The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-23
DAvEY O'BRIEN,
 HOW'LL HE 60?
 PROS MED|TATE
Texas Mite Weighs l5l Against League Aver-
 age of 2O5
BY PAUL sCHEFFELs

bY PAUL SCHEf Y ELO
 United Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, May 23-Around the sports compass:
 Davey O'Brien, footballs mighty mite from Texas Christian Univer- sity, will be staging sort of one man crusade when he starts operat- ing with the Philadelphia Eagles professional football team next fall.
 National Football league coaches always have sneered at little play CTS. Unless college graduate weighed 180 or more, he was told that he was too small to stand up under the pro games strenuous de- mands. As result, the average weight of the players last year was in excess of 205 pounds
 OBrien weighs only 151 pounds, He's 5 feet T inches tall and will be the smallest player in the league. It should be interesting to see if the slngshot arm of little Davey can fiatten pro footballs Goliaths.
 Basketball has boomed in Finland as well as in other European coun- tries after the 1888 Olympic games. The Finish Basketball association has been in existence for little more than a month and yet it has 15,148 members. Ten teams competed Ill the Finish championships and the Films hope to send a team to the European title tournament late Ill May at Kaunas, Lithuania.
 Beauty and Baseball
 Herman Franks, young rookie St. Louis Cardinal catcher, is probably the only major league player in base ball history who ever owned a beauty shop. Franks purchased a hair-curling establishment in Salt Lake City last winter. Business be- came so good that he sent back three baseball contracts before final ly signing up and reporting to the St. Louis training camp in Florida.
 Lucky Teter, man who previous ly made his living crashing automo- piles has now entered one in the Indianapolis 500-mile race and hopes to win the May 30 classic. Teter used to run a "hell driver" show that thrilled thousands but also wrecked plenty of cars. He also owns stable of horses and sometimes wins a race.
 Most momentous decision Carl Reynolds, outfielder of the Chicago Cubs, ever had to make was when he turned down a job of athletic coach upon grad tion from Southwestern University at George town, Tex. Oddly enough, on his home campus, the fair haired fly chaser was more famous for his speed and jumping ability than for baseball playing. In Lone Star academic circles he was known as the "One-Man Track Team"
 Craft Shares Elm
 Harry Craft, outfielder with the Cincinnati Reds, was picked by most baseball-conscions folks as the player who would become the premier picket man in the National League. Such a unanimous opinion seemed strange until the following record was uncovered. During his farmout season at Syracuse m 1887, his throwing as well as his ground-coverage on flies, brought the scouts hot on his trail. He chalked up IA assists in 83 games. The International League leader, Hal Lee of Jersey City, played 148 games in making the 16 assists which topped all leagues outf1elders.
 Maxie Baer, who fights Lou Nova in June for the right to meet Joe Louis in later bout for the title, is training at Grossinger Lake, N. Y. According to Baer, he is more serions than ever and forwards what he considers most pertinent proof.
 DO you know, I haven't even smoked cigarette since I've been here. and that's been since the middle of April?" he said. This is the longest stretch I've gone in years and should prove how wrong all the wise guys are when they call me 'Madcap Maxie.'