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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY n U RIEDE, Denver and San. wilt atFrancises boxer, wh tempt to whip Pat Gilbert,' local tomorrow night. Possesses Excellent Change .of Pace, and Gives Scores of Suggestions Re ceived Bearing Upon All ters No End of Trouble. - By BILLY EVANS. With all freak deliveries eliminated, the spltball excepted, strike-operformances In the majors were not common last year. As a matter of facL for several years strike-ofeats. have not been so frequent as eight or ten years ago. This, despite .the alleged supremacy of the pitchers, due trgely to freak dellv. erles. y I think the strike-ohonors for 1920 in the majors go to Pitrher Shocker of the SL Louis Browns. Shocker Is one of the few remaining spitballers In the American league. I umpired the game at the Polo grounds last summer In which Shocker whiffed .fourteen of the Yankees. ' Striking out fourteen on a major league club la some feat, but when you set down that many, on a club that boasted of as many good hitters as New York, you are stepping some. It is quite a trick to cause such sluggers as Lewis, Ptpp, Ward, Bodie, Peckinpaugh, Pratt, Ruth and all the others, to whiff. It Is not unusual for Ruth to strike out once during a f game. He usually whiffs once, and sometimes he taWes his j r three outs twice in a game. Hmvever, Ruth seldom strikes out three times In one game. This is what happened to the king of slugger in the game in which Shocker struck out fourteen. That is some feat to be proud or, in addition to eleven other Yankees who succumbed on strikes. Perhaps the strangest part of the performance was the fact that Ruth swung at eight of the nine strikes. Only ons was called by the umpire. Even more unusual was the fact that In his first three trips to the plate. Ruth didnt even make a foul. He missed the eight . balls he struck at. You can imagine how Ruth felt. 1 never saw him quite so peeved. The Tact that there Is no love lost between New York and Shocker made the pill all the more bitter. Shocker once belonged to New York, was traded to SL Louis, and now his chief delight Is beating New York. In striking out Ruth three times and causing fourteen of the opposing players to whiff. Shocker gave an exhibition that phoved brain is as necessary as brawn to do the big things. He worked every batter to the limit. He took ad-- vantage of every weakness. Against Ruth his work was marvelous Ruth is supposed to be weak on a alow ball that is kept low. Each time Shocker whiffed Ruth he used a Blow ball; perfectly controlled, for the third strike. Twice the count was three and two. It takea nerve and good- control to slp up the slow one in the pinch. Shocker proved he was that kind of pitcher, and each time Ruth cooled the stands and caused the earth to tremble by taking a terrific swing and missing. The last time he faced Shocker he lined 'a single to right. Shocker's performance came in the first game of a double-heade- r. Carl Wellman faced Ruth. In the second, and he added to the . disgust of Ruth by striking him out the first two times up, making five out of six. As Ruth walked away from the plate, he rpumMed to himself, "No one , else will ever strike me out with that bat. -ut . ' - - rUfttf consider The most remarkable I Dog and Cat Specialist. Just Out of the Service. V 141 East Second South Street, Office ,Was. 2430. Res. Was. 8475-- - PIPE REPAIRING OUR SPECIALTY We Pay Rotum Charge on Pipes Sent Parcel Post Prices Reasonable MacNEIL CIOAR CO , 31 W. 1st Se., Salt Lake City, Utah WILL TRADE Fine Automobile For - Diamond six-rou- w . g x and-the- tt n, tan- -- four-roun- . ' ' B B; ;V'; fl' I fl B ' Cl GAR Rings Saxophone Proves to Be a Fizzle SEVERAL people has wrote to me lately that they hasn't been no new reform suggested In the land of the free In the last couple of wks. and It begins to look like the boys that takes care of our morals was loafing on the Job and why didnt I step in and give them some new Ideara to work on. Well, I can name a whole lot of things that could stand a trip to the cleaners only you can't expect to reform everything at once, and you half to pick out one to start In on so why not begin with the high class magaxlnea won't print the ads. So I says do you mean to say that all the ads you read in the magazines Is nothing but facts, and he says you bet they are and I will give you a dollar for every miss statement you find In them so J asked him what he considered was the high class magazines and he named a few of them and 1 bought them and when I didn't have nothing else to do I looked through them at the ads. Weil friends, if I had of tooken this bird up the. advertlseing business which some of on his offer he could of paid his sir tax my best friends Is mixed up In It, but with the change from a ruble. when the public welfare is conserned a man shouldn't let personal feelings InterXE of the first ads I run acrost was fere. There's plenty of room for a moral a ad of a rold cream and the people uplift amongst the boys- and gals that writes our ads and a man don't realize that makes it Is A. No. 1 and O. K., but how much till you make a study of It her is how the ad started out. "Most of us can remember when our like I done. The way t come to get Interested In It mothers or grand mothers on retiring was last fal when I was talking to a used to taka with them to their rooms friend of mine that writes ads' and I was a saucer of fresh cream. Well personly I didn't remember no telling him how hard it Is to make both ends meet the other and he asked me such a thing but I wanted to make it a too I which write didn't and ads fair test so I chose 10 people at random try why he says they was good money in it. and says to them one at. a time. So I told him I couldnt never be a "Can you remember when your mother ad writer because I haven't got no Imag- or grand mother on retiring used' to take ination, so he says that is the last thing with them to their room a saucer of fresh a man needs to write ads because when cream?" Six out of the 10 you write them now days for a first clast with the short corsem they won't let you tell nothing and ugly word "no!"replied Three of them give but the truth about their goods and fur- me a dirty look and the other says: I have heard that one." ther and more if you dont tell th truth. I come to a ad of a winter top for cars thst for all as I know it may ba a good winter top, but the ad says: Bad weather is the time you need your car most" So I asked 4 guys when they needed their car most and f of them says in summer when its the golf season' and the other one says whenever It's laid up In the garage. And wile we are talking about automobile accessory, they was another ad that said: "Every owner wants his gold Initials on side door of hia automobile. I made inquiry about this from 3 birds that owns cars and couldn't get a civil answer out of none of them. Then they was a ad that said. "No gift from a father to a son could be more sensible than a razor." I didnt half to make no inquiry about sons of my own that as 1 have got and its Just a question In my mind whether it would be more sensible to' give them a rasor or lock them up In a room with a mad dog. And speaking about razor they was a shaving cream that they claimed mad shaving a pleasure, but I will bet that even when the men that makes it and gets It. for nothing, I bet when they are through their work and out for a good time they don't run homo and shave themself all the evening or they don't never think of spending their vacation removelng their whisker with thl here ' "but d silver thil guy's Invitation A they could lock tin, up T.mnt At)1 c i - ... - , -- new an ity Robt Bums does Full Havana true an filler always. always. agreeable Sumatra al-wp- ys. And fully as important as the above sold by good tobacconists always. See how you and Robt. Bums agree. n vy.yc..r; V,C' NoTIlklt 'ad'aung th pralf of W"?i! Robt AfullSumatra Havana, filler fl Our mothers or pandmotheni a saucer of fresh cream. oft retlrtiij used to take to their rooms ' of Scenery May Herb -- How to Keep the Reform Fires Burning B B H B fl By Many Advertising Truths Are Disclosed wnw.wee :rr; The Fat. Gilbert-Harr- y Riede bout, which will be the feature event of Hardy K. Downings weekly boxing show at the Hippodrome theater tomor-rcfnight, promises to be a most spectacular slugfest. . While both boy have' their follower who think their favorite is-sure winner, It is generally admitted that when of couple willing sluggers like this pair get together one or the other Is almost certain to bring home the prise inside of the allotted six rounds, and a bout of that kind invariably give the fans some genuine thrills. Gilbert haa been one of th stars of the local club for the past four or five years and haa never taken part In a bout but that the fans got a real run for their money, while Riede created a sensation last Monday night when he took the hardest wallop of Red Newey- for two rounds and then whipped a right--han- d punch to Neweya chin so quickly that It was all over before the fans had time to realize what had happened. Both boxers have put in aome hard work in preparation for i the match and are about down to their beat fighting will prbbably enter the weight, ring with the local bod having two or three pounds the better lot the poundage. Riede will weigh 135 of US, while Gilbert will tip the beam 138 or 139. The semiwindup will fce between West the local yoiinggter who he Ketehell, hung up a great k. o. record at the club the past two months, fend Jimmie Mun-seone of last wlner a best featherMunsen Is she only boy who weight ever held Ketehell lo an even break. The newcomer Is eager to add Jimmie to his long list of k. o.s and he ia con- fldent that hs will be able to do to this time. However, Munsen has been going exceptionally well this season and has not lost a bout at the local club. One of the other d bouts will bring out a former Manhattan club fa- vorlte In Frankie Olmstead, who was on of the most popular boys at the dub before he enlisted, two and a half years ago. Dick Berger, th local phat boy, ha been lined up to meet Olmstead and will ' no doubt make things Interesting for the newcomer. ' Bill pfister who aa a clown and a fighter always, gives the fens a real "kick." will have a chance to footwork" himself into the money against Red Briggs of Murray. Johnny Woodmanse. the west side flyweight. who has a clean record thus fsr at the club, will meet a tough proposition this week In Butch Michael, the youngest 'member of the. Michael family, who has, also done some good work at th club thi winter. The opener' will bring out Paul Ward of Murray and Dick De Sayso. a newcomer from- Garfield, who la pretty well thought of In the smelter town. of, the goal poets. The only effect this wdhld seem to have would be to make a place or drop kick more difficult. The question arises, do we want to discourage attempt at kicking? Scores of suggestion have been made in regard to th ' forward pass. Some would prohibit running with the bull after It ia caught,! the gain to be only that made In th pass. Others would curtail the .number of passes that may be made in any one quarter. Students of footbali generally are In accord that the forward pass is susceptible of development. but they, are equally agreed that the greatest care must be taken in making changes not to hedge the play about with so many complications that both player and official wdll have more thanis to know whether play they can do legitimate or foul. Clarification of aome of the existing rules is considered by many quite as important, if not more so. than changing existing ones. A number of muddled rule have been pointed out, among them the rule which applies to an Imjompleted pass on the fourth down made from a point outside' the opposing twenty-yar- d line which crosaea the goal line. In this connection two conflicting rules are ape Doubtless certain changes can rifled. be made gradually to better the game, even a better record.- - Th one thing he but follower of football urge "go alow needed, however, he failed to get. That as the motto. le regular work. Hug had a bunch of hurlera and wanted to, give 'em all a chance. Then, when he could have i Zhange stepped, in to. the , breach, illness handi a to As ae he failed him. result i capped Thormahlen oomplish much, lie ranked far downin Hphi m HOSE ia only a jfew, samples but they t oiiRcnt- - (q Tor. 4 ill 4,'ftni Iviii.... pure and msv H6r 'Ttiormhltn: whfn be game Now a change of scenery don't see why somebod yden't get busy Hlt:hj' Red Pox placer luck. .He went to- - the Red as a Til diamond on the to change and not only make , these guy tell the Mil be a surprise to Herb if she does Sox the other dav in a- wholesale swap. truth abour their goods but make them glance hia way. Herb joined the Yanks in 1017, coming tell the whole truth. 1920. seaeoii Eot uqdec way up trom- - BalUraore. . Ha was. bor-- v in.Jey .. the, When For tnet. If they sre advertiaelifg say Herb and Yankee fans (he was a Yank sey, City, July 6. 1897. The - first big the Perfect Cord Tire, why let their ad great things of his 'trusty league club to notice him was the Washthen) expected 1819 read: he had proved Miller ington, which club signed him tn 19l.' In "Thet.rietfect Cr4. sell., .for. .7i), and. left arm. W'PwcSensac. Aifer' H4f 4nd it's pretty near as good as a 75 tire. It th exception of Carl Mays. He allowed had shown form with that club, Richis a nonsktd tire when the car is standing eerned rone per game and mond, "Baltimore and Chambersburg. the still on a .dry road and It don't hardly nly3.3" up thirteen victories and nine de- Yankees bought him from the Orioles for ever get a puncture unless you run over hung to hang up 87500. That was on Anguat 25, 1917. a nail or something. The Perfect Tire feats. Last year he hoped porch each day. When her master comes Is guaranteed for 4000 miles which means home from his work. Nibs goes imme- that If one of them blows out when you diately to the closet and returns with iy haven't only drove it 1000 miles, why takea it to one of our agents and try to get easy bouse slippers. new one." car ItOr if they waa advertlseing self: "Th price of the Echo Six complete is IGS5 F. O. B. Albany, meaning that If you live way off somewhere like Utica the chassis won't only cost you 170 and then all aa you half to buy Is a body and a steering wheel and a couple spar tires. The 7 passenger model has room for 3 grown ups and a weasel. The Echo don't use hardly any gas as she Is laid ' ' up most of the time. The Echo don't Bums ' with need no patent safety locking device. Her , looks ia her protection." and imThat is the way to make them advertise. gents, andfwhen you get a system wrapper is bound ported like that working, they wont be no mors pitiful) cases like the poor sap I spoke to command impressive majorof, that went and learned how to play quaint dreamy Hawaiian music on a uku in communities. most day and as such Is observed nationally.' lele and there' only one place he Is ever Well friends how many of you gets aakrd to go. every Thursday .off or tends special by keeping church services once a wk. In honor of to character. mince meet and how many of you goes around all days Thursday saying, "Merry Cured to Pie Day, to your friends T "Cleanliness brings happiness and good mildness cheer, is another bold statement which it looks like it was open to question. Neutral wrapper For Inst, t got 4 people right here In the house that aint happy If they ain't (Copyright, 1921. by the Bell Syndicate, and cleaned th of idear Inc.) getting dirty, just a ... Tobacco Our Buslnees Night ap thing about his performance against the Yankees was that he used the spltball L sparingly. In striking out Ruth three - beUeve-- he threw-mo- re times, He was simply than three . spltballs. outguessing Ruth with a fast one and his change of pace. Hia tantalising slow ball was his most effective weapon. Ruth was constantly looking for the Bpltter, ' Nibs and her litter of pups pictured here about six months old. and getting few of them. sre the property of C. P. Crawford of Nib. is prised very highly by her owner. 2000 View street. Nibs is a fox terrier, She can always be- depended upon to seven years of age, while her puppies a re bring In the (Copyright 1921, by W. G. Evans.) mnrnlng tinner from off the VETERINARIAN v Tomorrow -- can Imagine hi state of mind. Shocker is rated as a spltball pitcher. The molet dellvery ts supposed to be D. V. M. yv f trums. Then I come acrost 2 ads of muslcaj Instruments one of which happen, to know about personly myself. It say. "You can double your Income, your pleasure and your popularity with a saxophone." Well one of them things was glvs to me 2 yrs. ago and so far my Income ain't nowherea near double, and In the second place I can enjoy a good show or a fight Just as much or even more so if I leave my .saxophone home, and as far as popularity Is conserned 1 kind of feel like maybe we would have more caller If we traded this elegant Instrument for a couple bottles of Scotch. The other ad eatd: "If you can play quaint dreamy Hawaiian music or latest songs on the ukulele you will be wanted everywhere.! Well, t know a bird that can do that little thing and I can name a hundred place he ain't wanted, to none where he Is wanted, and If the mail man didn't have nothing to do but deliver this guy's Invitations they would lock him up as a vagrant. washAnd another one was the ing machine. ad. It says: "For a mother, young or old, no gift could be better proof of thoughtful affection. I know motherboth young and old that if you Handed them any kind of a washing machine they would show their appreciation of your thoughtful ..affection with a wallop in the Jaw. . ELMO P. COBURN Club F up Is enough to send them Into -- KANSAS CITY, Jan. 29. The sale ot Catcher "Big" Ed Sweeney to the San Antonio club and the acceptance of terms of Outfielder Beals Becker has been announced by President George Muelbach of the Blues Becker refused to report last year, preferring to play Independent ball In California. A raise of 500 over the salary he received in 1919 was the bait that weaned him back to th club. A tentative agreement with a major league club haa been effected which will give the Blues a shortstop and two pitchers. A catcher will be purchased from the big leagues. The Blues will have seven weeks of training providing, of course, the season opens April 13, as Is wholly likely. Ten days will be spent at the training camp at Monroe. La., while twenty-thre- e exhibition games will keep the athletes busy the remaining period. $ Game. near-exper- ts ut Blues Sell Sweeney ; Becker to Join Team Grid Gilbert and Riede Clash in , Six Rounds at Manhattan 4? That the open season now is on fur suggestions to change football rules is adapparent from the scores In vanced by experts and all sections. The football rules committee wyi meet before very long. This stimulus has set brains to working. Some of the suggestions are worth consideration, but the mass Aof them might as welt be placed In the discard at once. Speaking generally., there Is decided with the sentiment against tinkering rules. There can be no doubt as to the of now a the played. game popularity Those who would let well enough alone have considerable justification in pointing to this popularity as their main argument against befuddling and irritating the player with a lot of minor changes. It Is difficult to get out of a habit, even the habit of obeying football rules. It will be remembered that it used to be necessary to run the .ball back of the goal post if possible after a touchdown was made to get a good position from which to kick goal. The need for this was obviated last year by changing the rule so that, no matter ,at what point the ball crossed the goal line. it wag permissible to try for goal from dlrerttly in from of the posts. Notwithstanding this rule, whenever a player crossed the goal line he Instinctively kept on going to get behind the goal posts. The majority of the players did this. It simply was a football habit that even a change in the rules had failed to overcome. j One of the auggestlons is that jot lessening the distance between the uprights ut his one best bet. of Angles ARRY T. |