| Show raz P A K I 1 N G 0 of f apa J by GEORGE A BARCLAY de put in tough spot by press Ag enting ILL de is on BILL the spot bill as you knows know has been headline news throughout the sports pages of the land in r recent e months at an age when most lads would be thrilled to see their names in the school paper As star halfback of 0 the austin high school team of 0 chicago national champions by virtue of 0 their recent victory over jackson tenn he has been the most publicized prep gridiron star since red grange nearly every large university and college in the country hopes bill de will enter its classic gates next nest autumn but when he does go to college hell have to live up to all his advance press ag agent gent ing angor or else why hes on the spot here are a few reasons why most coaches would give gm bin their right eye to have blu bill on their de Corre vout squad he scored points for austin during curing the 1937 football season he was the key factor in enabling his bis team to pile up points drew crowd of ile he drew more than people into soldier field chicago to a single game this was the largest crowd that ever saw a football game anywhere in this country it was bigger than the one that watched the dempsey tunney light fight in 1927 it exceeded by a wide margin the crowds at the army and navy kavy game or the allstar all star games he is a phantomlike phantom like runner a eifle passer a star kicker a resourceful tackler and a surefire sure fire pass receiver he is a star student when he graduates in february at the age of nineteen he will have a four year average of 83 in all his studies in addition to his football prowess bill is quite a baseball player he can round the bases in seconds and has had a batting average for the past four years of thousands ot of high school athletes throughout the country would probably like to change places with bill but if they knew what hes going to he be up against maybe change their minds bill has a tough assignment he will be a marked man like jim thorpe walter eck earsall and red grange he will have to be a whirlwind to make good knows how to take it r but bill has demonstrated that he knows how to take it and so his spot may not be so tough after all every time he played last fau fall they expected more of him than the time e before and on every occasion he 11 came through 41 1 the biggest test was the game that decided the championship of chicago it was played in soldier field between austin representing the public high schools and st leo representing the parochial schools well austin won 25 26 to 0 bill awas C was the hero he made three touch downs playing throughout with a painfully bruised knee he got loose for long runs threw passes received them backed up plays clays tackled and blocked he was happy after that game au all right only one thing bothered i him his mother had to watch the t tame game from behind a pillar high in t the stands she had been invited ato to sit in a lox box as the guest euest of mayor kelly when men she got to the stadium she approached ba the served reserved gate k im bill de Correvon ts mother she announced diffidently and im to sit in the mayors box an rusher usher looked at her and was anim pressed 1 I 1 dont care if youre shirley s y temple or queen Q atiz ea abeth he said seats are all gone ts somehow she managed to get in ga another gate and was swirled by the wt crowd S high gh up into the stands even tj 13 dually she was pushed behind a pil ta g lar only P 17 by craning BE her neck k could she see her son occasionally auy 4 as ashe he galloped off to a long run the next test came with jackson VI tenn T played at memphis aphis mp his which odthe the coaches said settled the nation to al SL championship against a strong band and rugged team he scored the winning touchdown lia now bill isow is receiving feelers from 0 scores of ofa colleges ollee chances to talk rs ah xh on the aha radio va go to hollywood clywood oly wood and Urlo what not you can envy bill do da 1 JO vont or not as you p olease lease 00 Ile member hes on the spot pot but re e e teta 10 member also that he knows how to fe intake 1 take it when the going is tough en ea maxie Is ageless at 32 up for his forthcoming heavyweight championship fight with joe louis max gave harry thomas an artistic licking and demonstrated that hell be just as hard for joe as he was before he knocked the hard swinging thomas down seven times and was awarded the decision in the eighth round it cant be denied that thomas was subnormal competition he Is one of those free swingers who starts 7 0 a haymaker from the floor and finishes it six inches from his opponents jaw but hed never been knocked out before max showed that his right is still lethal despite the long 18 month layoff since he stopped louis in the summer of 1936 max j max seems age less at thirty two his legs and body are smooth and rippling and as tidy looking as ever this continued brilliance is a testimonial to his training methods like most foreign fighters of recent years he stresses roadwork roa dwork and other outdoor conditioning more than gymnasium work moreover he smartly conserves his ener energy during a fight by wasting few punches making every one count to the utmost he fights less in fifteen rounds than the average battler battier does in six golf dream Com comes esTrue true when johnny revolta won the miami open golf championship recently and incidentally drew down a check for 2500 he satisfied a six year ambition back in 1932 revolta unheralded in a field of the nations best money players finished second he has won many a tournament since including the 1935 P G A championship but none gave him greater satisfaction than the 20 foot putt he made on the seventy second green to give him first place and a total score of incidentally ralph goldahl Gal dahl who won the biltmore open last year and went on to become national open champion finished far down the list at and collected only 75 and denny shute P G A champion champion collected just 25 with a gomez best Mounds man vernon cel el goofy gomez as classy a lefty as ever climbed the hill turned in a mighty sweet job in leading the american league pitchers g sw in games won 21 2 S y and at the same time t kept opponents 4 to an average 2 of runs per game to top the bossers in that respect gomez mark A of strikeouts eouts was lefty gomez a another n 0 t h e r best charles ruffing a teammate was the only other 20 game winner monty stratton of the white sox was second in point of effectiveness with runs per game one of the high spots of the season was white sox pitcher bill dietrichs no hit game the castoff right hander whom manager jimmy dykes had faith in reached the pinnacle of fame on june I 1 last season when he set the browns down with nary a hit or a run next best showing from local fans point of view was johnny allen alien of cleveland johnny a temperamental tillie when on the pitching mound turned in 15 wins in a row and was in the shadow of the hall ball of fame when southpaw jake wade opposed him the last day of the season and beat him 10 1 0 however allens aliens won and lost percentage set a new record in that respect the final average being besting bob groves record of made while with the As in 1930 bob feller the cleveland hurler who two years ago came out of van meter iowa to make good in a big league in a big way continued his reputation as a strikeout strike out king piling up whiffs in innings gomez strikeout strike out record was accomplished in innings of toil feller fanned 16 boston batters on august 25 last year herband here and there pepper martin st louis cardinal outfielder is managing a boxer during the off season his junior munsell scored a two round knockout in dallas texas the other night walter hagen jr will be a candidate for the notre dame golf team next spring michigan states football teams under charles bachman have won 32 games lost 7 and tied 4 bill stewart manager of the Black hawks dealt out 35 penalties in one game when he was an official in the canadian american league barnet david changed his name to barney ross boss while competing as an amateur boxer so his mother know he was fighting alt alf bauman who as a tackle at austin high school helped to clear the path for bill de Correvon ts runs ate four steaks four pie a la modes and drank five bottles of milk at a university of chicago banquet 0 western newspaper Newt tap union |
