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CAUL YOU 4| ?> Y|FR?T?SA*ESnP V MOW WHAT V ^ oto i v/oo? jn -- The M I D D L E S By BOB KMP There's no sense sons moms in this awful buzjearou >ou v can sleep with me - < and ad can bunk. /swill withwinox^^(rr/gnasty "N SONYTUftN TWK UGHTON, DBASt, J yOU MIOMT XT WAKE HIMyT V 'WUW-OM^ I I REG'LAR FELLERS?A Full Career By GENE BYRNES a one /%: out of y/ business POP?To the Watery Depth* By J. MILLAR WATT WHERE DOES THAT LEAD TO ? PRIVATE BUCK if Clyfe lewis "Frctead jm ta't m< Un. Hb yt Mfetarta' It (ttttaf CROSS I TOWN | By Roland Cot E JT IS generally understood that the postwar boom in sport will bs on the amazing side. But it will bo an entirely different matter from the sport boom after World War I. It will appeal to a fa* greater num ber of actual players but I doubt very much that it will even approach the totalled Golden age that fol lowed the First World war?those veara that hroueht . us Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Bill Johnston, Red Grange, Charlie Paddock, Earl Sande, Rogers Hornsby and many more in almost ev ery line of sport. Babe Ruth had been a star pitcher be fore. But it was not until after the war that he unwrapped his big mace and began hitting home runs. I can't see any such stars in sight for some time to come. For this has been a longer and far more punish ing war as far as our athletes are concerned. It has arrested the play ing careers of far more young stars, sneh as Bob Feller, Ted Williams, Billy Conn, and so many others who were still short of their prime and peak when called to service. Here and there ameng the young er servicemen we'll have a certain number of stars who may come dose to the old-time mark?boxers, ball players and football players. But anyone who expects to see a Ruth ? Dempsey - Jones - TUden Grange - Sande an<^ Hornsby parade Is likely to be disappointed. It could happen, of course. Since almost anything can happen in sport. But it isn't a good bet. The odds are against it. There will be too many of our greatest stars around Pearl Harbor days back in 1941, who will be over the hill physically be fore they have the chance to return to competitive sport. They will still be good, many of them, but too many of them will have lost their best years. Grmntland Rice Another Type of Boom The sport boom that will follow this war will be another type. While it may not give the spectators such big names as we have mentioned, so many outstanding stars, it will accomplish something much more important. It will lift the general av erage of play and skill far higher than it ever was before. The First World war contributed nothing to the headline mastery of the Golden age. The sport stars of that era had practically no connec tion with the war -in any way. You can ring in Grover Cleveland Alex ander, since Old Pete was a star pitcher back around 1911. But it will be different after this war. Army and navy now have from 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 men in the service. And army and navy have outlined one of the biggest pro grams for sport ever known, along the line of coaching, training and competitive play. This big swing In the direction of sport is a vital necessity. Army and navy know this. When the war In Europe is over, there will be millions who can't be rushed borne or on to Asia and the Pacific at a day's notice. They will need a vast sport ing program (o keep them inter ested in life while waiting for boats and planes to bring them back, or carry them to ether theaters of action. The big weakness of sport in the United States is that we have been too much of a spectator nation?and nog enough of a playing nation. This applies to our youngsters and to old er men. When 23,000 out of 100,000 18-year-olds are rejected by the draft, something is obviously wrong. Army and navy now plan to give all these millions a chance to play the games they like with greater skill, even if few of. them ever be come champions. There can only be one champion, at n time, after all. But there can be a vast improve ment in our average skill. ... - Postwar Foolball There is one knotty, thorny prob lem that the pro-football league or leagues will soon haVfe to meet. This irrrolves returning servicemen who may have a year or two years of college football left, but who may want to play pro-football, rather than return to campus life. As the pro rule now works no play er can be taken into pro ranks until his class has graduated. 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