The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18
(Reg. U. s. Pat. oii0
 By HARRY FERGUSON limited Press Sports Edlt0F)

New York. Nov, ie-(UP)--These words are being written with Q phy- slcian in attendance and Q nurse Vanderbilt 2.3423 and ask Tor Elsie) lowering In the background equipped with smelling salts. A iew minutes ago yours truly Tainted
 Al first the doctor diagnosed t as n case of overwork and was kne deep in train schedules to Flor ida when the boss strolled over and sald, Please take another look, Doc, I'm sure 1t must be soEnething else" Whereupon they decided 1t was shock--sudden shock.
 That's what 1t was, all right. The shock was brought about when opened letter from Bob Madry, an eloquent gentleman living in Chapel Hill, N. O., who can write essays, sonnets, dazzling prose, madriRals and cantoB on the sub- feet of the North Carolina football team, He not only can but does and he gets dough for 1t, too, bee cause he is the publicity man for the team.
 Likes Prose
 have been an adInirer Of Mfr. Madry's prose for several years now and have c valuable collection oi his first editions, autographed by the author with a rubber stamp and set in the distinctive, beautiful type used In the North Carolina univer- Eity mimeograph machine. Whether Mir. Madry writes the year round I do not know, but come Indian suTn- mer he yields to the muse. Tn Sep- tember his prose has the lean un- derstatement and restraint of Er- nest Hemingway. Tn October his communiques take on some of the furious, avalanche quality of the late Thomas Wolfe. Tn November, and particularly around all-Ameri. can time, he scars to Shakespearean heights.
 Ills magnurn opus undoubtedly was Q series of essays he wrote in an attempt to persuade sports edi- tors to put a hero named Severin on their All-American teams. If memory serves this SeveFin was q North Carolina end and a right good one, too. But no matter how brave and deshing he seemed on the football field, he became even more SO when filtered through the beauty and brIlliance of Mir. Madry's prose. After reading MT. Madry's essays, automatically think of Thorpe, Gipp. Grange and Stinch- comb when the name Severin is mentioned.
 The essays on Severin reached me by air mall, by regular mail, by telegraph, by special delivery, by cour1erS and sometimes by tele- phone. Once a pigeon wheeled past the oce and I opened Q window, figuring 1t would fly in bearing Q metal tag that read "Severin for All-America." All that happened last year, and this season I became alarmed as week after week passed and there was no word from Mir. Madry.
 A1I-Americans
 Today I was sitting before a desk piled high with communiques from VsAASk COAAGSC RubASAsy AAlCk1 &k10 football fans. They all bore the same message except that the names of the heroes were different -"Bill Dudley of Virginia for All- American, Derace Moser of Texas Aggies for All-American, Frank Stnkwich of Georgia for All-Amer- lean, Frankies Albert of Stanford for All-American, Steve Lach of Duke for All-American, Edgar Jones of Pittsburgh for AlI-Ameri. can, Chub Peabody of Harvard for All-American."
 One after one read them and put them aside. Surely, thought. there will be some word from MT. Madry. Far down at the bottom of the pile of letters and telegrams I found an envelope, encrusted with enough stamps to admit 1t to the mall pouch of the clipper. Out of the envelope dropped a letter from Mfr. Madry:
 ''In view of the relatively poor showing of the University of North Carolina football team to date. we are not recommending any of our players for places on the All-Amer- ican first team"
 All the world went black and that's all knew until Elsie put tlle smelling salts to my nose.
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