Show Z anew nw york post service baseball immortals recall days when game gaine was rough ballplayers nALL ALL PLAYERS today unlike u those who starred through the imury from 1876 to 1926 must true feelings from pub ill li alicae cae iki 1 te 4 they sit there in the ilia sha shaded aget I 1 qed edL 1 dugout gout wishing somebody get something started in the old imers Timers game cy stengel comes along sers ers bowed under the toughest managerial a job in baseball head earned carried with proper pride because lie he has done his duty so well A stout man attired in a sports costume that is a symphony of soft brown blown shades ambles a m up they talk unmindful of onlookers tin tingling ling with anticipation of conflict and tile the knowledge that this is another celebration of tile the birthday of the national game 31 member ember when I 1 first saw you B babe abe says stengel we were e playing an exhibition in barimore BaK imore and you ou were just a long lean gangling kid I 1 played back a bit further than I 1 ordinarily would for a pitcher but after taken a cut or two you slammed one over my head bead when I 1 came back to the bench robby kobby who never liked to lose one and was particularly anxious to win win in in baltimore anyhow w hopped all over hell I 1 says that was only a bush league pitcher and well sir that robby really gets mad then lissen young fellow he says to tile me you get that stuff right autta casey stengel y your our mind when you see a guy take a cut like that that aint no pitcher even if he misses misses I 1 A sturdy elderly man attired in pittsburgh uniform has seen them and is coming across the field as fast ast as bowed legs will carry him every time I 1 see you you get me arguing gain again hans says ba babe be you were a swell fielder and of course you could him but I 1 never could decide whether you or heinie was the me greatest wagner ive ever seen that Heinie was a swell fielder when I 1 was pitching for abe the red sox we used to have a signal to catch runners off second base wed count one two three then wheel and throw Hei nied be right on top of the bag and wed nearly always get the runner boys sure were tough interrupts stengel remember when you were a rookie and tried to get a turn at the plate how those veterans really would pour it on you sure sure says wagner and if you forced yourself in and got a turn up there like as not they d break up all your bats yeah it is the babes turn when I 1 joined the red sox I 1 goi got in at noon and pitched my first game at 3 won it 2 to 1 next day I 1 was warming up and I 1 let a ball through and it sort of nudged smokey joe wood joe threw one back and if I 1 ducked just ir in time have ILI brained me r so I 1 challenged babe ruth him but somebody stopped it then and after the game I 1 somebody stopped it again so I 1 told bill carrigan Car ngan who was manager that I 1 had something to say I 1 wanted everybody to hear bear so bill says go ahead and I 1 say I 1 dont care much for anybody on the club and id be willing to take them on one at a time well nobody come on and after that I 1 never did have a bit of trouble on that team quite a man that carrigan says stengel remember the time I 1 first came up to bat against you birds in the 16 series carrigans carrigann Car rigans catching back there you look like you might make a pretty fair hitter for a young fellow he cons me stand up there nice and every everything thin g like that dont want to make any mistakes about you guess well sort of have to pitch to you for a while and find out I 1 drop to the dirt just in time ernie shores out there pitching and hes thrown one right at my head but now more and more old timers have swarmed into the dugout burleigh grimes wearing a broad rimmed black hat bat as befits the manager of the louisville colonels charley hargreaves al bl daniaux Mani amaux aux frank delleney Del laney mickey welch arlie latham chick frazier NOT IN THE BOX SCORE A spat which will make the national open at baltusrol Baltus Balta rol srol where a reporter got himself sued for Gs seem like a pink tea soon will edily edify the golfing public is because the ordinarily well meaning garden city golf club has been so poorly advised as to issue a thinly veiled edict concerning reporters assigned to report the th national amateur the press buggs have been informed that if they want to get the news they can come around to a new servants entrance and like it during the five years when joe BI mccarthy cCarthy managed them the cubs never played a sunday doubleheader the sabbath turnstiles turn stiles kept rattling so briskly during that time there was no need of crying trying new money raising devices after making faces at one another for several weeks jack curley and mike jacobs have agreed to continue promoting wrestling at tile the hippodrome the rift in tile the firm came when numerous customers squawked about paying their money to a sports emporium which opened with such a woeful aff affair air rs that lewis wyckoff mat thing the two eminent gents made up when a peacemaker pointed out that the sad show really was the state athletic commissions child the boxing bosses having ordered the match to be made and to be held in a down t wn arena watch fo for r another ohio state speedster next year A diminutive white sophomore q ter miler named harley howells is the prospective buckeye bullet thirty years or so ago colonel E R brodley bradley had a geegee gee gee which won a heat or two and was named of all things captain ilu hugh all bradley strange stran c things happen even in football I 1 i more blore things you should know about this game called football with grateful acknowledgment to a gentleman who lives in the juniata branch of altoona pa and requests that his name shall not be used george washington U washington D C plays teams from seven different states but makes no trips st marys college california ia has a student enrollment of and a stadium seating oglethorpe U atlanta ga has an enrollment of and a stadium seating in 1872 a football game between columbia and rutgers was called on account of darkness in 1921 cornell defeated dartmouth 59 to 0 o 7 after leading by but a single touchdown at b half walter camp once placed a nebraska player on his all american team learn who had graduated the year before in 1916 bill fincher of the georgia tech team booted eighteen consecutive goals after touchdowns in a game that ended to 0 against cumberland pat odea d op kicked 62 yards for wisconsin in 1896 against northwestern in a snowstorm homer hazel of the 1923 rutgers team kicked off to villanova to open the game A few seconds later he recovered a fumble scoring on his own kickoff walter camp played on the yale team six years foster sanford played on the same team two years before even entering the he institution the game of football was vas almost banished in 1897 in georgia t due to the fatal injury to gammon of the georgia squad bradsbury robinson madi made an 87 yard pass in a st louis kansas game in 1906 in 1920 brick bick B ick muller of ohio state snapped the ball for a mere 70 yards thad brock of david davidson con colleges N C 1929 team made a run of 0 yards yet failed to score against duke ile he had bad attempted to kick hick from eight yards behind his goal line changed his mind ran and was downed on dukes aix I yard stripe woodrow wilson was the first princeton football coach to defeat both harvard and yale he originated the double pass and was responsible tor for the modern eligibility rules the outstanding david goliath football game is still centres bentres Cen tres conquest of harvard in 1921 that was back when unk moran coached centre his last coaching assignment was at catawba college salisbury N C two years ago centre college was one of the first southern teams to defeat a northern team on northern soil earle dark clark of the colorado college team scored all the points for both sides in 1929 the score standing 3 to 2 at the finish for a colorado victory over denver A university of north Car carolina olinar player ike norwood in 1903 played in the first game he had ever seen and then played in every game during the season except one picked up here and there ru mormon gers whisper the only reason gene does docs not turn pro is that nobody mentions the sort of money jesse owens expects to make also that if open track meets become any sort of success gene immediately will hop on the band wagon but that meanwhile he dare chirp about such things for tear fear of getting in in wrong with the badge m wearing aring poo bahu bahs gene by the way now carries a cane it is a broken and discarded javelin he picked up on the berlin olympic field |