Show AMONG A MONG the real wiz kids of sport id like to nominate at least four rookies they are alonzo stagg 79 connie mack 78 matt winn 81 and E R bradley 82 their average age is around 80 and they are just beginning to get up steam there must be something hooked to sport that blocks off the attacking years stagg one of walter camps all america veterans tn in 1889 which happens to be 52 years ago is still one of the hardest w working football coaches in the trade stagg stage uses running spikes in place of crutches they tell me at the college of the pacific he is all over the field like a runaway run away coyote and stagg more than a short chip shot away from 80 along the same line connie mack is all set for his next spring training trip hoping this timeto time to lift eft his A athletics up around the bottom of the first division connie also wont it 1 VA I 1 I 1 V 41 X ra el ALONZO STAGG use up much calendar space before 80 arrives his main ambition now is to win the A L pennant ori on his eightieth birthday stagg and mack have been active features in over 60 years of sport and neither is looking for a sunset port the kentuckians Kentuck ken tuck ians ians col matt winn of kentucky having left 80 well behind is even more active than usual in rounding up his next kentucky derby at the same time col E R bradley at 82 still has his lexington posses out looking tor for another derby winner colonel winn has seen all the kentucky derbies ever run since the first one in 1875 and he hopes to turn the seventieth derby anniversary three years further on into the greatest pageant of them all it has been some time since colonel bradley won one of these bluegrass features so he is equally active in having another three year old ready soon one with a chance ch ance to win his Bi melech just missed out colonel winn has an idea at this moment that ailsab may be the greatest derby winner of all time As great as ailsab is there is a wide gap between a two year old and a three year old considering all the deadly incidents that can happen to a thoroughbred including house maids knee and the pip the two races although spring practice is three months away american league managers plus owners plus ball D players a ers are still brooding over the promised strength of the yankees in the meanwhile the national can look forward to another all summer scramble among dodgers cardinals reds and possibly pirates or someone else the reds with johnny vander meer and elmer riddle on hand to help out their pitching veterans will be a better club next spring if bill mckechnie can plug one or two gaps bill is lucky these gaps are not in his pitching department the toughest canyon to fill up having located a large part of his control vander meer is likely to be one of the great pitchers of 1942 so is riddle but at this point american league clubs can see no light rays of any consequence seven of them are looking into holes hole s as deep and as dark as the mouth of a railroad tunnel the red sox still the pitching or the defensive speed to close up that big gap between themselves and the yankees the red sox still lack the infield ground covering speed needed to help any pitcher along the yankee infield has killed off many a rap starting for a base hit that red sox infielders have handled SPORT LIGHT L john F kelly notre dame captain and end of 1938 has been appointed to the FBI staff cababe babe herman owns a hig highly lily profitable turkey ranch in california C cfrank frank leahy has advised his notre alf dame ame assistants to lay off 9 ga OIL its s a vicious game hi he explains and ad if you yo get the habit you cant can t leave it alone 41 adick dick chan a chinese halfback on vh the san francisco pran cisco state college football team weighs pounds |