Show Bench Talk BY THE BENCH WARMERS Europe's athletes unlike our own Collegians make the grade Sports for sports sake has not caught on in That's how Jack Stanford university covering the 1948 Olympic sees it over He reported that athletes themselves are all but the spectators are unable to accept the defeat of a country with any degree of Cashel referred to the 1924 Olympic games rugby match as an The spectators rioted following America's victory over According to the European attitude is America is sending a strong team to but it may be more of a curse than a The more we the more hatreds we are going to Europeans also seem to retain knowledge of international victories far longer than the American in the event oi a say till next Cashel noted this peculiarity while he was in He's heard conversations on six different occasions how Max Joe Louis back in All have utterly ignored the fact that Joe knocked kicking the second time The invasion in the ranks of major league baseball is on an up-and-up Lloyd former Stanford grid star has signed by the Cincinnati Originally ticketed for Ogden in the Pioneer Lloyd earned a tryout with Columbia of the ClassA South Atlantic Merriman is hitting well above and is the league in triples and stolen bases and near the top in runs batted In his first ninety the former Stanford flash stole 21 Robert University of baseball player and brother of Dick Wakefield of the Detroit wa signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers The Boston Red Sox signed Frank Yale pitcher who participated in the Collegiate World series at The old rated as one of the nation's best collegiate was the object of several major league Wayne star second bas-eman of Michigan college was signed by the Chicago Five years while Bill Chicago White Sox southpaw attended St. Mary's pre-flight he struck out 24 batters in hurling the navy team to a seventeen inning victory over Stockton In the minor league John D. pound pitcher-outfielder from college in Los was signed by the San Francisco Seals and has come to the Salt Lake Another collegian on the Bee roster is Dick who struck out 21 batters in the 1947 Collegiate World series while pitching for University of California's Golden Bears over Dick pitcher and Bill Lillie members of championship team of were signed by the Hollywood Stars in the Pacific Coast It's only July but already football is in the In less than a month some 50 outstanding Utah picked from all sections of the will come to Salt Lake for a two-weeks' training grind leading up to the annual North-South all star classic at the U stadium August Last year over saw the North win the |