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...League schools never really have outstanding programs." Bob Kalaf, assistant director of scouting for the Yankees says, explaining that the better athletes are not likely to come to schools like Harvard "The Ivy League colleges don't give out scholarships," he adds, noting that most top notch athletes aren't top notch students. "The general perception. Kalaf concludes, is that "they don't have the expertise of big programs...

Author: By Jaki Schllsinger, | Title: Majoring In The Minors | 4/17/1982 | See Source »

Last year Mannheim Kalaf, now the head of a family and the proprietor of a Superior grocery store, decided that 25 years without hajjel was plenty. Brooding brought action: he wrote the U.S. Consul in Beirut, Syria. The consul gave him encouragement but no hajjel. Then Western Cartridge Co. heard about his quest, got hold of 30 hajjel and sent them to a surprised but grateful Mannheim Kalaf. He turned 26 loose in the hills, kept four cocks for training. (One of these warriors has licked the tail feathers off every rooster in Superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kalaf s Hajjel | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Syria, says Mannheim Kalaf, men take out a trained hajjel cock and stake it near a hunting blind. The bird will strut around challenging every hajjel within hearing distance. Soon a covey comes up, the leader ready for battle. Then the hunter blazes away at the covey with both barrels, picks up the dead birds and goes home. "They never wait to shoot again because the hajjel is smart-you can't fool him twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kalaf s Hajjel | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

During the 1941 fall hunting season, Kalaf asked all quail hunters, but none had seen these strange birds. Then last week his young son Stanley rushed into the house with big news-back in the hills he had seen a hajjel hen with a large brood of chicks. Kalaf went out to check for himself, and there they were "chuk-chirrring" around as if they owned the Pinal Mountains-a development which may well come about, if the agile hajjel is as tough as Kalaf thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kalaf s Hajjel | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...have an old-fashioned hajjel hunt for some time, but Mannheim Kalaf is content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kalaf s Hajjel | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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