Show 1 5 uv 0 now york post service training camps of other seasons leave memories athe TRAINING RAINING camp memories the small town chamber of commerce orator whose ears probably are burning still because at a dinner given in honor of the giants he referred to their manager as the man very properly known to all the world as muggsy the second and even better outburst several training seasons later when john mcgraw discovered that a former star now no longer with the club had inspired the orator to use the hated name the year when shanty hogan reported d thirty or forty pounds overweight and immediately was sentenced to hard labor and a diet containing no starchy foods the irish eloquence which shanty used to persuade wai waitresses tresse S to bring him large 0 orders of mashed potatoes potatoe s and mark it on the check always inspected by mcgraw as o spinach playing golf with eddie brannick wondering how a guy who could not putt and who continually drove in the rough whenever he managed to get the ball off the tee was managing to get pars on those far flun flung 9 san antonio courses the belated discovery that the tall grass was the giants secre best friend whenever he got into it he picked up the ball wound up and hurled it onto the green listening to hughie critz tell about the annual spring floods in his native mississippi and about the cabin which came floating by on the crest of the waters one day while inside the cabin a screechy phonograph kept playing river stay away from my door babe ruths courteous co opera tion with the press during a long series of one day stands while the yankees were knocking off the minor league teams of texas and oklahoma the yankees were world champions then as now but the babe was the real attraction after a day or two of monotonous ion long 6 L 4 dragged out one babe ruth sided victories the reporters whispered to him promptly thereafter at the end of the seventh inning ruth started signing autographs for fans who had overflowed the outfield naturally that brought the rest of the fa fans us out of the grand stand on the run just as naturally it broke up the ball game and assured practically everybody save the babe and the fans an early dinner the year when with several training weeks left a baltimore paper ordered me to come home and cover the races the discovery after a thirty six hour train trip that the paper had changed ownership overnight and that I 1 had to take the next train back to the orioles A talk late one night of t that hat same spring with a native who lounged in front of a small carolina town pool room wondering how the fellow who otherwise looked talked and acted like a hundred thousand other crackers seen that spring knew so many intimate things about baseball the quite accidental discovery that this was shoeless joe jackson who only recently had been retired from organized baseball early evening in st augustine when even the ancient ladies who inhabited the ponce de leon the alcazar and other brahmin hotels abandoned their knitting to come to 0 o the he windows and listen for hours while bill terry freddy lindstrom jocko conlon and a rock flock of others serenaded the town with close harmony ox Eck hardts genuine anguish when a storm hit clearwater and he be had to sit in the comfortable hotel wondering what was happening to the great do dog which he be loved and which he had been forced to tie up in the flimsy dodgers clubhouse A before breakfast glimpse of a thick cheated you youngster noster in the earnest midst of trying to persuade a hotel clerk that in spite of his beard and wrinkled clothes he belonged in the cardinals training quarters the breakfast discovery that the youngster had lost his travel money and had ridden the rods on trains to get to camp on time the belief voiced in conjunction with several other early risers that at some not very distant day the national league was wa s going to be very proud of this determined youngster seeing pepper martin play for the first time several hours later and being sure of it the but this is another year NOT IN THE BOX SCORE N insist that bill mcl kechnie Is tired of managing the boston bees and would like to be elected tax collector in Will wilkins tins burg pa bill by the way ran tor for the job years ago and missed joe louis best baseball hero Is gerald walker is delegate to the detroit tigers eddie mayo alayo the infielder lelder traded to boston by the giants last fall runs a milk ilk route in his clifton N J home town one of the best three game scores ever turned in by any ant bowler anywhere was achieved by frankie ratchford a lackawanna railroad blacksmith two years ago he totaled pins walter E ohara head man at the place shortly will announce that henceforth all unclaimed wagers at a narragansett park will be turned over to charity that is contrary to the custom at most tracks where charity begins and ends in dividends or fla in spite of strong rumors that branch rickey is the heir apparent to judge landis throne friends of the cardinal V P insist that he would spurn the job they do say though he is mighty anxious to grab that brooklyn club but please dont write in to say that recent trades make it look like he already has it as a st louis farm six north carolina state football players are reported by the washington and lee student paper to have gone on strike because they were not sufficiently remunerated tor for their gridiron services george engle who managed frank klaus and harry greb to middleweight championships is writing a flock of entertaining boxing reminiscences for a pittsburgh paper bun cook who started the season as regular left wing for boston was demoted in a recent shakeup of the bruin forwards he became the fifteenth or odd man anyhow art ross who is planning to convert defense M man an flash hollet into a forward will not farm bun to providence just believe the former ranger would have much interest in performing in the minors joe syracuse end who will wih be graduated in june recently had bad an ope operation ratin performed on a gridiron damaged dabag a 4 nose the result is that a grecian model has replaced his well known semi semi flattened jockey wayne wright is a southpaw which probably accounts for a lot of things while seeking a replacement for roy at goal red dutton would make no mistake in peeping at mike brimsek of the pittsburgh amateur hockey yellow jackets jim braddock no lon longer loner er utters canned speeches jim craddock braddock no longer utters canned speeches the heavyweight champions manager finally has let the big fellow be himself and his speeches now are rated with the best that scrimmage 1 i emage which threat threatened ened to develop into a fierce war for control of turf sheet and racing wire privileges has been settled to jim j B raddock braddock the satisfaction of all belligerents the long iong reigning group still is in control and the ambitious rivals are in no danger of 0 starving mickey walker his brother joe and john hall staged a swell show for the red cross in the elizabeth N J armory another occasion when a horne home town boy made good john mcgraw had a standing offer of to any giant who nho could get moose mccormick greatest of pinch hitters and now a successful insurance man to take a drink sueo ohe the japanese pole vaulter uses a pole only feet long to vault 14 feet 3 inches but before taking off he measures the distance with a 15 foot pole earl meadows the olympic pole vault champion flutters his wrists in in the concert pianist manner a few times before his own takeoffs does it to stimulate his hii blood and strengthen his wrists he says vie vic ripley a wiry when he left the rangers three years ago now totes pounds around with him on the new haven ice charlie former princeton quarterback and baseball captain is doing a swell job tor for a sports magazine athletes perturbed over after din ner speeches or literary chores should be pleased to note that the N Y classified telephone directory lists two firms under the heading ghost writers the first game gaine the giants lose during the coming season will be number for them they have won ivon and thus have an average of since entering the league in 1893 the way to tell whether hockey players really are in in earnest during those ice fights is to note whether they take off their gloves you cant form a proper fist with the gloves on now it if anybody could find some accurate way of at proving when prizefighters prize fighters are bearing down everything ery thing would be oke bill mckechnie bee manager and lena blackburne As coach are the only two survivors of the old federal league in the majors today st marys college financial statement for 1938 1936 is said to have included this notation baseball expenses |