Old Fulton NY Post Cards by Tom Tryniski

TOMMY HOLMES BEVENS MAY Last Western Trip Has No Terror Army and Navy Grid BECOME YANK Supremacy on Wane NO. 1 HURLER For Flock After Dizzy N. L Season MAY HAVE TO STAY—There was a revealing little Despite Poor Start, Meet inspired Item from Meridian, Miss., the other day that shows why Has Won Only One GA. TECH STUDENTS the college gridiron supremacy exercised by the service Less Than Chandler PROMISED NEW DEAL Pirates Under schools throughout the war' will wane now that peace is Atlanta, Ga„ Aug. 20 (U.R)_AU raging throughout the world, as Red Skelton so aptly put it. By BILL GOODRICH was quiet at Georgia Tech today, with President Blake R. Van Leer Arcs Tonight Cadet Tom (Shorty) McWilliams informed his mother You'd have thought from promising to do his utmost to give in a telephone conversation that he "may have to remain early season performances the student body a better deal In By HAROLD C. BURR at West Point this season." .*"• ,. football seats-^-but the students Brooklyn Eagle Staff Correspondent that Spurgeon (Spud) Chand 1 Well Sir, that's what you * &: ,|£||g^ made it plain he's better deliver Pittsburgh, Aug. 20—The might call hard lines for ler would be the Yankee or else. .... Dodgers are poised and ready Mr. MtjWUliams who was a pitcher of the year. The "else" took on-a more modi to play out the last act of this But, like a good many people, fied form than last week's threat pretty fair, backfield star at . of a sitdowjv strike at midfleld it frightening National League you would have been wrong. The the big games. The students' de- Mississippi. State in 1944, gent nobody gave a hoot to is Floyd season on Western soil and it then accepted an appoint .mands were: wouldn't surpise 'em greatly if Boris (BUD Bevens who seems destined 1. Seats for the entire student ment to the military acad at present to be the No. 1 hurler body and their wives and/or Karloff should appear in a Pirate emy where last Fall he was of the Bronx Bomber staff. sweethearts as desired, starting uniform tonight at Forbes Field and When the campaign started, ex- at the 50-yard line and working come up with a no-hitter against a more than adequate grid- v Iron performer. Yank Manager Joe McCarthy sald northward toward the end zone 'era. About everything else has hap of Bevens: "Potentially he is a good in the east, or main, stand. pened in the life of the Prides of Assuming, that McWilliams pitcher. He will fool many a big 2. These preferential seats to be has not been misquoted, the leaguer with his stuff but whether sold on a seasonal basis at $8.80 the Gowahus. item expresses an attitude he will show It to good advantage a book. The whole campaign has been that is fairly prevalent now this season depends upon Bevens 3. All general admission seats haywire. There have been nights himself." to be offered to the student body when the Lip wanted to pull the that the war is over. While Bevens began slowly as was an 48 hours before they go on sale to bedclothes up over his head like a the formal shooting was go ticipated by the Yankee board of the public. small boy living through his first ing on, cadets at West Point strategy. In the first eight games 4. When and If Grant Field is nightmare. His design for living has and midshipmen at Annap Big Bill won only three while los enlarged by 10,000 seats, the stu been a crazy-quilt pattern. His in ing five; It was at this point that dents and band will mushroom In field and his outfield have been olis were free from all danger Bevens got hold of himself. And, both directions from the 50-yard constantly tossed into a hat—and of having their educations since the All-Star game In Boston, line in the east stand. come out a winning ball club. Like the old lady who lived in a shoe, Interrupted by a peremptory Tom McWilliams the huge right-hander has really call to the armed forces. dug into the win basket seven out he has often spanked 'em all sound of 10 times. He now has 14 vic ly and put 'em In his doghouse, With that danger passed or, at least, greatly mini tories against eight lossts. because he didn't know what else mized, a surprising number of athletes have lost all en Fireballer Chandler has won only to do. thusiasm for long range gunnery, boxing the compass or one game more, but has lost two One day he gets championship HE'S GOOD, TOO—Ted Williams has the limelight in the batting feats of the American what have you. less. pitching and then high school hurl League but Mickey Vernon, first baseman of the Washington Senators, is having quite a Praise From Dickey ing the neSt time his phantom Bill Dickey, his manager today, champion doffs his windbreaker. year for himself, too. He's leading the A. L. batters with a mark of .349. In fact, he's MATH SPILLED COULTER—Up at West Point, Col. is high on Bevens. "Bill has def He has had to take Class D catch been up at the top most of the campaign. He is shown batting one out, posing at the Red Blaik has been reasonably fortunate so far. Apart initely improved In the last two ers and convert 'em into big leaguers from normal graduation losses, the only serious defection months," said Dickey last night. overnight. He has made mistakes, camera and gripping a bat. "He's the kind of a pitcher who gambled wildly. But his amazing has been the departure of Mr. Dewitt (Tex) Coulter, an fools even the best of hitters. It outfit continues to win when the Cardinals win, and lose when the All-America tackle. wouldn't surprise me a bit to see Cincinnati, O., Aug. 20—Manager him win 20 games before the sea Cards stumble. It's an unbeatable It' is understood that the burly Texan was perfectly Bill McKechnie's ball club, a jinx system and has ruined Eddie Dy son's end. He has worked hard to the Giants this season, may find vUl v) willing to continue to play football at the Point but the to better himself and eventually er's belief that there is a Santa Graham, Costa Go itself In sixth place by the time the Claus. Point had different ideas on the subject because Coulter he'll be a top ace In baseball." invaders move out of this city to was being constantly thrown for losses in mathematics Another Yankee right-hander who morrow evening. More than once the new pilot has surprised the Bronx organiza of the Cardinals must have re classes, an experience which deserves deep sympathy. Manager Mel Ott's team has been Over Romanello tion Is Randy Gumpert, who takes gretted ever having left the staid III fVlo ^Sfli m And so Tex left the corps with some idea of-playing to. the mound against the White banging on the door for the lear- oil business for the phantasmagoria football at Georgia Tech this Fall, but Jack Mara's New Sox tonight at the Yankee Sta ership for the second division for that life in Mr. Ford Frlck's fairy York Giants came up with a more attractive offer and dium. Gumpert has come a long weeks now and a double win in the tale circuit has become. Billy Graham, fast-rising young welterweight from the two game series against the Cinna- At Coney Island Coulter will be spilling National Football League ball car way and currently Is sporting eight Gowanus Miracle ^ East Side, is in the proverbial pink of condition for his eight- wins (consecutively) against one natl team will do the trick. riers at the Polo Grounds. The Reds led the Giants by a Al Pennino of Brooklyn scored a round bout at MacArthur Stadium tonight against Vic Costa, setback. The Miracle of the Gowanus Ca Bronx battler Not that Blaik doesn't mourn Coulter's loss, regardless "All we need is two more good game and a half today as the teams nal would be easier of comprehen fifth-round technical knockout over pitchers next year," said . Dickey, prepared to open the series tonight. sion If the Dodgers had held the Leo Romanello, also of Brooklyn, Young Billy, hailed by his most enthusiastic admirers cf the circumstances. Al Nemetz, his other .1945 tackle Southpaw Dave Koslo, a tough luck lost through graduation, also was strictly top drawer. There "and we will round out a good Mad Mlssourians, the only team left in their feature bout, scheduled for as a "second Jimmy McLarnin," staff. Of course we could always pitcher these day though he has as they haye to beat, to something is every indication that the Army line won't be what it much stuff as any other pitcher in eight rounds, at the Coney Island has dropped only one decision in use as many pitchers as we can approximating an even break along 65 starts, a debatable verdict to Tony used to be. get like Chandler, Bevens and the league, carries the burden of the topsy-turvy trail. Perhaps pur Velodrome last night. • Old-Timers Steal Gumpert. In these three we have getting his team off to a good start.

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