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In Havana, where his prancing Dodgers, looking less than ever like the flyblown crocks who were once Brooklyn's most predictable annual ornament, were fixing to lick the Giants, the draft (see p. 51), and all baseball attendance records, brash, red-haired Flatbush Boss Larry ("Barnum") MacPhail welcomed another...
Last week, many a professional athlete and club owner had another war on his mind. The draft act put a horrid fear into the minds of sports promoters: that the draft would rob them of their bread winners. Recently loud Larry MacPhail, a World War I veteran who tried to...
After announcing he might seek draft deferment because his football team needed him (TIME, Jan. 20), Sportsman-Socialite Dan Topping, angel of the Brooklyn Dodgers and husband of Skater Sonja Henie, got off because he had stomach ulcers.
* Other three: Jock Sutherland of Pittsburgh, Jimmy Conzelman of Washington University (St. Louis), Greasy Neale of Yale, now coaching respectively the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Chicago Cardinals, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Prosecution of non-registrants will probably be mild at first. Those who forgot or for any other reason were unable to register will have to do so. Those refusing to register as conscientious objectors will be forced to in court and probably will lose any right to plead for deferment...