Show speaking of sports beesa ees ancient rookies face fa ce 2nd and year jinx by GEORGE A BARCLAY AN jim turner and lou C CAN fette the boston bees graybeard rookies escape the second year jinx that baffles so many baseball sophomores after a sensational first year performance the question fans everywhere are asking about these thirty one year old pitchers as the spring training season gets under way the answer wont lie be written until the season winds up next october but many informed baseball men are betting that they will overcome this I 1 4 ev A AM 14 1 1 I 1 jim turner Is a milkman during winter months jinx the same as they upset the tradition that minor league veterans cant make good in the big leagues getting their first big league trial after more than a decade in the minors these astonishing veterans each won 20 games for boston in 1937 or more than fireball van lingle mungo has ever won in a single season together they accounted for more than halt half the games the bees won turner led the entire national league in effectiveness with an average of earned runs per nine inning game pitched the greatest number of complete games 24 and shared with his ancient colleague fete in pitching the most shutouts shu touts each turning in five baseball fatalists neither pitcher expects to duplicate his 1937 performance for they are baseball realists and know that bad breaks poor support injuries and any one of a number of things can turn the tide against them but they dont expect to have a poor season they think they have a better chance of getting by the jinx than lots of young fellows because of their experience maturity attention to keeping in condition and their complete lack of over bonfi dence during the winter turner kept himself in shape by working for a dairy in his home town of bolens ville term tenn fette over in alma mo did chores around the farm went hunting and hiking and kept down to pitching weight it was due to the astuteness of bill mckechnie then manager of the bees and now pilot of the cincinnati reds that turner and fette were rescued from the american association in 1937 turner pitched for indianapolis and fette for st paul year after year they worked not getting a nod from the big leagues neither was spectacular neither had much color both had fair speed an average curve and good control both won their share of games but when major league scouts dropped into the ball park it turner or fette they were looking at but some flashy youngster age creeps on after they passed the age of awen ty five they began to be resigned but kept plugging along anyway anyta Y turner had a try in the he big leagues at the tender age of seventeen in 1921 1924 when he made the s spring pring training trip with the boston red ked sox but that was the nearest he got to fast company until the bees grabbed him early last year he believes he was a pitcher of major league dimensions as far back as 1930 about that time I 1 learned to use my head as well as my arm he explains 4 and I 1 think I 1 could have made good in the majors here and there 1 IRVING BUMP HADLEY former white sox pitcher who was with the yankees last year aspires to be the american leagues official photographer to syracuse university has added bowling to its list of varsity sports undergraduates bowled a total of ga games in es at the university last year bill monohan former university of california graduate manager is in charge of concessions and exhibits for the 1939 golden gate exposition in california max elings weight of pounds tor for his recent match with ben foord in hamburg was his lightest since he knocked out joe louis in yankee stadium nearly two years ago he was at that night madison square garden corporation has collected approximately in rent from the rangers and americans since hockey was introduced in new york in 1925 john kester hester of portage wis recently bowled games in 15 fours hours and 47 minutes with only 40 minutes rest six times his score was over his average was twenty three years after he set the world speed skating record of 41 15 1 5 seconds for yards norval baptie skated the distance in 41 45 4 5 seconds on a bet home to big ten returning to the big ten conference for the third time herbert 0 fritz crisler takes the job of football coach and assistant director of athletics at the university of michigan left vacant when harry kipke was fired a while back crisler came first to the conference as a gangling 5 round dered kid at the university of chicago about the close of the world war ile he played football in high school but he soon showed he could do it in college lie ile became a star end and will be remembered for bis his play in the epic princeton chicago games of the early twenties next he was an assistant coach at chicago under A A stagg then he became head coach at minnesota winning conference titles six years ago princeton signed him the tiger football fortunes were in the doldrums under his six year tutelage princeton won 35 games lost nine and tied five two of his princeton teams went undefeated edt in 1933 and again in in 1935 each eleven winning nine straight games crisler will be assistant director of athletics at michigan the supposition is that he will succeed fielding H fritz crisler yost when that vet eran of sixty seven retires three years hence at the age of seventy incidentally the he big ten to which crisler is returning recently celebrated its forty second secona birthday institute of golf robert T bobby jones jr lawyer and golfer supreme has added another title to his distinguished list he is director of the recently launched american golf institute the institute as bobby explains it will serve as a clearing house for all kinds of information relating to the game of golf and the grand slam king em ax M e Z afi 41 S bobble jones pha sized the words all kinds he said we do not plan to compete or conflict with the U S G A the professional golfers association and others but we will do all in our power to stimulate interest in golf as a game well answer questions give advice on financial matters on club layouts in fact anything that is golf he revealed that he will be an entrant in the masters golf tournament held annually at augusta ga early in april S C western newspaper union |