Show d e AND R CE IN TN N THE wake of the Navy Army-Navy Georgia Georgia Tech Notre Great Dame-Great Lakes games the last stretch of a waning football season now belongs belongs' entirely to the pros and the bowls The top bowl bow game as it should be is the thc Rose Bowl affair between Southern California and Tennessee both both tied but unbeaten with unbeaten with prospects prospects prospects pros pros- of a or more crowd The second ranking game will wilI be bethe bethe bethe the Sugar Bowl test at New Orleans between between between be be- tween Alabama and Duke good for some 7 0 0 0 00 0 spectators a who will also see one of the b best est games of the year s Both Alabama and Duke finished their campaigns as topflight topflight topflight top top- flight teams The Cotton Bowl at Dallas gets a Grantland Rice nice championship contender contender contender con con- tender in Oklahoma A A. A and M M. with one of the star backs of the year in triple-threat triple Bob Fenimore T. T C. C U. U has been spotty but good on occa occa- I A year ago Georgia Tech and I Tulsa in the Sugar Bowl Bow provided I the thc best game of the thc big Bowl day at New Orleans The brilliant play I of Prokop alone was something worth looking at This time Tech and Tulsa the Ts T's move over to the Orange Bowl Bow at Miami Georgia Tech's two defeats by Duke and Notre Dame especially those 21 points Notre Dame rang up after what happened in the Army and amI Navy disasters was no great boom for this contest although Tulsa again has known a fine year In one important direction at least the bowl games figure to be bea a decided success This is on the gate receipts side From Southern California's graduate manager Arnold Arnold Arnold Ar Ar- nold Eddy comes word that the Rose Bowl was sold out on December 6 All the seats had been purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased nearly a month ahead of the New Years Year's day date Similar gleeful gleeful gleeful glee glee- ful reports are arriving from managers managers managers man man- agers of the other big bowl games After all these Bowl games outside outside outside out out- side of entertainment mean nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing today Not when you look at Army Navy and Ohio State the three college tops who have no Bowl assignments Bowl games today are merely excuses for a New Years Year's holiday party They will all be in interesting interesting interesting in- in contests all worth looking at but there is nothing else in in- in Army Navy and Ohio State among the colleges have taken care of this side of the argument N New Pro Leagues The The scrambling of the newly organized organized organized or or- professional l leagues agues is reaching the knock-down knock and drag- drag out stage The battling is going on in conferences and deals and in bidding for flashy players At least three new invaders headed or directed by Chick Meehan Meehan Meehan Mee- Mee han Arch Ward Jimmy Crowley and Red Grange are already under underway underway underway way in the general knowledge that only one can come safely through In the process process of locating a survivor survivor survivor sur sur- from the new groups a number number number num num- ber of stockholders and investors must be badly stung Even as it is today only about four teams in the National Football league ea ue are out of the thc red But whatever happens to the newcomers it will make an in interesting interesting in- in story as they hustle for fo various playing stands that can accommodate accommodate ac ac- the populace It is impossible at this point to pick out the winning league All admit admit admit ad ad- mit they have all the financial backing backing backing back back- ing needed even into the millionaire millionaire million mimon- aire class This means a far rougher scrimmage than baseball ever knew with the arrival of the American league more than 40 years ago or the charge of the Federal league many years later Ive I've talked with Meehan Median Ward Crowley Gene Tunney and severa several others interested in the various new ventures and they all aU exude confidence from every pore pore Possession of the Yankee stadium in New York and the Baltimore stadium will be important factors in those two hot football cities Another Another Another An An- other leading point is the way various various vari vari- ous ons new cities such as Buffalo Miami Mi Mi- Miami ami Houston Dallas Daas and some others will respond to the pro diet Each new league leader is confident confident confident dent that he has picked the right spots This is something the in investors investors investors in- in will have to learn lat later r either for their pleasure or their pain And a good part of it will have to be pain since there is no possible possible possible pos pos- sible chance that four our leagues can make good on the financial side y r yes ye's ales e's Pine Fine Season Howie Odell Yale's football coach hands Bob Yale's swimming swimming swimming swim swim- ming coach a large package of credit for the Blues Blue's unbeaten year is something more than thana a magical swimming coach Ode Odell says lie He is is also one of the best trainers and conditioners I ever saw no matter what game you play Bob spent six weeks with our foot football ball ban squad using various exercises he hc has devised to build up every part Fart of the thc anatomy |