Show 1 I new york post service here are two all star teams tough to beat wh WHILE HILE striving manfully to d g h s way out of the mail that probably should have been attended to days ago your reporter has ered two letters unadorned by holly wreaths and pictures of santa claus just to prove that adyth ng can hap pen if you wait long enough for it one of the letters is from the secre tary of the baseball writers assoil aaion of america in it he reveals that organ zed baseball has at last been convinced colv need that some slight ture should be made towards honor ing those players who have lived so long in memory so he presents a list of 32 players who have starred from 1900 to the present date and requests that your reporter join with other baseball writers in vot ng upon the ten best of that group since the lucky winners of this bal doting are to have tablets erected in their honor in the proposed baseball hall of fame your report er was at first dis posed to reply with a letter of protest in it he was going to suggest that the peo pie who pay are the real judges of the men who have merit ed such distinction and so should be per bitted to do the vot johnson ing on second thought though he has desisted from another vain attempt to persuade ti tie e club owners to behave like reasonable human beings instead he Is append ing here a list of players such stich as the secretary of the B B W af A in el ci dentally he also Is the publicity agent for the americ d league evi dently desires this list Is divided into two sections of ten each one section is composed of players who were frequently ob served by your reporter during the specia ed years no doubt he saw some of them so frequently that personal liking enters into the matter the other sect on Is of players who either were through or were far past their prime by the time tirrie he was able to take a mature interest in the game the list w th asterisks des geating the men whose names are not on the bal bat lot and without any maudlin thy for athletes who betrayed the sport which had done so much for them PERSONAL OPINION HEARSAY pos ros walter johnson P cy loung young lefty grove P rube waddell bob 0 ofarrell farrell C roger bresnahan bill terry fred tenney rogers hornsby ab B napoleon lajoie clenn glenn wright SS hans wagner pie traynor jim collins ry cobb OF vi ill e reeled babe ruth OP OF ed delehanty 1 speaker OF fred clarke 0 rumor explains trade of young johnny alien allen mention the box score forgot to unkind persons say that johnny al len ten was traded by the yankees be cause he couldn coulden t get along w th lou gehrig what bald headed re porter still Is gasping because lefty gomez recently thanked him for a story written a year ago thus setting a new all time record for baseball gratitude the boston garden which will try anything once has been experiment ng with indoor skiing ex hib eions the stunt has ben been be n mildly successful and now boston ans are claiming that mad son square garden Is trying to steal it harry 0 con nor on C the star goalie of the cele borated ie te rose club now is a very able docter referee one reason why madison square garden still seeks an opponent for jim braddock Is that colonel kilpatrick kept max alax waiting too long in his bis anteroom on the day the he german vis cited him bill tilden the old scared seared cat will take his first airplane ride soon he ile will fly from califor nia wit to new york so that he may play in the pro tennis bourna bill tilden ment joe med aled wick s correct name Is Mod lewocz although bt francis of brooklyn Is not in the big gate football clash the athletes did well for themselves last fall between the halves indian the coach fed them lumps of sugar dipped in pre war brandy so that they might be inspired to greater deeds B ROOKLYN fans are up in arms again they are warning the club owners not to hire billy evans as bus ness manager this Is not be cause they have anything personal against the former umpire who la Is such a pal of the national leagues league s pres dent they merely think that mr evans failed so completely in his home town of cleveland when he had oodles of money to spend on the in deans that he could not poss bly be a success in strange and straitened sur soundings roun dings champion chariot driver in the reign of em geror titus of rome was one of the biggest of all time dough boys of sports he competed before hundreds of thousands of people won more than 1 1300 races and piled up more than three million sest erces in purses ses berces was the word the romans had for dollaris doll dollar aril sports writers long accustomed to such inane tactics are chuckling at the newest evidence of masterful thinking edw 77 displayed by the mid die dle atlantic states conference at the meeting of these bet ter minds penn penns s ath letic press agent way war the lecturer on co lege relations with W I 1 t h the press all this in spite of the fact even the diligent frisch camp at navy and princeton are not as adept at antagonizing re porters as is the penn publicity chore boy branue frisch and jimmy wilson sworn e as as late as last september lunched together in chi ca cago go recently frisch by the way picked up the check there are 34 members of tl e johnston family I 1 beaded by james J the matchmaker A prominent alumnus will tell you that if he wants it fred swan tern tem pie line coach can have that lafay ette football job in canada they take no chances with their hockey of f bials before the game starts the goal judges are locked in a wire cage so narrow that they can barely stand upright in it also unless there is snow on the ground montreal fans fan 3 will not attend hockey games although 15 years ago the geographic board decided that the civil war bat biefeld should be spelled kennesaw kennisaw Ken mountain judge land s who was named after the spot still st acks to one N the chicago stadium now is am tat ng new york and philadel phia by offering big time basketball at tract ons de paul the northside north side col lege team which has won 36 of its last 37 games is featured coaches praise system of dean prep academy college football coaches have a lot of faith in the integrity of tanny danny sullivan director of athletics at dean academy they say that when a coach goes to the trouble of sending a promising young football player to dean danny makes males sure that when be Is ready for college the boy enters his sponsors fountain of higher learn ing this the coaches claim is un usual since many prep school officials will turn their stars over only to tl e highest bidder french papers once enthusiastic about him have stopped printing pieces about danno 0 mahoney s mat successes he wrestles too often and the cable tolls are too high one of tl e strangest things in sports Is the complex leading negro boxers hie bine about performing against mem bers of their 0 race not even the usually very cry sensible joe louis is im mime mune from this tendency to draw the color line and to fight only white men football arsts supplied by a penn sylvania reader who st 11 II is too mod est chicago to organize a letter club 1904 to use numbers on the backs of players 1913 frank franki n and marshall to use the pushing form of wedge 1889 harvard to build a stad urn um 1903 to use goal posts 1874 to charge adm ss on to a game 1874 to play an international con test 1874 aga ast mcgill university to use the flying wedge to win a game that was be ng broadcast in england the yale game in 1930 to intro duc football into the un ted states in the form in which it now exists 1870 I 1 II 11 no s to employ the hud die constantly M to win a rose bowl game from stanford in 1001 A resident of witte white haven eng land recently wrote rote to toe jacobs requesting of all tl 11 ingi ings the t b e autograph of f tony galento babe puth ruth always looks carefully at any sleet of paper he be la is requested to auto graph that is to make sure that no wise guy has slipped a check or something of the sort under neath it simi barly jack dempsey gae babe kuth ruth always autographs at the extreme top of the page so that no writing may be placed above his signature erich hagenlocher Hagen lacher the famous billiard player believes in per petua ting the best traditions of t the he game in remembering his friends his two sons are named jake schaefer hagenlocher Hagen lacher and welker cochrane hagenlocher Hagen lacher dave lumiansky Lum lansky the new bedford lawyer who manages prize fighters claims to have th the e worlds greatest heavyweight prospect under cover in england the young man his name Is withheld until und I 1 such a timi flint as mr lumiansky Lum lansky sees fit to ech bit him Is 21 years old he ile alho Is six feet three inches tall and weighs pounds |