DETROIT TIMES, JANUARY 20,1941 PAGE 15 Back Injury May Keep Greenberg Out of Army By 808 MURPHY was going through with this plan rather than wait until By this time every one knows what has happened. H* is scheduled to be in the army by June. Hank Greenberg, as all baseball fans know, is a thinker. October 16 and register for the draft. “I’llnot ask for deferment,” Greenberg has told one and Hank remained in Detroit several days after the World ' He thinks ahead in baseball. And, according to a story told this all. writer by one of Hank's closest friends, he did some thinking Series ended. He was all set to go through with his plan. But But there is still one other chance Greenberg will NOT be argued with him that he would have less ahead on the Selective Service Act, only to have his mind Hank's intimates accepted. chance of playing baseball in 1941 if he volunteered for service changed. Hank has been taking regular treatments for his back. than by taking a chance of being drafted. It’s the injury that kept him out of the lineup for more than It was Hank's original plan to volunteer for service at They reasoned (1) that he might draw a high number, 10 days last season. the end of the last baseball season. He figured that by setting and (2) that in a peace time draft, ball players likely would One medical authority, in close touch with the Greenberg for the rest of the young men, might > I lltutyiity an example nation's it not be among the first called. back ailment, said this: f&if I be worked out whereby he could obtain a furlough for the Greenberg was persuaded to abandon his plan. He "If the army’s medical staff takes a look at the X-ray duration of the baseball season. registered on October 16, as did all others, and then wailed to prints at Ford Hospital, It’lllikely reject llank." Bridges Already Signed by Tigers Greenberg confided to several intimate friends that he see what would happen. And so it goes—the story of Hank Greenberg and the draft. for 1941 Along With Newsom MONDAY'S MULLIGAN: Don’t let anybody tell you that I 80-Bo Newsom isn't already on the dotted line . And he will Skate Victors TENSE MOMENT Rangers Finally Top be one of the highest paid men in baseball this season ... Tommy Bridges got his contract on Christmas Day. as a .. sort of present from the Detroit ball club . He's already signed as and returned it . This hasn’t been announced yet. In National Wings Olympia . Red in Newell Banks, the checker champ? FANS Whatever became of FOR ICE And did you know that Jack Blott, former Michigan All-America, has quit the coaching game and now works in Harry Bennett's /* J||| *i>sor ' BKh Om#.' '~ '• _.',« v Champs’ 2-1 . Tourney personnel department at Ford’s The same Bennett had a ¦ Win birthday last Friday and his friends gave him a surprise party ALPENA, Jan. 20.—Vincent First Here that was a corker . Bozich of Detroit and Bonnie I Doyle of Saginaw, winner* of Since 1939 thr Michigan Senior »katlng Now Harmon's in Politics title* here over the week-end, will compete In the national By LEWIS H. WALTER Tom Harmon has gone into politics ... He announced over championship* at I.a<'rn«*e, Wla. For the time Feb. that he js forming a "Harmon for Heston" club next Saturday and Sunday. first since 23, the air Sunday 1939 the world champion New to aid Willie Heston in his race for a judgeship . York Rangers can boast of vic- By VAN a No one has any more dry humor than Charlie Gehringer, GEORGE E. tory over the Detroit Red Wings and the Tiger second baseman was at his best last week when ALPENA. Jan. 20 - There may at .Dlympia. The hockey club skaters in the which scored only one goal on De- invited downtown to make a speech of welcome to members of have been better past in Michigan than . Vincent troit ice last season and which at their state con- the Michigan Cemetery Owners Association Bozich but today he is justly has been beaten twice and tied three times Wings vention ... proud of retaining his title while by the this season, finally has through. been told I ua* slipping," Charlie cracked dryly, “but turning in the greatest achieve- come “I've The Rangers squeezed through' when somebody called and told me the cemetery men wanted ment in the history of the state skating ;to their first victory of the cam- looked myself In the mirror several speed championships here me at their convention I at the week-end. ¦ paign over the crippled Detroit .” over night days. Guess I'm up for the highest bidder .. The 23 ryear-old Ford Motor club last on two last period Company draftsman won the 220, : goals before 10,256 cash customers, largest Kxo and two-mile Saturday and [one of the crowds of the Watson — ! by rame back—yesterday —on the- season. Shots Phil and 'Take Over' Resort ! Mac Colville turned the trick. 2-1, Detroiters smooth ice of Mirh-E-Kee-Wis after the Wings had taken the to continue his sweep by lead People returning from Florida report that a bunch of De- Park in the second period on a goal by taking the.Hi), rmle and . five-mile . _ have over the Tuna Gardens at Fort Lauderdale Alex Metier: troiters taken events. I When any one walks into the place the hand strikes up “Dear No skater in the senior class in FOUGHT TO EN D . Old r. of D." . .Michigan skating had ever turned Wings fought to the last such a during the The Joe Sutka of Wyandotte fighTs Mose Brown In a main event in performance a victory over the New championships. second for at Pittsburgh Thursday night . Patsy O'Toole is back from I Yorkers and the interest was Johns Hopkins, looking much better, and around telling the world WINS HANDILY ! maintained to the last by their ! play newcomer friends, Briggs, supplied funds that efforts and the of how particularly Walter 0. Bwteb whipped out tn front in Eddie Bruneteau. But just a the a event where saved his life . 440. sprint, an glance at a section of the prome- past, .. he had been the and Walter Hagen has a modern camp at Waters Meet . weakrin nade seats before the battle began won handily. In winning the mile “We've got thing up there now except a golf course," gave veteran followers a strong e\er> -and fivc-rmte grinds he was ever-: indication of the ultimate result. Hagen was telling me the other night. “John King built a fine lastingly hanging up in but Nhb^^P* front In that section sat four crippled uirjxirl and I understand his next move will be a golf course." not leading during the early-stages Red Wings, Joe Carveth with his All the £otrth is watching Robert Tyre Jones 111. and hoping while he let others set the pace. crutches beside him and his broken In the mile he nipped John Her- leg in a cast, Sid Abel, Bob he’ll show early signs of his dad's golfing form . , . The younger bert of Escanaha in the last 10 Whitelaw, and Gus Giesebrecht, Jones is 14 . yards. In the five-mile. Joe Mc- all but Carveth battered out of -iloftaid seemed to have the race action during the road campaign all sewed up as he whirled around < of the last two weeks. Why Tigers ¦ the final turn into the lead It: -The Wing cripples watched as Shunned Reds .looked like a victory for-the-fanky¦ The Tigers turned down three exhibition games with the Saginaw boy. JOE FISHER AM) DAVE KERR, RANGER GOALIE, WAIT FOR PUCK TO LAND (Continued on Page Iff) . Cincinnati Reds in Havana . Reason: Owner Briggs figured AMAZING SPEED and not enough there would be too much “monkey business" But Bozich. even at this Junc- serious training . ture. was not to he denied. With Selfridge Soldiers Watch for announcement Soon of another ice show at the finish only 15 yards away the red-head, with an amazing burst Olympia . One is coming off, probably the Bess Earhart gang Starkell, of speed, shot out in front to win. fighter, Billy Harry Baxter has signed a new welter- Terry Rtowne also came on fast To Be Times Guests weight from Flint, who raises his dukes against Tommy Martin in that last dramatic drive to take at the Fairview tonight ... second, putting McDonald back in Ed Frutig has already signed to play pro football with third At Finals Midwestern ¦ * Bozich. with his six victories, O p.<.: ?, .*-'•***'vMj./* •: ’•-'vf>'V,A , \ ... He has only one worry now, that low Green Bay Packers has 180 points. Terry was next By EDGAR HAYES draft number . 1 . with 60 and Art Brown, champion the visiting the tourna- 111 Isl Did you know that Melody Jackson and Henry Armstrong two years ago, finished third in All boxers in Midwestern amateur boxing ment scheduled for Thursday night at Olympia are assured of vocal . with 40. are and the same person . This was the first ring name points one • support when they enter the ring. Twenty-four boys are with s The young draftsman is proba- carded „v-w • »^| , . A very . Henry used, but he didn't get far under this moniker the champions from Detroit, Pittsburgh and ’-'.i^^^R»» :: bly the most serious skater in the Diamond Belt Milwaukee.