The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-25
To-day's Sport
Parade
by HENRY McLEMORE
united Press StaK Correspondent


Chicago, June 25-(UP)-You
who plan to attend the Olympic
games. take a tip from me: Do
your sightseeing on the day they
hold the decathlon. For of all the
stomped down. nickel-plated, self
| cooking, free wheeling, charreds in
the key, bottled In bond bores, this
| ten event thing takes all prizes,
first, second, BOBBY and consola-
ton.
How do I know? Well, where
do you think / was yesterday?
| Right out at Northwestern's. Dyche
stadium watching some dozen
beefy filberts struggle for q place
| on Americas decathlon squad.
Struggle is right, too. For they
struggled at everything, and were
good at none. They are going to
struggle some more to-day, but
you're not going to get me out
there. Not without a struggle,
anyway.
Things got SO dreary out there
yesterday that the newspaper boys
stopped watching the competition
and concentrated on pug" Rent
ner, Northwestern's All-America
halfback. And when folks elect to
watch Rentner do anything but lug
a. football. you may rest assured
the thing they switched from was
breathlessly unexciting.
Watching Rentner loaf is like
watching a hitching post sleep.
mean he is the greatest loafer In
all the world, and ] am willing to
match him against all corners. You
can name your own style of loafing
| ID t,1, ,f,<at sfs6
can, free, Australian crawl or
whatnot-and Rentner will win.
Clad In nothing more modest
than a pair Of 1917 corduroy trous-
ers, pug" staged the finest ex-
hibition OF loaffng ever saw. He
loafed from one end Of the sta
dunn to the other. 1t took him
20 minutes to stand up; Is to SIT
down. Plucking a blade Of grass
so exhausted him that he was
forced to stretch out and sleep 1t
Off. Even breathing seemed a
triHe too much for him.
us that the man." l asked after
watching him a while. lis that the
man / named as All-America half
back last year. and described as
a running. plunging. passing fool?"
yep that's him." they told me.
Hes always like that"
Even In a football game?"
"Uh, huh, even In a football
game. That IL. he's like that until
they snap the ball. Then you
'oughta see him go. Just like II
tain this year, and that honor,
coupled with the fact that Marchy
Schwartz Is gone from Notre Dame
oughta make him about the best
| ball carrier in these parts. OF
course, he might shoot himself"
"Shoot himself"
"Yeah. he did last winter you
know Happened when he was
cleaning pistol. Cost him part
of a finger. Nobody ever knew
Just what finger, for he was too
lazy to bandage 1t up. SO we
couldn't tell which one was in
jured."
On my way down to ask Pug"
which finger 1t was, ran into
Graham Bachelor. the EOS pounds
of muscle from the University of
Georgia who Is COMPLETING In the
struggle. He was already worry
ing about to-day's 1900 meter
event.
That's what's going to ruin
thing. never have been able 10
run that far"
Don't worry about that" con-
solcd. cant any of the rest of 'em
run 1t. If you manage to stand up
all the way around, you're liable
to wip."
Bachelor was sort of dark
horse yesterday. He led through
several of the events and probably
would have led at the half way
mark but for his inability to do
better than five feet In the high
jump.
oh yes. 1t was the middling fin
ger OF Pug's left hand.