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Today's
Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UP) —The old timers lament that there
are no Dempseys or Nagurskis in action but we in sports
still have a lot for which to be thankful today.
First,of course, for the fact that our host in hero’s
garb, athletes all, aren’t being forced to carry freedom’s
ball through the frozen mud of Korea. Peace even in the
guise of an uneasy truce still is wonderful.
And, coming back to sports, there are a number who
we can thank for their inspiration.
LIKE BABE
Like the “Babe,” as Mrs. Mildred Didriksen Zaharias
is known. The Babe showed us what we can do if we keep
pitching. They told her, when it became known that she
had cancer, that with luck she would live but she’d never
play golf again. The Babe showed us how to keep our chin
up as she fought her way all the way back to the fairways.
There were, too, the heartwarming comebacks of such
as Ted Williams and Jerry Coleman from the skies over
Korea, telling all the kids in uniform that they could come
home and make the grade. And Wally Burkemo, still car
rying fragments of German steel in his body, who forgot
a miserable year in an Army hospital as he won the PGA
golf championship.
THANKSGIVING THRILL
We can get a Thanksgiving thrill from a lot of oth
ers in sports, too. Like Amos Alonzo Stagg, who licked a
serious intestinal disorder in time to celebrate his 91st
birthday anniversary, or Jim Piersall who conquered a
nervous breakdown to battle his way to stardom with the
Boston Red Sox.
Or how about Ben Hogan? Four years ago he was
fighting painfully to walk again after a near-fatal auto
mobile accident. Everybody was certain that never again
would he play competitive golf. Everybody but Hogan.
Since then he has won the U. S. Open three times in
three times in four tries and this year was his greatest
as he took that one, the Masters and captured the British
Open on his first attempt.
TAKE A LOOK
Look too at little Tenley Albright, the 17-year-old
miss from Boston. Seven years ago she was stricken with
pcdio. This year, after a long, uphill struggle, she became
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the first American woman ever to win the world figure
skating championship.
Then there was the October day they turned back
the pages and little Earl Sande, nearing 55, climbed back
into the saddle and stayed there until he rode into the
winner’s circle once again. Sad, you say, and it is to think
that the little man is broke. But it’s proof of what a man
can do when he has to give it a try.
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age, those of us 1 interested in sports can give thanks —for
the memories and the inspiration.
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Carolina
Caravan
BY JAKE WADE
CHAPEL HILL, N. C. You
walk across the campus and little
multi-colored handbills come float
ing down from the skies... They’re
like the ones that used to be dis
tributed in the old home town, ad
vertising sales at the Raquet Store,
but these read: “Take Notice, TAR
HEELS, Help BEAT DOOK and
WIN BACK ’V’ BELL" . . . That’s
the way it is the week of the Big
Game, and the Big Game is be
tween Duke (dignified spelling) and
North Carolina . . . There’s a par
ade and a pep rally, and the stu
dents get ready to go home for
Thanksgiving, but they’ll be back
for the Big Game, and Chancellor
House, puffing on his pipe, allows
that the campus is showing the
best and most wholesome spirit he
has seen in a number of years.
At the Rotary Club President
Hollis Edens bf Duke, making up
his attendance, watches movies of
the Notre Dame-Carolina game, and
somebody quips that he is scout
ing for the Blue Devils ... A stu
dent reads the Daily Tar Heel
while sitting on South Building
steps, feeding a dog ice cream, and
is a little puzzled, for the Editor
thinks football, as is, is all wrong,
and the student thinks it’s pretty
good fun. and he has right much
admiration for his roomate, who
is on a football scholarship and is
a fine guy who writes his mama ev
ery day and averages better than C
and plans to marry and raise a fam
ily and come back to the Big Game
every year.
AROUND TOWN ! Dale Ran
som the track coach, brings in his
new preacher. Charlie Hubbard, a
one-time track star, who has been
packing them in down at his
church Sundays, and the preacher
says he will offer a little prayer
. . . Mr. Jeffries, with an armful of
textbooks, pauses before he goes
into his home at the Carolina Inn,
taps his cane on the concrete, and
tells a friend, “I’m afraid of that
Red Smith, and I don’t wish him
any harm, but Y. Z.
snips George Barclay’s hair, usg
gests a play that can’t miss . . .
A few doors down some folks are
quaffing brew In Jeff’s, and there’s
a Duke man in there, but the quaf-,
fers are giving him the works . .
Crowell Little and Bob Cox, two
fellows who had enough coaching
and got out, chat on the corner,
concerned with their broadcasting
chore at the freshman game . . .
Noel Houston, the writer, ambles
out of the post office, and asks the
sports publicist how’s his golf and
if the Tar Heels are ready.
HERE AND THERE!—In Wooll
en Gymnasium there is much walk
ing up and down the corridors and
presently Industry Is silenced, and
there is a coffee break upstairs
and a coke break downstairs, and
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huddle and talk about Lackey and
Kelley and Yarborough and poor
Peanuts Parker and Thad Eure,
who can’t play . .1. The flickers are
going in one room In the building
and the solemn men watch and
take notes, with one scholar certain
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a manager is Walter Alston
Here’s a dugout size-up of the
new Dodger pilot, as he is seen not
only by his own players but
rivals, as well:
Alston is a stickler on one point
hls players must do a lot of run
ning. “R o y Campanella better
make up his mind that he is going
to lose weight,” insist the players.
“Alston will see to that.”
Like most other managers Al
ston has his favorities, although he
is considered “a square shooter.”
Third baseman Don Hoak and
southpew pitcher Tom Lasorda
were his favorities at Montreal last
summer chiefly because “they got
the job done.”
Although the 42-year-old Alston
Is quiet .and “not a talker like
Casey Stengel or Charlie Dressen, .
he isn’t backward about speaking
up when he feels he’s right.
The new Brooklyn skipper is
noted for pouncing on mistakes by
rivals and one of them pointed out
that “If the Yankees make a mis
take against him next fall, Alston
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he has spotted a weakness, but does
Duke have any weaknesses? , . .
Baldy Williams and Hap Perry am
ble down Franklin, discussing the
perils of officiating, and Grady Prit
chard joins them and cannot agree
on some of their conclusions, for
Grady is an ardent and most posi
tive disagreer . . . The bells ring,
as inevitably in Chapel Hill, and
somewhere in town a football play
er is dreaming that he is taking a
handofl and running a hundred
yards against Duke, and in Glen
Lennox young mothers are chang
ing the babies, with soup on for
lunch, and young lovers stroll across
the campus, arm in arm, headed
for the beaneries and the taverns,
and there is laughter in the suh
shine, for this is a college town
and the Big Game is only a few
days or a few hours away.
He says his nickname is “Smok
er” but his players address him
as “Walt.” He was respected by
the fans throughout the Interna
tional League.
No “high-hat,” Alston was re
garded “a good" guy” by virtually
all of his players. One or two of
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■ him because he didn’t play them
more often. Alston doesn’t like to
1 overwork a player but he has no
qualms about asking a regular
! starting pitcher to go down to the
bullpen.
When Montreal lost the regular
1 season pennant to Rochester last
season, Alston didn’t get phnicky.
“They have a good chib, but we’re
better,” he told his players. “We’ll
beat ’em In the playoffs” . . .and
the Royals did.
In short, Walter Alston is the
, kind of manager who gets his work
done with a minimum of fanfare
and a maximum of efficiency. It
\ may take Dodger fans a little tlbie
to get used tb him, but they should
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