Evening star., 1941-01-26
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-From the
owner of a National Pro League
football team to the slugging out
fielder of a championship softbalI
club; from the former bowman
on Pennsylvania varsity crew to a
title winning discus throWer, the
sports world already is feeling the
effects of the Selective Service Act.
Most prominent of the names that
have figured in the sports draft
news are those of the Detroit Tigers
Hank Greenberg, Owner Dan Top
ping of the Brooklyn Dodgers pro
football team, National Amateur
Golf Champion Dick Chapman, and
Morrie Arnovich. the outfielder the
Giants bought from Cincinnati, only
to discover the Army is likely to
have first call on Morrie'S services.
Greenberg and Arnovich are ex-
pected to trade their bats for guns
some time before June !. Topping
already has taken his physical
exam. and Chapman should have
no trouble there. Both have been
told they will be placed in class
Ia.
College Loses Two Teams.
An Associated Press survey, how
ever. shows the one place hit hardest
of all is New Mexico State Teachers
College. in Silver City. Every man
on both the football and basketball
squads volunteered. Eight first
stringers already are at Fort Bliss
with the New Mexico National
Guard and the others either have
been placed on the Air Corps de-
ferred list or are Reserve Corps
officers.
Though H w. James, president
Of the school. also is chairman of
the County Draft Board, he didn't
ask deferment for a single one of
his lads. Coach Ray Brancheau has
been left with little more than the
water boy
Pennsylvania athletes were among
the first to enlist. Dick Marshall
and Carl Zimmerman, former var
slty oarSmen: Ned Fielden, an end
on the football team, and Tom Nc
Nicholas, basketball letter man, are
in the Army Air Corps, and Walt
Shinn, eX-football captain, is in the
Navy Air Corps together with Bob
Stevens, halfback and All-Anerica
lacrosse star, and Oarsman Cary
Lincoln.
Baseball so far has not been hit
very hard. Besides Greenberg, due
to get his questionnaire next week,
and Arnovich, whose application for
deferment has been denied, there
are John Rigney. who won Is games
for the White SoX last season and
will get his QUESTIONABLE on Tues
day; Gene Stack, a Chisox rookie
pitcher up from Lubbock, Tex, who
already is at Camp Custer, Mich,
and Roy Bruner of Louisville, KY,
whom the Phillies planned to
bring up from Baltimore until he
was called to take his physical
examination.
Williams Is Patriotic.
Ted Williams of the Red Sox
appeared at his draft board the
other day eager to fill out his
QUESTIONABLE before he goes south.
BY next year the Yankees may
be in the same position the Tigers
are in now, for Joe Di Maggie, who
drew a high number, already has
said he won't ask for deferment on
any count when his turn does come.
To break it down into sports,
here are some of the others who
have volunteered or been called:
College football-Walter johnson,
athletic director at Presbyterian
College in Clinton, S. c., who last
fall finished his 25th season as
football coach there, on Monday
will begin years duty as major
with the National Guard. He
served a year in the World War.
The New Mexico Aggies finished in
last place in their conference after
Coach Jerry Hines joined his Guard
unit in midseaSon.
Eddie Schwartzkopf, all-confer-
ence guard at Nebraska, was granted
deferment to play against Stanford
in the Rose Bowl, but now is in
camp. The Air Corps likely is to
welcome Hugh Gallarneau, STAN
ford's star halfback, when he is
graduated in June, for he's an avia-
ton enthusiast. Another flying foot
baller, Halfback Harry Hays of Tu-
lane, holds a pilots license and has
had his Air Corps application ac-
Cepted. Don Scott Ohio State
quarterback and three-sport man,
dropped out of basket ball this WIN
ter to take-and paSs-the physical
examination as flying cadet. Roy
Higgins. Vanderbilt fullback for
three years, will report at PenSa-
cola, the naval air training sta
ton, February II. Jack Mulkley
Fresno State end who twice made
the Little All-America, volunteered
for the Army Medical Corps. West
ern Reserves freshman coach, Gene
Myslenski, left Cleveland this week
to report at Camp Shelby, Miss.
Dave Smukler a Sergeant.
Pro football-Dave Smukler, a
pile driving fullback for Temple
and the Philadelphia Eagles, en-
listed last fall and now is a SER
geant at Fort Hancock, N. j., with
the 7th Coast Artillery. The Giants
Chuck Gelatka was accepted as a
flying cadet. Jules Alfonso, who
went from Minnesota to help coach
the Columbus (Ohio) Bullies, mas
passed his physical exam. Ben
Kish, Dodged quarterback, volun-
teered.
Boxing-His friends in Birming-
ham, Ala, now write to former
World Featherweight Champ Petey
Sarron care of the Alabama Ma
tional Guard, Camp Blanding, Fla
He volunteered last month. Ralph
Dejohn, Syracuse IN. " light
heavyweight, and his brother Car
men, an amateur middleweight
volunteered on the eve of the draft
at Fort Mcclellan, Ala.
Basketball-Because w. Harole
Browne. Nebraska coach, Is a Ma
tional Guard captain, the Husker'
had to get new coach. Bill Wend
Is coaching at De Paul, Chicago
l,aoouco Tom Haperty is at For