a bill to a man breakfasting? Do you know that you ore an intruder? If you wish to talk business, go outside and send in your f. n t March of Time has come to the rescue of all of us who have an interest in someone affected by the new selective service law. In "Army and the Men U. S. A." we are taken inside training camps and shown how tho young men in the nation's rapidly expanding citizen army live, what they learn, what they do for amusement, - 'I, Good Workmen Though neither of the men were brilliant forward passers, both were good workmen in this department. Harmon has been called the better defensive back. However, comparison in this regard is more or less odious because Grange usually played in the safety spot It is a difficult enough job to evaluate the relative greatness of contemporary players. It is doubly hard to compare players who operated 15 years apart. Remember that styles of play have changed along with the rules. Then, too, the work of 10 other team members must be taken into consideration while Judging the superlative qualities of any one ball carrier. Even a Grange or a Harmon needs men to throw blocks and run Interference. The Job they do often means the difference between mediocrity and greatness. It might be the better part of valor to call the whole thing a stand-ofBoth men, by any measuring device, are high in the list of gridiron immortals. Grange's glory has not lessened with the years. Tales of his prowess are as interesting as ever. Harmon's contributions, too, will stand the acid test of time. tii -- PACK THKKR And of Corn V vcyl4crd-Slw8to!OHcu- rs r-s- t tor such quick oblivion. It is likely that Harmon will have as large a niche in football's Hall of Fame as the Galloping Ghost. Harmon outweighed Grange by 20 pounds 195 to 175. The University of Michigan star was faster on the straightaway and packed more driving power. In addition, the records show that Harmon was the better I Va. 5 i 1 1 by Western Newspaper Unto POOTBALL fans still are debating the comparative greatness of Tommy Harmon and Red Grange. It is an argument that can be Continued during the long winter months or until the bright white light of nation-wid- e publicity focuses on next year's crop of stellar performers. Not that Harmon will be forgotten by this time next year. His gridiron exploits, like Grange's or Berwan-ger'- s or Gipp's, have been too great off-trai- NEPIII. UTAH , Kings and Queens of Health 1 SPEAKING OF TIMES-NEWS- OWN'CORHES What old favorite da yon suppose has been scheduled for a new appearance nowt None ether than "The Phantom of the Opera," with Broderick Crawford playing the "Phantom." But the real surprise Is the girl who'll play opposite him It's none other than Deanna Durbin. She's always dona comedy, and But sung a few songs, superbly. when she finishes "Nice Girl" she'll get away from all that temporarily, and appear in Unlversal's famous thriller. Something new in casting has bobbed up at Paramount. Bock reviewers on newspapers and magazines are to be polled for their nominations for players to appear in the screen version of the Hemingway novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Since book reviewers who know one motion actor from another are scarcer than hen's teeth it seems unlikely that their opinions will be of very great value. Jill Esmond, a talented English actress whom yen bear on the air as Emily Bronte, author and narrator In "Wutherlng Heights," spent her last nlgbt before leaving England In a Liverpool d ahelter, reciting fairy tales for hours en end to keep a group of children entertained. If yon haven't been listening to "Wulhrring Heights" you're mlMing something; It sets a new high mark la radio serial drama. air-rai- The Smoke of Slower-Burnin- g Camels gives you EXTRA MILDNESS EXTRA COOLNESS EXTRA FLAVOR AN- D- LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other of the largest-sellin- g cigarettes tested less than any of them according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself. Loretta Voung unintentionally the show from Santa Claus the other evening. On her way to a radio rehearsal, she parked her car in a lot near the theater Just as a Santa Claus parade was pasting. Hundreds of mothers were holding their children high enough to see Santa Claus; somebody shouted: "There's Loretta Young!" and backs were turned on Santa Claus while everybody gazed at Loretta. stole ed r vi 0 ' J, ",.1 i ".. riii Sport Shorts gf ' nn .w AM) ESllS-T- hat alwnoon radio prnnmm, uhuh OIm Any e. Jr hat HarlrH off $o oWl, changed iU nnm fiat fcerre firtl brnnHrmt- U'l "The Vau That Hrlrrthm," not "Mutie 1 hat Hrfrnhen" . , . Gene of tht Clii 'Melody Ramh" mnd lAe mot let, tmrrmly bought m number of mntiqu mutie Cotrt, on for ear A rantk hmttt . . , furtt mom in hit Hob Burnt it tmrntirmin$ right nnui, on trio ft tinm York uhich h mnd Mr. Ilurnt planned two yeart mgo, but had to pttttpon. It it Uoh't terond trip to Arte York linr ho landed ther fohlett in f9?S and got a fob on the air wAlh Rudr Y'aU. Au-trr- m Prrsldrnt Roosevelt has aatborized the ne of bis birthday, January 30, to raise funds for infantile paralysis sufferers. The committee for the celebration of the President's birthday la here shown. L. te R., George Allen, of Washington; Eddie Cantor, noted radio, stage and acreen star; and Keith Morgan, national campaign chairman. Puerto Rlran mountain man reads the sign telling him that men between 21 and 29 most sign mp tut military service. The Puerte Ricaa registry date was November 20. A mmmm "'rX SaTV. : ., v"'- |
