-- -m*T .-B0.7 TtMf PCQ.%1> "(A At* GcaTA m "5- li A—12 WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1939. Baseball Enters Second With for -— —- Century -" — Prospects 4» A__ Unprecedented Progress Still Tops All PASSER BECOMES RECEIVER —By JIM BERRYMAN ose or Dodgers' $5,000 /yup'. veny\ O'Brien Lure for D. C.'s Biggest Sports Banquet; Sports, Says / IMTEMSTlMt! \ — HAVE Is «J BUT I Spurned by Jones and Johnson Paled by Hysteria Over Davey ^OTHte IMTe»C<T5! J By FRANCIS E. STAN. N. L. Prexy Every now and then a youngster will hit the sports trail just at Van Mungo the right time, be able to exercise more than usual ability, and get better than even breaks in luck. And the result is a new star of major Frick Looks to It ... a new household name. MocPhoil Tells proportions A fellow got to thinking along To Be Even Greater. Limit these lines at the third annual Touchdown Club banquet in honor of Recalcitrant and Davey O’Brien, all-America from Texas Christian. In a way you As Years Go By couldn’t help it. Erratic THE LITTLE TEXAH Hurler It was by all odds the best the Touchdown Club <This is another in a banquet ever series IS IMPRESSED EV /JQ) threw and written the maybe the best sports affair of its kind that ever was held for Associated Press THE MS EARNINGS By DREW MIDDLETON, \S< Aiaotiated In Washington. Nearly everybody was there Carter Glass, Tom by sports leaders.) OP HIS EX-TEAM MATE. Preu Bporta Writer. Connally, Walter SAMMY BAUGH, BUT NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Van Llngle Johnson, Jennings Randolph, Tad Wieman, Bobby 4 By FORD FRICK, AN AERIAL SHARPSHOOTER V STILL INSISTS HE WILL Mungo and his employers, the Jones and 100 others. And it isn't unreasonable, entirely, to assume President, National Leaaue OF THE FIRST FLIGHT. HIS X * WOT PLAV POR PAy.,,... Brooklyn Dodgers, officially have they came partly because the Tcuchdowners had bagged the best drawing NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—I hope it’s, PASSES GAINED I,S7S VDS. launched the pre-season baseball card that college football has produced since Red Grange. not treason if I say—in this centen- For his al*aa maa\mv ^ salary rumpus hereabouts with their The boy, O'Brien, unquestionably was the magnet. Before the nial year celebrating baseball’s cen- PURINA THE REGULAR annual declaration of war over Texas SEASON.. .. Christian quarterback was a great star the Touchdowners had tury of progress since its natal sum- \T| Mungo's wages for the 1939 season. * held banquets, but none was as big as this one. There hasn’t been one mer of 1839—that I’m looking in Ever since Mungo came up with the other the college player in recent years who was entitled to be called Mr. College direction with Just as Dodgers they have had trouble much, if not interest. signing him. The trouble didn't Football. In 1938 there were a lot of line men. Ki Aldrich of Davey’s more, Baseball’s first 100 years make a end there. In the past he has en- own team was a great center. Duke produced Eric Tipton. Pitt still glamorous story. The livened the baseball scene "by <a> had Marshall Columbia kicked boys scamper- Goldberg. in with Sid Luckman. Army a < > ing about the village green of Coop- socking teammate, b socking had a fine back in Huey Long. Notre Dame had Ed Beinor. an California erstown, in upstate New York, opposing player, (c) pulling a flashed a runner in Vic great Bottari.' There was nothing the matter with learned principles in mechanics and snoot at the club owners, cd> leaving team Holy Cross’ Bill Osmanski except that he, like the rest, didn’t match rules that brought order and mean- the flat for a journey home to S. Davey O'Brien for a combination of qualities color, crowd appeal, ing to their helter-skelter exertions. Pageland, C., and a gander at the ability, success and good fortune. Abner Doubleday devised the rules crops. entirely to help the local youngsters Has Plenty of Color. • get more enjoyment out of their At that, he is a colorful if un- Tad Wieman Deplores the Age of Skepticism play. conventional character. No one ex- He outlined a game and founded cept a few hardened souls who fre- O'Brien was the youngster who came along at the right time and a tradition. From Cooperstown quent Ebbets Field believes he is as did the right Offhand be to things. you might tempted say that never commons to the national mfi great a as he thinks he game of pitcher is, will a again single young man stand out so sharply against a brilliant 1939 is a great record of achieve- but he is a relief after the serious, But background. merely attending the banquet cured that temptation ment. Achievement not of one man young-business-man attitude of the The greatest competitive golfer in the world, Jones, was introduced or of one set of men, but testimony I Davey Yankee and Giant players. when the that the ^ Leland Stanford MacPhail. the banquet began. The crowd gave him a hand. They cheered thing itself—baseball, the boy Walter the game of our grandfathers, our orator of the Gowanus, is in the op- Johnson, greatest pitcher of all times. But it definitely was LAST ourselves—has had a NIGHT. TEXAS CHRISTIANS posite corner from Mungo in the show, and when the little star was fathers, scope K t Davey's passing called up to haul Q’mmMStJrfT * and an influence much greater than AlIGHT/MITE RECEIVED present brawl. He sent Mungo a away a gleaming. 3-foot gold trophy the guests stood and ONE up applauded realizes. contract for $5,000. a cut of $10,000 and perhaps anybody yet OF THE MAJOR OF whistled and were reluctant to sit down. AWARDS from last year's hire, the other day. Its Achievements Amazing. Tad Wieman, the Princeton coach, got up as the principal speaker and 7 COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL Yesterday Mungo bounced it back The centennial made a nice talk. He deplored the age of skepticism and the fashion of year celebrations, F WHEN HE WAS HONOR GUEST like a bad check. enrolling the entire baseball being cynical. He longed for the days of idealistic uni- “I'm goin’ to sit right here in idolatry. Jennings from at the Touchdown Clubs verse, its capitoline center, Pageland til I get a better contract,” Randolph, chairman of the House District Committee, stood up and said Judge Landis’ office, to the farthest- annual banquet at the bellowed Van Lingle. that Washington should have the Army-Navy game and also every year flung outpost of amateur diamond “That's the only contract he'll another Navy game, preferably with Notre Dame. He said that & willard Hotel. Washington competition, aims to crystallize this JOt get. He'll take it if he knows what's should have a huge stadium and be a sports center. century of achievement. In our Na- good for him.” countered MacPhail. Tom Connally made a stirring speech and Col. Amon Carter, the Texas tional League motion picture, “The Mungo is well off with $5,000. He National publisher and tub-thumper, made two talks and finished by singing a song Game,” we have tried to reminded no one of Walter Johnson catch the without benefit of accompaniment. But through it all you kept high lights, sketch the last year. He worked only 133 in- thinking —- '■ outlines, of the r — --- * about the 150-pound magnet who helped to bring these men together and portray something nings. appeared in 24 games, started heroic proportions of baseball's in- 18, completed 6. won 4 and l06t 11. after a while you began to wonder about this being the age of skepticism fluence. I think today more people As MacPhail pointed out in a terse- and lack of ideals. For here was a little fellow, with a scintillating pano- than ever before are aware of and St. John's Visit to 5,000-word statement this is scarcely rama of idolatry. Western impressed by the loftiness of base- the type of record that makes a ball traditions and of how deep are club shout with joy and scribble the roots of the game in our national Seen as One of Hottest big. fat numbers over the pitcher's Davey's Really Only a Normal 21-Year-Old Boy life. contract. This is The centennial before getting to be a pretty loose-jointed piece, without benefit of year, it is Very Good At Time*. finished, will have increased Court Tilts of Year and greatly Off on continuity moral, but, to repeat, it was Davey's night. Even tha menu and there nave been a lot this national consciousness of its featured him. It “Potatoes By GEORGE HUBER. the Uni- of people who figured Mungo would read, O'Brien,” even though they were plain No. 1 pdint. Saturday, during game. This 1939 into which become one French fries and a little St. John's visits Western's versity of Richmond basket ball car- of the great right- » soggy. Paunchy old All-Americas were a dime a we tiny are stepping will be sure to nival, he scored 12 while handed pitchers of all time. dozen in the banquet hall but more gymnasium tomorrow afternoon for points help- nobody paid any attention to them than have its share of record-making in When he is he what probably will be one of the ing to down Staunton Military Acad- good is very fast.