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Show FARBER BROTHERS LIKE ATHLETICS Have Been Prominent for Over Fourteen Years. Maury Farber, Wisconsin crack southpaw, pitcher and basketball player, is the fourth of six brothers who have been prominent In Chicago athletic circles over a period of fourteen four-teen years. The fifth, Saul, Is at present pres-ent a freshman at Northwestern. The oldest of the Farber boys, "Doc," pitched with Medlll high school in 1910 and following his graduation played for four years with the old Hull House basketball five. At present pres-ent he is practicing dentistry. Eddie was captain of McKInley's basketball team In 1919 and also played baseball. Since his high school days he has played pro ball with Montreal, Vernon City, Rochester, Rock Island and New Orleans and is still In the game. Dave captained the McKInley cage team the year after Eddie and played In the outfield on the ball team. Maury then also captained the McKInley Mc-KInley basketball team and pitched and played the outfield In baseball. Last year he carried the hurling brunt at Wisconsin and also played regularly regu-larly on the basketball team. Saul, the youngest of the six, captained cap-tained the Marshall cage team In 1927 and also played baseball. He has won his numerals in basketball at Northwestern North-western and Is at present on the Purple frosh ball squad. The only one of the six brothers who has not been prominent In athletics ath-letics Is Nate. Three brothers are rowing In Yale shells of one rank or another. They are Capt. Gus Blagden, No. 7 In the varsity; his next youngest brother, Joseph, No. 7, In the third varsity boat, and the youngest of the three, Thomas, a member of the freshman 150-pound crew, rowing bow. The three oarsmen are sons of A. S. Blagden, Blag-den, Sr., captain of the Yale crew in 1901. The Blagdens live In Greenwich, Green-wich, Conn. Six out of the seven players on the 1932 tennis squad at Princeton university uni-versity are Included on the honor list In scholarship. Great pitching staffs do not go on forever. Chicago Cubs won three successive pennants with Mordecal Brown, Ed Reulbach, Jack Pfelster and Jeff Overall. Over-all. In 1909 this same pitching corps might have repeated but Kllng, the catcher who guided these pitchers, quit; Johnny Evers was out of the lineup much of the time and so was Frank Chance. Even then the Cubs won 104 games, but Pittsburgh captured cap-tured the championship with 110 victories. vic-tories. It is the only time where a pitching staff went through a fourth consecutive season. You often read about college men making good in major league baseball. base-ball. But the truth Is that there are but few college graduates now performing per-forming on the professional diamond. The majority consists of those who make a reputation In one or two years on the varsity team and then transfer allegiance, bag and baggage to the professional clubhouse. The offers held out by the ball clubs are too great a magnet But there are also some high class ball players who have waited patiently patient-ly until graduation before signing up. Owen Carroll of the Tigers, Moe Berg of the White Sox, "Doc" Eddie Far-rell Far-rell of the Cardinals and Roy Sherld of the Yankees are among the few who have persevered. Chick Meehan, football coach at New York university, says: "New York will be the football center cen-ter of the nation within three years. The great teams will be those of the metropolis. Metropolitan high schools are turning out great material?." The University of Chicago's new field house will seat only 9,000, although al-though ticket demands sometimes reach twice that number. The sports department says It Is not conducting athletics for profit. Harvard university now has a special spe-cial cup to be used as a perpetual trophy and will be awarded annually to a member of the Crimson hockey team. It will be known as the John Tudor Memorial cup and Is to be awarded to "the player who Is of tho greatest value to Harvard hockey, not so much because of his ability but because be-cause of his heart." The Fort Worth baseball club has returned Kent Greenfield, right-handed hurler, to the Brooklyn Robins. |