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“T am not in favor of 12-foot baskets and I would not
penalize any boy because he is tall,” says Henry B. Stuart. “When
you legislate against the tall boys you are disregarding the laws of
physiological compensation. I believe that I am trying to say that
if you penalize a boy for being tall you should hang some weights on
the feet of the boys who are smaller but so much faster than the tall
ones. The tall boys can’t move fast. The fast boys can’t reach high.”

Then Henry B. Stuart extends his regards to the rules makers.
“To them I would say, ‘Gentlemen, if you have something else
to do, such as living or loving or hunting or fishing, go do it and lots
of it before you come here again with the idea of making rules that
will penalize a boy for being tall,’” advises our No. 1 friendly heckler.

Mike’s Now a Night Club Operator.

UST BASEBALL: Bill Hitchcock, former Blue infielder, now with

Detroit, came out of the service a major....Bill Klem, the veteran
National league umpire, is 72, but probably could still umpire a better
balls and strikes game than most active arbiters....Mike Kreevich,
who used to play for the Blues, is now a night club operator in Spring-
field, Ill.....Admitting that the Yanks and the Red Sox will bear
a lot of watching in the pennant race, Dick Wakefield of Detroit
picks Washington as capable of waging the sternest opposition....
Just like going home when Roy Johnson, the powerful Cub coach,
accompanies the team to its, training quarters on Catalina island
because he used to spend his winters there....Harry Danning, for-
mer Giant. catcher, is a motor car dealer in Culver City, Calif., but
has found time (no cars to sell) recently to help Jimmy Dykes in
coaching the White Sox batterymen....Connie Mack believes the Car-
dinals will win the National league pennant.race and either the
Yankees or the Red Sox in the American....Connie picks the Cubs,
the Dodgers and the Braves to finish in that order back of the Cardi-
nals and he lists the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians as the
other two first divisioners in the American loop.

They Won’t Fly With the Jug.
“| HE COCKTAIL HOUR: Bruno Haas, who later became an out~
fielder with St. Paul, pitched for Connie Mack in 1915 and
walked sixteen men in one game....Haas, who will manage Fargo
in the Northern league this season, says the record will continue to
stand because no modern manager will leave a pitcher in the game
that long....Pro golfers will not accompany Jug McSpaden on his
flying trips. They say that Jug’s sense of direction isn’t so good and
as a result he flies too low by way of keeping tab on where he is and
where he’s going....Mrs. Robert Seeds, the wife of a former Blue
outfielder, once owned and operated a southern minor league club....
The golf champion of Columbia will coach University of Missouri
golfers this spring. That, of course, will be Chauncey Simpson, who
smacks a mean pellet down anyone’s fairway....Red Kane, defense
man. of the Tulsa ice hockey team, has baseball aspirations....A
publicity blurb from the office of the American Association calls at-
tention to a Toledo rookie named Joseph Morjoseph, who broke into
baseball in St, Joseph, Mo., and later played with St. Joseph, Mich,
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