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Show ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I Albie Booth Thrives on Baseball f fARD work seems to agree with Albie Booth of Yale. The mighty S X I J little warrior of the gridiron baa served his days In 'football 2 9 I 1 and basketball, but his activity will not end nntll the scholas- J tie year Is finished. He started baseball, his third sport, and 2 9 by so doing let himself In for a continuous athletic program which 4 started back on September 13 and will run nntll Jane 2L That means 3 9 more than eight months of contlnnoua competition. S o In aplte of the long stretch over which he baa been competing he la 9 9 stronger, healthier and heavier. Alble baa learned a lot of things In 2 6 hla first year as a varsity athlete and as a sophomore, and not the least 9 9 Important one of these is how to eat. Alble la working bis way through o 6 college partially by waiting on tablee at the "I" club. There I plenty 9 X of bash for the one who slings the hash, and a net gain of between 6 0 fifteen and twenty pounds since the football days la the result. x 6 An Alble Booth with a tonnage of merely 1ST or 144 pounds, as his 9 9 weight waa Hated In football, was bad enoush to the nnnnattion last X 2 ETS&k&li fall; what will opponents do when 9 be carries 160 pounds or so? The 6 good little man may become a good X big man In no time. Such weight 0 would put Booth out of the midget X class. The more Important que- 9 tlon for Tale la whether Booth at X 100 pounds will be the whirling, 6 dodging, elusive star he was when 2 he waa In the 130s. His extra 9 weight did not alow htm np the 6 least bit In basketball. Tale ap 9 pears to have no ground for wor- X rylng about Its beafjr Alble Booth. 9 One peculiar part of the base- 6 ball situation this year U that It 9 is the first time at Yale that Booth 6 has not bad to go out and battle 9 through the first part of the sea- o son before having his superiority recognized. Mai 81 evens was often quoted as saying that Booth waa X not Tale's best back and every one o Knows now &vmu jum o X Alble Booth. back" during the, first couple of 9 6 games until he showed be could 6 9 handle the pigskin In a manner that delighted the spectators. 9 o In basketball the aame thing happened. Booth had trouble In mnk- 6 X Ing a place on the team. Tbe many available veterans attracted the x g eye of Elmer Illpley, the coach, and Booth was a substitute but only o 5 for a while. When be finally came Into bis own, Ripley paid him the X 9 high compliment of calling him the greatest competitor he ever saw 9 6 play basketball. 6 9 In baseball It Is different Joe Wood has seen Booth play ball. He 9 5 watched him carefully during his freshman year and Freshman Coach o x , Clyde Engle told him what he didn't find out for himself. Booth's base- X 5 ball reputation means something to Wood, and Booth therefore finds 9 X himself already assigned to a regular birth at shortstop. a |