The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-26
(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) nv HACK GIJENTHER

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 New York, Dec. 26.--(UP)-The mail which comes to rest on any sportwriter's desk is an odd tumble at best. For the most part 1t con- tains strong disSents from readers. advertisements from typewriter manufacturers or the happy tidings that Rah Rah Tech will renew chess hostilitles with it's hated rival, Pulse Normal, in i946.
 But on Christmas it's different.
 During Christmas week there is more of 1t, for one thing, and the envelopes are larger and thicker ard arrayed in nold colors. They bear the names of ball players, the pictures of prize fighters and even the hoof prints of horses. Some ot the names you've forgotten and some you never knew, but for the majority, they are names almost everyone knows.
 Let's look ct the mall today. For instance, here's brown and red card from Red Strader, football coach at St. Mary's, complete with silhouettes of seven beefy liremen poised for @ charge-presumably at Fordhanl. And here is a picture card from the Cinderella Man, James J. Braddock, with a reminder to re. member Young Kid Mccoy, the next welterweight champion of the world, compliments of Joe Gould"
 Dig little deeper and there is a crimson and silver card engraved with the name of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. And Q cool, white and silver folder from the coaches at Notre Dame. Then Q plain, unsigned letter from Fort Dodge, Ia, enclos- ing clipping of a column about Bobby Teller joining the navy. On 1t is scribbled. Nuts to you; write about Colin Kelly"
 Derby Winner?
 From Dan Mahany, the manager of Calumet farm down in the blue- grass, comes the portrait of fuzzy, leggy colt sired by Bull Lea. The youngsters name is Destiny, one of the best I've ever heard and one which may some day be flashed out as the winner of the Kentucky Derby. Then 6 bill from, oops, sor- ", that one isn't for display.
 Here is @ single sheet from
 Here is single sheet from Princeton, with the towers etched against a background of snow. And a fiowery red card from Lou Nova, one of the few who addresses his envelopes himself. The Waldorf As- toria and the Hollywood Montecito invites us to drop back again sone- time and Time, Q weekly magazine, says now is the time to renew that subscription.
 Next comes Q scold from a resi- dent of Pasadena, Calf, who says I stabbed us and our fair city (Pasadena) in the. back when we are down" when I wrote about the transfer of the Rose Bowl to Dur ham, N. c. Also a letter from the father of Bill Dudley, Virginia's All- America back, saying thanks for the story about his boy.
 Here is a whopper - beautiful photograph of Seabiscuit, bless him, standing at ease before & nnagnifl- gently large tree on Ridgewood ranch, his domestic home in Cali- fornia. Charley Howard, white hat on his head and his l65 pounds set- tied sqiarely in the saddle, is In the irons. The Biscuit is fatter.
 And a comic strip from the incor- rigihle Peter Pan, Jimmy Joe John ston, and there is no good will pre- ferred here. It shows Jimmy gazing into 6 crystal ball and watching Conn, Nova and the two Baers Quittin gto Joe Louis in various positions. Tn the corner a caricature of Mike Jacobs with 6 money bag carries the question, ''Who said Scrooge is dead?" Tsk, Johnston, tsk, tsk.
 From the Army
 There are many more of them but I'll pass along to another big one on the bottom of the pile. It comes from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and on the cover is a montase og the cadets in action with bavOnets and in flying tcss, behind machine guns and on the gridiron. on parade and advane- Ing throHGh a GfuQke srecn. On it.