Show ingga shiah irig of sports football ball ace 4 Clia chapman Is diamond star gy GEORGE A BARCLAY CHAPMAN used to boot toot foot y g 5 mils over pacific coast goals fail 11 and help stub Alli sons uni list california golden bears to isitt y of t I 1 i ear otheir their opponents P vy now sam belts baseballs around rican can league parks and helps coal e blacks athletics stay in hi the race the metamorphosis of this all imergean imeri ean football player into a star aelier fielder Si elder has baseball wiseacres wise acres ag their heads sam has vio buted pd the axiom which says that tar r football players aers never make ar baseball players he stepped d the he campus without any minor seasoning and because of league ite atway avay he has been pounding the an all has won himself a regular erth in the athletics outfield was rated the best back in the pacific coast last year ile he of n tie the spark plug in the attack web gave chec e california alifornia machine machine 13 ii to 0 victory over alabama in th he abse bowl game on new years jay ity when the grid season was over sam can turned to baseball he devel aped something of a reputation as a slugger ginger and had big league scouts trailing him around the college circuit alt the big league training sea oil 11 fame and went and while sam nd ad his ears cocked c 0 ck ed for offers he leaded to wait until a real bid ed up ty cobb the retired immortal of nse ball had been watching him ill growing IDO more re enthusiastic all the time finally he got bold of x 1 1 iwa SAM CHAPMAN connie mack black and told him to grab simmy as a surefire sure fire natural 1 I told you once id never recommend i a bill player ty said but ive tol got to this time this kid chapman lis bus a future bonus lilack hack who has always had a weakness for college men offered sam an bonus for signing with him chapman thought it was a good mea idea accepted and joined the team barly in may he got into the lineup almost right away and began langing the ball all over the lot in his first five weeks in the league le ie got 44 hits in times at bat secluding I 1 U 1 i g nine home runs and he las C contributed 0 t punch to a hustling tard card hitting ball club that can give any team in the league a run for its money he a finished fielder yet ii a it t hes learning rapidly and under unde I 1 CO connie we macks tutelage does a sat job of playing batters properly many college men have stepped off the campus and into the tag lie leagues to stay few if any peat great football players have accomplished this teat feat sammy baugh who ho has as been a sensation as a pass maver eaver for the washington redskins Red skins 1 a the national Profess professional iona foot mil league failed to make the grade this is year as a member of the st louis cardinals and even faded en he was farmed out to colum ros dug in the he american america association there have of 0 course been some treat pt college players like eddie collins IK frankie frisch and ted d ly 1111 tm but their sp specialty in college as not lot football one exception was as ggs ns stephenson who paced the 1111 cagos agos cubs outa outfield a few years W 93 the 1101 or hoss F who was one of 01 the e most lost consistent hitters bitters of his day till y in the national league was an american fullback at alabama dalit at the world war classic besides sammy baugh three c examples of all americans atre big league tryouts s jim thorpe who giants we like the grade with the new york ts 4 Is many years ago ernie nev 14 who w was as a flop when the st d 2 s browns tried to turn him into amond aheu performer and earl cald lamous famous yale back who faded idly when the cleveland indians put w a uniform on him te sain il m chapman looks like the gut glit 6 at exception to this somber list ha k ve present writing he appears to football dball licked the jinx that follows star to the lit players from the gridiron gri diro baseball diamond night baseball THE HE success ot of sight night baseball pioneered by the cincinnati ti reds at a couple of years ago and introduced with satisfying financial returns by the brooklyn dodgers recently indicates that before long floodlights flood lights will be part ot of very the equipment of every big league hall ball park in its first two games after dark brooklyn drew patrons through the turnstiles turn stiles considerably more afternoon than would have come in the the results at cincinnati thus far have been equally favorable so there is little reason to doubt that night baseball would draw well in other big league cit cities ies few teams jeams do very mu much ch business on week days the average fan does not find it possible to at joe di maggio leo hartnett tend such games regularly the chance of actually seeing a game after dinner instead of reading about it in the box scores should prove attractive all things being equal the average man would just as soon see joe di maggio or gabby hartnett in action on a ball field as he be would watch dark clark gable or william powell on the screen night baseball however would not be a serious serious competitor to the movies because only finly a dozen games at most would be scheduled during a game season by any team A number of big league magnates and managers look with rather sour eyes on night baseball bill terry manager of the giants will have none of it but with the demonstration of proved success in two big league cities it seems inevitable that it will be adopted generally in the big time here and there 0 three of the eighteen play ers who made up the national league allstar alistar all ali star team of 1933 were included in the 1938 roster they were gabby hartnett of the cubs carl hubbell of the new york giants and tony cuccinello 0 the bees the other 15 have either drifted out of the league or have slipped out of the star class the longevity of stars seems greater in the american league for nine of the original eighteen were included on this years all american baseball team they were lefty gomez bill dickey and lou gehrig of the yanks tanks bob grove joe cronin and jimmy foxx of the boston red sox rick ferrell of the washington senators charley gehringer of the detroit tigers and earl averill of the cleveland indians A rhodes scholarship at oxford or a year with the pittsburgh pirates in professional football were the offers which white colorado great halfback had to consider recently he chose the oxford scholarship the decision was his own too he asked his father for advice but white pere insisted on leaving it up to him Col comeback lieback trail T OWN in the texas league fa fans ns managers and scouts are watching the performance of two young men who until last year were pitching sensations in the big leagues schoolboy rowe formerly of the detroit tigers and paul dean of the st louis cardinals shipped to the minors this year by 4 N SCHOOLBOY ROWE their respective clubs these fel el a comeback trail trying are lows that will land them in the bi big show again should the pitching magic that made them great return to the once will find athletes they ot of these arms back in the majors ait a hearty ear ty I 1 welcome could use rowe the tigers I 1 tor or jor and the r st louis ouis cards might cease floundering if they had bad a pitcher of the caliber paul dean used to be I 1 0 western New newspaper PaPer union |