The Ely miner., 1943-11-25

little time. GrantIand Rice
At the same time
the draft is moving in on big league
baseball.
Consider the Yankees alone.
Spud Chandler, their star pitcher,
Is on his way out, unless he is 4-F,
which Spud isn't. Under the rules,
Spud is LA.
Charlie (''King Kong") Keller,
their home run hitter, is waiting his
la test. Keller is no 4-F. Nor
IA.
Joe Gordon, their feature second
baseman, has had over 100 hours in
the air-and he can't miss.
If Chandler, Keller and Gordon
are not fit for service work we must
have the super-army of all time.
They happen to be three of the finest
all-around athletes I've ever known
on one ball club.
happen to know that Bill Dickey,
their veteran catcher, a first class
f1ier, too old for any combat flying at
36, would like to get an instructors
flying job.
/ This same condition must apply to
other teams. If the war remains
tough or gets tougher, the call on
sport will be even louder than it
has been so far. And the call has
been heavy.
Shifting Tides
In many cases football stars, play.
ing at one college in October, are
playing with rivals now.
Tides are shifting back and forth
faster than the human eye can fol-
low.
Is a team to be rated on its Sep
tember and October form before the
blast arrived, or is it to be rated on
its November showing down the
stretch?
In the past few weeks hundreds of
good football players have been
called away from teams scattered
all over the national terrain.
There are some good teams left.
In any event the balance of power
is more evenly distributed.
Army and Navy are able to COM
plete their season without any def
icits in material.
We are not yet certain whether
there will be further shifts from
time to time, extending through De-
cember.
This, of course, would throw the
various bowl situations into some
thing approaching a tangle, if not a
turmoil.
But there are still many rougher
things happening in this war.
AU- Star Selections
Those attempting to pick All-Star
or All-American combinations also
find themselves wading into the
quicksands.
How many games would star
have to play before he could be
properly named?
1t is certainly not the players
fault that he can't finish his football
work.
To help complicate matters, the
waning season has been loaded with
stars-such backs as Daley, Bertelli,
Davis, Hamburg, Steuber, Kane,
Odell, Graham, McCardle, Podesto,
Dark, Miller, Hirsch, PrOkop, Field
and others, from Duke, North Caro-
lima, Purdue, Ohio State, Dartmouth,
Washington, etc.
There will be no lack of fine ma
terial from which to make selec-
tions, but some of these who might
belong have only played in one or
two big games.
At least all this will help to keep
the debaters busy when "the ways
are heavy with mire and rut."
The Old Grad had been a trife
dazed all season. Events have had
him trying to face three or four di-
rections in the same split second.
For example, we have Minnesota
rooters pulling hard for Daley, who
helped Michigan wreck Minnesota.
Under such conditions you can't
very well blame the Old Grad from
feeling just a bit curious in the
cupola.
For all of these expected and JUS
titled handicaps it has been an in
teresting season and there are still
some good games on the docket be-
fore the season ends.
about Bob OdeU
Miller, Bertelli, Davis and Daley,
among others, are all great backs.
RerteIli and Miller have been the