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...Chicago's Soldier Field last week, the first big football crowd of the year-76,000-watched Coach Bierman's All-Stars open the season against the Detroit Lions, National Football League champions. The All-Stars gained 184 yd. to the Lions 128, made 9 first downs to 5. Outplayed throughout most of the game, the Lions, vying for the honor of professional football and their owner, Radioman George A. Richards, rallied heroically in the last quarter, tied the score, 7-10-7. In New York, bookmakers made the All-Star team, about one-third of whom will...
That he was omitted from last week's All-Star lineup was no indication that Chief Loane West would not appear on it in the future nor that he had not deserved a similar honor in the past. He was a star end on the California football team of 1917. Then 27, he left college to join the Army. After the War, he became a Hollywood cinemactor, had a bit part as recently as 1934 as head jailer in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra. Since 1932 Chief Loane West has built up a profitable sideline of giving lectures...
...National League baseballers: the annual All-Star game against the American League, 4-to-3; in Boston. Hero of the game was Pitcher Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals, who faced only nine batters in three innings, gave no hits; "goat" was famed Outfielder Joseph Paul Di Maggio of the New York Yankees, who fumbled one ball, missed another, batted five times without getting...
...All-Star game, started in 1933 as ballyhoo for the Chicago W'orld's Fair, has become an annual feature of the big-league season. This year 16 players for each squad were selected by newspaper polls, five more by the manager of each side. Two million readers from 42 states sent in votes. Last week. Managers Char lie Grimm (National League) and Joe Mc Carthy (American League) announced their starting lineups...
...wins the All-Star game is not particularly important. Some players, like Pitcher Carl Hubbell, who two years ago struck out five of the American League's best batsmen in succession, take the affair more seriously than others. Who plays in the All-Star games (rules call for at least one man from each club) is more significant, as a fleeting but true reflection of the huge, changing panorama of sport in the U. S. On last week's squads, baseball addicts found many a name which has for years been part of this panorama. They also found...