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Show Training Winged Gladiators SPEAKING OF At U. S. 'West Point of the Air SPORTS 11 fl sA4t,T,.&ni AlJcel '8 By ROBERT McSHANE MA ...Jj phrase "Kentucky rifleman" pHE is authentic, for I have eaten the ; venison that followed m the wake of Paul Derringer's unerring aim on the trail of a deer. In the last few years any number ct batters have had a harder time In the wake of his fast bail, curve end control. Paul Derringer has played a leading role in the Red drive for the last two years, despite the fact that seven years ago he was rated all through and on his way over the hill. That was the year that pitching for both Cardinals and Reds he won 7 games and lost 27, for the meager average of .206, far below d form. Six years after this dashing debacle Paul won 23 and lost 7, one of the most startling reversals I know In all sport. Paul Derringer was born in 6pringfield. Ky., 34 years ago this Baseball and Conscription f HAT tive comes? X Will football, baseball, boxing and all the rest be things of the past if the nation again calls upon its young men for compulsory military serv-- j ice? J tail-en- j These questions are bothering quite a few people just now. And well they might. It is taken for granted that every form of com-- i petitive sport, whether professional or amateur, is completely second-- j ary to the call for national defense, It is just as certain that an athlete, trained to meet opposition and kept in fine physical condition, is the best equipped individual for military purposes. It is very unlikely that any form of conscription will have much effect on this year's sports program. Baseball's regular season will be completed and the World series a thing of the past before the full force of any draft measure is felt. The same is likely to be true of 4 Sow that the government has launched its huge preparedness cam-igthe classes at Randolph Held, Texas, Lncle Yarn's U est Point pa of the Air," will be bigger than ever. The course consists of about o hours of flying, of which 30 hours are dual instruction and u nours solo. Chilian candidates must be unmarried male citizens of the I nited States, between 20 and 27. in excellent health and of spotless character. will happen to competi- sports if conscription 1 SEW HOW-T-Q. Ruth Wyeth Spears ITTfT.; p. space: 'J The high compartment ra$ door of plywood. Below tins shelves with a curtain on a "sada roller. The curtain runs up'and down between the shelves i tha scalloped board that frames tha closet, as shown at the left. Thia board is M inch thick end four inches wide. The scallops wera marked by drawing around a p and were cut out with a jj. saw. ' rii mm v tea-cu- RED AND WHITE rrirxiNfi cm I 3 ZS2I J' V4 One of the classrooms at Randolph Field. The itudents are receiving instructions in radio code uork Messages are tapped from the rostrum on a buzzer. 7 he stw dents receive them through thei r headsets ami write them down. Three classes enter the school each year. 1. , 7 1 4 Ik.. r f at La Jh ' taw in IV r. LV' I' 1 - r VV 1 If f llir , l ( iLk' IP- . A SHADE NOTE: As a service to our read-er- s Mrs. Spears has prepared a series of nomemaking booklets No. 5, just published, contains 33 pages of clever ideas fully aim, trated and a description of the other numbers. To get year copy send order to: ZIPPER LAUNDRY BAG HANGS UNDER SHEl J knows how EVERY Homemaker many steps could be saved if table linens could have a special closet in the kitchen or pantry. In one home that we know of space for such a closet was going to waste all because cupboard doors or drawers would conflict with the door shown here in the small sketch. At the right you see how MKS. aUTH WYE1H Drawer Id Bedford BUli Enclose that space became an efficient linen closet after all complete even to a smart laundry bag for soiled napkins and table covers. 10 bPfcARS Stm cent for Book i. York Nam Addresi - football. The effect of conscription on based ball is a subject much-discusse- i V r " v largely because baseball, more than any other, is the great national pastime. Authorities hold that thei age range of the proposed first draft class 21 to 31 will take in more than 80 per cent of baseball's hired hands. Of course, it is improbable that all though not impossible eligibles would be called at once. - ii J Different Story for '41 Present plans call for training to 1. It is unlikely, however, that the program will be so far advanced on that date. But a far different story is likely to be written in 1941. There will be many, many changes next year. The average person's blood pressure would ascend several notches if any attempt was made to exempt ball players from the draft. No attempt will be made. Bob Feller will be just another soldier's name to the powers behind the draft. That is as it should be. Athletes, claim no professional or simon-purThe Serious Athlete special privileges. Baseball occupies an important Panl Is what you would call a serious a&lete. There Is no great place in the everyday scheme of amount of levity in his nature. things. More than 18,000,000 people Those who don't know him might call paid to see the minor leagues play him surly or sulky, but he isn't. last season, and more than 15,000,-00- 0 paid to see the big league teams Quiet people are often thrown into this class, when they should be in action. All of which proves that warded chaplets of laurel or wild the game is important to a lot of people. Millions of people who can't apple blossoms. Outside of baseball he likes to afford to join a golf club, sail a hunt and he doesn't mind being boat or engage in other recreational activities, find their amusement in alone. the country's ball parks. comes close Paul Today Derringer to being the best Regardless of one's personal feelpitcher He is certainly the ings, it would be a difficult situation in baseball. if conscription put an end to the smartest. Six years after he turned in his amusement of so large a share of And that by no .206 average with the Reds he gave the population. the same city a winning .average means is meant to infer that ball of .781. This upward leap of 575 players should be exempted from the proposed draft. p recpoints is close to the ord of all time. But it still belongs Training Period Suggested to Paul Derringer. Rather, it leads up to a suggestion He was on his way over the high made by a New York sports writer He hill seven years ago. had made Joe Williams. His suggestion is three World series starts and had lost them all. He had taken more that immediately after the season than his share of hammering. But is ended every baseball eligible a year ago in his older age he won should be placed in an army camp 25 games and he'll win 25 or more and kept there until spring training starts. this season. Williams' suggestion if adopted His main specialty seems to be would give the players five months He has been one and ' closer to more games than of intensive military training. That, of course, would be less than the any pitcher in the trade. usual conscript receives, but the Unless some peculiar series of takes place, the same Der- trained athlete has quite a few adwith which to begin both ringer will be heard from in loud vantages in physical and mental conditioning. tones in the next World series. PAUL DERRINGER corning October. He is around 6 feet 4, weighing 210 pounds. lie began unveiling his right arm In Danville in 1927, 13 years ago. In 1933 St. Louis traded Paul to Cincinnati for Leo Durocher and others now unknown. Both teams got star men. Mandarin Durocher, now guarding the destinies of the Dodgers, would Just as soon that Derringer had been traded to another club, preferably Brooklyn. begin October 200-poun- i ft. d 'rJ .. e, high-jum- two-hitter- The eyes of this cadet are underParachute instruction. The cadets going a rigid test. Ears, heart and are dropping the "skyhooks" with muscular action also come in for dummies in a special room at Randolph Field. rigid inspection. -- s- Switch to something you'll like! MADE" BY KELLOGG'S IN BATTLE CREEK I A Tragedy Wit Predominates A good man dies when There are forty men of wit to I one man of sense. goes wrong. a boy I This II. S. training plane is about to go into a slow roll, with a student pilot at one of the dual controls. Right: Model planes are .... . . I J usfM iu- uemuiistruie proper air technique. i"- - THAT'; WU AT I Ill-ASOUr CAMELS. THBY BURN SLOWER AND HAVE A GRAND - THE EXTRA SMOKINGim tI II rAMCic V EXTRA FLAVOR 1 1 - rrn W p( r t'li!'' s. no-h- it epi-Eod- es Another Entry You can add the name of Freddy Fitzsimmons to this list. Freddy was 39 years old on Sunday. The Dodger star began pitching for Muskegon in the Central league just 20 years ago. He stuck with the Giants for 13 years until Bill Terry decided there was no longer any winning stuff left in Freddy's right arm. So Terry traded him to Brooklyn. This season, after 20 years of pitching,, Fitzsimmons has already won 10 "flames IFar Brooklyn against a lone defeat. He has the highest pitching percentage in baseball. Having packed away 202 major league victories, Fitz is just warme life avering up. He has an age around .600, which is nothing to leer at after you have been around all-st- ar all-tim- Since 1920. Fitz is one of the fine characters of baseball. He is one of the main ercdits to the game that has carried him alon; into middle age middle a?e as far as active competition is concerned. And with 10 out of 11 for 1910 he is now hended for his greatest year. Those Who Come Back The most somber line ever written in sport was this: "They don't come back." Nothing was ever farther from the truth. Nit other line has ever had a more depressing effect on some stars. The true ing back. two cases simmons. The public would Likely look upon the plan with favor. Every ball player of military age would be ready to take his proper place in time of conflict. And in the meantime the nation's ball parks would provide an outlet for John Q. Public's inhibitions. There is always the chance that the country's position will remain as it is. Then the ball player could be sent back to military camp at the end of the next season. But if any conflict occurred during that time, the next step would be obvious. The nation's parks would be closed and no one would object. Sport Shorts D ABE PRATT, Alex Shibicky and u Al Collings of the New York Rangers hockey team have enlisted with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles . . . Paul Christman, Missouri's football 's star, and Bill DeCorrevont, gridiron luminary, both spent part of the summer in a hospitalthe former for a tonsillectomy and the latter for an appenNorth-western- dectomy. Bill Mitterman, center fielder of Jonesboro, Ark., White Sox farm club, walked away with honors in the Northeast Arkansas league. He topped the circuit in batting average, runs scored, extra bases, most hits and stolen bases. . He tied for first in home runs and led in fielding . . . Don Faurot of the University of Missouri, an coach, holds a master of arts degree in agriculture . . . 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All-St- fact is they keep on comWe have just related the of Derringer and FitzThin there is Schoolboy Camels I- EXTRA MILDNESS Almost 500 pilots are now in train inn at Randol ph Field. which at present has M 200 training nlanes. Photo shows student pilots and planes just to-b- e full-fledge- '(vJyvV v"1 On Ineir way to the training planet to go aloft i.i their first solo test. LET US TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT |