Pirates

In Pittsburgh last week the sport market was booming. Citizens who did not know a bunt from a pop fly jabbered baseball and watched the box scores of the local Pirates, recently quoted odds-on favorites to win the National League pennant--something that has not come Pittsburgh's way since 1927.

Furthermore, Pittsburgh's other Pirates, professional footballers, announced that they were headed for the championship of the National Football League this fall. Reason: Owner Art Rooney, whose hunches on horse races have brought him a fortune, had at long last succeeded in signing Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White, highest scorer (122 points) and most publicized player of last year's crop of college footballers.

To many a football fan, the news was somewhat puzzling. They all knew that "The Whizzer," who had worked his way through the University of Colorado doing odd jobs at 30-c- an hour, had refused the Pirates' offer of $15,000 (for twelve games) last winter after a month of trying to decide which he wanted more: $15,000 or two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.

Whizzer White had thought it through.

An A student in economics, he had communicated with the Rhodes Trustees and Hertford College (where he plans to study law), discovered that he could postpone his entrance until January, could be a Pirate first, and go to Oxford afterward with a $15,000 bank roll.

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