The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-04-19
Odds And Ends Of Sports From Here And There
By LESLIE AVERY

Limited Press Staff CorrespOndent)
 New York, April 19-(UP)-Sports spray:
 Detroit Tiger owner Walter Briggs is trying to sell the American league 8 140-game schedule instead of the orthodox 154-game championship program. He argues that a week later start and week earlier finish will skip a lot of bad weather and increase interest in the pennant race. Recalling some of the chilly openers and the rain and sleet of the '35 World Series in Detroit, this department offers a loud second to the motion.
 Why don't Horace Stoneham and Bill Terry get together? . Stoneham spends $125,O0O for installation of lights at the Polo Grounds and Terry blasts night ball as a "back- ward step" in a magazine article. Somebody certainly is out of step. 42 night games in the majors last year drew nearly a million fans. :.
 Jack Bromwich, the Australian tennis star, writes Bob Calm of the Seattle Star. ."War interferes very little with tennis out here .Natur- ally there are not so many playing Quite a few players are in the army. We play six big tournaments Adrian Quist won the Australian championship. He beat Jack Craw- ford in the final. Crawford beat me in the semi final. He played his best game in years against me. .. I slumped and played badly The old left hand let me down. Nancy Wynne won the ladies singles. |. :. With the exception of Alice Marble I think she is the best in the world We have three fine players com- ing along. One of them O. w. Sid well is certain to play Davis cup tennis for Australia
 Ohio States track team will for sake the Drake relays in favor of the Penn relays this year. Varsity track men waiting back before the turn of the century have joined a movement to award an 70" to those old time Buckeye track stars who never were given letter..
 Helen Crlenkovich is more wor- ried about catching up with her arithmetic at San Francisco Junior college than she is about retaining the national diving title. She fell behind while touring South America ...She plans to enter Stanford in the fall to be with her chum, Mar jorie Gestring, the Olympic champ Jack Rosenbaum of the San Fran cisco News predicts astounding suc- cess for Bill Milliken, the New St Mary's athletic director .. He spoke about $500 words, kept us enter tained and revealed nothing-the ideal athletic director" commented Rosenbaum.
 The Rhode Island Reds, cham. pions of the International-A American Hockey league, made five trips by plane totaling 6818 miles last sea- son. They spent Al 1-2 hours ir the clouds. Leo Barry, Browns fine swimming coach, nistructs classes in life saving after the tank sea- son. In IS years he has trained more than 300 junior and senior lice savers.
 Tommy Armour, who pulls tht No. 4 oar in the Columbia 15O-pounc boat, is a son of the famous golfer Jean Cougnenc swings a sweep 1T l tha Sauoo rPam and ic u,0,,Jarjv v,r z whether he may be called by tht French government for war duty. :, He was born in Paris. Whizzel White Is reported ready to give ur his law studies at Yale long enough to play pro football again next veal .. He still belongs to the Pittsburgh Pirates but don't be surprised if ht starts the season in a New Yorl Giant uniform