Show 1 1 S 40 all MA ac new york post service dont let fellows bother you about lack of size ted note to suspicious customers even though he was crazy with the heat heal the baldest baldesi of the Br adleys still would be too smart to kick in with that ancient repeated by request gag yet there are letters which keep piling pilim up tip each summer and but enough of such excuses this piece which first saw the tight light many months ago is used here for the numerous puzzled letter writing teds beds throughout the land TEAR D EAR TED if I 1 were you I 1 would not worry about what the boys say at school neither would I 1 strain myself too much this summer perhaps the coach is right in saying that you are too small for football foot bal but what of it you are only sixteen years old and you may have plenty of time for adding extra pounds look at jim braddock up to the time he was twenty nine years old he was kind of small for the honors he really was seeking and the grownup boys used to say a lot more about him than the boys at your school possibly could imagine he did not f fret r e t about it instead years after most arnen in his line would have been jim braddock through growing or advancing in any fashion he added an inch to his height and twenty pounds to his weight As for you figuring that pounds is not enough for a baseball player because you have read that managers prefer strapping six footers let me tell you a story it goes back through the years to the decade that was known as the glamorous nineties baseball was young ten t en a teeming boisterous sport the ball was not endowed with the elas elastic tic qualities of a later era and wh when en fences were built far from the home plate a giant would seem needed to produce a batting average of A little ted made hits in a season want to know the man who achieved it as well as hits a record toward which not even the giant hank greenberg may aspire no I 1 am not trying to kid you that pale little fellow with the thin cheeks and the angular elbows folded across a narrow chest is not the bat boy this is on the level ted no matter what the boys at school may have told you what how could such a half pint rise to the heights when strapping pitchers and burly far ranging infielders rallied to defend against him let us still imagining th that at we are back in the nineties ask him see how he gazes steadily at us while a knobby chin ceases moving and a wad of chewing gum gets a mo ments rest listen easy wee willie kee ler is saying 1 I just bit em where they aint S t translated into more elegant t terms ted this atom of a man scarcely bigger then than you are i now has explained the superiority of mind over matter along with john mcgraw another Z er great little guy wee willie willi 1 e changed the trend of the game f caused rules to be revised a when 11 they joined the immortal old orioles they were such scrawny little guys that other players laughed and said they should not be permitted to do anything more S strenuous than carry bats they fought with frantic muscles fiery tongues and quick brains they never ceased trying learning be jford fore long the tans fans were fighting to get into the parks to see them s of course that was long ago ted but the boys at school tell you that similar things no longer 1 l can happen instead when you re turn la in the tall fall ask them about little tle hill bill johnston or cyril walker 94 NOT IN THE BOX SCORE downers GREEDY REEDY national league club owners and officials are getting some determined opposition from horace stoneham rattlebrained rattle brained parties who are willing to wreck the game so long as they can salvage some quick and easy dough have put on strong pressure to make him vote for their night baseball I 1 grab the young magnates only answer is that it will be a very dark day before he sells out the fans who have carried the G giants ian t s through sixty years of S sunshine anshine max machon was a jockeys valet abet around european race courses long before he achieved success as max elings trainer captain emilie dubiel and star fullback don jackson were among the spring scholastic casualties at harvard joe doherty the brooklyn featherweight was an incubator baby star halfback chick kaufman hopes to be the first man in prince tons seventy years of football to play through four seasons without a defeat he was out of college in 34 when yale accomplished the lone tiger loss since 1932 could there be any truth to the gossip that na navy y and columbia would like a friday night instead of saturday afternoon date for their football game at the polo grounds this f fall all bobby riggs the best davis cup prospect since eusworth ellsworth vines has a weakness for soft voices as well as for soft tennis attacks although only eighteen he displays as much finesse in feminine society as he does on the tennis nis courts pete reilly who has managed more featherweight champions than any other man in in history probably has a new one in tow the youngster is pete who has scored three one round kayos in the pro ring mrs john mcgraw who is recuperating c cupe rating from a long illness is ia visiting mrs christy mathewson at saranac young christy mathewson incidentally has fairly wen well recovered from that terrible airplane crash and hopes soon to resume as a professional flyer harry weldon was the first sports editor to use race charts in a newspaper that was in cincinnati about fifty years ago irish eddie dunne benny leonards lightweight reminds you somewhat of gene tunney stew saks who owns one of the things out hempstead way says you need at least golf balls a season if you operate a driving range diz dean ments with brand new pitch dizzy dean says he is mentin with a new pitch but refuses to tell what it is most fans fan 3 would agree that the card ace has plenty of stuff on the ball already without trying to develop a new delivery lesser members of the joe medwick family have okayed oklyed the news that the national leagues best hitter will be dizzy dean married this fall new york baseball writers are wondering if jimmy wilson knows that the phillies trainer practically throws them out of the clubhouse each time they seek to visit the philly manager after taking so long to join the pro lawn tennis association berkeley bell now is sad because he surrendered A week after he came through with his dues he was notified that he had been suspended and fined 10 for playing in in unsanctioned matches harry once famed as center forward for the old Long fellows soccer team now is one of port Chest chesters erps most eminent citizens statisticians report that 90 per cent of the fighters now competing on the weekly cards are italians stuffed shirts of sports break out into cold sweats every time pat robinson approaches them he wone of that decreasing number of great reporters who cannot be shush shushed by master minds seeking to get away with some new lunay lunacy or larceny trap shooting is one sport where youth dous do us not always have to be served charlie sparrow young who won the ohio state championship this year is nearly eighty years old players say that the best umpire now in the minors is van glaflin of the international he once was in the american league and probably will be recalled to the big time next year the community councils of the city of new york lack funds for playground equipment if you want to give the kids a break and if you can spare any sports paraphernalia old or new get in touch with this department the largest cash on the line crowd ever to witness a minor league ball game saw kansas city entertain the toledo in 1928 tw J e |