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JUST how long the new boom that hai hit sports of every variety will last is anybody's guess. This includes baseball, football, racing, basketball, golf, hockey, ten Ills, mixing, curling, bowling, shot put ting. table tennis, gin rummy, javelin throwing, hunting, fishing, automobile racing or jumping through a hoop Tail-end baseball teams draw over a million. Many times beaten football teams pack the etnada. GranUand Rice Pramaters or others who uke credit for this a meruit public surge in their own line are merely being goofy. They don't even have to be smart or | good Just open the gate. Make it a dogfight. It doesn't seem to mat ter. But there is at least one detail that caa't be missed. In this coun try or naiiea of some 1 million nana re miles and some ltd million apart laving people, there is room for tm major professional football The New York Giants proved that whan, facing double competition tram the Yankees and the Dodgers they packed the Palo Grounds with their greatest crowd. The Cleveland ?mens, in the new leagne, have paeeed nay expected mark. They have net new records np shove 1t, So far, in their exhibition and their scheduled games, both leagues have gone tar beyond early expecta tions The situation hasn't been so hot in several spots, including Los An geles?a hot college center?but the general average has been exception al. The Giants could play at least one game a season before 100,000 spec tators?if there were room enough to park the human frame. We still believe, as far as the two leagues are concerned, that there is room enough in this country for IB pro teams. 8 in each league. And both leagues can save enough to pack a mint by working out the , same arrangement the National and American baseball leagues have to day. The rivalry of the two leagues has made baseball what it is. The same inter .league rivalry, with ? postseason championship, will be just as effective for pro football. In such an event, we could have remits thrown against futile argu ments. ? ? ? The Two Best Backs Several correspondents have writ ten in lately, asking if any other football team ever had a pair of hacks to match Blaochard and Da vis, Army's terrifying football twins Let's look at the record, as A1 Smith used to say. Carlisle's Indians once had Thorpe aad Oayoo?not too bad. Harvard had Mam aad Brickiey. Talc had On aad Philbia. Michitan had Hes taa aid Baas Weeks. Cornell offers Him aad Kaw. Pennsylvania had ?aBeaback aad Maaier. Stanford had Gray mm aad Bam 11 ton. Notre Daaae has had at any great pain?a laager Hat than most of the others. Minnesota. Tennessee, Alabama? these and many others?have had strong backfield combinations, counting only two men. But we can't locate at the mo ment any other combination that ranks with Doc Blaachard and Ciena Davis in all-around ability and destructive effectiveness. In making a complete check you'll come upon these facts? 1. Davis sad Blanche rd are hrit Hut til carriers, through the line or oat in the spea. Both sre ex tremely fast. I. Beth caa throw a pass aad hotb caa handle a past. S. Both are excellent blockers. 4. Both know bow to tackle aad are alrrng defensively. 5. Both are dangerous opponents against a rival past. & Bath can kick. 1. Both are packed with stamina nnd durability and both rive all they lm ?e at every start. Neither ts tem peramental or sweBed-headed. They happen to be two Ine kids who play the game for the lore of It. In looking beck many years over a long list we can't treats any team that had any such pair among its backfield talent, not for a few games taut through the greater part of three hard seasons. When you've seen Blanchard and Davis turned loose on some field you've looked upon the beat that football has ever bad to offer. ? ? ? About Bob Key land Bob Neyland of Tennessee, now General Neyland. an old West Point er. left his coaching job in 1M2 for army duty. b was generally accepted that it mould take Neyland a year or so Ho rebuild a winning team against the powerful opposition the South always offera. But bi his first yaar back we find Nryland's volun - ? ?k? Southern parade, at bnta abide in front ?Wafly I ?jfr ? " ' " CROSS TOWN B> RolanJ Co< "That'* what 70a get tar ajway* feedin' 'em aa 7our lunch hour!" | I BOBBY SOX ?? Mart) LWu t "Did, bow would jmi like to have a saw-to-law?" L w NANCY ?1I r WHILE I M W WAITIN' FOR M NAhlCY - --I MAY AS WELL ? . read one of ? \her books <41 kzn HELLO, SLU63Q By Ernie Bnthmiller I I'M TRYING AUNT V FRITZl'S BEAUTY Mk L MUO i | MUTT AND JEFF " By Bud FUher I WHY DON'T VOU \ [| GO OUT AND FIND) ? a .ma? j I r I FOUND [ A <JOB TrttS ^ ^ MORNIN6' ? rtELL. WHY AREN'T VOO WORKING? ?If ' , I Vou 00 IT?) THE BOSS TOLD) WHAT DID ME TO DO I HE TEU SOMETHIN6 WHICH I DIDN'TJX^^ (J-IXE To DO ."J HE TOLD ME \ To LOOK FOR ' ANOTHER JOB, THE OLD CRAB, , SO I DitlTAND f ^EFT HIM FlAIV/ at , LITTLE REGGIE ? ? By Margarita , f JITTER By Arthur Pointer REG'LAR FELLERS By Gene Byrnes rj^*0UWA*NA\7 , Jf OCT ON TM- V ill TtAM EH fe ipi how cooo if I I V NB.vaqiJ' KJOt\ ~ L TWlCtT flMt Ai } ,1 >01* ee?T ??*?<. -J^r! TACKLi NINl TIMti >^?<1 KTTCXH *** TACKLE, f-W. MS FMTY VKRDS ) V, AT A THHO*->_r^ > f-7 soumCX / AO (kOOO-A HOW ARE 1 I *OU ON . \ RUNNIN" * S V V ( J SAY-Kuan* I IS VKWAT I y V*. /Ok ^ 5 WILL, you \ CAN START I / nrn f-xn ? now- y ) 7 -_ _V VIRGIL - ByLeaKleU [ ^ 1 Uvl ? I I I I I I 11 \ I ? . i ? 1 I / '.'I" T I i *vn^ \ \i ? m \ | If WtLL" XJU NttLW 1 \ VEU.SOUOUD- j eu??D i k n" oomt */ / KJK 7UU \ f cabe^VBE ) v. . ; I WCIL-WHT I [ POTT you Z (50rotTV*iKlL^j SILENT SAM By Jeff H.yc, Saturday Night By MARION BOUCHER WMV PuturM. p ATSY was worried. When one is sixteen, pert, blonde and defin itely whistle bait and one hasn't a date on Saturday night, it's a seri ous matter. The worst of it was that she had been so sure Jim Rains meant to take her out. When her bosom friend, Leila, boasted that she had a date for Sat urday night, Patsy said mysteri ously that she was going to be "busy" too. Leila had been very curious but Patsy had refused to tell her mere. On Saturday afternoon Patsy re tired to the bathroom to shampoo her blonde curls. She then took a leisurely bath and emerged from the tub, scented with bath salts, bath powder and her mother's most exotic cologne. And now it looked very much as if all Patsy's preparations had been for nought. Here it was seven o'clock and no word from Jim. Of course he worked Saturday after noons at the corner drug store but he should be finished by now. Patsy hovered uneasily around the telephone. When the phone rang a few min utes after seven Patsy almost broke a leg in her haste to answer. But it was only for Bob, her older broth er. He talked on and on while Patsy prayed fervently that Jim wouldn't try to call while the line was busy. Finally Bob hung up but the phone did not ring again. "Would you like to go to the movies with Dad and me?" her mother asked, apparently unaware of Patsy's anxiety. When Jim Raine had asked her for a date, she had answered evasively. At sixteen, pert and blonde, one can afford to be evasive. "I don't think so, mother. I don't feel like going to a show tonight." "Are you going out?" "Well ... I might later on." "Remember to be home by twelve if you do, dear." "Oh, mother, that Cinderella stuff in this day and age! Besides, it's Saturday night." But her mother was adamant. It was only on special occasions that Patsy was allowed to stay out later than twelve in spite of her vehe ment protests over this rule. After her parents had left, Patsy went upstairs and changed into the white skirt and gay blouse. She carefully applied more lipstick and combed her hair again. She could hear Bob splashing and whistling in the bathroom, and soon he went out too. The house was maddening ly quiet?if only the phone would ring! Patsy wandered aimlessly down stairs and turned on the radio. Dance music filled the room and then a girl's voice mocked her: "Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week. ..." Patsy shut the radio off. She looked anxiously at the clock ?it was after eight now. What would she do all evening, if Jim didn't call? She didn't dare phone Leila?it would be too humiliating to confess that she was sitting at home doing nothing. Besides Leila had said she was going roller-skat ing with Davy Low. Patsy picked up a magazine but found that she couldn't concentrate on what she was reading. She tossed it aside and went to the window. Couples strolled by. talking and laughing in the June night. It was almost more than she could bear? everyone seemed to be out having a good time, except herself. It was really a m^n's world. Patsy thought bitterly. Look at her brother Bob?he didn't have to wait for anyone to ask him out. But she was a girl and had to accept her late. Oh it wasn't fair! Patsy was on the verge of tears when the doorbell rang. She leaped up. Could it be ... ? Yes ... it was Jim! "Hi, Pat!" He was a little out of breath. "I was afraid you wouldn't be home. There was a Two-for-One Sale at the store and I had to work late this evening ? couldn't get around any sooner. How about go ing to a show?" "I really didn't care to go out tonight, Jim." She succeeded in sounding very indifferent. "But ... well . . . yes, a show would be fine." "Sorry I didn't phone you, but the boss wouldn't let me, we were so busy." Patsy hummed a little tun; as she went for her coat. All was right with the world once more: it was 1 Saturday night and she had a date! I A Chintz-Covered Chest for Blankets IF STORAGE apace is in demand 1 here is a solution to the prob lem. Make a simple substantial wooden box with a hinged lid and then do a really good job of cov ering it with a flounced skirt and LIKE WITH OIL CLOTH 0* WALL mpc* MSTED ON t JP SEW THROUGH ' WEUTWG--?^ . m kls attached top cushion to match your draperies, bedspread or dressing table skirt. 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