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Show ' MB. BASEBALL . , , Connie Mack, now fan and not a manager, predicts that base- -ball will weather the world crisis. Here he is, hale and hearty, on the eve of his 88th birthday. He was a player or a manager for 67 years. All in the Game: Jack Dempsey was 24 when he won the heavyweight championship champion-ship from Jess W'illard at Toledo In 1919 . . . Sam Snead happens to have one of the greatest natural golf swings the game has ever known . . . Snead was a football, basketball and baseball star in high school . . . The Los Angeles Rams' running attack, even with the fleet Glen Davis, made little headway this past season. They came through on Bob Waterfield's and Van Brocklin's passing , , . Ezzard Charles needs an opponent who can draw a gate . . . The biggest big-gest upset of 1950 was Navy's victory vic-tory over Army, most sportswrit-ers sportswrit-ers concur . , . S.M.TJ. and Ohio State, after being picked number one by most of the nation's experts, ex-perts, finished their seasons with a total of six defeats . . . Andy Pafko, Chicago Cubs, hit two homers In the same game on two different dates. He busted one before be-fore midnight, July 28, in Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, and another after 12 in a f;'T.e that lasted until 1:20 a.m., Juiy 23. |