| Show X 4 C 1 i x 4 04 low 4 4 4 M MOW R 1 t 11 13 0 now new york poat service tc dont let lct fellows fellom bother you about lack of size ted note to suspicious customers customer sEven aven though he was with the heat heal this the balders baldest odthe Br adleys still would be b too smart to kick hick in with that art ancient repeated by request gas gag yet there are letters which keep heep piling up each summer anti anil but enough enough of 01 such excuses this piece which first saw law the light many mouths ago A wed here lor for the numerous numer oui puzzled letter writing teds beds throughout the land CAR TED if 11 I 1 were you I 1 would not worry about what the he boys say at school neither would I 1 strain myself too much this ha surn summer mer perhaps tile ali coach Is right in saying that hat yo you it are too small for football but what of it ltv you vou aro are only sixteen years old and you may have plenty of timo for adding extra pounds pound s and inches so that you can make your letter look at jim braddock up to the time he was twenty nine years old lie he was kind of M small for the honors 1 lie he really wats wa seek ing and tho the grown up boys used to say i a lot more about him than the boys at your school possibly could imagine ile he did not f fret r et about it instead V years alter after most men in his line alno would have n been jim braddock through growing gg or advancing in any fashion lie he add added ed on an inch to ilia his height and twenty pounds to his weight then he became heavyweight champion odthe of the world I 1 As aa for you figuring that US younda rounds is not enough for foi a baseball player because you have read that ilia t managers prefer 0 st strapping r six footers foo lers let me tell you a story it docs ROCS back through the years to tile the decade that hat was known as the glamorous nineties i was young then a teem ang ing boisterous bolat erous sport the ball bail was not endowed with the elastic clastic qualities of a later era and when fences were built far from the home plate a giant would seem needed to produce w a butting batting average of t A little HS pound er ted made hits in a tt season want to know the man who achieved it as well as hits i a record toward which not even the giant hank greenbarg may aspire no I 1 am not trying to kid you that pals pale little fellow with the tha thin cheeks and the angular elbows folded across a narrow chest is not the bat boy this is on the levei lavel ted red no matter what the boys at school may have told you what how could such a halt plat pint rise to tho the heights when strapping pitchers and burly tar far ranging infielder InO elders rallied to defend aa against nun him let us its suil still imagining that we ive are arc babkin back in the nineties ask hint sou see how heg steadily at us while a knobby chin ceases moving and a wad of chewing i gum guill gets a mo menla ments rest listen easy wee Ivil ivillee lle JECO let la Is saying 1 I just lilt bit em cm where I 1 they aint translated into more elega elegant tit terms ted this atom ot of ft a man scarcely bigger then than you are now has haa explained the superiority of mind over matter along with john mcgraw another great little guy wee mille changed tho the trend of tho the game gam C caused rules to bo be revised their ability to tap the bat ball out ot of reach tf of the fl elders brought science into a sport that had subsisted on force they proved the worth of the bunt the ho sacrifice tho the lilt anil and run play when they joined the immortal old orioles they were such scrawny little guys that other players laughed and said they should not be permitted to do anY anything tIling more strenuous than carry bats they fought with frantic muscles flery fiery tongues and quick bri brains tins they never ceased trying learning before long the fans were fighting to get In into he parks to see them for more than thirty years after that tho the greater little guy mcgraw was to continue as one of the biggest men in tile the history of the game ot of course that was ayas long ago 90 ted but the boys at school tell you that similar things no co longer can happen instead when you return in the fall ask them about little litile bill johnston or cyril wauice when muscle instead of heart was treasured measured they were very little guys but they won against giants in tha biggest of ble big time competition NOT IN THE BOX SCORE dy national league club G GREEDY owners and nd officials ure tire g setting e it I 1 ng some determined opposition from horace stoneham parties who are willing to wreck the lie game so long as they can salvage some quick and easy dough have put on strong pressure to make him vote for their heir night baseball grab tile tho young magna magnates magnat tep ps s only answer Is that it will be a very dark day before lie sells out the fans who have carried the giants through sixty years of sunshine max Alu machon elion was a jockeys valet around european race cours courses 09 long before he achieved success as max alax elings trainer captain emile dubbel and star fullback don jackson were among the spring schola scholastic stio casualties at harvard joe doherty the brooklyn featherweight was an I 1 incubator baby star halfback chick kaufman hopes to be the first man in prince tons seventy years oi of football to play through tour four seasons without a defeat lie was out of college in 34 when yale accomplished the lone tiger loss since 1932 Could there be any truth to the gossip that navy and columbia would like a friday night instead of saturday afternoon date for their football game at the polo grounds this fall dobby bobby the best davis cup prospect since ellsworth vines has a weakness for or soft voices as well as for soft tennis attacks although only eighteen he displays as much finesse in feminine society as he does on the tennis courts peto pete reilly who has managed more featherweight champions than any other man in history probably has a new one in tow the youngster Is pete who has scored three one round kayos in the pro ring mrs john mcgraw BIc Graw who Is recuperating cupe rating from a long illness Is visiting mrs christy mathewson at saranac young christy mathewson incidentally has fairly well recovered from that terrible airplane crash and hopes soon to resume as a professional flyer dyer harry weldon was the first sports editor to use race charts in a newspaper that was in cincinnati about fifty years ago irish eddie dunne banny leonards lightweight reminds you somewhat of gene tunney stew saks who owns one of the lie things out hempstead way says you need at least golf balls a season it if you operate a driving range diz dean ments 4 WWI with brand new pitch dizzy dean says he Is rn entIn with a now new pitchout pitch but refuses fu SOS to tou what it Is most fans would agree that the card aco has plenty of stuff on the ball already without try ing to develop a new delivery lesser members of the joe joa medwick family have okayed oklyed the tha news that the N a lional leagues best hitter will be dizzy ylan dean an married this fall new york baseball writers are wondering if jimmy wilson knows that the phillies Ph ulles tr trainer alner practically throws them out of the clubhouse each time they seek to visit the philly manager after taking so long to join the pro lawn tennis association berkeley dell now is sad because lie ho sui surrendered rendered A week after he bo came through with his dues d acs ho he was notified uoti neil that lie he had been suspended and fined 10 for playing in unsanctioned matches harry winnis wood once famed as center forward for the old lon Long fellows soccer team now is one of rort fort chesters most eminent citizens statisticians report that 80 00 per cent of the fighters now competing on the weekly cards are italians stuffed shirts of sports break out into cold sweats every time pat robinson approaches them he is one ot of that decreasing number of great reporters who cannot be shush shushed by master minds seeking to get away with some new lunacy or larceny trap shooting is one sport where youth does docs not always llave have to be served charlie sparrow young who won the ohio state stata championship this year Is nearly eighty years old flaners say that the best umpire now in the minors Is van grablin of of tile tho international lie iio once was in league and probably will be recalled to the be big time next year the community councils of the ho city of new york lark lack funds for playground equipment it you want to give the bids a break and if you can spare any sports aua old or new nen get in touch with this dep department ariment the largest cash on the line crowd ever to witness a minor league ball game saw kansas city entertain the toledo hens in 1928 more than customers enabled a home town boy named casey sten gel to take back to his toledo bosses on that date al AI lane brother ot of the ex cx tiger captain and tabbed dabbed as one of the best football prospects in years mado made his first princeton gain tho the other day ile he got past the profs pros who had thrown him for a loss on his first try at the entrance exams in addition to managing the very promising young fighter irish johnny clinton jo joe king is bouncer for a new york restaurant |
