Show R CE S SECRETARY KNOX of the navy recently advocated a plan for thi th training and development of ow oui youth along competitive lines ln In military mill mili j eluding a years year's compulsory tary service for tor those of 17 or 1 ii 11 years This Is an essential plat that cant can't be overlooked overlook d. d I While military training cant can't be started bc before 17 or 18 we still believe believe believe be be- lieve that there should be a n big advance along the lines of body bodybuilding bodybuilding 4 P building and competitive com corn rte r sports at r a younger ages Including includIng In in- eluding those 14 and 15 years old who in too many c cases today are overlooked 1 These young f y boys deserve a afar afar afar far better program pro pro- Secretary Knox gram through their schools or from their communities communities than they have ever received The time to start with these boys Up Hurry-Up Yost once told me after thirty years' years experience is His in ill the high schools schools not not in the coll col col- l leges We need boys coming ODwith on OD with stronger legs and stronger bodIes bodies bodies bod bod- ies boys much better physically equipped in hi the mass One thing is sure there sure there will be a abig abig abig big demand for school high talent in our colleges next fall so far as football is concerned High School Stars I Football will be almost entirely I the development of school high-school play play- firs ers Frank Leahy of Notre Dame told lold me I think it would surprise many millions if they know how hog I many kids of 17 just out ont of school carried on so brilliantly this last season Tulsa's pound Ford was just one of or them They were at Indiana In liana diana Ohio State Pittsburgh Pittsburgh all all allover over our football map tearing map tearing into veterans who outweighed them 20 or I 30 10 pounds pounds and and holding their own I Passers runners kickers blockers blockers' all all steaming with spirit And Just jus II out of high school These are the kids we must de- de lend on next season for our college football And well we'll all get our share U II may not be the greatest football season cason ever known but it will be full tull of ot fire and action and excitement excitement excite excite- ment played by boys on their way to war Frank Leahy might have mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- a kid named Kelly on his own squad a year old Chicago high high- high I I hool 1001 entry who was one of ot the best backs of ot the year lie He He might have mentioned Glenn Davis of ot West Point who came to I Ithe the Army with v only school high-school ex ex- experience or or- Bill Paschal from Georgia Tech the best running back backi i j of ot the pro year with the New York five Q G five five minutes freshman ex ex- f There Is one weakness in this set set- up This is the pressure that is sure to be put upon school high-school talent talent talent tal tal- ent the year old entries all over the United States I have alread already I watched the beginning of this operation operation operation opera opera- tion get its start I As a guess Id I'd say the best school football state In the country is Tex- Tex as They are thicker than quail In that state The next entry Is Ohio Pennsylvania Minnesota and California California Cali Cali- Call I fornia are close up I II I New England isn't so bad either 1 In fact tact New England has given the game more than her share of ot high- high school stars What about the South They are more scattered down around cotton- cotton land Too many southern schools I lack the coaching and the money that other sections have The material material ma ma- is there but a lot of it is still In the raw Ask southern college coaches I I The same is true in New York city where the school high kids get I only halt half a chance Dont Don't ever believe be be- lieve these New York kids couldn't I hold their own l if it they ever had an nn equal break The idea is to get back of o high- high school or school football and give it ita ita 1 a n much bigger play and a much better better bet bet- betI I ter chance than it has known so far As the Army doesn't seem to be interested this is another spot where Navy Secretary Frank Knox can do doa a world of good I I. I How It Looks for or Baseball I On a recent trip through the South i 1 and Southeast one of the first I queries offered was this this this- What will happen to pro baseball in 1944 I There was only one answer to this It all depends on the progress of ot the war and the size of the casualty list U-st. The coming invasion of Hitler's Europe will supply most of the sto sto- ry A German collapse would make makeI a terrific difference more to the I lives lives of ot our fighters but also in a ai i minor way to all sport But Germany Germany Ger Ger- many hasn't collapsed yet I Admitting that all professional proCessional I sport is a pin point in importance I j against the needs of war only a aGerman aGerman aGerman German collapse at the rim of or spring would help baseball By April or early May there will be too many taken if the war is still setting the same furious pace And none of these could be turned bf hP c ie In time |