| Show speaking of sports Y yankee regime changes little under barrow by ROBERT mcshane HE worlds greatest baseball THE Tem tempore empire pire built by col jacob ruppert will remain almost unchanged with edward G barrow business manager of the club for 19 years now president of the champion new york yankees barrow 71 actually ran things even while the colonel was alive lie he was one of four trustees named in the will and will serve with george E ruppert brother of the late owner and chief trustee retaining his post as vice president and al A brennan holding his bis office as treasurer former manager of the boston red sox and a president of the present international league when it was known as the eastern league barrow is a baseball man whose acumen has always been unquestioned five other teams are included in the ruppert holdings colonel ruppert owned the yankees virtually outright holding all A IV EDWARD G BARROW shares of stock in them except for 10 shares split up among other officials who made up the directorate undoubtedly the colonel would be happy to know that the men he placed in charge of the yankees at his bis death had passed on complete power to his old and trusted lieutenant barrow possesses one at t the shrewdest brains in the business and is the proper man to carry on the clubs tradition of victory for all his years barrow is still stil I 1 a strong aggressive individual A member of the old school he is a product of the days when a manager was at least willing to try to whip any man on his club ile he developed two of baseballs greatest stars flonus bonus wagner and babe ruth wagner he considers the best ball player he ever saw because he could play more positions brilliantly than any of the others including ruth he converted ruth from a pitcher into the great slugger of all outfielders handling bandling the babe with a heavy hand there wont be any real change barrow stated 1 I always made the decisions and it was very seldom that colonel ruppert questioned my judgment I 1 think well rock along about as usual I 1 be surprised if we won another championship this year new cinder star away A NEW cinder star is blazing his way around U S tracks and hes none other than leslie macmitchell the new york university freshman who broke schoolboy records all the way from half mile to cross country distances glenn cunningham and archie san romani are emphatic in agreeing that lie he is the count rys best mile running prospect N t Y U coach emil von euing elling says he has all the physical attributes to be a great miler that leaves experience to put him at the head bead of the field recently he ran against cunningham and gene at meters though he ran fifth behind cunningham no one was disappointed he hit almost four seconds better than lenzkes Venz kes winning time a year ago and only two seconds slower than cunningham and glenn ran the fastest ever been recorded macmitchell made despite the fact that he got off to a poor start and ran wide most of the way the new nev runner has the build and the poise the average youngster going up against such famous rivals would be awe struck but not cot lie ile meets them on equal terms the way he will be racing them before long the olympic games are coming up in 1940 and the freshman will be shooting for a spot on that team and to shoot accurately heu hell need plenty of fast competition dusky croesus Cro estis A A to joe louis board of managers and stockholders the heavyweight champion will be turned loose in the ring four times a year hereafter twice indoors and twice in the open it is the ambition of cf joes directors to make him a millionaire a selfless self seif less admirable gesture and also a profitable one it wont be easy even though joe can make makel money as fast as sam could with a mimeo graph machine john roxborough head of the champs financial department LL estimates that that under new tax burdens joe louis joe will have to have an income of a million dollars a year for five straight years in order to keep one million for himself needless to say the brown bomber did not figure this out for himself he already has approximately a quarter of a million dollars in annuities nui ties chicago real estate and bank deposits for a while he seriously considered retiring from the ring and live off his savings however not long ago he surprised pleasantly his ever loving directors with the announcement that he likes his title and will keep right on defending it in his brusque even violent mariner manner joe has grown up he has confidence more pride and wants to fight and that rest assured is au all right with his board of strategy hunters warned A A S REGULAR as the seasons is x the warning to sportsmen that duck hunting will soon bela bea thing of the past unless effective restoration methods are applied and for the most part those warnings are just as regularly igho ignored red now comes word from officials of ducks unlimited that unless reme dial measures are taken during the next five years there will be no duck hunting bunting 20 years hence and it will never come back this prophecy was made only after an intensive survey of canadian breeding grounds surface water in the breeding areas has been reduced alarmingly through low precipitation and continued high temperatures rain falls in alberta and saskatchewan have alleviated conditions in southern breeding grounds to some extent but the northern part or no mans land is in critical condition this loss of surface water is due largely to the failure of millions of small beaver dams and to serious forest fires that are destroying timber muskegs muskets and meadows to carlyon carryon carry on a program of restoration requires money sinews for this kind of war it is only logical that this money come from hunters those who enjoy the sport most sportsmen arent alarmists alarmiste alar mists called the turn in this case its up to the rest to help 0 western newspaper union |
