Show sport shorts LOU T OU dally daily stint really hard he merely waits to the pl plate it te before each game and presents 1 the e lineup to the chief umpire re for this he I 1 is p paid aid dally the tha 20 first stringers on nor Northwest th we sterns erns 1938 a foot football ban squad compiled a B average in classroom work all made coach lynn yan waldor happy according to 4 luke ue sewell veteran american league c catcher a t c h e r C harley charley lynn waldorf gehringer Gehring cr of detroit and luke appling applin of the white sox are the hardest A L players to pitch to le letty aty groves son expects to enter D duke uke university this fall boston baseball scribes say the red sox arent on top because other clubs in the league use second string pitchers against the yanks first stringers against boston lighted pools for fly costing casting at night and in your own neighborhood Is a commercial venture being tried in various parts of the country gordon drillon outstanding toronto hockey forward is also a fine softball sott ball player rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the united states coaches choice W HEN coaches of the national nation al football league announced their selection of an ideal allstar all star football team they drew bc both ah brick bats and bouquets these widely separated offerings were the result of the c coaches h I 1 choice tor for quarterback sid luckman jc of columbia the name davey obrien did not appear obrien of texas christian was named football player of the year tn in 1938 lie he was was given a place on every allstar all star team and received more publicity than any other two players combined however coaches thought he the man to lo quarterback their dream team the texas christian star has already signed a professional contract with the philadelphia eagles and officials of that club are not at all reticent in announcing he will set the league on fire contemporaries are not agreed on that score they feet feel obrien is too small for the pro game and prefer sid luckman OB record was magnificent but it must be taken into consideration that his passing w was a s done behind the greatest line of last year luckman operated behind one of the weakest luckman is the more versatile passer of the two davey throws a fast pass and luckman is more on the friedman ledman Fr order changing pace and distance to suit the occasion sid bigger and sturdier is physically more suited to the rigors of professional football ngali JIMMY GRIPPO manager of light heavyweight mello melio bettina has added a new wrinkle to the h honored 0 krecl profession of pugilism jimmy is th the e proud possessor of an evil eye A genuine hypnotist and sleight of hand expert grippo demonstrated his bis novel training technique recently in bettinasi Bet tinas camp at beacon N Y before every fight he hypnotizes his man thereby giving him the courage of a lion the speed of an antelope and the punch of a pile driver all in all mello Is a very danger dangerous citizen when transfixed I 1 with his nj managers a no gers evil eye even his man a ger ager will admit that grippo tooling fooling about the beneficial effects he says hypnotism has 41 I 1 I 1 f lb f 1 I 11 al 1 1 1 a V F grippo goes to work on bettina hi he e points out that mello has suffered only one defeat since he began giving him the e eye e when this cauliflower Sv engall goes to work on his bis leather tossing trilby he first puts him to sleep with the old hocus then he gives him instructions on how to 0 o gently massacre his next opponent the black maglo magic worked wonders until one night recently when mello dropped a decision to billy conn for the championship of the pound division A second match is scheduled for this fall only one handicap exists bill brown new york boxing commissioner declared that grippo must do his hexing hebing act before the fighters enter the ring that eliminates what might be from the spectator tors s standpoint an enjoyable double feature the boxing commission also told grippo that there could be no more pictures of him hypnotizing boxers maybe the re right sald said G grip rip po they want to keep boxing serious they dont don t want it to be like wrestling released by western newspaper union I 1 |