The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-05
ENERGY PELLETS
 TRIED ON TEAM. DURING DRILLS.
Vitamin Packed Tablet , Gets Football Test
 M At New Mexico
BY PAUL sCHEFFELs

United Press stan CorTespondcnt)
 New York, Nov. 4-(UP)-Press- box batter:
 Talk about your well-fed foot ball teams meet the University of New Mexico eleven. Coach Ted Shipkey feeds his men pound of lean meat before practice. They also get four quarts of milk, 22 ounces of butter, one and three- fourth ounces of orange juice, 50 ounces of raw cabbage, 29 ounces of raw green beans, four yeast tablets and 500 grams of carrots, But - they don't sit down at any training table for all this. The above vitamin filled menu is all contained in one mill-sized tablet the coach gives his players.
 F. e. Schroder, director of ath- letics at the University of Iowa, has been appointed one of six members of the wrestling colnmit- tee for the ls42 Pnited-P Pan Amer ican games. He has been notified that the committee would hold its first meeting here Nov. IS to for- mulate tentative plans for the participation of wTestlers in the games. The Iowa director and the other five men will represent the National Collegiate Athletic Asso- ciation on the group. Others are R. c. Ciapp, Nebraska; John Rock well, Cambridge, Mass; P. IT. Quinlan, North Carolina: Henry Stone. California, and John Max well, Iehigh.
 Tackle Ben Agapanian of the University of New Mexico IS the best placekicker in the Border conference which doesn't come under the heading of news but what is peculiar is that his feet aren't mates anymore. He wears a size 2 shoe on his right, kicking, foot: size 10 on his left foot. "Aggy" lost all of the toes on his right foot this spring in an ele- vator accident but Coach Ted Shipkey had shoemakerS construct a special football shoe with flat toe compressed with several lay. CTS of hard leather.
 It hasn't been proved yet but they say that: Distance racing star Greg Rice takes a five-mile jaunt through Central Park in the dark every night after his days toll is finished.
 
 Chris Cagle, former Army back field star, is transforming with his own professional football out fit and reportedly making more than he did when affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers of the Na- tional League.
 The pot of gold at the end of the professional golfers rainbow will pass $l00,000 this season, most in the history of the game. It ran around ss5.OOO last year.
 Neither fom Yawkey nor Man ager Joe Cronin Of the Boston Red Sox will talk much about chanbes on their baseball team for the i942
 
 Ahere will be several new faces on 1he Hub team next season. Cronin may retire, and if he does. the man to fill his shoes will be Johnny Pesky named by the Sport ing News as the most valuable player in the American Associa- ton for l94i. Pesky, only 2l years old, won out in a close race, gar- nering 70 out of a possible 64 points. He hit .325 and collected i05 hits. Boston purchased his re- lease outright from Louisville.
 Emil Bildilli, former pitcher for the st. Louis Browns, has retired to become a first-class fireman at Muncie, Ind. Bildilli was with Toledo of the American Associa- ton for a part Of last season and was called up by the Browns to finish out the le4l campaign.
 The 3ad annual varsity ICA4 cross-country championships will be held in New York City on Nov. l7. Rhode Island State will defend the varsity team championship. The Rams won, their first title last fall since the race was introduced Rt Princeton in 1908. Les Mac- Mitchell, ". r. U. distance star, will make an attempt to take the inc dividual championship for the &t.Am AmaA N..