Show 04 a new york service public paying off on A accomplishments ts in gridiron world YEARS VEARS ago when democrats and republicans were still doing business as such life was considerably easier for a sports writer everything had a tag on it was classified with seemingly as much permanence as the two major political parties there were only two big leagues the american and the national no one had thought at that time to identify the yankees as a separate organization any more than they had yet yet conjured up such cute labels as curve ball league fast ball league hitters league and pitchers league situation Is changed by irish and pitt only football had anticipated the modern trend there was for instance the matter of properly assorting the coaches once that had been easy you merely put them into two tivo groups lucky fellows with jobs in the ivy league and sad agents hoping there would come a day when they would have a pay roll big enough for them to compete with the ivy league in the higher educational field then the classification changed notre dame and pittsburgh two institutions which for years had been doing well enough in preparing young men for the travails of teaching and bond selling enlarged their scope forthwith the spotlight centered on the two men of undoubted genius who ulio had been responsible for this pickup with the generosity that is proverbial among newspaper men the press credited each of them with having a system other coaches copied their strategy soon it became the he habit to refer even to such long established practitioners as gil dobie or yost as followers of the warner system or the rockne system obviously there was some error here and there in such groupings but ut the general rating was pretty well accepted one day I 1 asked rockne if he believed there was any sense in such regimentation no he replied theres only one way to classify coaches or teams either for that matter winners or losers what it all boils down to midway in another football season and knee deep in gentlemen who are claiming all sorts of new classifications ficat ions as the result of municipal and state elections throughout the nation I 1 have been thinking about that reply both sides end up by blaming teams I 1 am not entirely satisfied with Pol lyannas and the pity poor Us groupings actually there is very little difference between the lyannas Pol claiming the nicest things are going to happen in this best of all possible worlds and the pity poor uses Us es whining in advance both sets usually wind up by blaming it all on the team saturday night meanwhile since opposing e coaches 0 aches and the operators of f football pools are cynical men they have fooled nobody save people who play football pools it also returns us to where we started perhaps because like other voices of the people alumni usually do their darn darr dest idest in november noveal er I 1 could try the rating once suggested by the lamented sports commentator bill mcgeehan mcgeachan McG echan this s was coaches sure of their jobs and coaches who never say a war word d even when the music prof flunks the only running halfback left with two legs yet what good does that do us almost immediately we discover that some of the men sure of their jobs are so new to success that they have not yet had bad real opportunity to make a failure of it conversely some of the he boys who have lave lost everything save the franchise took their nose dive because they were too smug while at the top that brings us back to the rockne rating winners and losers true men w who ho compose the groups often interchange so quickly that it is difficult to tell who is coming and who is going yet with all other things equal there are men who will fumble and men who will go on tor for touchdowns the essential difference is there in all sports sometimes form holds for a day sometimes for a season n anyhow the public pays olt and come to think of it ft arent sports very much like that greatti game of politics NOT IN TIIE THE BOX SCORE A A he started his news ra paper career as a sports writer henry L the eminent author and critic now confides he has seen only one sports event in six years ile he says that was a combat between two lady wrestlers wrest lers and although he was highly entertained when one of them bit the other in the leg he departed feeling sorry they had not killed each other the twenty year old man alan a 0 va war now weighs 1375 pounds more than he scaled during his racing prime add winter occupations of ballplayers mule haas operates a tavern in jersey ethan allen alien continues to write a book a about b a u t baseball adolfo luque is raising game chickens in cuba buck newsom is about to buy a pool parlor down in carolina joe cascarelle cascarella is warbling love sonnets over the air waves carl hubbells Hub bells hurry dolfo adolfo luque to get back to oklahoma after the world series was not because he was greatly concerned about his pecan groves although he has been playing the game only two winters the celebrated southpaw has beco become me one of the nations most ardent golfers says his wife tells him hes crazy but he just cant help getting out on the course rain or shine only five ot at the sixteen hockey rangers davey kerr herr babe pratt cecil dillon butch keeling and frank boucher are married hughie goose gustafson defense man with the rangers philadelphia ramblers farm team was voted the most valuable player in the northern class D baseball league last summer ile he played first base for the winnipeg maroons marcons and can also play a hot game ot of basketball joe Ale mccarthy Carthy ot of the yankees says a baseball manager does most of his worrying in ee the winter usually about things which never happen coach chet wynne who played with george gipp at notre dame claims he does not get the material at kentucky that he did at auburn also feels that the climate which is often more of the midwest mid alid west than dixie variety works against him tells why its so hard to pick golf winners notes on why its almost as difficult to pick golf winners as it is to get football selections right ky laffoon was 30 pounds overweight last summer jimmy demaret has the smoothest swing in golf but lacks the winning urge harry cooper is sucker money for the bookies because he lets his nervous temperament lick him horton smith just cant get the touch of eastern courses vie vic ghezzi is too easily diverted by outside allure ments jug is lost on florida courses tony galento who never uses sparring partners always bills manager joe jacobs for them anyhow after a fight foht b his friends insist that one of the first things middleweight harry balsamo did when he started fighting star bouts was to buy a washing machine cliff wilson Harv ards very good li lineman ne wanted to go to navy but missed on the appointment because of some dental trouble dave albritton ohio states olympic big high h jumper who will double as a hurdler next spring is conducting an orchestra this winter carl brumbaugh new dodger backfield ace and former assistant to coach bezdek of the cleveland rams scored three touchdowns in six minutes against alabama in 1928 henry armstrong the featherweight champion plays the violin and piano and sings in the choir he likes to bowl and once was a pin boy doctors doctor claim his heart action is slower than normal and he shadow boxes six rounds in the dressing room before entering the ring for a fight sports writers probably have coined more nicknames for him than for any battler of modern times he has been nicknamed homicide henry hustling hank the california comet black blizzard cyclone buzz buz saw windmill spider terry mcgovern aside from being a little gentleman he is the greatest fighter in the ring today harry gilmore of chicago was the first featherweight champion largely because he claimed the title when the class was established and recognized in 1887 how many old timers remember that dal hawkins usually recalled as a lightweight succeeded him on the throne the feather class limit in those days was pounds after beating abe attell in five rounds brooklyn tommy sullivan held the title tor for nearly four years then in 1908 he lost it back to attell who kayoed kayoud him in four rounds louis kid kaplan now a connecticut insurance man performed an almost unprecedented feat after winning the title via the elimination tournament ile he refused for a fight saying he could not make the weight and would not take money under false pretenses johnny kilbane held the title the longest it 11 years eugene criqui who succeeded him was champion for only one month noble kizer who will spend the tha winter at albuquerque N M expects to return to purdue in time to conduct spring f football practice |