Show C P CE Pr THE HE toughest Job in sport isn't A sinking a six foot putt in a pinch or or emerging from a heel print Inthe In hi hithe inthe the sand It Isn't throwing a 11 40 yard 40 yard pass or pus or pitching to a clutch hitter with the bases full tun It isn't umpiring a baseball game I If you care to hear the correct answer it is working as a football official The baseball base base- ball umpire has a aa a r setup in comparison compari son Hurry up Yost of Michigan l told me mo mel meonce l once that he doubted doubt ed that any play was ever run off oft in int t football that was completely minus t some form of penalty pen alty off alty-off off side starting starting startIng start start- ing too qui quickly c k 1 y Grantland Rice holding illegal megal Interference Interference interference in- in pass interference interference interference in in- illegal megal use of hands or other infractions Here you have 22 ke keen n. n active overeager young men scattered over p 1 good part of the field in a game that is packed with penalties No four sets of eyes can follow every infraction especially on the part of those who know how when and where to slide by a rule Id I'd like to say here that no set of officials work harder train tram harder or try harder than 90 per percent percent percent cent of all football officials They are honest intelligent ent w well selected well and they usually take a deep pride In their work But they are up ag against an Impossible impossible impossible sible Job Having worked five years as a football official in the South I before groping later for the older I age of hazy reason I 1 have found it I somewhat difficult to ride officials who have impossible Jobs to handle There is holding of one sort or another another an an- other on almost every play Ask some of the players in the line who line who have been jerked off oft balance by a quick hand a movement that took less than a split second Or this matter of pass interference In the rush and Jump for the ballor bail bailor ballor ball ball- or the split second start of the backs or or the smart ones who know how to time and beat off oft side by half haIt a stride It isn't too easy to say which penalties penalties pen pen- s affect a play play and and which dont But this is where the smarter officials come in where in-where where in other years Ed and Tom Thorpe were supreme su su- su- su preme two preme-two two of the best football ever has known Certainly too much whistle and horn blowing can wreck an any game coming from too many over-conscientious over callers caners who now and then have the idea they are the afternoons afternoon's main But this doesn't happen often An official with sound sane judgment Judgment judgment Judg judg- ment in handling a game where one c close se decision can make or break either team is footballs football's major asset But dont don't let anyone tell you youit youit youit it Isn't a t tough ugh assignment the assignment the toughest one I know in sport The horn is certainly no instrument instrument ment went of merriment or melody All Bowled Over Old King Cole now has more bowls than he ever dreamed about as he called for his Fiddlers Three and proceeded to get pie But the two big money bowls are the theRose theRose theRose Rose and the Sugar where the two capacities are and at 4 a crack Not a bad financial goal for those lucky enough to crowd into the final picture although this cash is scattered scattered scattered scat scat- around as far as the Rose Bowl is concerned Here no one makes any big bi killing Which is the way it should be College Collee football still has a long way to go 0 in getting away from too much finance New Golf Champion More than a few followers of the ancient and well-trapped well green want to know more about Skee Riegel the new amateur golf goIt champion of the U. U S. S Skee is much better known In 10 the Far West Nest than he is throughout the rest of our bunkered domain The impression seems to b b. that some rank outsider has taken over the amateur throne thron of golf This idea is strictly in in in- correct Only a fine golfer could have won over the Pebble Bead Beach test one of the toughest in golf What sort of a golfer and what brand of a fellow is the new champion champion cham cham- pion pion- pion plon meaning Mr Riegel We took this problem to Al AI Ciuci one of the best golf goIt Instructors Inthe Inthe in inthe the country now In 10 charge at Lakeville Lakeville Lake- Lake ville Long Island I can tell you this Clue Ciuci told me A uA worthy champion and a fine fellow now wears the crown Craig Wood and I worked with Skee in 1941 when he had been playing golf colt only three years He was then in the high He had come along alone in a hurry because he wanted to learn and he was willing to practice all aU day Heres an odd angle on Skee They call Frank Stranahan Muscle l Stranahan or Mr l Mus Mus- cle dic But in my opinion Riegel Is much stronger than han They ought to call Skee Double Muscle l Ive I've never seen anyone close to his weight pounds with such powerful upper upper upper up up- per and forearms Skee Is what Id I'd call a power hitter blUer or a smash mash hitter |