The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-13
SMOKE RINGS
ss-COuntry

Seeing as how Friday II
day, we feel fairly safe in S
: today and peering under tn
wrapped the sports world.
Taking a whirl around
ing from a heavy cloud OF
. landing brings us to the gu
the Scranton Red Sox didn'
tally and moved their sprir
vile.
Casual, of Course
The Red Sox spent something like
five or six weeks here last sIrlng
and went back home and won the
. Eastern league pennant. Maybe
their training here had something to
do with it. We don't know, but we
do know that, aside from a casual
mention of the fact, they were not
given a real honest-to-goodnesa IN
vitation to come back to Wilmington
this spring.
Two letters went out of here TO
Eddie Kirschner, owner OF the
Scranton club, but neither specl-
fically asked him to try u quar-
tiers again, they merely said W
hope you'll be back"
The loss actually means some
thing to Wilmington in more ways
than one. The only fault we heard
from n member of the club last
year was that the wind is rather
strong here in early spring. But
that doesn't seem any great deter
rent to us. Wilmington is, iE our
opinion, a very good spot for spring
training by any baseball club. Some
thing should be done about it.
Horses-Horses
The Cape Fear Horse Show as
ISOLATION has now become an estab-
.lished organization and it isn't let
ting any grass grow under its feet
in making plans for the future.
The association has scheduled a
show here in early spring and made
a good move, we think, when they
voted to secure w. H. Mitchell,
a veteran horse show director, as di-
rector of the local enterprise.
A recent report by the American
Horse Owners association showed
that a steadily growing interest in
horse shows has developed through
out the country. One other show
49,. ..x .o1ol,1ol - NToy+L, 0oro
lina-at High Point next summer. If
advertised properly the Cape Fear
show should be far better than the
one held last year.
Hutchins' Comment
DIR. Robert Maynard Hutchins, the
youthful president of Chicago uni
sversity, spoke yesterday in what we
believe was an address rationalizing
football.
."FootbalI on the whole has been
a major handicap 10 education in
the United States" DR.. Hutchins
said, and then went further to say
that he hoped Chicago could become
a great university without the foot
ball.
The function Of a school is to "em-
phasize education and not athletics
and social life" he said. But the
good doctor overlooked the fact that
education is not a preparation for
life but is Life. And who wouldn't
say hat football or any sport, for
that matter, is Life?
Heather Comes Uut
Youthful Clayton H%eafner, Of Lin
vile, n. c., is making quite a name
for himself in golfing circles out on
the West Coast, and reports from
that section say the Tar Heel is
very popular with the fans.
Heather, it appears now, has the
makings of a very good golfer, if
not a great one. At one time he
was wont to blow up at CRITICAL
times, but latest reports say that he
is taking his golf in stride and that
will take him a great way.
The North Carolinian has one
ardent supporter anyway, and that
is Nelson MacRae, of Wilmington,
who is the guiding hand behind the
development of Linville, which he
thinks is in for its best season this
year.
The Weaker Sex
We have never held much with
the idea that women are the weaker
sex. And if you see the way the gal
g%rapplers go about their business in
the ring, you might agree.
Just about everything has a sex
angle beneath it in some form, and
Promoter Mike Miller has found
that it pays in staging wrestling
matches. He tried the women
wrestlers here a few weeks ago and
found it so successful that a match
between two female bumpers seems
destined to be on every card in the
future.