Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-07
COMMENT ON
SPORT WORLD
By HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. Z. UR)-If
there be justice anywhere in this
world besides the dictionary, the
trustees of st. Mary's college of
Moraga, California, WILL at their
next meeting, vote to pay our rent
for the month beginning December
is and ending January Is.
For it was the trustee who Gre
ated the st. Mary's publicity de-
partment, a department which cost
us the little sum we had placed
aside to keep roof over our head
for the period beginning December
Is and ending January 10.
Let us explain. Since boyhood
we have regarded betting as. wick
ed, sinful, unlawful and practice
that leads only to moral disinte-
grafton and over the hill to the
poorhouse. We are even more con-
WINGED of that now. But that's
getting ahead of our story.
All during the early part of last
week we were besieged with offers
to bet on the Fordham-St. Mary's
football game. But due to our deep
feelings in regard to gambling, we
spurned all offers, including one
that gave us Fordham and 81
points. Then came Thursday We
were sitting at our desk thumbing
a Boy Scout manual in prepare
ton for our test in fire making
without sticks, when in walked Mr..
Will Stevens, head of the st. Mary's
publicity department.
In five minutes M: Stevens,
from standing start, had con-
WINGED us that if didn't get a good
sized chunk down on ST. Mary's-or
The Galloping Marauding Gaelic
Moragans" from Moraga, as he
called them--We would go down in
history as the most stupid number
of all time. Furthermore, Mr.. Ste
vens convinced us that betting
money on ST. Mary's was not bet
ting, but merely placing of money
in the Bank of England at 500 per
cent interest. 81
Mr.. Stevens did not ask us to
take his word for it. He showed
documents in which st. Marys was
rated as the most destructive force
since the San Francisco earth
quake. 1t was not until later that
we learned Mr.. Stevens had written
these documents in an inspired mo-
ment following st. Mary's victory
over mighty west coast army
team.
Fully Convinced
why man"-Mr Stevens sales
. talk still rings in our ears-"why
man, why do you hesitate? Do you
realize that our team has every
thing in the book-speed, power, ex-
perience, deception, courage, and
resourcefulneSs? Do you realize
that ii is a tradition along the sun
kissed California slopes that the
'Galloping Gaels, or the Maradu-
ing Moragans from Moraga as we
like to call them, can come back
against any team, anytime, any
where, and against any odds? Do
you realize that 'Hells Hurricanes
that's the line-is studded with
colorfEl players? That on defense
it is leaping, fighting, spearing
crowd of tigers. That on offense
it Is a machine, working with all
the perfect timing of a machine?
Why do you hesitate?"
We were convinced by now, but
Mr.. Stevens kept right on.
Good heavens, man, even if we
didn't have any line at all, our
backfield is strong enough to rip
steel to shreds. We could shoot
the first string men and still have
eight all-America ball players left.
The 'Galloping Goels' are not just
another set of football players--it
is team looking so much like the
Notre Dame teams of Rockies that
ii doesn't seem real"
At this point we slipped out,
went home, got the rent money from
behind the clock. and played st.
Mary's on the nose.
AS dusk gathered over the polo
grounds Saturday we realized we
should have placed our socK- not on
st. Mary's nose, but on Mr. Ste
vens.'