Show X Z 0 new york post service alumni pleas bring survey of grid hopes P PROBABLY it Is too early to go into this sort of thing as a serious bust busi iness and yet the temptation is great even though various tennis championships pennant races prize ring arguments golf titles and turf contests must be decided before the thing can get any man sized attention I 1 well I 1 just cannot resist the wistful eyes of all those old alumni who stand there pleading to be steered wrong concerning the fates of their various Si washes this season so today will be devoted to rapping on wood and mentioning various items concerning the varsity hopes of football taking only the east for the time being As usual the top choice must be pittsburgh even thol though h the Roo hookers kers the Sho and the WeIn stocks have graduated jock sutherland undoubtedly will produce very satisfactory service for his very handsome salary this fall indeed he may do even better than in 1931 1934 thera Is a reason that is 13 more important than the individual prowess of the Sou chaks and the glass fords who will seek to replace the departed stars last year the panthers were rather lightweight for such a wearing tearing schedule in was the estr pressure of pounds put forth by minnesota in the final quarter which more than anything else squeezed pittsburgh in to its ils only defeat now there is more weight almost ten pounds of it per man among the reserves but probably V S C nebraska army ford ham and notre metre dame have enough problems now so we can proceed to princeton the tigers of 1934 had bad e experience training and physical power enough to have become the greatest of al all I 1 nassau teams given a schedule such as aa that played by pitt it Is possible that they might have been even more successful As it was toppling over ancient but easy opponents the sand bachs the le vans and the wellers became overconfident this was apparent against harvard and disastrous against a mediocre yale eleven which chose one afternoon to recall the glories of the Heffel fingers and the hinkens Hin keys naturally the same thing can happen to princeton this fall fait even though yale continues no more than mediocre and Harv ards main pointing will be toward the ell contest but for all that red blacks dartmouth eleven will be improved and cornell has afternoons full of surprises do not bet on it never overlook 0 pop warners team also do not make too many rash predictions concerning any chance defeats that may befall temple this Is the season that pop warner has been awaiting ever since he returned east and when he has a fullback such as the burly dave the greatest of coaches easily does not have to confess that he has waited in vain much the same can be said about his former pupil and assistant andy kerr the red raiders have a harder schedule than usual al but they also have a heavier and more elpe t team a a rn with which to score touch downa while opponents are bedazzled by the film clarn of the later als they also have such backs as Irwin mcdonough Me Donough and kern if that Is not enough andy kerr they but perhaps there are folks in syracuse who read these pieces because they spread sweetness and tight light and so enough of that and then there Is fordham with one ot 91 the toughest schedules any team teal ever has tackled with joe Man anterino sarno and emil dul available lust just to mention it i few ot of the lads whose names can be spelled inside a paragraph the mijas also have one ot of tho the coun countus tuA was mast t lm impressive resolve quads SOME COME of the tales that are told when gray haired men gather on the verandas while the stars stand their watch at saratoga there are the whispers about the fortune arnold rothstein the gambler may have hidden some come place before he suddenly departed from this earth most of the veterans here knew him some of them only too well and too sadly and they doubt whether his estate could possibly have been as ae small as the records show it lg Is not that they suspect any living person but they knew arnold arno id as he was a closemouthed close mouthed fellow who early learned that you seldom can go broke when you have hare aces wired so they sit and wonder where those aces the reserve fund the stake for another day can be some of them will whisper that there must be close to worth of cash or easily negotiable securities awaiting in some safe deposit vault for an owner who never will return they those veterans who knew arnold so well and sometimes so sadly say that would have been just like him to rent the box under some assumed name and then trusting no man to keep the secret locked fore forever ver in his own mind others confide that this cold suave man who knew broadway Cro adway so go well that only once could he be persuaded to venture more than miles away from it that was when he had the pleasure of viewing 1 1 the 1919 world series N preparations of the reds and the hitherto well laundered white sox sos would mould never have given a bank such a break rothstein Roth stel they whisper that he must have hidden his in which they believe so implicitly some place on long island perhaps in some deserted house they say or maybe even in a hole in the ground where only he knew the marks that must be known before a twentieth century treasure hunt could bo of any avail but the evening grows old along with such vague wanderings wonder ings and horse gets hot seat for batin eating in there Is the tale of kercheval A popular horse in the west 30 years or so ago he had won the burns handicap then one of Cali fornias most celebrated turf events but perhaps success went to his head or it may have been that he was a bad one at heart to this day men wll argue about that but the facts in the case are plain kercheval was a man eater at first he merely nibbled at his stable boys and since those free and easy horsemen of another era probably figured that there was no accounting for tastes nobody took that seriously later though trough 0 lie he began snapping at every one who hove into sight soon not even the biggest helping of oats or the juiciest hay th that at money could buy could tempt him half as much as a nice bite out of a customers arm even in an era when dia mond jim brady and other monument al eaters were searching the world for new inspirations for jaded appe this was a trifle too much they want ed ad to be fair though and so they gave him another chance it was no use like many a man who lets temptation run away with him kercheval wag determined to dig his grave with his teeth so one afternoon after he had slashed ched oft off most ot of a ladys bonnet as well as two feet of hair and some scalp they decided that tha t there was nothing else to do I 1 kercheval Ker cheva was indicted and tried in due form by the sovereign state there thera was much that could be said in his favor because as has been mentioned he was a horse with winning ways but when brady bet alillion gates marcus daley and those others could be satisfied with lobster guinea truffles fles it hen and a few assorted seemed to t the he jury that this four legged glutton was asking too much so they de liberated deliberated those twelve good men and true and the then n returned with tile the ferdl verdict et of course there were ere other alternatives open to them even blough they d deemed him guilty beyond doubt but the thing was new then and the west ever has been a section given over to novelties be besides beides ides there may have been those who noted a wicked gleam in the eye ot of this horse who stood in the crowded courtroom with probably never a worry as to where his next meal was coming from while kercheval lieval looked longingly at the fat at forem foreman an the verdict was read recommendation ot of there was no mercy tor for this horse who probably ably knew hla oats so well that lie he never cared for them when he could get something tastier the judgment was terse and definite and clear Kerch kercheval evill had been sentenced to W b electrocuted |