Evening star., 1932-12-01
Variety Marks Full Week End
Johnson Banquet Two Grid Games Londos Garibadi Mat
Match Occupy Sports Folk

trade there besides the neighborhod fol-
lowers OF the two clubs They say
the boys play bang-up foot ball. The
Brooklanders, for instance, have held
three weight titles season for the last
four years, while the Terrys are the
150-pound champs of the Independent
League. Both teams have won nine
games this year. with the Brooklanders
losing one outside game to National
Training School eleven.
vTERY little kickback on the Gus
Y tcmers' Griffith Stadium foot ball
team selections. More letters, a
day too late, are trickling in, and Dick
Harlow of Western Maryland is get
ting some of the votes, while Sullivan,
the little Duquesne quarterback, is get
ting mention. But the trade insisted
that both Tommy Whelan and Johnny
Fenlon had to be on their team ye.
there were a great many who liked
Dunlap of Oklahoma so well that they
did not know how to Wiggle him in
that first team. His passing on Thanks
giving day stirred them But Fenlon
had him stopped in general backfield
effectiveness, they thought.
Here comes another letter, with Han
sen of North Dakota State, Roberts of
Vandy and Cain and Holley of Bama
in the backfield. And, as in nearly
every other selection, Stewart, Leyen-
decker, Cherry and Gracey are named.
a MIR. NAU, veteran sandlot base
n ball manager, the boys tell me
has just phoned in to say that
the suggestion advanced In The
Evening Star seeking the major
leagues to give the sandlotters, the high
school boys and the collegians boost,
while helping to sell their own game
MT MN as being the thing the doctor
ordered
If you knew how little of base ball
many OF the high school boys know,
says Mr.. Nau, you would readily see
what great help men like johnson,
Cobb, Speaker-those veterans of the
game, would be to them
Kids of today are not getting to
know the inside playing Of base ball
They all want to 60 to bat, and slug.
The scientific side of the game is little
known among the boys, and you can
see what lot Of time it takes to teach
the likely prospects when they do start
to move up
n ND here's few notes from Brent
"A Turner of E street northeast:
Your idea to have the old-timers
OF base ball to be goodwill emissaries
is great one. !. If big business carries
on successfully by advertising, why
shouldn't base ball? !. Base ball spends
little in promotion. The game has
its back to the wall because it refuses
to moderniZe or to keep pace with the
rest of the world, now fighting for
business. The game cannot keep
the turnstileS spinning on tradition
alone. s. Has base ball made any big
charitable moves in these times Of
depression?"
Base ball, Mr.. Turner, from all I
can learn. will no doubt ask for q
little charity itself when the boys meet
to blow smoke rings this month In New
York. Their ledgers now have the look
OF pink Chinese laundry tickets. And
unless they ballyhoo this national pas
time 10 make II again the national pas
time. encourage playing talent and
customers at one and the sams time.
they will not even have ledgers In which
to put the red Ink In 10 years.
Now where are all those boys who. a
few weeks ago. lsughingly said Well.
pals, the end of the s0.cailsd kotfe
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