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
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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
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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
----
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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
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world’s athletes.
The announce- a good thing about him.
football players from the gridiron the caliber Paul Dean used to be.
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