Show g new york post service guitar strumming cards practice up on victory theme MORNING M ORNING among the Mud cats 1 I wonder said the reporter if any of the cards are up 1 I p you ton wonder there was infinite scorn mingled with baffled rage in the hotel clerks voice ask some ome of those guys there ask there was a pause while the clerk sought to soothe another sleepy eyed gentleman who had come down the stairs tooth brush in one hand fuit ait case in the other the reporter glanced at the horde of f other similarly attired and irate gentlemen ent lemen galloping through the lobby now and then one of them would collapse exhausted on a lounge A moment later tired eyes would close in grateful slumber the reporter wished he had been built in the richard harding davis mold so that he could get a line on such unseemly doings in the lobby of a great hostelry at the unearthly hour of 9 a m okay the clerks voice had lapsed into that sad sweet resignation which comes to men who have encountered the worst and have resolved no longer to combat it go on n up where just get on the elevator evator I and use your own judgment be them 99 the reporter did and it was but even then he was surprised it scarcely seemed even judging from the increasing tempo of the advance warnings all the way from the first to the twenty first floor that all that noise could be made by a mandolin and three guitars he hesitated in the doorway after all if the gas house boys could take on a pound journalist before dinner what chance would a little gee have impelled by a blind loyalty to his masters he stumbled in the swarthy gentleman in cerise pajamas waved one languid hand while continuing in to pick energetically at his mandolin with the other e I 1 paw the unshaven and hairy cheated gentleman made a similar gesture of greeting with a flattish cattish foot it was not pepper martin that he meant to be impolite even pepper martin has difficulty keeping up with the conventions when standing on his head bead playing a guitar would you mind playing s something soothing asked the reporter T frenchy bordagaray patted his cerise pajamas well give you our theme song he offered they did we art are mud ud cats tough touch as wild ests cats out our tart ears are made of leather anil and they sop eop la in windy weather gosh cosh all hemlocks were at as touch as vivo lice knots were from oklahoma cant you yoa see nice song the reporter interrupted by crashing a bureau to the floor after the forty ninth repetition of the verse got it all over those things berlin and gershwin do those birds handicap themselves by sticking to a special tune shucks pepper martin who had been trying to introduce a variation by playing his guitar with one hand while hanging from outside the window ledge with the other chinned himself back into the room 1 I can write em cm with one hand tied behind my back I 1 can say I 1 think frisch rooming below here you gotta treat the manager right im gonna serenade him he disappeared over the window ledge again well remarked the reporter alter after a while it looks like youve lost a good guitar tut dont mention it said 11 sieu bordagaray we can get plenty more of 0 them theres a music store that feeds ern cm to us this bob weiland hes up there now getting a left handed banded guitar thattil get us some place what I 1 say is theres not a club in the league that use a good southpaw and 11 the phone rang pitcher bill mcgee practiced playing the mandolin with one hand while picking up the receiver with the other zut he screamed canaille bourgeoise he slammed down the receiver and began playing the mandolin with eboth I 1 both hands so as to catch up with I 1 the others probably the hotel complaining again said the ever polite bordagaray those travelling tra velling salesmen any appreciation of art they always want to sleep and A hand band and then a head reappeared on the window ledge frisch at all announced pepper martin NOT IN THE BOX SCORE ly JUNG lee handleis Handl Hand leys cys hitting and 1 fielding undoubtedly have helped Pitts burghs pirates this season but his most important contribution seems to have been neglected by the public commentators I 1 refer to his fine clear voice which he is not afraid to raise in whoops ot of encouragement coura gement and protest before he hd injected some elan into the outfit pittsburgh pitchers used to have to look around every few seconds to make sure they had a team on phd field with them just to prove that there is a common denominator for all of us glenn cunningham who holds the indoor and outdoor records for the mile looks like a knock kneed stenographer when running for a subway train in new york sometimes he even make it and gets sore like the rest of us too for instance there was that day recently when a n grand central guard accomplished that which gene has been trying to do for years with scant success cess closing a door in front of glenns flushed face when van binnio staged his one man two day rebellion last summer a dodger director explained to me why the pitcher just had to quit on his teammates it was because van is a fast ball pitcher and that stengel makes him keep trying to throw curves when hes never had to throw e curves u r v e s before now national league players are explaining why mungo tingo is having such rare success this season it is because van who used to be nothing but a fast ball thrower now has a swell and well controlled curve to tool fool you with frank keogh international riding star now is a patrol judge on metropolitan courses rigan mckinney cKinney ni will nil not ride in any steeplechases steeplechaser steeple chases this year ile he is on a world tour like pete bostwick also on the sidelines Al cKinney is said to have received retirement orders from the missus walter E ohara who frankly styles himself as a promoter and not as a sportsman pays all hospital bills for jockeys injured at his narragansett rag ansett park theres no insurance gag either the money coming right out of his own jeans the real name of tony malinosky recruit infielder of the dodgers is tony a lithuanian changed the name explaining that he had taken malinosky for short and did not notice until some time later that both names have nine letters art lasky former heavyweight title contender is trying to get a job as a referee in california gilly drack brack hitting sensation of the national league who several days this spring led the league in batting works in a louisville bat factory in the off season when signed by the dodgers he threw away the bats with which he batted in the american association and designed twelve n new e w models especially adapted for hitting major league pitching ray schalk picks best athletes of Diani diamond ond ray schalk famous white sox catcher of other days says that everett scott 0 I 1 III yankee shortstop is the best bowler t 0 I 1 come out of baseball carl hubbell Is a better pitcher than dizzy dean ty cobb was the greatest player of all time 1 and joe jackson was the best natural hitter bitter ohio state athletes hold seven ray schalk of the 15 big ten outdoor track records four of them belong to jesse owens they also stand as world records mrs paul bowser wife of the wrestling impresario pre sario was the woman wrestling champion of the world as cora livingston years ago harry kipke predicts that minnesotan Min football team will be in a class by itself next fall lie he gives his own michigan eleven as good a chance as any other to finish second in the big ten the billiard cue was invented by capt Min gnad guad one of napoleons officers while locked up in a paris jail ten years ago seven specialists told freddie steele middleweight boxing champion he would have to quit the ring because of a kidney ailment because the sun was bad in park during the first game of a double dykes once tried to use outfielders sun glasses while playing third base for the athletics he tossed them away after losing a couple of pop fouls soccer is the major sport in shanghai the shanghai football association is affiliated with the football association of england all players in china are registered egister ed with the british group johnny baldwin captain of notre dames 1933 basketball team is working for the american ail airlines earl brucker the athletics slugging rookie and pid purdy the old cincinnati outfielder were the same age when they broke into baseball together now purdy is thirty four and brucker thirty two according to the athletics roster wally lou Ge Geh rigs brigs predecessor at first base for the yankees is deaf in one car as a result of having viavin been in batting practice by charles caldwell rookie pitcher fresh from the princeton campus earle mack black wishes his illustrious father would receive fewer invitations to be honored guest at banquets and parties when the I 1 athletics are on an the road |