Show T three ahree mandarins of the horsehide by GRANTLAND RICE I 1 E WELL KNOWN GAME of baseball has known three top who operate back of the scenes scene S wr ir names are ed barrow branch cey and larry macphail these are the three mandarins who have arranged the pennant destinies ot of m more 0 r e t than ban one team by their ability in de tj ve loping building and rebuilding ball 3 clubs rice kice ed barrow came a Ns fame ame in boston and new ro rot but ed goe goes back aback to the days f wagner and lajoie babe ruth 0 oil dimaggio Alaggio Di and others it was 14 aej barrow who probably devel pi aped or at least had a big par part t in i loping the all conquering yan chere ere may be many corn com ints about listing larry mao mae lall all in this group but do dont it get that macphall macphail first lifted s lowly reds to two pennants cahall brought in most odthe of the players who lifted cincinnati from the cellar to the top from aiom cincinnati macphall macphail came 0 4 brooklyn and gave the dodgers leir heir first flag in more than 20 rears macphail was largely responsible for the dodger sanie lance he brought in more than a tt players who figured in later dodier victories after this macphail came to the yankees where he lieg again aln played one of the leading in winning another yankee pendant with bucky harris in chi choge lige so here are three successes in n row that macphall macphail engineered oi helped ped to engineer dickeys tic keys major job Is well known it was rickey who nde the cardinals it was luckey who fathered and de sloped v kopea the firm farm system it was nickey who made brooklyn a in baseball the dodgers WM will be a power for years to ane if someone can be found intake dickeys Ric keys place which Is brooklyn cant do mckeys ays eys are not grown on every byh h brooklyn has no one who ICU y even approach branch lackeys allaround all around baseball clity ability if the he dodgers keep him richarge WI ht charee Charge it will be all the beti tel 3 for the team the situation BO place for amateurs as IfO brooklyn oklYn will soon find out t A ardys Ys unbeaten alen mark what chance has red bed blanks ar army platoon to whip both michigan and stanford and finish the 1850 1950 season unbeaten with a record ot of 23 29 consecutive victories I 1 put this thlu I 1 query up to one of the country keenest coaches this is his 1 I would not attempt to assess this 1850 1950 army team until it had met a major test without galiffa running its attack the average good team gets a galiffa every 10 or 12 ferrs and while it has him it will be up there with the leaders I 1 know young blaik blaile is a first class football player and he may till fill the spot this has yet to be proved check back he said on the last two years of army play and be convinced that whenever army was threatened it was galiffa who stood in the breach bet better ter yet go over the films dims of ardys major games and see what a magnificent player this big quiet boy was lie he was the type of player that made difficult work appear easy my first look at galiffa was in the rout ot of stanford in 1948 talking t to 0 earl blaik that night I 1 remarked t that hat what impressed me most was not his two platoon system but the rare ability of his T quarterback unlike the luckmann Luck mans the tuckers the and others this galiffa would go through the middle or oft off the ends with the skill of the nolt ings ing and davisel Davi ses galiffa galiata made history in the 1948 1949 campaigns as the first great triple threat of 0 the T a quarterback who could handle the ball pass the ball and run with the ball this is all true in the last army notre dame gamp game back in 1917 1 thought galiffa was the star of both backfields back fields yes I 1 know notre dame had lu lack jack br brennan ennan and other fine backs but that day galiffa was the best man on the field young bob blaik Is undoubtedly one 0 of f the best of the new crop lie he Is s not only a good man on the physical side but mentally also college Vs big league well say some college has a student who is both a good baseball player and a good football player at this point some big league club wants to grab him said club offers him a bonus of or the ideal move to make would be for or the student to get his degree and take a gamble on the bonus a year or so later but this will never happen until there is an arrangement between the big leagues and the colleges to the average student in college 1000 is a chunk of money and 5 Is beyond dreaming so when the leagues offer to put up or or more you can be pretty sure that the college athlete going to pass it up I 1 dont believe the colleges can ask the big leagues to overlook their athletes and I 1 dont believe the colleges can ask some student to play for or the fuu full of 0 it against or |