Show f 1 or i SP CE I O OVER OER 40 years ago a kid came out of Bucknell university who was better known as lS a football star staI than any baseball wonder He Be was wasa a big knock kneed blond who hard ham lines and kicked field goals But he turned turned out later to be a s pretty fair country pitcher His name was Christy Mathewson Maybe May be you ou remember him as as- as Old Percentage Per or Big Six Turning from Crom the Matty Malty of oC 1902 to the New York Yankees Yankees' Spud Chandler of 1942 19 it suddenly occurred occurred oc oe how few college football stars had ever taken a firm grip or grab on big league baseball fame Came There have been a few few Matty Matty of ol Bucknell and the Giants Orvie Overall Over Over- I all of California and the Cubs Frank Frisch of Fordham and the Giants I Mickey Cochrane of Boston university sity sty and the Athletics Lou Gehrig I of Columbia and the Yankees Sam Chapman of California and the Athletics Athi Athletics Ath Ath- i let cs plus a few others But not so many in a year 40 roundup Chandler Joe McCarthy said is one of the rare exceptions Foot- Foot I y r r S 1 Y Y 9 Fw 4 I V wf N 4 y i Y SPUD CHANDLER 4 ball players carry away too many manyI I kinks in shoulder knee or ankle I to be good ball players And too I many are arc also muscle bound With Georgias Georgia's Best Chandler was a star back and a astar astar I star kicker at Georgia around 10 I years ago He lie went north with three Georgia teams that beat good Yale YaleI I teams three years in a row His lIis Georgia teams also ma made e it two out of oC three from Crom NYU when Chick Meehan had the Violet at a violent tide Those were among the best teams Georgia ever turned outI outI outI out I was lucky Spud said I was wasI I never hurt although we played tough schedules every year I didn't take takeI I 1 any battering that ever cracked a ligament or strained a muscle Now at the age of 32 it would not be any too surprising to see Chandler Chand ler stepping into his best season Last season although pitching well he dropped his first four starts Then he won his next ten straight The Georgian now living at Moultrie Moultrie Moultrie Moul- Moul trie has a husky son who is just nine months old Laughing he wakes me every morning at six sL o'clock Spud says He laughs all the time Which shows in these times what a wonderful thing it must be to be benine benine benine nine months old After the football baseball argument argument argument ment had subsided someone opened another debate namely what is the easiest job to handle on a ball club I Bill Dickey picked right field At which point some indignant right- right fielder named catching Words flewin flew fiew flewin in various directions until the final verdict pointed directly at third base Mel Ott Otto who has played many jobs lobs voted for tor third So did Jimmy Fox Foxx who has also caught played first and third Their angle was that I at third you cither either do or do-or or you dontI dont I Its It's either a l hit or an In out The toughest play a third baseI baseman baseman baseman base base- I man has to make is handling a n nI aI I swinging bunt Bill Dickey said I But there are lre not so many of those I And when they come off oft they are I generally hits anyway The Rebuttal This final decision failed to lift any cheers out of the third basemen in 5 It third baseman has to be sc set for tor the tho two opposites one of oC them said saul Either a a. smoke ball or a bunt The majority of those thos balls driven cn down our way lea leave vc a tail of ul lire fire behind The They arc moving in a hurr hurry And we have to move in a t curry lurry to kill of the hit At the same time we have tibe ti it tibe be ready to come in fast Cast on bunt bunts or Ir slow hit balls We haven haven't t th the theme line me a or a second base baseY T Y an all has And we have a longer to make make make-a a throw that offer after as to he Ic made in a hurry In that football baseball debate we overlooked Eddie Collins a n good quarterback at Columbia before he herent went rent t to the he Athletics But Cut such sick crack football players a as Sammy laugh Caugh Ernie fevers Harry liar Har ry Hopp Jim Thorpe Dixie Howell sn many m ny others couldn't slake the I de dc They couldn't hit |