The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 13

THE a SH VIE BE TEN NESS "AW IR1KTJ Sunday. Morning, February 6, 1938. Sweaf and Strain: $150,000 Worth of Diamond Talent Preps for 1938 Labors I 'I. 'II III Ill I 1 MM II.I.IH MM III II I HI I II 1 yk A. A 0: 0 Ik.

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kit lag. A racaat Uaitaa) Stata pratid.at haa! aa lactri kokky koraa Xmi apaaklaf a aalary wia. Mauaar Jehm Fratmaa haa aftar all a hall pUyar a you of aa hit ft laatallaJ ia tka Wkita Houia for kit aajoymaat aad axarciia, Rad ClyJa Caitlaaiaa, tha Giant kurlar, ia taw aaa1 ia amaMiaf tha (Photoa by ti Clark.) TOM MARVIN OFFERED FT. WORTH PROMOTION HESSEY SLATFD TO GET JOELTON COACHING JOB Lord Tennyson Wasn't Writing About Stars Of Diamond in His Poem By RED O'OONNELL When Lord Tennyson wrote "In the spring a young man's fancy softly turna to thoughts of love," (If Tennyaon wrote that), he watnt thinking of young bueball men. Ha couldn't havt been or ha would have scribbled that In the winter a young- fellow's fancy roughly turns to thoughts of spring training for tha summer grind.

(Not too spicy but well-seasoned, eh?) that," said Marvin, who may bt setting forth any time now. EX-RAIDER ACE Grimsley Glances: Your Heroes, Mine ZEVS0N WINS HAS BEST SHOT 'Chief Tommy Marvin, mighty descendant of Hiawatha, swallowed a large bunk of disappointment yesterday, hitched hia britches and said be wasn't licked yet Tommy, well-heeled grappler of Columbia, had been promised the heavyweight promoting business In Nashville by tht racket's big shots. But. when he came In to taVe things over he met resistance The American Legion waa unwilling to let Jack Price Jonet go, ao the bigwigs, after a futile atruggle, had to try elsewhere. Now Tom Packs of St.

Louis has offered the Cherokee a nice spot in Fort Worth, Texas. "Go on. The town is yours," they told Tommy. Tommy thinks he will. 1 will go down there and clean up half a million bucks just like Takes Off First Money In Race At Nsw Orleans NEW ORLEANS.

Feb. (IV-Zevton, ton-weighted at lit pounds, took down another purse at the Fair Grounds today when ha won the $2,000 added Pontchartrala Handicap in easy fashion. ndT And speaking; of winter ar Sweet and Sour Pills Sports Writers Must Swallow, and How One Man Swallowed Them AT OLIVER POST Joelton Cage, Baseball mond trend, with the usual recount ing of their and their mates' spring training; and baseball fellows, there are five of them exer cising dally at the T. M. C.

A. Health Club. Br WILL GRIMSLEY They are Red Lucu, pitcher who belongs to tha Pittsburgh Pirates Instructor Resigns His Duties but hasn't received a contract; Your port heroes and mine," on man will always remember therni Tommy Bridges, who hurls for tba Detroit Tigera and haa received BABE RUTH, standing in his stocking feet on the 14 Hmmjt, well known In local trio and amateur eporta elrclei. la and signed his contract; Clyde cold concrete floor of Sulphur Dell while a frightened tleman. twirler under contract to 4 In Una for tha Joelton High baiket- tha New York Glante, who haa ball and bueball eoaehlnc job de- a conditional agreement with Man wrted Saturday by C.

W. Oliver. ager Bill Terry; Johnny Gill, for- Tha former Central High and mer major leag-uer, who yesterday Vlddl TcMiH Teachara Colleea declared be waa holding out for three-aport itar ia currently teach- better contract from Chattar.oogr Inc and coaching at Andrew Jack which recently purchased him from eon zrammir achool in the Old San Francisco, and tbtrefore hasnt Hickory aector. algnad; and Harley Boat, first base fledgeling sports writer stuttered five pages of neatly typed and carefully con ceived questions at him and waiting to answer every one even though it made him late taking the field. LOU GEHRIG a few minutes before refusing flatly to submit on the grounds that the queries were "personal and illy." KATHERINE RAWLS, a modest little lady of 17, saying her ambition was to become, the greatest woman swimmer in the world, then marry and quit it all.

It's al A member of the county achool man of the San Francisco team who has received hia contract but board aald lut night that "if Hea-ey la able to come up to requirements he will be promoted to the hasn't signed and la clasaified aa a holdout jwxltion." CERTIFIED TO TEACH This, ftveaome represents more than aDoroximately 1150,000 In It ia underttood that Heuey, who 1 livei on Ridley here, la cer baseball ivory. MAN'S OPINION tified to teach in the county high achoola. fit most come to pass. This la a well known baseball man's conservative estimate of aba Ruth Better known aa Squatty, the 23-year-old bueball, basketball and their value. He figures that Gill and Boea Gill Holdout football luminary while in high chool and college, waa graduated from the Murfreeaboro achool two are worth 17,500 each; Lucas' tax HIPPODROME would be Bridges yeara ago.

Appointment of Hessey will be a FEB. 8, 9, 10 popular one. quiet and aoft-ipoken tha affable youngater played half and Castleman, even with hia future a question mark, $50,000. Their routinea are varied. Take Gill for Inatance, he Uvea way out on North Fifth Street, nrobably four miles from the Y.

M. WILLIAM T. TILDEN II, removing the athet from hit cigarette with the delicate flick of a debutante and than remarking that brilliant tannia playara wart born not made, an Innate apark distinguishing real champion! from the perennial brldes-maidi; adding that of tha modern crop only two men had such a apark, William Tildan and Henry Cg-chat JACK DEMPSEY, too ill to back while at Central and the Teachera College and haa long been affiliated with Nashville aandlot C. A. A part of hit workout ia to walk from hia noma to fie ninea.

Laat summer he played third base for Gee-Dee club in the 8unday aft ernoon circuit. OLIVER'S RECORD make his scheduled personal ap 16 FIGHTS and then back to bit homo again. During the Interim GUI, while at the Y. M. C.

will tost tha medicine ball around with John Freeman or Doc Fletcher masseurs at Earnest Spain's muscle factory, similar drills ensue, to bt followed up by a brisk rubdown and ahower. Bridges, a bit on tha frail aide, Oliver, native of Gleason, who was graduated from Hume- pearance, entertaining young- bero Fogg and Vanderbilt. according to a report resgntd the poet to become connected with the Maury County After Confab With Joe Engel May Accept Business Job; 'Nooga Boss Says Offer Tops Johnny Gill received his contract from the Chattanooga Lookouts Friday afternoon. Tha salary proffered did not suit the local citizen ao he drove over to the mountain village Friday night for' a conference with Joe Engel. president and oWner of the club.

Engel taid that the Southern League aalary limit would not permit him to pay Johnny any more money than was quoted in the document. After a two-hour chin session with both parties batting 1.000 on arguments, Johnny told Joe that he would have to raise tha ante ere EACH NIGHT STARTING ecnooi system. Oliver haa been at Joelton since 1939 and though never actively en doetn't go in for the more atrenu-oua exercises. A few minutes with the pulling machine, a later aeaalon with the vibrator and a couple of hand ball games are his lineup. gaged In athletics haa turned out creditable clubs during his tenure.

Tommy also haa bis arm mas him current basketball outfit la one of the school's better worshippers 1 his room never-theleaa and shelling out from (S to $10 to every destitute pugilist who knocked at his door, whether he knew him or not. DR. FRANK GRAHAM, president of the University ef North Carolina and originator ef the famous Graham saged by one of the trainers at the Health Club and aays that he is 8:15 Thrills! Action! S3 gaining weight, something he htd In mind and hoped to accompnsn GILL WANTS (Continued from Preceding Paga.) when he Joined. Castleman haa been enrolled ai the Club since December and credits hia dally workouts then for nis raDid recunc ration following a a spinal operation last September. CANCELS TRIP he placed his aipnature on the well known dotted line.

GiU haa been reported aa quitting baseball for a position with a local industrial plant which atresses ath Every Fight a Championship Fight SEE THEM nil-TEIE FEX1ST LOilY DE THE BESS? letics, (du Pont, if you must know.) "purity" plan, Dempsey refuting te die-cuu hit brain-child over the telephone, for fear of misrepresentation, but willingly, upon request, bringing by a tix-page document from which quotations might be gleaned, The document waa toe deep for our avtraga understanding. EVERETT MARSHALL, clean Clyde recently cancelled a trip to Florida and remained here, so beneficial were hia local exercises. Red Lucas, ever anxlout to avoid that middle-aged spread, dona an undershirt, covers that with a heavy cotton sweat ahirt and then placet a thick rubber Jacket over thete two garments before beginning hia drills which are compriaed of all manner of calisthenics ns well as a period on the rowing machine. that when he dropped into town he made a bee-line for the sports -PRICES- bloody noaea were conapicuoua after peace had been reatoied. Bill Batey, who ahould know, aays R.

C. Wllliami, 160-pound Golden Clovea champeen from thla section, la a natural hitter Dutch Mcintosh, now in Texas, will not join the Vandy froth spring football re-heariala until Feb. 30 J. C. Wetsel will handle the job untU Dutch arrives Eaat and Hume-Fogg meet Tuetday afternoon at 12:20 o'clock in uptown high gymnasium and capacity crowd ia anticipated General opinion la that ttory by member of Gill Terry'a family or player who has played under him would make for more interesting reading that recent "Ter-sir-la Terry" epltoda R.

C. Wllllsmt, 160 peunder referred ta In another paragraph, hoptt that he drawa Naal Kinney who beat tha Olympic atsr. Gunner Tewnaend, Memphis tltlitt In the first round. department to state that he waa going to hire not Bernie Bierman for Sewanee'i hrad coaching job but Sammy Baugh, the pass-throw $25 SEASON" RINGSIDE SEATS mgh est cut, most aensible, and probably most capable of the modern heavyweight grunters, stating that er. Htill dodging pumicity, in Little Rock he made another visit Champs from in j) i Birmingham Knox He Chattanooga Clarksville what the badly bungled racket needed was a high commissioner like baseball K.

M. Land Is, who'd put things right In a hurry. Red Invariably paret 10 or ja pounds off hit frame and reports for apring rehearsals with the Pirates In excellent condition. Boss, the ex-playboy, la probably the qulntet'a moat diligent worker. Harley has hia mind set on another whack at major leagut ball and apends two and three hours in the gym each morning.

In addition to exercising theti muscles the boys also Indulge In much barberlng." which la diamond Jargon for talking. Their gabfests follow tha dia BILL TERRY tatting a fellow member ef the tportt department to the aports department and repeated hia Intention of getting Bierman. JOE MCCARTHY, manager ef champion Yankeet, laying ht'd atk and antwar hit own questions, sen, if It wat all right "All yau guyt atk the tame thing, anyhow." ha declared, and proceeded td aubject himself ta a Interrogatory going-over that watnt in tha bookt. GENE TUNNEY at the last Ken for no reason at all. The reporter called and with tha stock and pre (Then Tickets on Sale Monday Noon, Front Counter of the Tennenean) RINGSIDE SEATS Tuesday and Wednesday 75c RINGSIDE SEATS-Thurtday $1.00 RESERVED SECTION-Each Night 50c CENTRAL ADMISSION Each Night ferred approach atked, "Hew long are you going te be in town, HIT' Whsft it ta your barked back sweet William.

Knowing about the man only that hundreds af Nashville Fighting for a Trip to Chicago awell guya whe DO knew him think he'a a heel without a tucky Derby, hia hair growing long like a Phakespearenn actor's and bounce and knowing enough that The PIUTBS 14 MILES HARDING ROAD 2 SHOWS NICHtl.y ealuring CHAtLIT NAOtYt OBCHMTRA CkwfMI MM UtM ItMfc, Chick- Cewntnr Mm, spa fin eiMWf liUU no couvret to mhnir cuisrt AtRIVIKfi SIFOM 10:10 P.M. taMtat 4 NO Inatot D4mm 9 1 C0UVIR1 couviRT vr? 0 RESERVATIONS 7-01 JJ when ho cornea to town It'a wise te go out and interview the croquet, soya. OFFER RELEASE Cleveland Willing te Let Soudeau Go For Reinststemtnt DELRAY BEACH. Fla, Feb. 6.

(VC, C. Slapnlcka, vice preal-dent of the Cleveland baseball club, said here he bad authorised release of any claima by tha club on tha services ef Louis Boudeau, University of Illinois athlete, It It will bring- about hia reinstatement Get Your Tickets Early WALTER FORT, the Impetuoua hit ones tplendid 'physique now bulging at the Wrong places, making an effort to be nice to his be-Jewalled friends and, when recognized by a nattily dressed former mate in the Marinea, saying, "So sorry, old fellow, can't place you. Good i man who, boasting; an aversion for publicity. Yet hating to get bit nama ia print so muca.