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World Series Coming Up Then Pro and CoUege Footbali^ Boxing and Other Top Sportn W HETHER you’re a gourmet or a glutton where football is concerned, this is your year for TV. As a result of some wild competitive bidding between the four major TV networks, the fall football fare on TV is the largest and choicest in tele¬ vision history. Everything , from schoolboy football to the professional kind is on the menu and there’s no doubt about who’s going to benefit. Men who man the mikes; Top, Ross Hodges and Bill Stern; below, Wayne Griffin and Du Mont's Jack Brickhouse. Big as the football season looms, there’s' another event that always manages to crowd football out of the headlines for a week or so. It’s an annual tribal rite peculiar to the United States known as the World Series, wherein a splendid collection of baseball players, the champion teams of the American and National Leagues, collide in a best-out-of- seven game series for the world’s championship. As in years past, Mel Allen will announce the Series over NBC. After last year’s torrid seven game set, some enthusiasts claimed the Series outshone the National Con¬ ventions as the TV event of the year. With both the Yankees and Dodgers in good position to be in the Series again, who’s to say that we won’t have more of the same. For those whose tastes run to box¬ ing, and that includes most of the male population, there’ll be no letup in the bloodletting. Four nights of the week will have fights, which should be enough to go around. In order, they are Mondays, on Du Mont from Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn; Wednesdays, the big Pabst fights with Russ Hodges announcing over CBS, including some title fights; Fri¬ days, Cavalcade of Sports over NBC with Jimmy Powers, also including some championship fights, and Satur¬ days, ABC again from various spots. Throw in Greatest Fights of the Cen- tury on Fridays, films of some of the great brawls of all time, and anybody left to complain about not enough boxing on TV should be tossed into a ring with Rocky Marciano. Plenty Of Wrestling Nor is that old TV retainer, the wrestling match, to be ignored. There was some talk that the grimt boys were becoming an unwanted item along the cable but their continued popularity seems to contradict that talk. Every Wednesday night, Wayne Griffin brings his salty commentary to the wrestling matches on ABC, us¬ ually from Chicago’s Rainbo Arena, and on Saturdays, Jack Brickhouse does a couple of hours work talking about the groaning going on in the ring at Chicago’s Marigold Gardens over Du Mont. Between Zoo Parade and the wrestling matches, Chicago seems to have a corner on the TV gorilla market. In addition to these shows, both carried live, there are two major TV filmed wrestling shows, both made in Hollywood, Ringside 26