Show 0 anew york tork pout service baseballs pages dacres b turn back at port of achino 0 don dogs 0 gnei EY have been moored for long e va dogs hours s in the port of aching dogs this haven high above forty second street where baseball men gather when worn down by the official futility of their annual meetings there is gossip about kelley of yale paul krichell the scout who watched over him all last spring reveals that the youngster is a tidy first baseman with fair hitting ability there is a leaning forward at this but then the gathering 0 settles back krichell relates sa sadly adly that professional sports have no lure for the best ballyhooed ballyhoo ed athlete of the year and that he likes baseball least of all it if the yankees cannot make mak e him see reason the others know they have no chance the conversation switches A minor manager 0 som somewhat perturbed over the decision which gave cleveland full rights to bob feller wonders how england might have made out if it had a judge landis instead of a baldwin as arbiter of the niceties ne ile gets the floor for a moment but then gene mccann the veteran scout comes in fully arrayed in white lawn tie red stickpin and gray checked suit after the applause has subsided they resume playing over games of 25 years ago debating each called strike of that bygone era arguing frantically over the events leading dp ap to each base hit and error A heavy set man tanned face scarcely more lined now than it was those many seasons ago when he was the games first and greatest pinch hitter enters the room this is a yankee party but national leaguers are welcome especially welcome when they have done so much for the sport as the present insurance broker whose name is moose mccormack moose as is befitting a man who hit so well and so often starts talking about pitchers he tells about attending the chicago worlds fair along with ty cobb and meeting mordecai brown years tears a ago 60 ome come of baseballs most thrilling duels Is were waged between these two great hitters and the three fingered burler who still SIM is remembered as one of the best of all time mccormack chuckles as he mentions that brown remembered their faces face S but was far wide of the plate when it came to names thought cobb wa was fred snodgrass that moose was wa red Al murray urray recalling bitter feuds between giants and cubs he tells about chicago of another day that was when the cubs and the giants were mortal enemies and two great cities rallied to the causes it was in those days that the chicago board of trade used to hold meetings in the heart of the loop there would be fiery speeches about the necessity of repelling this invasion of hated easterners then a huge bonfire would be lighted and mcgraw would be burned in effigy this brings other tales of the days when the giants would be returning from spring training and little mae mac would be inciting small town citizens to buy tickets in huge numbers for the mere inere privilege of booing bloing him in per 5 lon on of that after noon when the fighter in him rebelled against what the showman had done when he took off his coat and challenged mcgraw w the jeering customers who packed the old park in birmingham of arthur fletcher and fred snodgrass whose sheer desire to win forthwith increased by 25 ve per r cent the chances of any ball club which signed them about days in austin houston housto n and other texas towns when bush league teams fought tooth and nail to beat their big time colleagues about free for all fights between opposing players and tans fans to in at unta about how bow arthur devlin d pleaded with a badly battered opponent to stop and about how this sorely bruised opponent U 1 I think he was wa s 9 81 L yant nor leaguer named odell refused to holler boiler nut about how bow the next day the home downers towners owners sought something softer and challenged little bridwell how brid well probably the best boxer in baseball of that day won with such ease that even Atlan antans tanj were charmed NOT IN THE BOX SCORE HUN school coaches say bob sandbach eighteen year old brother of ken will be even better than the current princeton football star sylvanus apps of canada one of the toronto maple leafs star hockey rookies took sixth place in the pole vaulting at berlin last summer smart baseball men say the best prospect for the coming season is bobby doer the second baseman the red sox are bringing up from san diego they also hint that joe briarty tle the outfielder purchased from san francisco by the cubs may turn out to be a bit of a lemon the yankees who control the territory through their newark farm wont permit joe cambria to s shift t his albany franchise to jersey cit city they insist that mayor hagues town a very good baseball spot should be represented by a club more substantially backed and conducted with more of an eye to the future harvard should be plenty tough in football next fall fail in spite of a woeful frosh fresh eleven in addition to the return returning ino regulars emile dubiel and several other stars who were declared ineligible this year now have caught up with their studies sydney A syme who succeeds bleakley on the new j york supreme court bench was a noted local athlete in his younger days it will cost to build twenty eight alleys and otherwise equip the coast artillery armory for the american bowling congress in new york next spring all the heavyweight champions of england since je jem maces time are arc still alive bombardier wells is an innkeeper at brighton the awen ty four year old jack petersen has retired to live on the he made in the ring gunner moir who fought tommy burns is in the movies other items of london chit chat include the news that ben foord the present champion is a rough mauling type of fighter phil scotts tea room in devonshire has folded but even though broke the horizontal heavyweight has a second wife charley rose his undersized manager has the same umbrella reUa bowler and coat he wore when phil was reclining in american can rings joe beckett lives in the provinces grimes was tough guy as a member of cards when he was with the cards burleigh grimes once chased a newspaper m a n around a hotel lobby for two days trying to put the slug on him benny bengough is doing more than all right as manager of the yankees J a 0 p pai I 1 I 1 n farm so also is joe becker who was U made president of Is the club after being rescued from a grimes crimes brooklyn scouting job although sports writers labor over ray Impellitier es name his cold spring hometown home town folks have no such difficulty there the american giant and his family are hailed simply as impel fred ritter who has been absent from the court for two seasons because he wished to devote his best attention to football and studies will improve Prince tons basketball team national league umpires magerkurth and klein kiem two of the very best by the way can seldom be persuaded to perform to la the same game just dont like one another joe shannon of the brothers shannon who used to play such high class baseball now is in charge of jersey cites stadium business managers giants brannick and dodgers gorman german no longer are kidding when they wave fists at one another the very able brannick incidentally eliminated a party crashing pest with one punch during the recent montreal baseball meeting that was even neater than the job done by al schacht who pulled another nuisances raccoon coat over his head while landing a solid base hit in his center field nick palmer former national guard middleweight and heavyweight champion N Y variety will turn wrestler clients who paid heed to sage advice given here must have been gratified when jockey palumbo won those races at charlestown Charles town two millionaire sportsmen are convinced that the national hockey league was more anxious to get rid of bill dwyer during that recent mess than it was in new money or owners they say they made a bonafide offer in writing delivered it at the league office in montreal and never even received an answer are colgate and tulane going to have to schedule their northern football meetings in buffalo or some such upstate city henceforth and could the reason be that local universities angry because outsiders were cutting in on their subway sinecure refused to let the giants and yankees rent their ball faiks to such aliens did any one ever investigate the report that a game between a team billing itself as fordham something or other and a pro eleven was hastily canceled in buffalo recently blood horse the very good racing paper reveals how bow uncertain the sport is it takes three mares to produce two foals in one year it takes tour four foals to furnish one two year old winner the stallion is exceptional whose get are 50 per cent winners |