MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1937 ~

 

ports Showup
Athletes Contribute Grid Broadcaster
to Community Fund. ‘Shines’ in Workout.

By Edgar Munzel

One of the so-called lead-
ing football broadcasters of a
national chain went to West
Point several years ago a
couple of days in advance of
an Army game... While
chinning with Coach Ralph
Sasse the broadcaster mod-
stly asserted he had been 3
uite some shakes as a foot-

all star in high school...
Said Sasse: “Well, why don’t ‘.
Rip Collins, | YOU take a workout with the 9-40) vacurski
boys today?” .. . Unabashed, ee a
the broadcaster did ... After having quite a struggle get-
ting dressed, he dashed onto the field and noisily yelled at
a cadet, “Throw me a few” ... The cadet tossed him a
couple dozen right in his dukes, but he didn’t come close
to catching one.

 

 

 
  
  
   
 
 
 
  

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Said Sasse, sidling over to the puffing “ex-high school] ;;,

star’: “Gee, I thought you’d at least hang onto a few of
those!” .. . Moaned the broadcaster: “I don’t know what’s
the matter. But there seems to be something wrong with
my eyes.” ... Sasse looked a bit closer and discovered—
the guy had the headgear on backward!

Maury Kent Was Dodger Hurler.

Maury Kent, assistant Purple coach, once was a
Dodger... He pitched for Brooklyn twenty-five years ago
in the days of Nap Rucker, Jake Daubert and Zach Wheat
«+ But Maury appears quite normal now.

DONORS ... Community Fund offices these days are
a mecca for athletes . . . Those who already have called
upon Mitchell McKeown, assistant to the chairman, are
Rip Collins, Augie Galan, Bronko Nagurski, Babe Pinelli,
Ziggy Sears, Gaynell Tinsley and Jim Mulvey, vice presi-
dent of the Brooklyn Dodgers ... Not all athletes, it seems,
are tight-fisted.

CAREFUL ... George Trafton is so enthusiastic about
his middleweight boxer, Oscar Rankins, that he has dis-
pensed with a trainer and can now be seen any afternoon
galloping around his own gym, with a towel over his shoul-
der, ministering to the wants of the Negro battler.

Manders Pitched Well in Pinch.

Jack Manders threw only three forward passes last
season for the Bears...and two were completed for touch-
downs , .. That’s pitching in the pinch.

DIS ’N’ DAT... Capt. David Flynn reports that his
cousin, the late Jack McAuliffe, did not retire in 1891, as
most of his obits read ... He fought twice in 1892, meet-
ing Billy Meyer and Harry Gilmore ... Coach Zuppke has
another nephew, brother of Bob Zuppke, sophomore re-
serve end, who’ll enter Illinois next Fall ... The farther
Bronko Nagurski goes this season the more he’s convinced
he’ll hang u phis shoes for good at the end of the year
. +.» That’ll be good news to a lot of linemen.