The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
Ohio State, Boston
College Heavy
With Grid Glass
BY JOE WILLIAMS

New YORK, SepL. ~ - EuII4AlS OAAC
little word after another and what
ever became of the fighting Irish?
We're picking the Tigers to beat the
Reds. See tomorrow's epic for our
scholarly analysis. The football sea-
son opened in summer heat. 1t was
Just the kind of weather for the
naked reverse.
Big Ten teams got off to a roar
ing start, with Ohio State, Michigan
and Minnesota winning intersec-
tionals. State plastered the pure
Pitts, BOT. Do they still want to
Join the Big Ten after that? Bos-
ton College ruined Tulane and Jack
Coffey all in one afternoon, spread
ing havoc from New Orleans to the
Bronx, a startling geographical
trick.
Tulane comes here to play Ford
ham October IL. Mr.. Coffey Is the
Fordham's box Office genius. The de-
feat takes the edge off OF what
promised to be a humping opening
for the locals. Boston College may
be the best in the East. The Eagles
were tough last year, too. Lost only
one game, upset Florida, TO. And,
of course, the Cotton Bowl game
with Clemson. But that was this
year-January 1. Aside to Cornell:
tits true what they say about them
guys from Columbus. And keep
smiles Snavely away from those
bridges up there"
Max Baer is another old age des-
troyer Comiskey wishes we had sent
to England. Wendell Willkie was
long shot at Empire City Saturday
but there was no place or show bet
ting on him. How about a nod to
Steve O'Neill? He developed Feller,
Mack, Boudreau and Smith to make
the Indians, SeaSon-long fight
threat and then sent Floyd Giebell
to the Tigers-and it was this same
Giebell who knocked the Indians
out of the race.
1t seems that john. Barrymore
and Elaine Barrie fight oftener than
Johnny Dundee and Benny Leonard
used to. The astonishing thing about
1.-The Axis" new three power pact is
that those three guys would trust
one another to keep pact. Iowa
Republicans tried to get Bob Feller
to make political speech and he
refused saying, I'm just farmer"
Among people we can do without
is the fellow who always greets you
with "long time, no See." Even be-
fore Comiskey was belted out we
were going about insisting Charley
Ketchuk, Jersey Jones' Russian, is
the best of the younger heavy
weights. A week before the fight
Baer dismissed Ketchuk as spar
ring partner because he roughed
him up too much.
Master Mind Mccarthy
To our mind Joe Mccarthy turned
in the best managing job in the
American League. The Yankees fin
ished last in hitting, thirty points
back of the Tigers, DiMaggio was
the only DAHL performer who hit
above 300. Red Ruling was the
only pitcher to win as many as f1f-
teen games. Gomez won only three
and four other clubs made
more double plays and yet Nc
Carthy had the Yankees in there
fighting for the flag almost to the
last day. This was certainly one
year when those super" players
didn't make it soft for him.
One of the enduring enigmas of
the turf is that no winner of the
futurity has ever won the Kentucky
Derby true, the record isn't
100 per cent failure because all OF
them didn't start. Our boots, the
Toledo owned two year old, last
winner, looks like a real good colt.
He's bred to 60 on and he beat the
best of the lot going away at Bel
mont.
Prophetic?
We see still another merit In the
proposed two ocean navy. 1t would
stimulate L'Amour along Riverside
Drive. Did you notice that while
Willkie was shilling for new world
at Empire colt by the same name
was running out OF the money at
Belmont2 Hope this isn't prophetic.
We wish the cinema critics would
quit sneering nc Hedy Lamarrss act
ing ability. Nobody ever looked nj
sally Rand's fans.
We heard that Hank 0reenheFgs
shift TO the outfield was made more
pleasant 10 take because OF q 5000
bonus from the Tigers owner. Since
that Cleveland fan dumped al those
vegetables on Birdie Tebbetts' head
the boys are calling him 81 varieties