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THURSDAY, JU L Y 21, 1938 -----Speaking o f Sports— JVpfrw Night Baseball HE success ot night baseball. pioneered by the Cincinnati Reds T F ootb all Ace a couple ot years ago and intro- C h a p m a n Is Diamond Star By GEORGE A. BARCLAY AM CHAPMAN used to boot toot- balls over Pacific coast coals S last tall and help Stub Allison s Uni versity ot California Golden Bears smear their opponents. Now Sam belts baseballs around American league parks and helps Connie Mack’s Athletics stay In the pennant race. The metamorphosis ot this All- American football player into a star outfielder has baseball wiseacres shaking their heads. Sam has vio lated the axiom which says that star football players never make star baseball players. He stepped off the campus without any minor league seasoning and because of the way he has been pounding the ball, has won himself a regular berth in the Athletics outfield. Chapman was rated the best back on the Pacific coast last year. He was the spark plug in the attack which gave the California machine a 13 to 0 victory over Alabama in the Rose Bowl game on New Tear’s day. When the grid season was over, Sam turned to baseball. He devel oped something of a reputation as a slugger and had big league scouts trailing him around the college cir cuit. The big league training sea son came and went and while Sam had his ears cocked for offers, he decided to wait until a real bid turned up. Ty Cobb, the retired immortal ot baseball, had been watching him and growing more enthusiastic all the time. Finally he got hoid of ,- r e d with satisfying financial re turns by the Brooklyn Dodgers re cently. indicates that before very long 'floodlights will be part of the equipment of every big league ball park. In its first two games after dark. Brooklyn drew 66,000 patrons through the turnstiles—considerably more than would have come in the afternoon. The results at Cincinnati thus far have been equally favorable. So there is little reason to doubt that night baseball would draw well u» other big league cities. Few teams do very much busi ness on week days. The average fan does not find it possible to at tend such games regularly. The chance of actually seeing a game after dinner instead of reading about it in the box scores should prove attractive. All things being equal, the average man would just as soon see Joe Di Maggio or Gabby Hartnett in action on a ball field as he would watch Clark Gable or William Powell on the screen. Night baseball, however, would not be a serious competitor to the movies, because only a doien games at most would be scheduled during a 154-game season by any team. A number of big league magnates and managers look with rather sour eyes on night baseball. Bill Terry, manager of the Giants will have none of it. But with the demon stration of proved success in two big league cities, it seems inev itable that it will be adopted gen- erally in the big time. WHO’S F L IG H T o f C u rre n t K r e n t a__________ AROUND EARTH Howard Hughe» and Companion» Set New Record of NEWS 91 Hour» . . . Japan Cancel» 1940 Olympic» THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK—Several years be fore Remain Rolland finished N “Jean Christophe,’’ Leo Tolstoi called him the warden of the con science of Europe. R o llan d in his quarter- Com ea H om e century exile in T n .> Switzerland, he r ° U ,e has r e m a i n e d "above the battle,” warning of war, decrying hatred, pleading for peace and understanding. His has been a voice crying in the wilderness. His exile ended, he returns to France, President Roosevelt addressing Louisville clUsens from the platform 5 “ an old man, broken and despair n t hi* »aerial train urging them to support Senator Barkley for renomlna- ing,” as the news dispatches report. ?oS I K U at'the President’s Uft and Mayor Scholl, of Louisville The world seems to have little heed ed his impassioned appeals. He at his right. wants to die in Clamecy, the vil lage where he was born. The greatest novel of a cen tury, possibly of many cen SUM M ARIZES THE WORLI WORLD'S WEEK turies, “ Jean Christophe” has C Western Newepeper Union. been called by great critics ment, made by Marquis Koichl and multitudes of lesser lights. Hughes' G reat Flight It was published in 1913. This Kido, public welfare minister, sur writer has found few young per OWARD HUGHES and his crew prised even the Japanese organiz sons, even those majoring in of four completed their remark- ing committee, and the members of I literature, who have read It. able flight around the world when that body declared the games would He has found others who have nev they landed at Floyd Bennett air be held, "whether or not the gov port, New York, 3 ernment supports them." er heard of Romain Rolland, the days, 19 hours and In Tokyo it was said the govern Nobel peace prize winner exiled 17 minutes after ment's action wbs due to the cost NLY three of the eighteen play from his country, while Carl von starting from that of financing the games and to m ili ers who made up the National Ossietsky, German Nobel peace place. They had cov tary leaders’ opposition to a growth league All-Star team of 1933 were prize winner, was impoverished, ered 14,824 miles of nationalism among the Japanese included in the 1938 roster. They jailed and harried to his death in and made six stops people. were Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs, the same “ years between." There for refueling — at It was expected the International Carl Hubbell of the New York is in this age swift obsolescence in P a r is , Moscow, committee would meet soon to de Giants and Tony Cuccinello of the the spiritual heritage as well as in O m sk, Yakutsk. termine the next move. London Bees. The other 15 have either machines. Fairbanks and Min and Helsingfors, Finland, were men drifted out of the league or have But another, even greater teach slipped out of the star class . . . er, looking sadly down on the multi tioned as possible sites for the 1940 neapolis. They cut more games. tude from a hill in The longevity of stars seems great Howard than three days off Jerusalem. was ---«--- er in the American league, for nine T e a c /iin g s Hughes __ w---- the record made by of the original eighteen were includ W ill Be also unheeded: Senator Thomas Wins ed on this year’s All - American I 'Hh 7 ve”' 7 , t» 7 “ Wiley Post in 1933. but Hughes said ICTORY of Senator Elmer after landing that he still consid baseball team. They were Lefty Thomas of Oklahoma in his fight Gomes, Bill Dickey and Lou Geh thy children together, even as a hen ered Post’s solo flight was the most rig of the Yanks; Bob Grove, Joe gathereth her chickens under her remarkable job of flying ev« 1do,J®; for renomination by the Democrat» Cronin and Jimmy Foxx of the Bos wings, and ye would not!" But On the hop across the Atlantic was hailed by the New Dealers as a direct result of the ton Red Sox; Rick Ferrell of the neither He nor His teaching was al the time made by Lindbergh was campaign speaking Washington Senators; Charley Geh- together forgotten. There will also nearly halved. tour of President ringer of the Detroit Tigers and be those who will remember Ro With Hughes, wealthy sportsman Roosevelt. The Pres Earl Averill of the Cleveland In main Rolland. and aviator who financed and or ident told the Okla When he was exiled from ganized the flight, were Harry Con dians. homans what a help France, vast sums of money nor and Thomas Thurlow, naviga A Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, the senator had were offered him If he would go tors; Richard Stoddart, radio opera or $22,500 a year with the Pittsburgh been to him and how to America, to write and lecture. tor, and Ed Lund, flight engineer. Pirates in professional football were much he had done Publicity, or any form of self-ex Hughes himself was at the con the offers which Whizzer White, for the state; and ploitation, is to him profoundly trols all the time, but said the robot Colorado university’s great halfback, he g a v e s o m e distasteful. He withdrew to a se pilot did all the flying except the had to consider recently. He chose swipes to Thomas’ cluded villa near Zurich, Switz takeoffs and landings. Much credit the Oxford scholarship. The deci rivals, Governor also was given the automatic navi erland. sion was his own, too. He asked Sen. Thomas Marland and Repre gator loaned by the army air corps There is one definite attitude in his father for advice, but White pere sentative Gomer Smith. So the SAM CHAPMAN insisted on leaving it up to him and all these post-war writings. He had The chief perils encountered were Oklahomans picked Thomas by a on the flight to Paris, because they no faith in “ move- he decided in favor of higher educa, Connie .Mack and told him to grab H e Knew ments,” in “ idolo- had barely enough fuel to reach Lc good majority. For governor they tion. Sammy as a sure-fire “ natural.” “ I Righteoue gies,” right or left. Bourget airport; and the trip over named Leon C. Philips, much to the told you once I ’d never recommend C an Be C ru el He repulsed Henri Siberia where they had to go to an disappointment of Alfalfa Bill Mur a ball player,” Ty said, “ but I ’ve B a r b u s s e , h is altitude of 17,000 feet and accumu r a in the course of his trip across got to this time. This kid Chapman r ) OWN in the Texas league, fans, clarte group and the various "united lated much ice. Radio communica the country, Mr. Roosevelt, in his tion with the land was maintained has a future.” fronts," as he did the emissaries of managers and scouts are capacity of head of the Democratic watching the performance of two bloody reaction from the right. He most of the time except for six party, first boosted the cause of hours before Minneapolis was knew that the righteous can be as young men who until last year were Senator Barkley of Kentucky, his pitching sensations in the big cruel as the wicked, once they find reached. During that period their staunch supporter, and cleverly- transmitter was out of commission. Mack, who has always had a leagues—Schoolboy Rowe, former reliance on force. The monoplane, named "New avoided hitting too hard at Gover Like the great German Fich weakness for college men, offered ly of the Detroit Tigers, and Paul York World’s Fair, 1940,” was wel nor Happy Chandler, who seeks te, whom he esteemed, he be Sam an $8,500 bonus for signing Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals. comed at New York by Mayor La Barkley’s seat. lieved only in the “ inner light” Shipped to the minors this year by with him. Passing through Colorado and Ne Guardia and Grover Whalen and a _never in organization or force. Chapman thought it was a good tremendous crowd. The weary fli vada, he avoided politics in his talks, But he was not a “ political ag idea, accepted, and joined the team ers soon got to bed, but next day for Senators Alva Adams and Fat nostic.” He fought, and suf early in May. He got into the line the metropolis gave them one of its McCarren, both of whom have op fered. to arouse the world con up almost right away and began customary ticker-tape receptions posed some of his chief policies, science. banging the ball all over the lot. He is a tall, spare, pallid old man, with a parade. The wives of Stod are mighty strong in their states. In his first five weeks in the league, with thinning hair and sad, deep- dart, Connor and Thurlow were at Both of them boarded his train but he got 44 hits in 123 times at bat, set eyes as he returns to France at the airport to meet their husbands. their reception was decidedly cool. The President delivered the only including nine home runs. And he Katherine Hepburn, the movie star, the age of seventy-two. has contributed punch to a hustling, • • bade Hughes good-by when he start set speech on his program at the San Francisco world’s fair adminis hard-hitting baU club that can give T WAS reported that Sir John ed and welcomed him back. In Hol tration building. He then reviewed any team in the league a run for its lywood it is rumored they are en Reith, director general of the the United States battle fleet of money. British Broadcasting corporation, gaged or possibly secretly married. 66 vessels, and spent several hours ---- * — Not many college men have was badly licked in that interna aboard the cruiser Houston. Next tional A r a b i c stepped off the campus and into the day he spent in Yosemite National Sir John crooning contest a Deficit to Be 4 Billions big leagues to stay. Few if any I N REVISED budget estimates for park. B eaten in while back. Virtu great football players have accom After three days in California I the current fiscal year, given out plished this feat. Sammy Baugh, R adio D u el al’y a» observers gave the decision in Washington, the President fore the President boarded the Hous who has been a sensation as a pass- ton at San Diego and went to the to Italy. If so, it probably was the cast a net federal deficit of $3,984,- heaver for the Washington Redskins Galapagos islands for some fishing. 887,600, an increase of $2,525,639,500 only time he ever lost a contest. in the National Professional Foot Thence he was to pass through the over last year's deficit and $3,035,- ball league, failed to make the grade The tall, bald, grim Scotsman Panama canal and come back home 000,000 more than he had estimated this year as a member of the St. is upped to the job of running by way of the southeastern stales in January for the 12 months end Louis Cardinals and even faded the Imperial Airways, as a civil ing next June 30. when he was farmed out to Colum arm of rearmament, with a The deficit, which will increase Van Nuys Nominated bus in the American association. sizeable hike in salary. It is the gross public debt by $3,485,000,- now $50,000 a year, instead of Besides Sammy Baugh, three PPONENTS of Senator Freder 000, will be financed, the President $35,000. classic examples of All-Americans ick Van Nuys of Indiana ac indicated, by a reduction of $500,- He is an engineer, and in 1916 was 000,000 in the working balance of cepted defeat with wry faces. They who failed in big league tryouts SCHOOLBOY ROWE here with 600 technicians checking the treasury’s general fund; by the had intended that he should be were: Jim Thorpe, who couldn’t on war material contracts. He use of $680,000,000 in special issues “ purged” for his fights against New make the grade with the New York Giants many years ago, Ernie Nev their respective clubs, these fel didn’t like America or Americans of government obligations and by Deal measures, but realized his ers, who was a flop when the St. lows are trying a comeback trail but eased up on us later on, Run $2,805,000,000 in new federal financ threatened independent candidacy Louis Browns tried to turn him into that will land them in the big show ning British radio, he has been ex ing. would split the party in the state ecrated as a tyrant, but he has a diamond performer and Earl Cald again. wide open, and also would injure ---- * ---- well, famous Yale back who faded the presidential aspirations of Pau) Should the pitching magic that held to his line and confounded all rapidly when the Cleveland Indians once made them great return to the his adversaries. His views on radio Japan Cancels Olympics V. McNutt. So Governor Town put a uniform on him. arms of these athletes, they will find programs were outlined by him as APAN evidently thinks the war send invited the senator tc present follows: “ To set out to give the in China is not near its end. The his name to the state convention, Sam Chapman looks like the glit a hearty welcome back in the ma public what it wants, as the saying tering exception to this somber list. jors, for the Tigers could use Rowe is, is a dangerous and fallacious Tokyo government has cancelled and other candidates withdrew. Van Nuys was then perfunctorily the Olympic games of 1940, drop At present writing he appears to and the St. Louis Cards might cease policy." ping all plans to be the host of the renominated without anyone saying have licked the jinx that follows star floundering if they had a pitcher of © Consolidated News Features. W N U Service. world’s athletes. 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