Bradley beam., 1943-12-04
WARMIN THE BENCH
by Sgt. Frank de Blois CNS Sports Correspondent
Stop Me If You've Heard This Song Before

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 When genial Jimmy Councilman was coach of the Chicago Cardinals in the National Professional Foot ball League his team used to absorb some heartless wallopings from those mighty monsters of the mid way, the proud Chicago Bears. Today Jimmy is public relations man for the St. Louis Browns which is far cry, indeed, from those dear, dead days of long ago when he used to sit in the chill autumn air on Sundays and watch his team get crushed underfoot by the Mas todons. He can look back with a smile at those dreadful days now, although when he recalls what Bronko Nagurski used to do to his boys, the smile is quite liable to break into a shudder.
 Nagurski, the old Minnesota land mine himself, was always fright for the Cards to behold. He used to murder them. He'd take the ball, curl it up in his arms like a baby, and then step on the nearest Card inal's face. The Bronk was a hard man to stop in those days.
 On one occasion, after the Card inals had undergone an exception ally gruesome shellacking at the hand of Nagurski, the badly bat tered men of Councilman climbed wearily into bus destined to car ry them safely to the comfort of their hotel. The brave, embattled Cardinals were feeling tenderly for their seats when a large, red faced woman, laden with packages, brush ed past a couple of tackles, bowled over two or three guards and hip blocked two tailbacks out of seat.
 Watch out, fellows" warned Councilman. "It's Nagurski's moth er.''
 Despite all those drubbings he got from the Monsters, Councilman retained warm feeling towards George Halas, coach and owner of the Bears, who, Jimmy believes, is the greatest football master mind in the world.
 The high opinion of the Bears and Halas was shared by Charlie Bidwell, Churchman's old boss and owner of the Cardinals. Jimmy re- calls one afternoon when the Cards gave the Bears a terrific fight, los ing by an eyelash in the last min ute of play. Councilman waited in the clubhouse for Bidwell to show up and congratulate him for the great showing he had made against the Halas invinciables.
 Bidwell showed up all right but he was as pale as a ghost. "What a clase one that was," he gasped. Don't ever scare me like that again." Bidwell, it seems, is the hottest Bear fan in the country.
 Charlie Grimm, who was too good natured a guy to hold on to his job as manager of the Chicago Cubs, has signed 25-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. "I like Grimm" said Bill Veeck, owner of the Brewers, "and besides, he owns a piece of the club"
 Do you follow the bangtails? If so, the retirement to stud of nigh ty Whirlaway must have recalled to you some of the stories they used to tell back of the stables about Whirly and his trained, Ben Jones.
 A lot of mush and drivel has been written about trainers and horses but in Ben Jones' case, the stuff was straight goods. Jones was nuts about Whirly
 Whirlaway, when a colt, was as f1ighty and nervous as a child bride. As a two-year-old he finished out of the running three times, al- though he was good enough to beat any horse he ever faced. But Jones leased him along, stuck a binder