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Show THF FTCH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Connie Mack Is 75 PEAKING POINTS By Ex-Heavywei- recently and announced that he is going to continue managing the Philadelphia Athletics until he has passed his eightieth birthday. birthday GEORGE A. BARCLAY ght Champions Now Ten in Number THE alumni chapter of ex-- j heavyweight champions of the world were assembled under one top, ten members would answer Here to the roll call. One or two of them would be grizzly and doddering. Several would be well off financially and perhaps a couple might be called wealthy. One would be down and out. Three of them would tell you they were still active in this fighting game. Never before in history, probably, have there been so many living exheavyweight champions. Can you name these fighters? Well, never mind, here they are: James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Jack Tunney, Max Schmeling, Max Baer Primo Camera, Sharkey, and Jim Braddock. Jeff Lives in Comfort Jeffries,, who won the championship by beating the great Bob Fitzsimmons at Coney Island in 1899, lives in modest circumstances out on the Pacific coast. He made the mistake of trying to come back against Jack Johnson in 1910 after officially retiring for want of competition Mr. Mack, as his players have always called him, is known outside of baseball as Cornelius McGillicuddy. He is the oldest big league manager in point of years old enough - to be the father of practically all the other managers in the American and National leagues. He likewise holds the record for continuous service as a manager. He became pilot of the Athletics when the American league first Oiganized clubs in the East in 1901 and hes been bossing it ever since. Looking ahead and not backward Mack is as men do at seventy-fivanticipating a better year for his Athletics. And when he climbs aboard the train next spring for the training camp in Louisiana, hell h be starting his year in baseball. If by some necromancy the Athletics should win the pennant, it would be Macks tenth flag in the American league. His teams have won five worlds series. His contribution to baseball is represented by something far more significant than years of service. Like Old Man Stagg when he coached championship teams at Chicagos Midway, Mack has left his mark on the men who have worked under him. He has been a gentleman and has insisted on that code from his players. His career is a monument to the value of cleanness in sports. fifty-fift- The Bare-Fiste- Days d By garded by many as one of the greatest fighters of the lot, is just about getting by financially. Jess Willard, first of the crop to make size a championship qualification, is, like Jeff, living in comfortable circumstances on the West coast. Besides his size, Willard had a good right hand to recommend him, but it wasnt good enough the day he met young Jack Dempsey. Jack Dempsey, who inaugurated the golden days of million-dolla- r purses, abetted by the late Tex Rickard and his manager, Jack Kearns, is keeping himself active and prosperous as the proprietor of a New York restaurant constantly patronized by sports celebrities and tourists. He occasionally goes into the ring as a referee. His conqueror, Gene Tunney, last of the great heavyweights and the only one who ever stayed retired after he had scaled the heights, is wealthy. ANOTHER Radio VIRGINIA VALE the Paramount EACH yearcan be counted on to present a thrilling panorama of American history in the making, and this year they offer Wells Fargo, which in many ways tops all previous efforts, even last years Plainsman, for sheer excitement. 1. What is the Maelstrom, and where is it? 2. Why does a star precede the number on some United States currency? 3. Are the Niagara fall moving steadily upstream? 4. What is the average thickness of hippopotamus hide? . 5. Has any woman received the Nobel prize more than once? 6. What besides chameleons change their color? Answers 1. A celebrated whirlpool or The adventure, heroism and romance of developing coast to coast has transportation the breathless sweep of fiction, p. doubly stirring because we know it is based on fact. Joel McCrae and Frances Dee are the principals in the interwoven romance, and Bob Burns steps out of character to play a stalwart of the early West. Better send the children early to see this one; they will want to stay all day. And theyll learn a lot of American history in a painless and entertaining fashion. Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects A violent current in the Arctic ocean near the western coast of Norway. 2. It indicates that that is a substitute bill issued to replace one that was defective. 3. The brink of Niagara falls is receding or moving back at the average of 2Vz feet a year. 4. Two inches. 5. In 1903 Mme. Curie received the Nobel award in physics jointly with her husband. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. 6. Certain frogs and fishes. Items of Interest to the Housewife AROUND .he HOUSE Suede Shoes. Never let them get too dirty and theyll wear for with a ages.- Brush off wire brush, but to remove shiny marks rub them lightly with fine - any-mu- Add the water a little at a time, stirring constantly, so that the sauce will be of the right consistency. Add seasoning to taste. be oily. Tarnished Silver. Tarnish can sandpaper or an emery board from a manicure set. This roughs be removed from silverware up the pile and makes the sur- which has been stored for a long face dull again. time by soaking it for two hours in water left from cooking potaShiny Glassware. Water glasses toes, then rubbing with a soft and other glassware will shine brush or cloth and silver polish. like new if a tablespoon of vinegar is added to the rinse water. Keep a Goin1 K Introduce Feeding Children. Greta Garbo stole quietly away to foods a child A man we knew had rounded unfamiliar new, from Hollywood without even sayat first; out more than ninety years when amounts small giving by friends closest y to her ing good-ba little bit of a windfall came to and sailed away to Sweden to stay then increase them gradually. him. The first thing he did after with contract Her indefinitely. e Sauce. When mak- counting the money was to say, calls for onset out another orNow ly one more picture, and it is likely ing a drawn butter sauce be sure chard! IllHe did not flinch in the thorflour to blend butter and in one the that will make that she oughly before adding boiling wa- face of his years. He was ready England. ter If they are not well mixed, to start right in where he started the sauce will be lumpy. Cook in 50 years before. Time ought never Truwant or small saucepan to down any of our folks. Lets man Bradley, narrator on the CBS a double boiler water. Sauce that is not be downed by the old scamp. over boiling ChiSunday Evening hour from is apt to Trotty Veck Messenger. flame a hot made over cago to go into motion pictures, but Mr. Bradley is reluctant to take a chance So they have arranged what is probably the most comprehensive series of tests ever given a performer. For one whole month Bradley will make daily film tests in New York, flying back to Chicago weekly for his Sunday evening stint. Well-Mad- Metro-Goldwyn-May- er er The recent death of Jake Kilrain stirred at the age of seventy-eigalmost forgotten memories among those who are ancient enough tt have followed boxing in the barefisted days. During sixteen years in the .ring Kilrain his real name was Joseph Killion faced 150 battlers, but his bout with John L. Sullivan under a blazing July sun at Richburg, Miss., forty-nin- e A new combination of talent is putyears ago was easily the peak moment of his life. Kilrain ting over the On Broadway proand Sullivan fought seventy-fiv- e gram heard over NBC. Don Johnrounds before the Boston strong son, known to radio listeners as the comic Professor Figgsbottle, is writboy won. The old boxer in an interview a ing the program and the leading have outlived all player is Alice Frost. year ago said: the others and feel as frisky now as I ever did. I eat and smoke Fredric March and his wife, what I please and I sleep like a Florence Eldridge, are running into baby. so much excitement oil their stage tour, they are half tempted to write Medwicks Records a scenario around their adventures. the company became franRecently, Joseph Michael Ducky Medwick tic when one of the leading actors of the St. Louis Cardinals who was became ill just before a performrecently installed as the most valu- ance. That persuasive Freddie able player in the National league March, who really should have been for the 1937 season, is revealed as a talked Kay Johnson the holder of seven other distin- thesalesman, film player into tackling the role guished records. after a brief rehearsal. Miss JohnJoe led the National league in hit- son was traveling with the comting with an average of .374, the pany to be near her husband, John highest in either major league. He Cromwell, who directed the play. led the National league outfielders K with defensive average of .9883, the in Hollywood will tell you Anyone highest major league outfielding that a motion-pictur- e star is lucky mark of the year. if he can hold on to He led the league in scoring runs his popularity for with 111; in total hits with 237; in five years. One of e total bases with 406; in the lucky exceptions in is Richard the lead shared and with hits 56, Dix who home runs with 31. Master Melvin has just signed one Ott of the New York Giants tied of the biggest conKing Joe with 31 homers for the tracts of his life, aftseason, but it must be noted that er fifteen years of on June 6 at Philadelphia Medwick popuhit a home run that was tossed uninterrupted R. K. O. plan larity. out of the records when the Phillies to make a big Westconduct caused the game to be for- ern spectacle, somefeited to the Cardinals. thing on the order By way of ornamenting his col- of Cimarron, his lection of crowns with smaller success. Like Jack Holt, the new emperor add- biggest he gets better with another veteran, to holdhis ed these minor domains age. ings: He played in the most games, 156; went to bat the most tims, 633; e hits in one game to Ethel Merman could have signed hit four contract any time tie a league record that 11 other a motion-pictur- e men share, and he hit five home during the past four years, but the runs in three consecutive games in popular blues singer preferred to August to tie still another league make just one picture every year or so and then rush off to New York mark. That doesnt leave much for the and forget about it. In Happy rest of the league to divide as bat- Landing however, she is so well photographed and her voice so beauting honors for 1937. tifully recorded that she has succumbed to Twentieth Century-Fo- x Here and There Clark Shaughnessy, Jr., son of the blandishments and will make pictures regularly for them from now University of Chicago coach, recently on. 205 in feet the threw practice javelin at U. C. L. A. . . . Stub Allison says ODDS AND ENDS Sonja Henie has end, is Perry Schwartz, California an ice carnival company that organized one of the greatest offensive play- will tour several cities while she waits Mecoached ever has ers he for the scenario of her next picture to be morial high school of Evansville, written . . . Jessica Dragonette is being Ind., which concluded its season by tempted by motion picture offers again ht re- .I Second Raters Rule When Tunney retired a crowd' of second raters scrambled for the crown. One of them, Jack Sharkey, was unpredictable. At times he looked great. At other times he looked awful. But he collected enough of the worlds goods in his ring career to be financially independent. He was beaten by ?Jax Schmeling in a bout in 1930 which was generally considered to have resulted in the election of a successor to Gene Tunney and in turn licked Schmeling in 1932. Now at the age of thirty-twPrimo Camera, the clodhopper who was imported from Italy and given a first-claexploitation by experts, is the most pathetic case among all the ex - heavy-- weight champions. Shattered in health, he is back in his native land practically without funds. , like Willard, went in for size in a big way, but he bad nothing at all but size and a fair amount of speed to recommend h i m Camera was awarded the cham-figwith Schmeling pionship in a o. ss - Car-ner- a, ht in 1933. two-bas- rs was almost forgotten during the time he held tbe championship and had little opportunity to capitalize on it before he went down under Joe Louis punching in June, 1937. C!0kaafen) POO m&ra qbq knick-knack- s, two-bas- i Max Baer, who has been described who could fight as tne but wouldnt, has been active in the ring within the last year. The last member to join the exheavyweight champions society was and is the quietest of the lot. Hes Jim Braddock, who came back from to grab the ranks of the championship. He was almost forgotten when he met Baer. He dock-wallope- jMLovie e, in 1905. Jack Johnson, STAR DUST seems to go CONNIE MACK in baseball. He celebrated his seventy-fift-h' of 21SK ME ' ... whipping McKeesport, Pa., 21 to 0, Nobody can read Fred Allens scripts but His writing is microhas not been defeated since 1933. In the comic himself. Maureen OSullivan hurried scopic Hoosiers have the that span piled back from England to play with Norma points to opponents 46. up 1,111 Western Shearer in Marie Antoinette." Union. ... Newspaper Western Newspaper Union. Tire Chains under United States and Canadian' licensed to manufacture and sell Inc.: The McKay Company; The Hodell Chain letters Patent: American Chain A Cable Company, Chain Company, limited; and Pyrene Dominion Company; Manufacturing Company: Pyrene Manufacturing Company ol Canada, Limited. A .4 la ,i - V :. J |