Friday, April 3, 1931
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Call At Baker;
Eight Veterans
iThirty-threo players, three times as
many as turned out for spring root-
Wl practice In 1930, have been is-1
Aued uniforms for spring drill thlsj
Jear, Coacb George sscorj. announcea
itoday. The squad will start practice
4 soon as water Is turned Into the
showers at the tourist camp.
There are as many players on the
pprlng grid squad 'as turned out for
practice as any time last fall. Coach
Scott sold the team Is the best bal
anced of any he has coached since
coming to Baker. There are tight
fetter men on the squad.
i Tho football practice this spring
kill be similar to that engaged In
(luring the fall, except that the cooch
Will place more emphasis on funda-.
mentals onpe game.
I ThjB men who have been lfsued
Suits are: Prank Arthur, Cocn Ham
Snond. Arthur. Harding. Donald
Bmurthwaltc, Joe Godrtes, Russell
Hyatt, Boy Crockett, cub Bcglcy. Dick
Truscott, James Crockett, diet
brown, Charles Smith. Oren McCray.
Samcs Gentry, Randall Enberg, Wil
liam Voughn; Curtis Shirley, Joe
bwllllams, William Kempler, Jack
Lew, Denver Southard, William Ver
Eillllon, Ray Rossum, Robert Lowe.
Norman Ragsdale, Andy Shoemake.
Paul Bpence. Alvln ott. Keith Blan
Char. Roy Hruska. Cam Vermillion,
Pat Lowry and Marvin Wendt.
out, Just the same or they wenVj
an utter and abysmal discouragement
and given up.
It all may bo In the book before
shot is hit. But the book Is not kept
by human hands or subject to human
eyes. . - "...
GIRL PITCHER
WHIFFS BABE
AND GEHRIG
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. April 3 Wi
Jackie Mitchell. 17Tyear-old girl
pitching star, made her debut Into
big time baseball Thursday by strik
ing out Babe Ruth and Leu Gehrig
in succession, as the New York
Yankees and Chattonooga met In an
exhibition game.
Going Into the game In the first
Inning to pitch only to the Babe,
she forced the mighty king of swat
to swing twice and then caught him
flat footed with a pitch straight
down the middle of the plate. She
also chose to pitch to Gehrig, strik
ing tho Yankee first baseman out
on three pitched balls.' She walked!
Tony Lazzerl before being taken out
of the box.
Sport Slants
This Game i
Of Golf !
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Hy O.-ll. Kerlcr
Out hero on the PaclUb const, more
specifically In Los Angeles, where this
Correspondent Is living lor n couple
01 months, a brand new golfing n
iM"d has popped up.
I It is called the "Evil Eye" that
(s the name a sports magazine editor
gave it. And, I regret to say. iw mnll
lous operations (alleged) llrnt wers
Noticed among feminine golfers, and,
to date, have been restricted to their
tanks. ' ' .
I The editor was discussing the un
expected defeat ol one of the best
California players fit the hands of
teveral supposedly Inferior players, in
parlous tournaments, and he ex
pressed the belief that the player in
question was affected by the adverse
pulling of galleries composed largely
Of members of a club' she had ''do
erted" (be said) to play for another
Hub. . . . .
"It Isn't that,' replied tho woman
o whom ho was speaking. "It is the
evil thought held by one wo) mm in
fhose galleries' .
And (continued the editor) this
lady went on to say that a lot of
the girls believed with her that this
woman had mastered mental telepa
thy to the extent that she could
make a golfer miss her shots, or at
least some of them.
VICTIM MiNIfiS At At
: This deplorable suspicion, or con
rlctlon, apparently dating back to
Balem, Mass., or the late hypothetical
t3vengall, was made the subject of
comment by one of the leading sports
writers of the section, and this elic
ited a letter to him from the eminent
lady golfer who had been mentioned
aa the victim of the malign influ
ence. '
This letter, according to my own
unlmnortnnt ideas, was quite the
most sensible factor of tho entire
discussion. Tho golfer stud sho un
derstood she was reported os the vie
tlm of tho "Evil Eye,'' and had cvsn
heard that she was' said to liavo
started the rumor. .
She denied tho latter report un
qualifiedly, and dismissed the other
with the reasonable explanation that
ehe had played relatively poor golf
through most of the winter season,
and had deserved to lose a good many
matches.
IT WON'T WOltK
I cannot possibly work up much
of a perspiration over tho "Evil Eye"
theory, and more especially Its re
verso English. I have tried honest
ly, through a long career of watch
ing golf competitions in which 1 was
Immensely interested, never to pull
against any competitor figuring that
he had enough to struggle with ut
best.
But I have d one some colossal ;
pulling FOR a certain competitor, 1
now retired from the scene of action.
At times I have pulled so hard that, I
If such things had any effect at nil,
the results must have been mngnlfl-
cent.
' Hum -ho! But the Ioijr putts stnyetl '
My Alan J. fioukl
f Associated Press Eporta Editor)
Down In the midst of the North
Carolina ' pine country, where the
celebrated Duke tobacco and power
millions have created one of the
greatest colleglute development of
all time, William Wallace Wade has
completed the first stages of his
new Job, the object of which Is to
put Duke university on the athletic
map in general, the football sector
in particular. ' ' '
Wade has taken charge there af
ter eight years of sensational suc
cess at the University of Alabama.
The engagement of the tall, grcy
holred Tonnessean is typical of
the big way In which Duke is do
ing things, athletically as weirds
scholastic-ally. ;
Before he put his football charges
through their forst spring workout,
in a practice game that revealed a
startling wealth of gridiron talent,
Wade 'talked with this correspond
ent in his office In the new gym
nasium or "field house."
Liko everything else about the
premises, the building bespoke Its
newness and the minute attention
to the last word in equipment. Ev
erything about the fur-flung Duke
campus, split into two sections for
men and women, is splc and sptirW
Construction is still In progress,
with the baseball field being linked
to tho magnificent athletic plant
and an imposing stone chapel being
added to the main group of college
buildings.
It Isn't vlslblo to the naked eye,
if anything necessary to the estnb
llshment of this remarkable instlf
tutlon has been overlooked by the
trustees who have handled the $20.
000,000 building program and will
administer the endowment capital
of upwards of $40.000,000 figures
exceeded in tho American collegi
ate world only by Harvard.
NOT .It ST ! OOI1AM.I,
To William Wallace Wedc. Duke
presents a rare opportunity to car
ry out his ideas and ideals of col
lege athletics.
"Our object isn't simply to turn
out a lot of first-rate football teams.
Of course we hope to mjike a show
ing on tjie gridiron and we may do
so this year, but we have under
taken an athletic program .designed
to benefit all the students.'
"To do this, our program will be
three-fold to Btimuloto general
and specialized intra-mural sports,
to develop the proper couching and
to take part in intercollegiate com
petition." football coach. Is general athletic?
director. He has had broad experi
ence, ulthough his fame rests chief
ly on his ability to develop grid
iron talent. He will visit his old
friend, Bob Zuppke, at Illinois this
spring for consultation on the beat
methods to employ at Duke. ' "
Take It or Leave It
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