The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 8, No. 34, Ed. 1, Friday, May 3, 1946 Page: 3
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FRIDAY MAY 3 1946
THE present year may not be the
ffolden age of iport as far at out-
standing ability goes I can gee little
chance that It will produce master
B Bornsbr
pieces even close
to Babe Ruth Jack
Dempsey Bobby
Jones Tommy
Hitchcock Rogers
Hornsby Bill Til
den lied Orange
and Man o War
Not to overlook
Earl Sande
But the year on
ahead will outclass
the postwar period
pf the first world
conflict when It
comes to the matter of attendance
and the actual amount of gold or
Its equivalent taken In at the turn-
stiles
This 1946 season will make all
other past years look like the tag
end of a depression so far as
crowds and cash are concerned The
recent basketball season flattened
all past attendance records Wo
have had over 50000 people clam
orlng to pay 20 a scat for a non
tllle fight meaning Grazlano and
Servo
California and Florida race tracks
have left the past far behind in this
same respect Two Alabama foot-
ball squads made up from Ala
bama players recently fought it out
before 25000 spectators In Birming-
ham Racing at Jamaica has al
ready taken long leaps beyond last
years earlier marks
The superbrilliant stars who fol
lowed the last world war may be
missing but there are still enough
good ones to keep the human mass
rolling in the general direction of
the next show whatever game it
might happen to be
Only Warming Up
But these matters arc only in the
warmup division The real harvest
from the golden crop Is still on
beyond us
Baseball expects to shatter all
past crowd records by a wide mar
gin The Yankees hope to play be-
fore something approximating two
million at home The Dodgers would
be right alongside If there was only
enough parking room for the human
frame The Giants wont be far
t
away if their ball club holds up
The 450 million dollar bet at New
York tracks last season Is likely to
reach or pass 550 million dollars
this year We have seen crowded
Derby and Freakness years before
but nothing to what this next May
will otter in these two better than
100 thousand dollar tests The
Yankee sjadium hasnt the attend
ance space to equal the crowds that
saw the two Tunney Dempsey
shows but the LouisConn meeting
will out draw both financially In the
way of extra carloads of cash They
are already talking about Grazl
ano being involved In a million dol
lar gate and the rockfisted entry
hasnt even a title
The United States Golf assocl
ation is dead sure that the open
at Canterbury Cleveland in June
and the amateur at Baltusrol in
September will run up far higher
figures than either has cter drawn
in the past The crowds who want
to see a contest have already far
outgrown the limited spaces through
spring and summer and fall
On a recent tour of the southeast
we were often asked how long the
money would hold out Apparently
It Is going to hold out for at least
another year No one can say yet
fn Just what fighting shape either
Louis or Conn will be but the rush
to contribute at least three million
dollars Is still under way with tbo
contest coming late in June
Apparently it isnt the entry list
but the game that is drawing them
out As far as one can see neither
the Derby rrnr the Freakness nor
the Belmont has any Count Fleet
or any Whlrlaway or Alsab run-
ning No outstanding star has yet
ahown for these events but this
wont affect the size of the populace
on hand
Baseball comes nearer approach-
ing the first golden ago In playing
class For baseball still bas the Car-
dinals DlMagglo Ted Williams
Bob Feller and many others with a
high standard of excellence Includ-
ing Newhooser and Wakefield of
the Tigers
Some one recently asked how
large the crowds would be If Ruth
Dempsey Jones Tllden Hornsby
were back in their prime The
answer is they couldnt be any
larger for the simple reason there
Isnt any more room Today theyll
Tush to see anything at any price
Apparently everything Is worth 50
except 50
Genius in Sports
What Is this know how this
genius or Instinct for superlative
play In sport Ty Cobbs father was
a Georgia judge who had ho particu-
lar interest in any game Ty Cobbs
Children had no interest in baseball
Yet1 Bill TUden once told me that
young Ty Cobb might have been a
tennis champion
Old man DiMaggto never had the
slightest idea1 of what baseball
meant Yet he produced Joe Dorn
and Vlnce DlMagglo
HEMPHILL COUNTY NEWS CANADIAN TEXAS
Start This Housing
Project Immediately
BLUE birds like a house In the
sun The nest space must be
deep and they are particular about
the size of the entrance Iloblns
want a roof but no front on their
house and they prefer shade
Wrens will like a tiny house under
the caves of your own dwelling
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fulo 9 and complete directions Is used
or the three houses ihown here They
are planned to meet special require
meoti and are to attractive that you
may want to use them as special tea
lures In your garden Ask tor pattern
No 277 and enclose 25c to cover cost
and mailing Address your request to
MRS RUTn WYETH SPEAItS
Bedford IliUs N Y Drawer M
Enclose IS cents for Pattern No 277
English Colleges Hold
Bumping Boat Races
Differing from nil other boat
races are those held in England
for a week each June by the crews
of the 17 colleges at Cambridge
and the 22 at Oxford says Col-
liers Instead of all shells racing
abreast toward a goal they are
grouped in three divisions which
race by themselves with their
boats stretched out in a single line
150 feet apart the position in line
being determined by previous
races
The object of the contest there
fore is to overcome and bump the
boat ahead which entitles the
bumping crew to move up one
place until it eventually reaches
the head of its division and is pro-
moted into the next
Get CSutfivan SOUS as weff as
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 8, No. 34, Ed. 1, Friday, May 3, 1946, newspaper, May 3, 1946; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47448/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.