Show speaking peaking of sports ts baseball and hockey flockey keer keep stewart busy by GEORGE A BARCLAY bill stewart manager of the chicago Black hawks could give you a personal testimonial concerning the tha veracity of the old saw that all work and no play makes jack a dull boy compared to bill the one armed paper hanger the swiss bell ringer and the perpetual motion man are bikers think a man would be entitled to a rest after accomplishing the miracle of winning the worlds hockey championship with a team that people tittered at when the play offs began but not bill no sooner was the stanley cup series over than he donned his spikes mask and chest protector and began calling balls and strikes as a national league umpire when the worlds series was finished on october 11 last year stewart grabbed a plane in new york and flew to muskegon mich to take ake charge of the Black hawks in lis his first year as their manager bill lad had been a referee in the national hockey league in between baseball seasons for several years he developed ideas on how hockey should be e played as a result of his observe lions ions of the various teams how successful those ideas were was demonstrated when the underdog hawks acks bagged the cherished staney ley cup by routing the favorite toronto maple leafs hockey student the hawks had finished sixth in a league of eight teams and barely edged into the stanley cup finals first they took on the montreal canadians Cana diens everybody said be a pushover in the first game it looked as if the prediction would come true the canadians Cana diens won then the teams moved to chicago and the hawks captured two games winning the right to meet the new york americans winners of the series between the second place teams of the leagues two divisions in the series with the americans the hawks repeated their winning performance that put them in the finals for the stanley cup which never before had been won by an american team managed by an american their opponents were the admittedly superior toronto maple leafs the hawks were on the spot the first game was at toronto late in the day of this contest stewart regretfully decided that mike karakas his star goalie would have to be left out of the lineup line up because of a broken toe X 14 4 W bill stewart confident that they would have an adequate defense man in andy kerr a reserve goalie of the new york americans the hawks were dumbfounded just before game time by a maneuver of the crafty connie smythe the leafs manager with the connivance of league officials english adfle moore a castoff veteran was foisted on the hawks nib liis lida spent in a tavern and his orders for more ale ala had been frequent but by some magic alfie played a whale of a game made himself a hockey hero and held the leafs to one goal while the hawks were scoring three league politics again intervened and moore was declared ineligible for the second game paul goodman an inexperienced recruit who had never seen a major league hockey game was substituted goodman was easy for the leaf marksmen red horner the leafs bad man contributed to the rout by breaking the nose of doc romnes and cutting hawks roger jenkins and louis trudell to the skull with his stick the leafs won 5 to 1 back they came to lo chicago for the third and fourth games mike karakas was back in the nets his broken toe protected by a special steel guard with the score tied at a goal apiece late in the game doc romnes who earlier got retaliation from horner with his stick gave the hawks the win with a long ion hard shot in the final game the Black hawks who possibly do it won easily taking the now demoralized maple Leafs by a score of 4 to 1 so bill stewart is a happy although tired man and it if he misses a few close decisions in the early days of the national league season maybe it will be because hes thinking of hockey instead of baseball another ruth rudolph preston york detroit tiger catcher who hails from atco acco ga has two ambitions this se season ason one eneis is to break babe ruths record lor for home runs the other is to help bat the tigers to the american A 4 0 ui k t rudy york league pennant if rudy accomplishes the first ambition the second may automatically take ca care re ot of itself york is hoping for the greatest season a ball player has ever had fans who saw him in the south this spring marveled at the way he bashed balls out of the parks he establishing any new marks as far as his average was concerned but whenever his bat met the ball it was good for a nonstop non stop trip rudy has no illusions about being a great catcher although cochrane says he is a very much improved receiver but he does know he can hit the ball he also knows it is possible to break babe ruths records because he has crashed one down already he drove out 18 home runs in a single month august 1937 which was one more than ruth ever recorded for a similar period his total home run production in 1937 wai was 35 33 york had been tried out around the infield an 4 found wanting detroit was desperate for catchers after the accident to mickey cochrane so they put rudy behind the plate when cochrane told him he was to be the clubs regular catcher he began a batting stampede that made history the season was then about two thirds over but he socked the ball at a clip that sent his average up 60 points when the season closed he was the only batter in the league to average better than two bases every time he connected for a hit 4 11 ef elk av I 1 EX S F k Z A walter kramer of detroit pictured with his trophy after retaining his national lat ional singles badminton championship pion ion ship in Philadel philadelphia hla playing before a capacity audience at the penn enn A C the twenty four year old ld kramer defeated walter mark ham tarn of new york polish behemoth stanislaus zbyszko ancient pole who was formerly king of the heavyweight wrestlers wrest lers bisback is back in the united states not asa wrestler but as an impresario somewhere in the hinterlands of poland he C caught aught up with a giant named wladyslaw who is first cousin to the missing links link and who zbyszko believes will be the next heavyweight wrestling charn champeon champ plon fon towering six feet eight inches in height and weighing pounds was a lumberjack in one of polands bolands Po lands vast forests zbyszko took the youngster to south america with him several years ago this modern wrestle with any of the gauchos gauchas Gau chos but spent hours each day learning the fundamentals of catch as catch can from the old master two months ago zbyszko b rought brought to the united states the pupil had apparently learned his lessons well for he has had 20 matches and has yet to lose none of his matches have gone beyond 12 minutes the bald zbyszko is enthusiastic about his young charge for sentimental reasons he would like to see another pole grab the championship pion ship for zbyszko is a great patriot during the war when poland was making a bid tor for independence pen dence zbyszko who had gathered a large fortune through his mat career tossed practically everything ery thing into the treasury liec his famous compatriot the elder zbyszko is a brilliant pianist here and there for the fifth time in the 38 year history of the american bowling congress a perfect aa game me was bowled during the meet in chicago mike blazak of conneaut Conne aut ohio was the bowler who entered the hall of fame along with billy knox of ph philadelphia il charlie Rei rille kenosha wis jack Kar karstens fort sheridan r ill and carl scranton ill approximately approximated y games have been bowled in the tourney since 1900 so the chance of getting a perfect score are one IV ii ray schalk jr son af the greatest of white sox catchers catcher er is a starting pitcher for hydee ayd park high school chicago young schalk although weighing only pounds is still growing and by graduation time two years hence may get a nod from organized baseball rogers hornsby has finally landed another baseball job this time as coach of the baltimore orioles in the international league the rajah is also to be a pinch hitter the club management emphasized the tact fact that he had bad been signed solely in a coaching capacity and not with any idea that he would succeed bucky crouse as manager 0 western newspaper union |