The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-25
TODAY'S SPORT PARADE
(Eeg. U. $. Pat. Off.) BY HENRY McT.EMORE

United Press Staff C0rrespondent)
 St. Petersburg, Fla, March 25-- (UP)--1t Is my fervent hope that the St. Louis Cardinals do not win the 1941 National league pennant race, because If they do their suc- cess will be attributed to the tak- ing of 25,000 vitamin tablets pres- scribed for them by that uncele. brated physician, Dr." Sam Brea- don.
 Let the Cardinals win, and when spring training time rolls around next year the railroads will have to put on special trains to trans- port the vitamins, calories, form- ulas, drugs and assorted medicines to every baseball club in training. The managers and coaches will be second in importance to the diag- nosticians and their assistants. "Dr." Breadon will have the same sort of meteoroic rise that Dr. Da- foe did, and magazines will be filled with articles by him on how he helped give birth to the wonder team.
 Already can see the headlines in the sports pages.
 Detroit Club Fines Buck New some $l0000 for Baking at Pablum for Breakfast"
 "Feller's Failure to Win At- tributed to Lack of Ascorbic Acid Tablets"
 odds on Yankees Drop as Train Bearing Their World Series Cod liver Oil Derailed Near Harrisburg" Interviews
 The headlines will be boring enough, but can you imagine having to read the interviews with famous players after the vitamin influence Is fully felt in the major leagues? I will give you a probable sample:
 BY HENRY McLEMORE
 Yankee Stadium, New York-Joe DiN1aggio revelaed in an exclusive interview with this reporter today, that the only thing that stood be- tween him and a new home run record was shortage of oleuinper- carmorphum.
 "The other boys seem to get re- oil, orange juice, strained foods and Vitamins A, B and O." DiMaggio told me as he sat in the Yankees new clinic, just off the dressing room. However, I have to have oleumpercarmorphum, which is, as you know, the concentrated oil from the flyers of 19 various fish. In hitting my last 40 home runs l have taken so much of this, vital food that there is shortage of 1t. I have all of my brothers who arc not playing big league baseball, fishing day and night back in San Francisco. If they are lucky, and the catch Is good, am sure will break Babe Ruth's mark"
 As this reporter left the clinic he noticed Lefty Gomez who under the watchful eyes of Manager Mccarthy and a staff diagnostician, had just finished his afternoon feeding. Possible
 Now that's the kind of stuff you may have to read next year if the Cardinals get from those vitamirl tablets what "Dr." BreaClon thinks they will, and come through to beat the other National league clubs. If this comes to pass, I'll give you a tip on how to get your revenge: Every time you pass Breadon stomp on his orches. Because they were the cause of all. During the past winter Breadon discovered that fl he took vitamin B-l tablets before he played a round of golf, his arches didn't concede the match on the 18th or 18th hole, but continued to hold up beautifully for the entire i8 holes.
 Figuring that what was good for his arches ought to be good for his baseball team, Breadon ordered 25,- 900 tablets and told his team to startig eating them.
 It is his hope that the disappear ance of the last tablet will coincide with the last out that makes the Cardinals l94i National league