Show 4 D Dri tv ri seas Ss C e New York Tork Pot W Giants to Dish Out Lots of Hard Luck Before Season Ends the other National pROBABLY League ue clubs knew it all along but no nb matter It will do no harm and um h and incidentally will be a abig abig abig big help in getting getting- this piece started to 10 remind them to avoid black cats putting hats on beds walking under ladders and other innocent seeming Yet jet dangerous pastimes this season The reason is the Giants In spite of ot occasional spring rumors to the contrary there definitely will be no non need n d for tor the th Cubs Pirates and Cards to saddle themselves with extra jinxes just to be sure of ot get getting getting i ting some competition when they come orne to the Polo Grounds Instead judged by what they have showed thus far tar it is obvious that the league titleholders are going to continue furnishing more than enough hard hardluck hardluck hardluck luck for or all other contenders By that I do not mean that the mere statistics of early season tri tri- triumphs triumphs over the second-division second Dodgers is proof that Bill Terry has another nother pennant winner I doubt that he has but it nevertheless is plain that he does have just such a club as won two flags for tor him when bet bet- better better better ter opponents faltered The team hustles It is smart Probably there still is a lack of I hitting power for i rT instance Ott could easily be the difference differ differ- ence between firstI first place and fourth fourth- I but the Giants still play the leagues league's r best defensive base base- ball Also they still stilly y r. r need only the tiniest opening in an op opponents opponent's a 0 p- p p guard to enable them to slice themselves a vic vic- Bill Terry tory Added to that there may have been some improvement improve improve- improvement improvement ment here and there Lou Chiozza is not as finished a third base per per- performer performer performer former as Travis Jackson but he has added needed speed Then Hal Schumacher chumacher who made his mates uneasy each time he went to the mound in 1936 seems back in form But dont don't go to asking too many questions about the Dodgers The have so many other wor wor- worries worries worries ries that it would be unfair to take their minds off their work just so that you can give a good example of t what killed the cat In a word the Dodgers continue to be the Dodgers Manush so long as his legs hold holdup holdup up will provide line-drive line assistance that the directors would not obtain for the fans twelve months ago The experienced Woody English probably probably ably can combine with young Cookie Lavagetto to produce more double plays than could the keystone com com- combination combination combination so generously allotted to the fans by the owners in 1936 Yet the truth is that the improvement is not enough to make any appreciable ble difference Like the Ebbets field teams of at 1936 and all too many other recent years the Dodgers just do donot donot donot not have class They try hard Just as did the sorely battered outfit which played the second best ball in the league from July Jely 4 tin last year The addi addi- addition addition addition tion of such sech fighting veterans as Manush l and English makes a difference differ differ- difference difference ence now just as it would have last spring There here also are schedule blessings such as the fact that the club meets favored ored Westerners on the home terrain before venturing upon a long campaign on foreign terrain That may mean mean indeed indeed probably will ill ill mean the mean the Dodgers will do relatively rel rel- relatively well in the early stages of the race After that weaknesses that were evident to all on opening day and pitching problems that soon must crop up will tell the story S A summer book rating of the 50 so- so called ivy League football teams makes make Penn the favorite and Yale the second choice with Princeton figured to battle Columbia for show money Incidentally N. N Y Us U.'s Mal Mai Stevens says that Captain Clint Franks Frank's Yale backfield should be the best seen on an eastern grid grid- gridiron gridiron iron In Ln many years Unsung heroes always are being uncovered at the strangest places and now Princeton has come up with ith in one the form of a wrestling coach He lie is Jimmy Reed former Lehigh two-time two national champion and Olympic star who produced at least leut one titleholder during each of at the five years he has been at Nas Nas- sau His Ills mat teams have been un url Ull- defeated during the past two seasons sea sea- seasons seasons sons in dual meets and the tho Tigers got so excited about it that 2700 2 one of the biggest Princeton indoor door doors sports s orts crowds on of cord-of them witnessed one meet last In t winter io NOT IN TIlE THE BOX BON SCORE P PRIMO RIMO CARNERA has written to toa toa a close friend that he lie is consid consid- considering considering considering I ering returning to this country as asa asa asa a wrestler Judge Landis' Landis favor favor- favorite favorite favorite ite dish is Spanish bean soup lie He refuses to talk about it but wealthy friends insist that Bill em Terrys Terry's dear dear- dearest dearest dearest I est ambition is to be president and part owner of ot the Brooklyn baseball club One One success secret of Jockey Harry Darry Richards who is rid rid- riding ridIng riding ing so many winners this year is that he be never shifts his hands on the reins It also was a success secret of Isaac Murphy who probably probably probably ably was the greatest American jockey of all time and is earnestly earne recommended to those riders who pester good horses by continually fiddling with the reins Fight Manager Jimmy Johnston Jr is a candid camera addict He takes pictures of his babies daily Friends say Paul undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly would consider con ider an offer to take on a college head football coaching job had an excellent rec rec- record record record ord at Oregon State and consid consid- considering considering considering ering the handicaps under which he worked an even better one during his two years with Brooklyn's pro- pro grid ers American leaguers are complaining about Bill Dineen once a great pitcher and umpire They say the veteran cant can't move and is practically no umpire at all when not behind the plate If the Davis Cup committee pairs Bobby Riggs and Joey Hunt for the doubles match against Japan it will be like hitching a dog and cat in tandem for they hav just about that much love for or one another Still so far faras faras faras as doubles ability goes it would be a good team and might prove as successful as that celebrated non- non speaking play double-play combination of Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers Bob Cob Pastor boxing in California gets a cool for meeting Bob Nestell while waiting for Louis and Braddock to settle their heavyweight mess Frank Kohlbecker who once caught for forthe forthe forthe the Dodgers now does a swell job as road rOld secretary for the Cleveland Indians Lefty Cleve Cleve- Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land trainer used to sell sen newspapers newspapers newspapers pers in Boston and pal around with witha a young oung Red Sox pitcher named Babe Ruth The New York State Athletic commission comm should give more work to the very able young referee Frankie Fullam James i Corrigan McCarty is on the third freshman crew at Yale The first time according to his parent the celebrated Black Hat Dat McCarty that the s turf family ever has been mixed up in a boat race Add odd names among pugs pugs Car Car Cardinal dinal Paul Buck Jones Demitri a new Greek 15 Fanis |