The Freedom Call. (Freedom, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1936 Page: 3 of 8
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New 'York 'oet—W1117 Service
Nake Up Authors!
Not Morons Alone
Follow Baseball
LATELY while attempting to collect
r4 some specimens of sports literature
for a publishing house I have been re-
! minded of a curious fact It is that
t ‘ In a country which is so intent upon
championships and in which the amount
of money expended all down the line
from archery to yachting makes sports
one of the leading billion-dollar indus-
tries so few lines of real value or per-
manence have been written upon such
4 subjects
I make this statement with due hesi-
tation and sadness While not a Ire-
quenter of the Athenian groves I have
noted that the gentlemen who flirt
about the fringes of lovely letters re-
eently have been discovering a vast
amount of good in the sports pages
So it may be that I will be posted as
) One who deliberately engaged in knock
lug the racket which brought him a
considerable measure of entertainment
and some scant portion of profit Nev-
ertheless even at the dire risk of con
tinned disbarment from the exclusive
! gatherings of the New York Chapter
of Baseball Writers I make It
Indeed it is possible that baseball
may serve as the best means of reveal-
ing certain of the findings This now
somewhat precarious business which
I once was known as the Great National
4' Game has been in existence for almost
100 -a years Only the bookkeeper whose
accounts cannot be revealed until Ga-
briel outtoots Rudy Vallee knows how
many billions of words have been writ-
ten concerning It during that time
' Yet bow many of those words does
even the most ardent fan remember
' and bow many of them repose within
proper bindings upon the shelves of
even the more broad-minded public li-
braries? The answer is: pitifully few
Aside from the paper-backed pm-
phlets revealing how to hit or how to
play second base (and Incidentally
such things cannot be taught by text-
book rote) an examination of the en
tire production seems to indicate that
the presses of the nation might have
ceased their labors years ago' so far
as any enduring service to the literate
sports public was concerned
'' Glance at the files of public libraries
' In Manhattan Brooklyn and Philadel
phia is I did during
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the past month The ‘ 11
sum of the titles there -7t
are "Babe Ruth's Own - 4
Book of Baseball" with t4"ti '"''''' 1
the home-run king's '124'""
name upon the title
page but really writ- ' '4 '
ten by Ford Frick g17
now president of the r qt
rival league similar c4- 149
treatises banged' out I I liforc
by gifted ghosts under "" A '1'''
the bylines of John Babe Ruth
McGraw Christy
Mathewson and a few minor celebrities
and little else All of these literary
compositions are in the nature of biog-
raphies and no one of them compares
with the average second-rate work of
the sort Issued so freely concerning
the life and times of some fifth-rate
congressman from a tenth-rate state
Constant Fan Interest
Proves Game Worthy
$o far as the short story Is con-
cerned—aithough Ring Lardner Hem-
Ingway Jack London and several oth-
ers have done nobly by prize fighting
' One reason why the more competent
istudents authors and editors have not
given the subject tbe attention It de-
' serves perhaps is because they start
with the wrong premise From the
heights of their ivy towers they must
necessarily gaze from such a distance
as to miss the tine points of the squeeze
play or the screw ball Naturally also
they must miss the significance of the
test of others for such things
when they touch upon baseball at
all with their gilded typewriters it is
with a definite sense of condescension
Still impressed with their own errone-
- ous premise they seem to feel that they
' are addressing an audience of under-
developed children That even in a
country such as this which has been
so constantly admonished by its bet-
ters it would be difficult to rally 20-
000000 morons to the undivided service
of one sport seems to escape them'
THE FREEDOM CALL FREEDOM OKLAHOMA
THINGS the box score never told
Jik me:
Six-day bike races once so popular
In Germany now are barred there by
orders of the great Olympic sports
lover with the little mustache The
Giants continue anxious to peddle Carl
Hubbell in spite of the claims of van
ous baseball experts George Woolf
Is the Garbo of the jockeys He won't
ride a horse unless he thinks It's a
winner and demands top bonuses when
ever his services are sought In a stake
Woolf who rode Top Row to victory
over Discovery and who booted home
Azucar the reformed steeplechaser in
the Santa Anita Handicap is Independ-
ently wealthy So he backtalks all
the millionaire sportsmen who seek his
services and makes them like it
Donnie McFayden of the Chicago Black
Hawks practices law when not playing
hockey
Santa Anita is the only racetrack In
the country which charges its patrons
for parking space More than $100000
worth of quarters was collected at the
track by this method last year
What leading football coach is find
Ing that his off-season business enables
him to make very good connections
with New Jersey's most promising
high-school players?
Broad definition--"The guy's so un-
popular that even Pete Reilly won't
stoop to give him a
4444 hot foot" When
Tom Shaw the cele-
fr''''' 74't- brated bookmaker was
907 a robust young man
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' t —i ans docks Dick
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Benson of the Pitts-
Ittir I burgh Shamrock s
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r ‘ I minors) is an aviator
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'—'- c- ------1 and operates an air-
Bill Terry port in Oil City Pa
Al islamaux hasn't
endeared himself to Bill Terry by su-
ing that the high-priced pitcher Harry
Gumbert won't make the grade in the
majors Jimmy Johnston the box-
ing promoter has to eat three Christ-'I
inns dinners each year one at his
mother's house one at his own home
and one at the home of his children
Canada Almost Kept
From Olympic Hockey
Mike Zeleznock Penn State's ex-boxing
champ returns there to coach
freshmen boxers after a season de
voted to coaching the Rockview Peni-
tentiary football team i Joe Sewell
is In line for Art Shire's managing job
at Harrisburg in the N Y-Pa loop
Unless Syracuse lays more dough
on the line Vic Hanson will listen to
other football coaching offers Wal-
ter O'Hara the former mill owner who
runs Narragansett Park and Is always
talking big money pays his pari-mutuel
employees $2 a day less than the
scale at other tracks The pros very
nearly prevented Canada from having
an Olympic hockey representative They
lured away so many members of the
Halifax Wolverines Allan Cup win-
ners last year that the team wasn't
strong enough The situation now has
been saved though by the substitution
of the Port Arthur team ‘
Charley Solean former Colgate back-
field from Montclair N J may suc-
ceed Herm McCracken
as Lafayette football :yi -'45t!
coach because of his :: '- -1
success with the frosh -
team Incidentally the le:: "- ' 1
Leopard frosh untie- !-:x-- "4-
feated but tied once !I:
are expected to take ?
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over all the regular 1v N le
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jobs next fall i:7k 'F'!--e'i
Bing Miller's most it?1Wat404
prized souvenir does ' 4A '
not come from base- "14'
ball It is a 10-franc Mike Jacobs
note sent him as
change for a bill he overpaid during
war time You still hear faint ru-
mors around racetracks that Phar Lap
the Australian wonder horse was poi- I
Boned by American improvers of the
breed Mike Jacobs' feelings are
hurt if friends who visit him in his
apartment at an uptown hotel depart
without taking along a dozen or so ex-
pensive neckties
At mutuel tracks where they don't
use the automatic totalizator players
are given phoney flashes A legitimate
odds-on shot is flashed at 8 to 5 the
suckeri fall in and then the nag goes
off at 3 to 5 losing more often than
not Syracuse eminentissimos they
Include Judge Cregg Mayor Marvin
and Gordon Smith are demanding a
real big league team for "Syracuse's
biggest industry—Syracuse university"
Walter Rose captain of the Syra-
cuse 1915 team could not get his son
into his alma mater Now the lad is
captain of Cornell's very hot frosh
eleven Chick Meehan panicked the
football experts the other night by
claiming that Princeton has one very
definite football weakness—"Sure I
mean it" Chick assured them "Why
that fourth team's so bad it probably
couldn't even beat Stanford"
Jimmy Crowley's friends hearing all
those trade rumors are wondering
what a coach has to do to keep his
job at Rose Hill Pordham lost only
one game this year to a definitely aim
lag Purdue eleveu
what
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Us Present-Day Sissies
QANTA MONICA CALIF—
Li Our ancestors the men and
women who whittled this coun-
try out of ramping wilderness—
they were different although per-
haps difficult to get along with
They'd 'fight you over almost any
Issue—their personal rights their pub
lie wrongs their national principles
their private preju-
A dices their outer
- boundaries their in-
: ':::::::::'''' ternal policies They
fought one another
'":TC 1 they fought foreign
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politicians and profes
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rg'4r- : sional whiners they
1$itl didn't do such an aw
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' 4t lot t g ' ful of fretting over
lop' w the painfully primitive
conditions of a plo-
Irvin S Cobb neering life We their
children with too
many laws we won't enforce too many
criminals We won't punish too many
unjust taxes we won't rebel against—
we complain about everything It's as
though a race of eagles bred a breed
of worms that turn only to turn the
other cheek I guess we're getting
peevishly flabby
I woke up this morning feeling as
flabby as a cold flapjack and I don't
know when I've been peevisher So I
sat down and wrote this
NB—And never mind telling me
that a worm hasn't any cheek I know
that as well as you do
Van Sweringen's Passing
0 RANTED that in these shifting
kJ times there Is a somewhat prev-
alent tendency to regard it this way
and be governed accordingly: for a
man to have been a success is a crime
but to'have been a failure is a pro-
fession Even so there's still a thrill reading
of the career of M J Van Sweringen
Horatio Alger might have written him
He starts life as a newsboy in Cleve-
land Today at fifty-four he lies dead
there
Bow many millions he left nobody
knows Probably he didn't much care
It must have been the sport and not
the size of the game-bag that made
him a dominant figure in railroading
i
The Source of an Idea
T RAN across it the other day—this
1 ancient one
Shipwrecked mariners in crisis Sea
rising life raft sinking beneath them
no rescue craft In sight Situation
seems to call for professions of faith
But nobody can quote from the Scrip-
tures nobody can sing a hymn nobody
even knows a prayer Desperately the
mate speaks up: "Men we gotta do
somethin' pious—let's pass the hat"
I read that antique wheeze and in a
flash the puzzle was solved Now I
know where they got the original Idea
—those economic wizards in and out
of congress who in times like these
bob up with various theories but all
aimed at the same purpose namely
that financial security can be restored
not by giving industry a chance to re-
cuperate but by taking away the previ-
ous fruits of industry
Hollywood's Newest Grievance
H OLT Y AV 0 OD sentiment is that
those alleged polygamists recently
on trial over at Kingman in Arizona
should be penalized for breaking the
rules You see the curious colony up
there in the desert favors having a lot
of wives all at once whereas the Holly-
wood championship team prefers vari-
ous wives one at a time which pre-
vents confusion and works out to the
same gratifying high scores in the end
But no matter how the law may
serve those Arizona husbands I would
put in a plea for the female co-defendants
charged with marrying 'em so
copiously For rve just seen some
newspaper pictures of the male prison-
ers Gentlemen of the jury if they be
true likenesses those poor near-sighted
women already have suffered enough
Talk about being more sinned against
than sinning
That Banker's Identty
I F THE President won't name him
I shan't But I'll bet anything—any-
thing I have left I mean—that the dis-
tinguished banker who told him this
country could safely go in debt for
quite a lot more billions is the same
financial wizard who counseled me
about my dainty little Investments in
the blithe braw days before 1929 It
certainly sounds like the same fellow
on second thought maybe not Be-
cause the last I heard of my banker
he was sitting by the steam-pipes at
a county Poor-farm back East telling
the other Inmates about an infallible
system for beating those stock market
boys
IRVIN S COBB
0 North American Newspaper Mli Awe'
inc—WNIJ service
Women Have Lost Ground hi
Last Few Years Claims Judge
Feminist From West Says
a Change in Tactics
Is Needed
Judge Georgia Bullock of the Su- 1
perior court of Los Angeles a re-
cent visitor In Washington D C be
Heves that women haev "lost
ground" in the last few years says
the New York Sun
Like all feminists she sdvocates
an equal chance for men and wom-
en In business and the professions
But unlike- the militant feminists
she does not insist "rights" can be
won or retained by combative tac-
tics 1
Time to Co-operative
"Women in the past have worn
some concessions—suffrage for ex-
ample:—by 'warfare'" states the
Judge "But the time for contention
is gone Now our only hope for sur-
vival In public life is to co-operate
with the men and to work toward
proving our merits and establishing
ourselves not as trouble-makers but
as real contributors to public wel-
fare" Contrary to the stand of most
women in public life and In organi-
zations Judge Bullock Is convinced
that In the last few years women
In this country have their wings
clipped have lost caste to s cer-
tain extent in business and the pro-
fessions She attributes this to world
changes but feels "the only way
we can 'retrieve our former position
is to prove we have unique ability
and can work with not against men
Her own successful career In the
legal profession has taught her that
the odds are not all against women
While she admits countless evidenceS
of discriminations against women
she explains that this is not due so
much to man's prejudice as to the
attitude of women themselves
Too Dominant?
Developing this theory she said
she had noticed bow often women
In high positions set out to execute
their ideas regardless of the opin-
ions of men and women with whom
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MIBErsfil
Something Higher
"Want to leave me Mary? I
thought you were quite comfortable
What is It for something private?"
"No ma'am It's a sergeant"—
Troy Times-Record
Some Consolation
"What do you think of our two
candidates for mayor?"
"Well I'm glad only one can be
elected"—Toromo Globe
- Will Be Useful
"Whom is your baby really like?"
"Ile has my wire's eyes my nose
but I think he got his V oice from the
motor horn"—Lustige Koelner Zel-
tung Cologne
All Husbands the Same
Mistress (explaining routine to
new cook)—Now 'my husband al-
ways goes to his club Wednesday
evening
Clook--I understand ma'am So be
wont want no brenkfast Thursday—
rearson's Weekly
they worked Such action she said
was enough to prejudice men against
all women who sought self-expression
outside the home "But I have
yet to see the man who resented
working with an intelligent womam
who knew how to co-operate witb
her associates end who didn't try to
take over the reins completely"
The judge believes women could '
accomplish much more if they were
strongly organized not as a third
party but es a unit that could be
counted on to help rather than an-
tagonize men in public enterprises"
And she thinks women have a unique
contribution to make to human wel-
fare because no matter what their
Interests they can eways be counted
upon to defend the fireside the fam-
By life of their country
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ADVANCING
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"How's yer boy down at college?"'
'Not very good I guess He wrote
he was halfback an' now be tells us
he's fullback"
Tribute
"What bas become of Bronco Bobr-
asked the traveling man
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