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Show For books he didn't care a darn And planned to quit his nchool Hut since he made some critic s team l re studies like 0 fool. While picking stars Is mostly myth , Vet olt much good is done Jt cheers a gridiron laddie up And makes school life seem fun. All-America elevens flood the news iik.- blackbirds In June regularly afte'i even football season ends. Tho time-honored custom of selecting select-ing all-star teams for cities, statea and sections gets the laugh here, and there bill for all that the results are for I the good of the game. j Foot!'.. II players are human like the rest Of ns. Mention by some critic in lila team selections cannot help giving giv-ing a certain feeling of pride. In some cases boys who seeminglv had lost all interest in their school work have taken a new. Interest In themselves and their educational opportunity op-portunity after being cited by the ex- ports for gridiron prowess. ! Ii isn't humanly possible for one person to see all the teams in action during a single season and naturally Ibis selection of an all-star team is flavored with the sections he has ih-I ih-I ed ' i pinions thus differ widely I some timet Bui 'hat only adds spice' to the irguments thus precipitated. They do not pir k all-star casts in iprofcsslonal baseball as in football But there Isn't the "kick" in professionalism profes-sionalism that is found among the ma-teurs. ma-teurs. : : Baseball players get money for their I services. They are usually men whoj have passed the ;ige when special mcn-j clou means much to them Vet sonic, of them are hounds for publicity at. that. j Any institution (b it gives the Anieri-1 tan boy blghei and better Incentives is worthy of continuation. So let the I all-star picker" in football keep right', jbn picking. ! A football player who makes the All - America elevens doubtless j i wouldn't trade the honor for all the j glory Which Babe Ruth has gathered ;in making his homerun records, if' 'such an interchange was possible. , BENCH MANAGERS. SEATTLE. The difference between j 'managing ball clubs from the bench! and from the playing angle will be! on trial In the Pacific "o;ist l.-:ieu' next year. Of the eight clubs there are four of each specie. . OMAHA, Seven years ago Joe I Slecher drove 87 miles in a buggy , over rough country roads to make his' debut as a wreBtler- He got $5a for throwing Arthur fv .lkv !! didn t ride in a buggy to bis "Waterloo" the night he lost to Lewis and he ma.i , feu more dimes. |