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SPORTS
TRUE! SID GORDON...
SURPRISES BASEBALL WORLD
TRUE! BOB MATHIAS...
COMICS io<

OLYMPIC CHAMP AT 17!

TRUE! BEN HOGAN ...

GOLF'S TINY TERROR !

TRUE! BABE RUTH'S

FIELDING SECRETS !

TRUE
TODAYS
HOTTEST
STARS
WHO W/U BE
THE HOME RUX
KMOS tH 1949?
JOE
DIMAGGIO
DEAR FANS...
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to California, from Miami to Walla Walla, your letters have been flooding
our office telling us about how much you enjoy BABE RUTH SPORTS
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RUTH SPORTS COMICS so interesting and authentic.
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The Editors
IS OUR FACE RED!!!
Sports fans, you’re really on the ball! You caught an error in our first
issue of BABE RUTH
SPORTS COMICS. And of all places right in . . .

our sports quiz! We

asked you who hit the most homers in one season in
the National League. Well, the answer was Hack Wilson, but we said he
hit 38 when
it was only 36. Giving credit where credit is due, here are the
first three readers to call this error to our attention:
Martha Jane Svete, North Chicago, Illinois
Joseph Kratochvil, Whitestone, New York
James Harmon, Chicago, Illinois

COMING UP IN THE OCTOBER NO. 4 ISSUE!

BOB FELLER, STRIKEOUT KING! — One of the all-time pitching greats,
at 17 this Iowa farm boy was setting strikeout records as his blinding
fast ball became the talk of the baseball world.
PANCHO GONZALEZ, CINDERELLA BOY OF TENNIS!— They sus-
pended him from tennis for refusing to go to school, but the kid from
the wrong side of the tracks rose from out of nowhere to become champ
of the United States.
SID LUCKMAN, MASTER OF THE "T"— He was only a high school
still

they had Sid already marked

star, but as a future ball-handling wizard
and passing great.
"HAPPY" CHANDLER, POPULAR BIG BOSS OF BASEBALL-His
background was so poor nobody thought he had a chance to become
anything in life, but Albert B. "Happy" Chandler went on to fame and
achievement— an American success!
And many other up-to-the-minute true sport thrills. —
R H SP0RTS COMICS, August, 1949, Volume 1, No. 3, is published every other month
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THREE mmm
Hi RE 15 THE THIRD INSTALLMENT
BASE MAKES OF THE LIFE STORY OTGBORQB
HERMAN RUTH, THE GREAT BABB'
0000 IN THE WHOSE BOOMING BAT AND VIVID
PERSONALITY LIFTED BASEBALL TO A
MINORS POPULARITY IT NEVER BEFORE ENJOYED.

FOR YOUR AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION

/N THE LAST EPISODE

WE LEFT BABE JUST AS
HE HAP ENTRAINED FOR
BALTIMORE ANP THE
START OF HI5 FIRST
SEASON OF ORGANIZED
SASEBAU ... WE PiCK UP
THE 5TORYA5 ThE TEAM
ARRIVES IN BALTIMORE,..
THE YEAR:/?/*..

/HAT WAS THE START OF A LONG ^NPER ESAN'5 TUTELA6E/ RUTH

FRIENDSHIP.. BEN E6AN TOOK
.
THE BABE IN HAND ANP COACHED
HIM CAREFULLY... A RARE EVENT IN
THOSE PAY5 OF POO EAT P00
ACQUIRED POISE ON THE HILL...
BALTIMORE'S TEAM THAT YEAR
WA5 EXCELLENT, BUT ALL WAS
NOT AS ROSY AS COULP BE . .

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AFTER ALL, TH' FANS WOULD

RATHER SEE TH' BJG LEAGUERS
LIKE PLANK 'N' RENPER THAN
us!.: N' IF IT WASN'T FOR
THAT MR. LANNIN UP IN ? HEYfCHON
BOSTON BACKIN' US WE'D >OU GUVS. .DUNNS
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AGO ! L/NEUPfy^

' WHAT ABOUT THI5 r -JU5T SO-SO. JUST WATCH OUT FOR A

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.

ROEFALO TEAM, BEN. COUPLE OF 'EM LIKE THOSE TWO.. THAT'S .

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ARE THEY ANV GCOD?
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FAMOUS YANKEE SCOUT, MPjOE

MCCARTHY, FORMER YANKEE
tHANA&ER mO
IS NON PILOTING

\ THE EOSTON PEP SOX'

M/S WAS /T/. u. The BASE'S A TOUCH or NERVOUSNESS MADE 0AVt GOT A LITTLE HOT UNDER THE
FIRST 5TARTING ASSIGNMENT... HIM A L/7TLE WILR IN HIS CONTROL COLLAR AT THAT AND SETTING HIS
HERE WA5 HIS PiRSr TRIAL... AND MUCH TO THE GLEE OF THE JAW HE POURED OVER HI5 EASTONE...
HI5 FIR5T CHANCE TO PROVE RENCH JOCKEYS HE WALKER THE
WHETHER HE'D BE A 5UCC65S FIRST BATTER TO FACE HIM...
OR NOT... THE EASE'S CAREER
HAD OFFICIALLY BEGUN., a WOW/.. BACK TO A HAVE TH' FELLAS
TH' ORPHANAGE )
WA/T '1M OUT/.
FER you, YA J HE COULDN'T HIT TH
r RUM! '^•SIDEOFABARN WITH
A BULL FIDDLE/ tt-

^GETA
p/tcher!
 .

/ROM THEN ON BABE WA5 IN

COMPLETE CONTROL AND THOUGH
HE SAVE U P FOUR WALKS HE EVENED
THAT 8/ STRIKING OUT THE SAME
NUMBER...

>VHEN THE F/HAL OUT WAS
MADE THE RECORDS SHOWED
HOW GOOD A PITCHER HE WAS..
HE HAD SHUT OUT THE 0ISON5
WITH JUST S/X HITS/.
&ABZ WAS TO GET MANY, MANY RAISES
AFTER THAT BUT NONE COMPARED TO
THE THRILL HE GOT FROM HIS FIRST
ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR CHECK ... HE
RUSHED RIGHT OUT AND BOUGHTA LIFE
LONG DESIRE. ..A0/CXCLE/
 E

.ANP PITCH AGAINST THE GIANTS HE PIP, BAFFLING

THEIR MIGHTY BATTERS WITH HIS STUFF ANP TURNING IN

FULL OF LIFE ANP

ALWAYS READY TO
PLAY BALL BABE 50ON
BECAME DUNN'S BEST
HURLER ANP IN AN
EXHieiTlOH 6AM.
WITH THE PHILLIES
HE TOOK THE MOUND
ANP GARNERED HIM"
Set? F NEAT XHN !

7hAT WAS THE START OF THE FAMOUS Nl'6RAW-PUNN FEUD

FOR WHEN PUNN FINALLY SOLP THE BABE TO THE REP SOX
M'GRAW YELLED DOUBLE-CROSS ANP REFU5EP TO EVEN
SPEAK TO DUNN AGAIN. ..EVEN REFUSING TO LISTEN LATER
WHEN DUNN TRIED TO SELL HIM ANOTHER PRETTY FAIR
l
fSTHFNOEZ..ROBERT'LEFTTHDROUE/ _
OKAX JACK.. BUT
...BUT THOUGH KUl'H
MY OFFER OF F/VE
THOUSAND STANDS, kept Pitching well,
ANP IF you DO SELL ANP THE TEAM WAS
HIM LET ME HAVE WAY OUT IN FRONT IN
CRACK AT HIM/ THE PENNANT RACE,
ATTENDANCE FELL
OFF TO THE POINT
WHERE ONCE THERE
WERE ONLY SEVEN-
TEEN FANS tNIHE
<TAUn*i/
 . .

. AND THE CAUSE OF IT ALL .THE

. . HERE IT 15/ WHAT CO YOU 5Ay,7. ^ABE LATER FI6URED HIS LOYALTY COST
OUTLAWED FEDERAL LEAGUE, WAS HIM ABOUT n/fijy THOUSAND DOLLARS
ENTICIN6 MOREAMP MORE d\0 GULF! I...NO. AS THE PLAYERS THAT JUMPED TO THE
NAME 5TAR5 INTO ITS FOLD... AND I c.. ANI5HED^
CAN'T.. I'D BE BANISHED^ FEDERAL WERE ALL REINSTATED WHEN
ONCE MADE OVERTURES TO THE F ROM ORGANIZED 0A 5EBALL THAT LEA6UE FOLDED A YEAR LATER. .
BABE HIMSELF.. 'N' I LOVE TH'OAME too much., BUT MEANWHILE JACK DUNN WAS IN
I.CANTPO/rJ DIRE FINANCIAL STRAITS.
,r'S

BUT,6££IW£Z,\ yEH, COACH!

COACH ! YA 5AIP \ HOW'S ABOUT
YOl/0 WORK WITH /THOSE PO/NT-
TH'
my/ , —
INF1ELP£RS J £RS
-'1
ON
ws/zzce
PLAYIN'
 0&y/..THEN LET'56ET RIGHT DOWN ANP IF you HAVE ANY IDEAS THAT FIRST 5ACKERS JUST
TO WORK YOU FIRST BASEMEN
! PLAY AROUND THE BAG, GET EM OUT OF YOUR HEAD/ THE
V

FIRST: YOU SHOULD HAVE A LONG FIRST 3A5EMAN SHOULD COVER THE ENTIRE VICINITY
REACH AND BE ABLE TO CATCH OUTLIE IN THE DIAGRAM BELOW. .BUT REMEMBER!
WITH ONLY YOUR GLOVED HANC DON'T INTERFERE WITH THE SECOND
IT HELPS IF YOU'RE TALL AND SAUCER AND KEEP IN MIND THAT
LEFTY BUT IT ISN'T YOUR PRIMARY JOB IS TO TAKE
ABSOLUTELY NECES~ THE THROWS OF OTHER
ARY... ANP YOU MUST
*> INFIELPERS...
BE AGILE ANP HAVE
PERFECT
balance!.

ON BUNTS OR REGULAR OROUNPF.RS WITH A RUNNER ON FIRST, HAVE

REMEMBER ALWAYS TO GET THE YOUR FOOT ON THE CORNER Of
TH BAG AND BE BALANCED TO
/
FIRST MAM... FOR INSTANCE :

WITH A MAN ON BASE PLAY FOR

,
STRIPE EITHER WAY TO TAKE A
HIM IF HE'S TRYING MO ADVANCE... PITCHER5 PICK-OFF TOSS OR TO
ANP WITH A MAN ON THIRD 7 FIELD A BATTED BALL .

ALWAYS TRY TO NAIL HIM AT

THE PLATE IF THERE'5 ANY
T POSSIBLE CHANCE'
 / . . ,

A FIRST BASEMAN MUST BE READY TO COVER '\| > THERE'5 LOTS MORE, BUT THAT SHOULD
'
ALMOST ANY ROSTTION OH THE FIELD.. .HE MU5T \ .
HELP A L/TTL£. AND NOW LET'S GET OVER
BE READY TO TAKE THROW-INS FROM THE OUTFIELD.\ '•

TO you HOT CORNER ' GUARDIANS YOU .

HE MUST BE READY TO HELP IN A RUNDOWN AT AMY Bellas have to be able to think or

SAG. ..HE MUST BE, IN GENERAL, ONE OF THE KEY T WHAT you THINK W/TH WILL BE KNOCKEP
MEN ON DEFENSE. AN ALERT FIRST BASEMEN 15 ) -
R/ONT OFF. ,'N' LIKE THE FIRST BASEMEN
^ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR A WINNING YOU HAVE TO BE ALERT!
COMBINATION...

WORK CLOSELY WITH YOUR
SHORTSTOP ON WHAT TERRITORY
YOU'LL COVER AND WHO WILL
COYER THE BAD WITH RUNNERS
ADVANCING-... AND ALWAY5 BE
READY FOR SURPRISE BUNTS..
DON'T GET CAUGHT DEEP
Wrw RUNNERS ON PONT LEAVE
THE BAG UN&UARPED UNLESS
YOU'RE 5URE THE SHORTSTOP WILL
COVER, AND ON BUNTS ALWAYS PE
.READY TO THROW OUT THE FIRST
kNOW YOUR BATTERS AND WHAT
YOUR PITCHER IS GOING TO THROW..
KNOW THAT A LEFT HARP HITTER
WILLALMOST CERTAINLY TAG AN
OUTSIDE PITCH TOUR WAY... OFT TO
KNOW WHEN YOU CAN EXPECT A
5IZZLER TO THIRD...

m
 . . .

. . AND LEARN TO TAO PROPERLY.

QUICK . BE Straddle the sag with both feet cm the foul
AMP SURE WITH MDUR HAMPS. LEARN HOW TO . L/ME AND HOLD THE BALL 50 THE RUNNER WILL SLIDE
STRADDLE THEEACr WITH PERFECT BALANCE,
READY FOR THE RUNNER SLIDING
’
IN .
HARP- • •
.

A&Q U2LSJM
INTO IT.. STRADDLING WILL PREVENT HIM FROM HOOKING

S' LEARN TO FIELD A HARD HIT BALL

/ PROPERLY.. .THE SUREST WAV 15 TO KEEP
FEET TOGETHER, READV TO STEP FORWARD
Von right foot into throwing position

...AND PRAC TIC E 7HROMN6 A 6CCD HELL

. . . /^. I'D LIKE TO HELP YOU SECOND SACKER5
.

THIRD 5ACKER WITH A POOR THROWING / AND SHORTSTOPS OUT BUT 1 COTTA GO NOW..
,

ARM IS NO GOOD AT ALL... , / MAYBE NEXT TIME /..ANYWAY I HOPE 1 WAS

LEARN TO GET RIP OF l SOME HELP AND I'M SURE IF YOU'LL KEEP MY
V TIPS IN MIND, IT'LL HELP YOUR PLAYIN' /..
S'LONG KIDS. .SEE ,

N
fif£/ THANK5,
MR. RUTH/ >
 FOR YOUR AUTOGRAPH ALBUM:

TERRIFIC BOB MATHIAS

TEEN-AGE

BOB MATHIAS WAS ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S l BUT BIG BOB... fc'3" TALL ANO 190 POUNDS,
MOST SENSATIONAL HI6H SCHOOL ATHLETES. g WANTED TO BE MORE THAN JUST A STAR
ATHLETE !
MATHIAS WINS ^ HE'S ALSO CAPTAIN A
AGAIN! THAT ANO FULLBACK ON m SOME DAY, I'M THEN YOU'D BETTER
MAKES HIM < THE TULARE HIGH SCHOOL'S GOING TO BE SKEDADDLE OUT OF HERE
STATE CHAMP FOOTBALL TEAM, AND A A DOCTOR, AND GET BACK" TO YOUR
IN THE HIGH AND BASKETBALL STAR, TOO! LIKE YOU ARE, BOOKS! YOU HAVE TO
LOW HURDLES! DAD! STUDY HARD TO BE \
v A DOCTOR! )

STANFORD UNIVERSITY WAS IMPRESSED BY BOB'S

ONLY IT YEARS HE COULD GET AN
ATHLETIC PROWESS... BUT THEY WANTED GOOD
OLD... AND LOOK!’ ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP TO
MARKS, TOO!
THAT BOY SUST A LOT OF COLLEGES... B()T
LOOSE! I HEAR HE'S GOT HIS YOUR MARKS A FRIEND OF MINE WENT TO
HEART SET ON STANFORD! ARE FAIR, SON. KISKIPREP IN PENNSYLVANIA,
BUT NOT GOOD YEARS AGO... IT MIGHT BE
ENOUGH! WHY JUST THE
DON'T YOU TRY PLACE! FIRST THERE'S
A YEAR AT THE OLYMPICS,
PREP SCHOOL? . DAD! .
 THIS IS THE DECATHLON, AND IT'S NO PICNIC ! 100
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SURPRISED WHEN METER DASH... BROAD JUMP, SHOT PUT, POLE VAULT...
SOB MADE THE OLYMPIC TEAM, LAST 400 METER RUN, 110 METER HURDLES, 1500 METER RUN...
SUMMER IN EVANSTON, ILL.
DISCUS, JAVELIN AND HIGH JUMP?

I STILL DON'T YOU WOULDN'T THINK.

BELIEVE IT! A HE'D HAVE THE STAMINA
17- YEAR-OLD KID TO 00 THROUGH THE
WINS A SPOT IN MOST GRUELLIN6
THE DECATHLON!

AT THE END OP THE FiRST DAY... THE SECOND DAY, IT WAS STILL RAINING,
AND WEMBLEY STADIUM WAS A QUAGMIRE!
In WELL, THE BROAD \YOU HAVE A RIGHT
ONLY FOUR MORE
DECATHLON JUMP, SHOT PUT, TO BE! YOU'RE IN MATHIAS WINS \ AND
SCORING, HIGH JUMP, AND <JTHIRD PLACE THE HURDLES! \
EVENTS TO GO! CAN
HE STAND ^
ALL-ROUND THE 100 AND \ AGAINST THE THAT PUTS HIM L
PERFORMANCE 400 METER DASHES ]
GREATEST
IS WHAT ARE OUT OF THE j
ALL- AROUND
COUNTS... WAY! I'M ftUSHEO!/ ATHLETES
POINTS ARE
GIVEN FOR
HOW FAST
YOU RUN OR
HOW FAR
YOU THROW...
NOT FOR
HOW MANY
EVENTS YOU
MIGHT WIN!
THEN CAME ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC EVENTS
OP THE ENTIRE OLYMPIC GAMES...
THE 0I6CU6 THROW!

I...I CAN'T MUD!

SEE IT!
WHERE DID
IT LAND?

THAT PUT MATHIAS IN THE LEAD... AS NIGHT SUMMONING HIS LAST OUNCE OF STRENGTH AND
FELL, HE HEAVED THE JAVELIN I6S FEET, COURAGE, THE 17- YEAR-OLD KID DID FINISH... ?M € II...

1 INCH, AND POLE-VAULTED II FEET, S’ 34 INCHES! TO WIN THE OLYMPIC DECATHLON!

GOLLY, COACH... MY POOR BOY!

IT'SALMOST I DON'T EVER WANT
HAVE MIDNIGHT! HIM TC GO THROUGH
YOU'RE TOO I FEEL LIKE I'VE
FRONT TO BE CAUGHT BEEN RUNNING
UNLESS YOU OROP! p no uonocf

BOB HAD HIS MOMENT OF 6L0RY, BUT SOON IT WAS LAST FEBRUARY AFTER A POLL OF THE NATION'S
BACK TO THE SCHOOL BOOKS AT KISKI PREP LEADING SPORTS WRITERS, ATHLETES AND
IN PENNSYLVANIA! OFFICIALS...

HAVING TROUBLE A LITTLE... BUT I'LL LICK IT TO 18- YEAR-OLD BOB MATHIAS, OLYMPIC OE-
WITH THE IF I KEEP AT IT! JUST LIKE CATHLON CHAMPION- AND YESTERDAY WINNER
FRENCH, BOB? THE OLYMPICS! I'LL MAKE OF THE NATIONAL PREP SCHOOL HURDLING
CHAMPIONSHIP... GOES THE 1949 SULLIVAN
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? ID GORTON WAS BORN AUGUST IB, 19 8.., AT 1 ONE DAY, THE DODGERS HELD TRYOUTS FOR
9 TILDEN HIGH SCHOOL !M BROOKLYN, HIS COACH, PROMISING BROOKLYN BALL PLAYERS, AND IT
JACK SOLOMON, ALREADY HAD HIM TAGGED LOOKED AS IF SIP WAS ON HIS WAY...
FOR STARDOM/
’ I LIKE THE WAY YOU HANDLE
THAT KID GORDON REALLY GEE, THANKS,
YOURSELF, KID/ COME BACK
HITS A LONG BALL.' HE'LL BE
Again, and maybe we can
MR. STENGEL.
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GORDON CAME BACK— BUT THE GIANTS WERE BUT THEY

INTERESTED,
CASEY STENGEL DIDN'T/ IF IT CAN'T BE SHOWED IT IN A FUNNY WAY.
THE DODG&RS, JUST GIVE ME A \ IF YOU CAN WIN A JOB WITH
BUT STENGEL
I'M SORRY, IT'LLHAVE TO BE CHANCE/ THAT'S /OUR FARM CLUB AT MILFORD,
IS NO LONGER MANAGING THE THE GIANTS/ ALL I ASK/ . WLL SIGN YOU, BUT YOU'LL
DODGERS, SOW ... IT LOOKS WAIT'LL MY . HAVE TO PAY YOUR OWN .
LIKE YOU'RE OUT ^ FRIENDS IN A iCARFARBf
yx of luck/ rXM BROOKLYN
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 GORDON MADE THE TEAM AT MILFORD ALL RIGHT.' THE NEXT YEAR •• 1939- GORDON WAS PROMOTED
IN HIS FIRST SEASON HE LED THE EASTERN SHORE TO THE THREE-EYE LEAGUE, WHERE HE HIT 327 ' .

LEAGUE IN HITS, TOTAL BASES, TRIFLES, AND BEFORE THE SEASON ENDED, HE WAS WITH JERSEY
BATTING— ,352' |
^ CITY— JUST ONE STEP OUT OF THE MAJOR LEAGUES J
>WOW.' THAT'S AND TO )
HIS 25th HOME ') THINK HE * WHAT A THROWING
OUCH.'
r RUN THIS, " HADDA PAY ARM.’ A GOOD THING
IT'S
. SEASON.' .
GORDON IS ’WAY OVER AT
HIS OWN WAY
-7 HERE.' v THIRD BASE, OR HE'D
BREAK EVERY BONE .
y
IN MY HAND.' J

AT JERSEY CITY, SID WAS UP AGAINST BETTER I AND SO, ON AUGUST 31, 1940, MARY
PITCHING, AND HIS BATTING AVERAGE SLUMPED fl GOLDBERG BECAME MRS. SIDNEY GORDON.
OFF! BUT HE FOUND, IN 1940, AN UNUSUAL
REMEDY...
™
NO MATTER WHAT
I DO, I CAN'T GET ON
^ MAYBE IT'S THAT GIRL-
FRIEND OF YOURS ... WHY
\DON'T YOU GET MARRIED
BASE/ I WISH 1 COULD ) AND QUIT WORRYING
FIGURE IT OUT/... ^ nr ABOUT IT?

AND IN 1941, SID'S BATTING

AVERAGE JUMPED TO .304?

AT THE END OF 1941, HE HAD A TRYOUT WITH THE ONE DAY THE "LITTLE GIANTS" RAN OUT OF
GIANTS, BUT WASN'T QUITE READY... SO BACK TO PITCHERS, AND... YOU GUESSED IT.'
JERSEY CITY, WHERE HE BECAME A ONE-MAN BALL
CLUB'!
— ^ NOTHING LIKE LEARNING '
-
y 1 WELL, CHIEF,\ WHAT DIFFERENCE N ALL PARTS OF THE BUSINESS.'
WHERE DO TODAY? DOES IT MAKE?.. .YOU
I PLAY, AT LEAST IT WEEPS ME
f
^
^ ••• SECOND BASE, THIRD

BASE OR THE .
1 OUTFIELD? J
.
J
/DO A GOOD JOB ANY-
WHERE, SID— AND WE
NEEDYOURBATIN
“T THE LINE-UP/ )
^
IN THE LINE-UP/
 AT THE END OP THE 1942 SEASON, SID MOVED UP TO
THE GIANTS AGAIN—AND THIS TIME HE STAVED.'

JERSEY CITY WAS CHASE'LOST

BALLS -AND NOW LOOK AT ME/
ALWAYS SOMETHING TO
7 LEARN, I GUESS/

JUST AS SID WAS GETTING THE FEEL OF THE

MAJOR LEAGUES, THE WAR INTERVENED. HE SPENT
THE 1944 -1945 SEASONS IN THE ARMY, AND IN 1946..

I'D LIKE TO LEAVE YOp WELL, WELL, WELL ... THE

^
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THROUGH THE 1946 AND 1947 SEASONS, SlD COACH RED KRESS ADVICE WORKED.' FOR THE FIRST
FILLED IN WHEREVER HE WAS NEEDED. HE WAS A TIME,GORDON BEGAN TO GET MORE POWER TO LEFT
STEADY BUT UN SENSATIONAL PERFORMER... THEN IN HOME RUN AVERAGE STARTED TO JUMP/
FIELD: AND HIS
SPRING TRAINING, BEFORE THE 1948 SEASON ...
IF YOU'LL COME CLOSER
JJP
TO THE PLATE, SPREAD YO
STANCE, AND FACE THE
PITCHER MORE, YOU
WON'T BE A SUCKER
. FOR OUTSIDE
PITCHES/
 . /

AT FIRST, Sll> FILLED IN FOR INJURED BOBBY THE DETERMINED KID FROM BROOKLYN WHO
THOMSON IN THE OUTFIELD... THEN ONE DAY... COULDN'T HIT OUTSIDE PITCHING AND DIDN'T CARE
WHERE THEY PLAYED HIM AS LONG AS HE WAS IN
THOMSON'S READY TO PLAY, I'D LIKE IT FINE, MEL... THE LINE UP, WOUND UP LAST SEASON- AS THE
BUT LOHRKE'S IN A HITTING AND THIS TIME I'M GONNA THIRD BASEMAN IN THE LEAGUE /
SLUMP... HOW'D YOU HUE STAY THERE FOR GOOD.'^
TO GO BACK TO THIRD A (
IT'S THE FIRST SEASON IN THE
MAJORS THAT I’VE BEEN A REGULAR.. .>
;sr BASE? g AND BY GOLLY, I'M NOT GOING
TO WARM A BENCH
ANY MORE/

SETTLED DOWN AT THIRD BASE, GORDON BECAME 1948 WAS GORDON'S GREATEST YEAR... WITH HIS NEW
THE TERROR OF NATIONAL LEAGUE HURLERS / BATTING STYLE, HE SMASHED 30 HOME RUNS — A NEW
RECORD FOR THIRD BASEMEN/
THIS BOY GORDON IS THE MOST .COMING FROM A
UNDER-RATED AND UNDER-PUBLICI2ED GREAT STAR LIKE
) ] Bait
PLAYER IN THE GAME TODAY. HE'S /FRANKIE FRISCH
A REAL PRO... A MONEY THAT'S HIGH
. Be..
PLAYER.' PRAISE/

AND, TO TOP IT
ALL, HE HAD THE
best FOLDING
AVERAGE
IN THE LEAGUE^

EVE« IN BROOKLYN —
WHERE T HEY HATE THE GIANTS HP LOVES KIDS, AND LIKES TO HELP THEM WITH
— * THE FANS HONORED HIM WITH A "SID GORDON 9
THEIR BASEBALL PROBLEMS ... THERE'S ONE
DAY"... ON JULY 3 1948 AND HOW HE CAME THROUGH
. ! PIECE OF ADVICE HE GIVES THEM ALL
WHAT A SHOT.' THAT'S
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\
TODAY/ - > BROOKS STILL WIN,
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Say, Sports Fans, we all had our bi« sport thrills in 1948. But here
are some of the happenings the leading experts considered tops on
their list. How did your greatest thrill
Boudreau 'Classicist'
Cordon (Red) lYlarslon, WHDH
Boston: ‘The pennant playoff game
between the Red Sox and Cleveland.
The game built baseball pressure to
the bursting point. There was the in-
spiring Lou Boudreau leading his
team, physically and mentally, to a
well-earned win. The Cleveland classi-
cist was at his best. I’ll take the Indi-
ans’ triumph over the Red Sox as my
choice of the outstanding sports event
of the 1948 season, and Lou’s great
performance under pressure as the
t
top thrill.”
Barney's No-Hitter
Red Barber, CBS sports director:
"Rex Barney’s no-hitter was my top
1948 thrill, not only because of all the
tension and excitement resultant from
the performance itself, but also that
was the first game 1 was witnessing
following seven weeks' illness."
Run for the Roses
Bill Corum. New York Journal-
Ameriean "My top thrill in sports
:
during 1948 was Citation’s smashing
victory in the Kentucky Derby. had I
been one of Citation's staunchest
boosters all through the winter and
spring. Picking ’em always helps.
Elliott Smacks
Torn Swope-, Cincinnati Post: “'Bob
Elliot’s feat of hitting Bob Fell er for
home runs on successive times at hat
in the fifth game of the World's Scries.
Elliot first hit over right field, then
over left, and did so in front of the
largest crowd ever to see a profession-
al baseball game, and at a time when
his Boston I Staves needed just such a
shot in theferm to stay in the running
for the champion-hip."
compare?
Navy-Truman Team-Up
In Tie With Army Cited
"The biggest thrill in sports in 1948
was the Army-Navy tie, not the game
itself but the spirit and color of the
Navy cheering section." wrote Tom
Meany of the New York Star. "With
President Harry S. Truman sitting on
their side of the Municipal Stadium
in Philadelphia, the Midshipmen took
particular delight in haufiig the Chief
Executive as a lucky mascot, since he,
too.had scored an upset victory only
a few weeks earlier.
“The game itself was a tfirill,
because of the spunk and
spirit of an
under-manned Navy team, which had
iost every game of the seasort, Dis
played against an Army learn which
hadn’t lost a game.
Olympic SqUad
Paul Zimmerman, Los Angeles
Times: "Any American fortunate
enough to sit in Wembley Stadium in
London last summer and hear the
“Star Spangled Banner’ played as the
great parade of United States athletes
won the right to walk up the steps to
the lop of the victory stand would
have to say the Olympic Games was
his sports thrill of 1948."
Thrill Within Thrill
Dick Hackenberg, Chicago Sun-
Times: "My biggest sports thrill of
1948 was the gallant bid of Southern
California for an upset victory over
Notre Dame at Los Angeles. Decern
her 4. and the comeback of the Irish
to tie the score at 14 to 14 in the firtal
minute.
"The thrill within the thrill was
Hill Gray’s 86-yard return of the Tro-
jan kick-off with the count 14 to 7
against him and time running out, or
Steve Oracko’s all-important place
kick for the point that carried with it
the destiny of Notre Dante’s unde
feated string.
"The beyond the thfill was the
thrill
rocking of the huge Coliseum pros
box like an aspen in a high wind min-
utes after the game was over Here
wa- a' football struggle to stand alone
among great contests— but how often
tlo you get an earthquake thrown in
a* a double feature.'"
Fat Pat's Homers
Jack Ryan, Chicago Daily News:
“James Patrick Seerey, his over
stuffed frame threatening to burst the
seams of his White Sox uniform,
sighted on the offerings of three Phila
delpbia pitchers the muggy, stuffy
afternoon of Sunday, July 18. and ex“-
ploded four home runs. It supplied the
thrill a fellow expects just once in a
lifetime,
Zale K.O.
John P. Carmichael, Chicago Daily
News: "Perhaps the biggest thrill was
Tony Zale’s knockout of Roeky Gra-
ziano for the middleweight title For
the first time had picked against
I
Tony and was 100 per cent happy to
too,
be wrong.
The Bomber Strikes
Arthur Daley, New York Times:
"i can’t remember getting as tremen-
dous a thrill out of any sporting mo-
ment as I did when Joe Louis knocked
out old Joe Walcott last June. The
mightiest monarch of th$nt ail was
on his way to being, dethroned The
Brown Bomber, a towering and ma-
jestic figure lor s„ long, was bejng
made to look futile and bewildered
by a man who couldn’t have lasted a
round against the Louis ol yore.
“Then for just a fleeting second the
Dark Destroyer reached back down
the dim passages of time and in one
blinding flash he became the Louis of
old. He, landed one punch with elec-
trifying suddenness and knocked out
Jersey joe.
Jerry Nason, Boston Globe: The
Olympic 100 meter dash final was the
top single sports event in my editorial
beat this year. Harrison Dillard, a
hurdles expert who had failed to make
the Olympic team as a hedge hoppe^,
won. OF Barney Ewell, 31. ex-shoe
shine boy. making his last try in the
big time thought he had won; Mel
Patton, world record breaker, was
badly outraecd. will never lorget the
I
morfi-nl when they announced Dil-
lard, wlio’d reached London on a rain
check, the winner in a photo-finish.
Ben HOGAN WAS BORN IN TEXAS
IN IQI3. WHEN HIS FATHER DIED,
The caddies decide to give the
KID A TRY OUT!
THE TINY KID HAO TO HELP HIS
MOTHER BY SELLING PAPERS
LOOKA
 Ben PLAYED THE TEXAS AMATEUR CIRCUIT. OUT-
SO HE GOT A JOB. A NATURAL LEFTY, WHEN HE CLASSED BY NELSON AND RALPH GULDAHL, HE
TOOK UP GOLF HIMSELF HE HAD TROUBLE FINDING -
PRACTICED LIKE A BEAVER.
LEFT-HANDED CLUBS. SO HE BECAME A RI6HTY. FOR A
LONG TIME HE WAS A D'JD. BUT ONE WINTER IN THE
CADDY TOURNAMENT...

HOORAY! HE

THEN HE WAS 19, BEN TURNED PRO AND HEADED

FOR THE COAST TOURNAMENTS. HE WAS SOON §0 FOR OVER FOUR YEARS HE WORKED ON HIS GAME.
BROKE AND LIVING ON NOTHING BUT ORANGES! WHEN HE HIT THE TOURNAMENT CIRCUIT AGAIN IN 1957
HE WAS MARRIED!

BEN IT'S LATE. YOU 'IN A FEW MINUTES, VALERIE DEAR.

HAVE TO REST FOR
TOMORROW'S

THIS RIGID PRACTICE DISCIPLINE PAID DIVIDENDS. BY

1940 HE BEGAN TO LOOK LIKE A GOLFER... SECOND IN 1941 AND 1942 HE AGAIN TOOK TOP MONEY-WINNING
PLACE IN SIX CONSECUTIVE TOURNAMENTS. HONORS... OVER $31,000. HE GAVE CREDIT FOR THIS
SUCCESS TO PRACTICE AND H6 NEW SPECIAL GRIP!
BEN, I TAKE PLEASURE IN ALWAYS A
PRESENTING YOU WITH THE BRIDESMAID,
RUNNER-UP TROPHY AND NEVER A BRIDE!
CHECK, AND OUR -ct-"'
CONGRATULATIONS! )

THE FINGERS IN RE-

LATION TO ONE ANOTHER.
THE LITTLE FINGER Of
the right hand
WRAPS ACROSS THE index
FINGER OF THE LEFT AND
But, BY the YEAR'S END HE BECOME GOLF'S BI66EST ABOUND THE mJOa£.
MONEY WINNER OF 1940.
 The next year sen was in the army, where
HE HELPED TO REHABILITATE DISABLED
VETERANS.

AS A HOGAN PUT IN MANY MORE

CIVILIAN AGAIN,
Besides being the hardest worker in golf,
LONG PRACTICE HOURS... HOGAN IS AN EXPERT AT "READING* THE GREEN?

Yet, oespite his meticulous care, he again blew

A putt to miss a tie in the
1946 U.S. OPEN.

Oespite the -loss of the "big one" hogan IT SURE SEEMEO THAT WAY? IN I94B, HOGAN ROLLED
WON *4Z,SS6 IN PRIZE MONEY THAT YEAR. THEN, UP RECORD SCORES IN TAKING THE BIGGEST TOURNA-
ONE OAY IN 1947, HE MADE A DISCOVERY MENT IN AMERICA?

A FOR
GRAND SLAM? AND WINNER OF THE
THE YEAR'S LOWEST SCORES
VAROON TROPHY
INTOURNAMENT
GOLF?

Hogan'S nerves are lik* iron, they cau him *uttle
WATER? BUT TWO THINGS STILL ANNOY HIM.
A WEEK LATER THEY MET AGAIN IN A PLAYOFF...
FOR THE PHOENIX OPEN. THIS TIME OEMARET WON.
THEN AS HOGAN AND HIS WIFE DROVE HOME FOR
A VACATION...
Today ben hogan is in a Texas hospital recover-
ingFROM HIS VERY SERIOUS INJURIES
YOU'RE PRETTY
MY
H06AN BEGAN THE 1949 WINTER SEASON BY
ice
TAKING THE BING CROSBY INVITATION! THEN HE
BEAT JIMMY OEMARET IN A PLAYOFF FOR THE
LONG BEACH OPEN.
OF HIS YEARS OF HARD WORK, HIS
VICTORIES IN OUR GREATEST TOURNAMENTS, THE
POINTS HE SCORED IN RYDER CUP COMPETITION BE-
TWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH PROS, HIS WINNING OP
THE VARDON TROPHY,AND HIS LARGE EARNINGS, BEN
HOGAN WAS AWARDEO THE PRIZE OF THEM ALL, 8EING
NAMED AS 1948'S ^GOLFER OF THE YEAR "
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WHO FI6UPEE TO HEAP HIS
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POINT OF VIEW ... The famous tears. It took the irrepressible LEFTY

CLUBHOUSE basketball coaches of City College

of New York and N. Y. U., NAT
GOMEZ
of
to lighten the air with
his witty quips.
one

CLOSEUPS HOLMAN and HOWARD CANN,

brought their teams to play in a
"It took them 15 years to get

you out of the line-up," consoled

double-header in Philadelphia one the great lefthander nearing the
night last winter. Both teams won, end of his career. "Me it only takes

HIGHER UP but the coaches reacted in charac- them 15 minutes to get out of there."
. . . The humorous
teristic style.
FRESCO THOMPSON, director of
the Dodgers' minor league farm
“We played a lousy game,"
was once conducting a growled Holman, the task-master.
clubs, tryout DIAMOND DOODLING . . . Four
"I'd rather lose a well-played one.
of young ball players at Ebbets American League distance hitters
Field. After batting practice, one
If we repeat some of the things done
slugged homers in all eight parks
tonight, we'll get hurt."
kid walked up to Fresco and asked: last year. They were JOE DIMAG-
"Mr. Thompson, have you noticed Capn's attitude after his team's
GIO, TED WILLIAMS, TOMMY HEN-
victory? Said the N. Y. U. coach,
•my swing ? I seem to be hitt.ing under RICH and LARRY DOBY National .
. ..

the ball.''
dead-panned, "If you win it doesn't
League hurlers pitched seven one-
"Is that so,'' replied Thompson. matter how you look."
hit games in '48, whereas pitchers
"How much ore you hitting under in the junior circuit threw only one.
it?" QUESTION OF TIME . . . When the Each league had one no-hitter . . .

"Oh, just a tiny bit," said the Yankees' great first baseman, the There were 24 grand slam homers
player. "But how can meet I the ball late LOU GEHRIG, ended his fabu- in the National League during
the
level?" lous playing streak Detroit, he past season, three by SID
in
GORDON.
"Tell you what to do," Fresco broke down in the dugout and wept. In the other league, TOMMY HEN-
advised. "Just go get yourself some The atmosphere was grim. Players RICH smacked four of the 25 jack-
innersoles." sniffled and. coughed, some shed pot clouts to tie an old record.
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