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Williamson Hails Steers As His National Champs Cunningham's Column By Bill Cunningham graph r. Football Rules Group Remains Silent On Meeting Chairman Announces That No Information Will Be Given Out BaerWill Fight Whichever Way Louis Wants To Challenger Doesn't Think Joe Will Know All Answers In Bout Bv SID FEDER LAKEYVOOD, N. Jan. 5 CAP) Buddy Baer figured his kind of lightning can strike twice was right on 62 of the nine games played.lThat "one-half" comes in on the computation of tie game as half-a game won and half-a-game lost. So, the system had a win-or-lose efficiency of 72.1 per cent for the holiday games.

And, it might be added, i Tijlcr IHorning Tele SIX place back in September. Those Longhorns were No. 1. Navy was picked foir the No. 3 slot, but the Midcues nded up at No.

5. On forecasting conference champiorvs by ratings and not by percentage, the system made its most remarkable record on forecasting iconference and group leadersT rlinnesota, Texas, Duke, Colgate (Eastern Independents), Santa Clara (Far West Independents), Tlexas Tech (Border), Tulsa (Missouri Valley), Xavier (Ohio), Denton (Lone Star), Chattanooga (Dixie), William and Mary' (Virginia), St. Benedict's (Cfentral Kansas), Williams (Ljittle Three), Pacific Lutheran (Washington Intercollegiate), Howard Payne (Texas), WilliametCe (Pacific Northwest), Kilgore (Texas Jaycees), Cameron Ag gies (Oklahoma Jaycees), Coffeyville (Kansas Jaycees); ami there were other correct' September forecasts on down the line. Sports Trail Scribe Finds Rubber Shortage Will Affect Most Sports By WHITNEY MARTIN" NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (Yviue World).

Most of the comment concerning how the rubber shortage will affect sports has been confined to a prospective shortage of tennis and golf balls, but when you come right down to it about the only game you can play without feeling the pinch is a quiet game of cards. And even TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942 BOStOn DCSt BOSTON, -Ian. 5 (AP). Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox' American League battling: champion, Monday was voted the award made annually to Boston's most valuable major league player by the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. there around a bankroll that isn't there would seem to be a waste of time.

Baseball Might Feel Finch 1 Soldiers Carry Ball BOSTON, Jan. 5 If a month of war has proved an thinp it's that our most formidable problems are still uhcre they were on the home front. The principal difference is that now. unless we solve them. dir.

That griffir it happened, unavoidable obligating this nation to load the fight upon the three totalitarian nations to victory or death, didn't automatically isolve ihe.prohlems that tangled thinkirg and jammed our It multiplied them. The situation was serious before: it's dangerous now. The Challenge to every American is poional and powerful. We've got to meet it with stout heart and steady. nerve, or there's no more America.

Starting from where we were, and still are. singing two verses of "God Bless America!" and mailing the boys a carton of cig-arets won't even get our bat off our shoulder in this one. Here's where we're probably going right down to last shirt on our hacks, and the man who doesn't dare face it realistically and get ready to give will probably never survive the shock that's ahead of Time To Be Ruthless It won't do any god to give way to the nervous shakes. Panic isn't in order. We've had our cake.

It tasted pretty good. The time's come to close ranks and slug it out for what we've known and what we are, It's no time for self pit, nor looking over the shoulder. Most of all, however, it's no time for wishful thinking, tinted viewing nor refusing to look realties squarely in their unwelcome faces. It's time to become realistic, tough, determined and. according to some of the former easygoing standards, even ruthless and merciless.

You can't fight a thug by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. We've got to kick shins and slug behind the ear. Our opponents wrote the rules of this particular game, and threw them in our faces. Every news dispatch from the fighting front gives evidence of the battle spirit of our soldiers anroaa. Ana in recent visits to army camps I have seen a magnificent new army in the maRing.

Needs Waking Up But the home front is what needs waking up, shaking up and intelligent team work henceforth. The new condition brings a whole hew flock of troubles of its own. Entire Industries are now thrown completely out of gear. My neighbor makes electrical switches for General Motors. War was declared Sunday.

Monday, he received a wire cancelling $40,000 worth of orders and saying there wouldn't be any more. I know a manufacturer caught with a quarter of a million dollars' worth of floor lamps. They're a dead loss as they stand and they're going to remain a dead loss because he can't get a certain part to go in them. This goes through countless lines of trade, and it means we have new and serious unemployment, lumped in on top of our war. Where is there a job in defense for a first -class salesman? Thev consider the plight of the tens of thousands of salesmen of refrigerators, radios, automobiles, tires, cheap jewelry, golf balls, electrical equipment; and on and on.

This has been a nation of merchandising and "calling on the trade." The Army and Navy doesn't Hr iu i uujniia mm iiium' kinds of drummers. Complete Misconception Another problem is the apparently complete misconception on the part of many well-intentioned and otherwise intelligent people of what war is and how they can help win in it. They want to do something but thev want to do it their way, and their price. That price is usuallv around a year. It is never lower than a commission as captain, and of them think they'd do right well in the Intelligence Service without realizing that such work calls for training general run.

plus a possiole ah ity to speak several languages, fluently. There are. some legitimate offers, but far too many hi stm thinking in of thev can get- not what they i-(1n give. Patriotism is the front, but it's a lush berth they're really junking MOVING Bryant Beaird Transfer We Move Anything Phone 193 Need Glasses? See Dr. Jones! He finds what you need and sees that you get it Over Fry Son North Side of Square Longhorns Met 7 Of System's 48 Best Teams By PAUL D.

WILLIAMSON Final 1941-season football rat ings, 48 leaders: 1. T. xa S9.2 25. Oklahoma 1.S 2. Minnesuta H7.9 2ii.I-SU 91.2 3.

Notre Dame M.2 27. Ric 91.1 4. Fordham 95.8,2s. Stanford 91.0 5. Na 95.6 29.

Tulane 90.9 95.4 80. SMU 90.8 95.1 31. Oregon 90.8 94.0 Santa Clara, 90.7 94.7 Auburn 90.6 94.2':S4. Wash. 90.4, 6.

'Missouri 7. Michigan 1'inil. 9. Duuuesne 10. Miss.

St. 11. Oregon St. 94.li.35. Army 90 1 1 12.

Alabama U. 94.0 36. California 90.0 1 13. Duke 93.8:37. Wm.

Mary 89.8 I 14. Texas A4M 93.7 38. Dartmouth 89.71 15. Tennessee 93.6 39. Clemson 89.6; 16.

Vamlerbilt 93.5140. Tulsa M.5 17. Georgia 93.4 41. Colgate 89.4 93.2 42-. Boston Col.

89.3 If. N'western 18. TCL 20. Ohio fit. 21.

Ole. Miss 22. Cornell 23. Harvard 93,1143. Mich.

St. 89.1 93.0144. Temple 89.0 92.6 45. Columbia 88.9 92.4146. Penn St.

88.6 92.2 47. Syracuse 88.3 24. Wash. St. 91.9,48.

Manhattan 88.21 (Note: The 48 leading teams of the na- tion are rated on a basis of 100 equals a perfect team. Obviously, there i no -such thing as a perfect team, which theoretically could make a touchdown on each offensive play.) 1 Performances of teams in all the, holiday year-end games were! considered in the scientific anal-! yzation for the Williamson Na- i tional Football Rating System's best 48 teams of the 1941 season. In addition to the scientific con- sideration, there was personal ac-' quaintance and knowledge. During the past 10 days this writer met and saw quite a bit of practically every All-America player in the country and the following coaches: Andy Kerr of Colgate, Bernie Bierman of Minnesota, Lou Little of Columbia, Dick i Handley, formerly of Northwest ern, Babe Hollingsberry of Washington State, Biff Jones of Nebraska, Sleepy Jim Crowley of Fordham, Don Faurot of Missouri, Frank Thomas of Ala bama, and Lon Stiner of Oregon State. Hail The Longhorns! Coach Dana X.

Bible spoke prophetically five years ago when he went to Texas to build a national championship team. He announced then that it would take five years to mold a squad to win that laurel. Dan Bible's "five-year plan" came through this season to win the Williamson National Football Championship of 1941. Yes, the system is aware of the 7-7 tie with Baylor and the 7-14 loss to Texas Christian. The tie resulted from five injured Texas stars unable to play, and the fact that for five years Baylor had been priming to avenge an overwhelming defeat by the Long-horns.

The game was played at Waco and the Baylor Bears had that great back Jack Wilson-going full tilt. Incidentally, Wilson was a "bear" also in the East-West game at New Orleans. Just Happened That one-touchdown defeat of Texas by Texas Christian was on a desperate pass in the last few seconds of the game. It just happened to click. Now that those two items are out of the way here's something the system would like to impress as a major gauge of those Long-horns' power: Oregon State, Western Conference champions, came from behind to "upset" Oregon 12 to 7 on a regular schedule match, bumped off the system's December No.

2 Duke team 20 to 14 in rain and muck at the transplanted Rose Bowl game. All right, that's one touchdown's difference in each game. That Dana X. Bible Texas powerhouse smothered, 71 to 7, the same Oregon team that held Oregon State to a five-point advantage. A 71-to-7 trouncing of a team I which held the western repre-! sentative in the Rose Bowl game to a five-point difference in score is just something phenomenal in modern day football.

Texas played seven of the 48 best teams, during the 1941 season. Coach Bernie Bierman's Golden Gophers of Minnesota, No. 2 of the Williamson System for the past season, played three of the 48 leading teams. The Gophers, without doubt, were a great aggregation. They were undefeated and untied.

But they just didn't play the games or garner impressive enough results to show this rater that they were better than 'Texas. And now that all the mists of the season have been dispelled, it appears that lo be national champions the Gophers' should have done better than luck-out Northwestern by a mere one point, 8-7. One of the "mists" that evaporated was the imagined power of Northwestern stars in some circles. Five of those Northwestern stars were eclipsed in the North-South and East-West holiday games. Bowl Prediction Efficiency Rain and muck whittled us down.

Three of the holiday bowl games were played under about the worst weather and field conditions possible. It was rain and muck at the Rose Bowl in Durham, N. it was rain and gumbo at the Sugar Bowl and East West games in New Orleans. Hut that's part of the sauce for the gander. And, despite the unpredictable vveather: and its effects the Williamson System PHOENIX, Jan.

5 (AP). r-lhe National Collegiate Football Rules Committee remained in execunve session Monday in the most appropriate place in the country for its private deliberationsin the shadow of Mummy Mountain. This odd stack of red rock, its name a hangover from the Indians, lies back of Camelback Inn named after another pile of rock that looks like nothing except a tired dromedary in peaceful repose and the inn is Il lin 1, 1 icic me i uiua giuup is in conference. Spirits said to haunt Mummy Mountain had' nothing on the rules committee. Neither had anything to say.

1 "And -we won't have untn the last meeting," said erudite Wal- icr n. uuesun, cnairman, speaking for the committee and possible for the spirits of the mountain. Odeson emphasized Jhat the committee was in a conservative frame of mind, however, and hoped to keep intact present rules as much as possible. "One rule change may disturb four other rules, so we have to be very careful," he added. He intimated that they have more than 50 suggested changes to consider.

That ended that, except one or two delegates of the advisory coaches' committee ventured a guess that few changes would be written into football's book of the year. Diplomatic Lou Little of Columbia University, chairman of the coaches' group, reiterated that some of his association's recommendations might enhance offensive features of the game. He believes that the suggestion of giving a team scored upon an opportunity to switch goals might prove effective in the event of a wind. This, he said, would give both teams equal chances of scoring in the same period, particularly if a stiff breeze figures to one's advantage. Santa Anita Park's Hose Racing Season Canceled LOS ANGELES, Jan.

5 (AP). War conditions in the Pacific, which caused the transfer of the annual New Year's Day Rose Bowl football game to the Atlantic Seaboard, resulted Monday in cancellation of Santa Anita Park's 1942 horse racing season. So far, however, the scheduled start Friday of the $10,000 Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament has not been affected. Opening of Santa Anita's season, originally set for Dec. 31, was postponed in the hope war conditions eventually might bring a lifting of the ban, but Monday Dr.

Charles H. Strub, general manager, announced that the park must, "in fairness to the horsemen stabled here, call off this meeting so that they may make arrangements to race elsewhere if they so desire." "On the other hand," he added, the track will be kept open to those who wish to stay to take their chances of racing being opened sometime in the future." Basketball Coaches Meet At Kilgore Special to The MorninK Telegraph. KILGORE, Jan, 5. Meeting here Monday night, coaches of high schools in District 11-AA selected officials for their conference basketball games and made several minor changes in the conference schedule. Schools represented were Longview, Kilgore, Tyler, Glade-water, Texarkana, Marshall and Athens.

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Local and Long Distant Moving As of centuries ago in Scotland when "Thm-wulr-" represented the thorny hedged dykes that strengthened nr.H no.t.j' farms of ancrent Scots so today its connotation maintains the delicate semblance of strength and protection to patrons. 141 torn immm a lot better than the 50 per cent of last season. In that Rose Bowl game the "up-lv durtklinc" Orpirnn State team slid through on the mud to beat Duke's Blue Devils 20 to 16. It was mud again for Ford-ham's 2-to-0 victory over Missouri in the Sugar Bowl. The rain at New Orleans held off until one minute before game time, and ended minutes after the final whistle! The system still thinks that the Missouri line would have broken up the Rams' vaunted passing on a dry field, and that the fast-breaking Ice and other Missouri backfield stars would have run rings around the Easterners on a solid turf.

At that, it was one of the finest and fastest games ever' played in a quagmire unless we' except the East-West game the following Saturday. Bulldogs Came Through The system said that Frankie Sinkwich and his Georgia Bull- i dogs would come through against the Horned Frogs of TCU in the Orange Bowl. They did, and Frankie didn't need his mask on a mended jaw, although the mask probably did help when he stuck his chin out. Best pick of the bowl games was Tulsa over Texas Tech in the Sun Bowl at El Paso. Back Glenn Dobbs and the Golden Hurricane line took the Red Raiders of Texas Tech 6 to 0.

That was another defeat for the Border Conference, which has never won a Sun Bowl game. But this time, the Border representatives deserve a lot of credit for a splendid showing against a great team. Vindication of Ratings Second best prediction was the South over the North in the All-Star game at Montgomery, Ala. The Confederates won, 16 to 0. This was a vindication of the ratings given the All-Star teams Ihis year by the Williamson System.

East 91.9, West 90.1 called for a probable tie although the system shaded for the East. The score was 6 to 6. On a dry field the fast East probably would have won. This was an even greater exhibition of football prowess in slush than in the Sugar Bowl game two days before. In the predictions it was pointed out that the West probably had an edge on the passing offense; that was what enabled the Westerners to come from behind and tie the score.

Intersectional Champions The holiday results sustained the Williamson System's post-Thanksgiving releases setting the Southeastern Conference as the Intersectional Champions of 1941 and the No. 1 conference of the season. The South over the North end the East tying the West verifying that conclusion. As far as was consistent, all losers in this list of 48 are below winners. The ranking of the 48 leaders has nothing to do with near perfect win-or-lost records.

Of the 48 leaders, Texas, Tulane, Louisiana State, Oregon, and Cornell played seven. Six each were contested by Navy, Oregon State, Alabama, Texas Aggies, Georgia, Texas Christian, Washington State, Rice, Stanford, Southern Methodist, Auburn, Washington of the Coast, California, Colgate and Columbia U. Five each were played by Michigan, Pennsylvania, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Harvard, Santa Clara, Army, Dartmouth, and Boston College. Four each were met by Missouri, Michigan State, Mississippi, Van-derbilt and Northwestern. Three each were played by Minnesota, Notre Dame, Fordham, Duke, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Temple, Pennsylvania State and Syracuse.

And, two each were met by Duquesne, William and Mary, Clemson and Manhattan. In 332 games played by the 48 leaders, there were only two in-; consistent ties and 21 upsets. That gave a final rating consistency of 96 per cent for 40 rated leaders. The lower percentage this year is one evidence of the inconsistent, incongruous and upsetting 1941 season. Hwo We Came Out Prophecies The following table gives our pre-season prophecy rating in the first column and the 1941 final ratings in the second.

I'rr. Season 1. CHlifni-nia 2. Texas Navy 4. Duke 5.

Minnesota ti. Alabama 7. Harvard 8. Oklahoma i fl. Stanford in.

Colgatp 11. Mississippi 12. Purdue 13. Boston College 14. Wake Forest 15.

Southern Meth. 1941 Finali Texas Minnesota Notre Dame Kordham Navy Missou ri Michigan Pennsylvania Duquesne Mississippi State Oregon Stat Alabama Duke Texas Tennessee Worst pick and greatest dis appointment for the system was California for the 1941 national champion. However, Tackle Bob was great on the Coast and in the East-West game. The system picked Texas for second I in the same place and that this time he's going to make it stick. Training down here among the Jersey pines, the big good-natured Californian has added things up and decided that since his right hand hammer knocked Joe Louis out of the ring last May, the same, shot can do the same thing only more so when he takes on the Bomber Friday night in Madison Square Garden for the Navy relief fund.

Joe'll Have Something; To Say Naturally, Buddy figures Joe'll have something to say about this matter, but with an easy going confidence, he doesn't think the Bomber has enough of the answers on this quiz program, despite Joe's kayo win the last time. "We'll fight whatever way Joe wants to," he said Monday after going through four rounds of spar work with two partners. "If he wants to slug, I'll pitchc right along with him, and he knows I can hit. If he wants to make a boxing exhibition out of it, I'll do that do." To be frank about It, Buddy looks none too fit in his drills. His sparmates are taking liberties with him that ought to give them large headaches, but don't.

He seems to be concentrating on short left hooks inside and isn't throwing many roundhouse rights, despite his announced intention of giving Joe headaches with those particular hand gre nades. And even Buddy's best friends will tell him that without i tossing that big gun of his, he has about as much chance with the Bomber as Mickey Mouse. Apaches' Game With All-Stars Is Called Off Weather conditions forced cancellation of the Tyler Junior College quintet's return engagement with Mount Enterprise All-Stars at Mount Enterprise Monday night, Coach Will Ward announced, Although no other games have been scheduled this week, Ward stated that several teams are being contacted for possible games here this week end. No games will be played next week, since it will be midterm and the play-I ers will be taking examinations. The next regularly scheduled Jan.

24. Other games with Southwest Conference freshmen are also being scheduled, the coach added. All 12 of the Apache cagers "in. ur uui aciiii ucaua) Thursday afternoon. However, the Wednesday night session may be cancelled if a game can be scheduled, Coach Ward said.

Abilene Files Bid For Coaching School This Year BRECKENRIDGE, Jan. 5 (AP). Abilene will be one of the chief bidders for the 1942 Texas High School Coaches Association coaching school, Eck Curtis, 0f tne association, said Monday. Tno Wcst Texas city thus far is 'f10 on'y Place t0 filo officially a bid l)Ut SCVCI'al others are due scho1- L.asi year ban Angelo was a leading bidder and may again ask consideration. I Selection of the site and also I instructors of the week-long clinic will be made Saturday at Athens when association direc- i lots hold their annual meeting.

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Boxing was off Monday's program but Joe Louis through a f0 minute e.wiui.iMuiii workout as he neared of training for the defense of hjs heavyweight against Riiddy Raer at Madison Square Garde Friday. Baseball might feel the pinch game here will be with the lot more than people think. lor University freshmen team, Take chest protectors, for example. Most of the catchers use cork, but the umpires use inflated bladders. The players prob- bridge has its rubber games, doesn't it? Rubber plays its part in active sports from the gum the athletes chew to the rubber legs a fighter, bounces around the ring on after he gets clipped on the chin.

Many I'ses in Sports i Hockey has its rubber pucks, i footballs and basketballs have rubber insides, despite a common belief they are made from the hides of animals taught to hold their breath. Rubber bits are used in horse racing and rubber boots in trout fishing. It seems a fellow should be able to run and jump in track meets: without benefit of rubber, although track teams have their rubbers, at that. It will catch the boys going and coming, from the rubber checks they might get from a shady promoter to the rubber bands they put around their bankrolls, although that won't make so much difference as there won't be many bankrolls and putting a rubber band that isn't for, no matter how much they've deluded even themselves. Too Much Apathy There's still too much apathy, too much illusion.

Everybody who had a voice to raise in print, pulpit or broadcasting cubiblc, has been stressing the fact that we are now, at long last, and whatever the past differences, "a unified nation." That's right. We've unified upon the point of wanting to whip Japan to whip the everlasting daylight out of Japan-but below that peak we Still pull apart at the same old seams. We're not unified the way a good football team is unified, and awe've got to be if we win. There are plenty of people who still refuse to believe that our situation could conceivably be or might become desperate. Won't Do Any, Good Then, there are defeatists amongst us not defeatists so far as the Japs are concerned but admirers of Lindbergh, Father Cpughlin, hydrophobic haters of Roosevelt, or England, or both, who have dropped into the sad attitude of the faithful worker and talents not common to the whose candidate lost the election.

They gloomily concede that we may possibly win, but predict that we'll all ind up in the same puddle of blood, sweat and tears. They aren't going to do general morale any good, and should reconditioned temperamentally in some fashion. There may be some Nice Nellies, ho when we actually come to grips with these murderers, will try to insist that we endeavor to lead them out of 'dark-ness by fighting them politelv. You can't fight this breed that way. These aren't the days of King Arthur.

Don't Underestimate This is a 'hard, dirty fraught with sacrifice and heartbreak. Don't underestimate it. The lighting may be long and hard. Carrying the load at home may bow every back, but it's got to be lifted and moved. Let's build a home front, quit dreaming, start working.

Get into Civilian Defense. Fill the quota of the Red Cross. Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps. to know i hose soldiers and sailors. Make vmiselt worthy of 'em.

Tell em you're with' 'em and then proceed in prove it by pitching uhei-r you ran and carrying all, you can. This is a m.ight'v 'earn of oum jf yr can only get it oi ganied. I he ha eaiiii'is are nearly ilV us 1 alniut the rest tllHiwine of PERSONAL CONSIDERATION IS ASSURED When You Call Us You Control the Cost! 3URKS- WALKER- DANIEL Lions To Meet Tigers Tonight In District Tilt Coach Phoebe Phythian's Tyler High School basketballers will go to Texarkana Tuesday night for their opening conference game with, the Texarkana Tigers. Ten players will make the trip, Phythian said Monday night. "All of the boys are in good shape and.

will be ready to go," Phythian said. "We know very little about the Texarkana team, but won't be taking any chances," he added. Starting: the game for the Lions will, probably be Gerald Cooney amd Junior Jackson at guard, C. W. Dukes at center, and Dean Hitt and J.

W. Hanna at forward. Others making the trip will iijclude Gilbert Johnson, Billy Rogers, Aubrey Keele, James Loroy Fortner and Gus Templeton. Tuesday night's contest will be the first for both teams under the new Interscholastic League basketball setup, which is operated on the same basis as schoolboy football in the state. Thursday night the Lions will meet the Longview High Lobos here in their first home game of the yeaar.

C. M. Kilpatrick, George Battenfield Split Top Honors C. M. Flilpatrick of Sledge Manufacturing Company and George of the Cotton Belt Blue Sitreaks divided individual honors Monday night in the Lone Stair League at Texas Bowling Alleys, Kilpatrick took single-game! honors with 224, while Battenfield rolled 562 for high in thuee games.

The Cotiuon Belt Blue Streaks captured ttam honor in both divisions wsith 874 in one game and 2459 in, the series. The Blue Streaks won two out of three from Sledge's, Courier-Times took 'two out of three from the Cotton Belt Lone Stars and Bankers Life Company won two out of three from Kiwanis Club. Kansas State Must Approve Tucker's Cage Eligibility KANSAS CITY, Jan. 5 (AP). Gerald Ticker's participation in basketbalfl which has created a furor on the eve of the Big Six season now needs only the approval of Kansas State, the school he in the fall of 1940 to enroll at Oklahoma.

The conference faculty committee, after a four-hour session Monday, clarified the status of of the Winf eld (Kan.) athlete in regard to tfre, Eig Six residence regulation. Tucker wats declared ineligible until the clise of the current semester, Jan- 28. At that time the sophomore center, who has scored 77 plaints in five games, will have completed a full academic year, Consisting or two full semesters at the Sooner school. This will establish his residence under the Blig Six code. BIGGER BETTER A HAVOR TRIAI MATTIE'S presents CHAN Til AND HIS I INK VI TtK OKCHKSTKA Open 1 January 6th Nightly A 1J OZ.

IOTTU ably think it might not be a bad present at Monday after-idea to deprive umpires of pro-' noon's dri11 and appeared to be -j rapidly returning to form. They tectors, at that. In fact, it would. 1- be too bad, hch-hoh. if the pires couldn't get iron for masks.

Seriously, the rubber shortage could have a far reaching effect on baseball, particularly in the minors. Clubs in leagues of lower classifications travel by 'bus for the most part. A lot of the conveyances are perspiring old relics with rock springs, and how the hoys can play baseball the next day after bouncing around in them all night is a mystery. Only Means of Travel But the busses get them there, i and that's the only way a lot of them can travel. They can't af- ford sleeper jumps on a railroad, I and some of the towns possibly aren't even on railroads, or have such service that a loam couldn't' expect to get there in time fori a game.

If the tire distribution is confined to absolutely necessary vehicles, it might go rather tough; with some leagues if it were ruled that the transportation of a baseball, team came under the heading of unimportant business. It's A cinch, however, that some, of those busses couldn't be classed as pleasure cars. Outlook Not So Bright With the potential tire problem, inability to play night ball because of, neeessily for consei v-l'wer or because I he parks might le considered beacons for hostile aircrali. and the army gelling large numbers of Hie plavcis. the ouilook lor organized baseball below Class A A might he a hole loi brighter.

Natuially, the amount of rubber used in some sports, such as hockev. is negligible and it would take the most acute kind of a shortage, to have any effect. In i it's like saying a hook-h i make air, mis lal.es be. ause he UouMn'l have an eiavet. although that's stretch-i be point, lh.u lv I quirt lubber, too?.