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Show I THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH, FORK UTAH URBAN SHOCKER IS CONSIDERED MOST VALUABLE OF ALL HURLERS HAD LEG IT AND LET OTHER FELLOWS DO OBJECTING J The hatter hit the hall so that It rose about 13 feet, was missed by the catcher and also , t by the third baseman, who ran 4 for it. The bait squirmed around a lot and rolled fair for a while. 4 The batter legged it to first and 4 4 kept on legging. He was slight- 4 ly deaf. The catcher demanded 4 that the umpire call the ball a 44 foul and so did the third base-ma- n 4 and by and by the pitcher 44 into the argument and then 4 got the first basemnn and pretty 44 4 soon the whole infield.- - The bat4 ter just kept on legging. 4 Arms were waved and fists 44 were shaken under noses and 4 the team at bat, being wise, 44 also entered the discussion that 4 their .representative might con-tinto leg. When he was with- - I 'in about ten feet of home plate J it suddenly dawned on the side 4 in the field that the batter had J gone all the way around. They tried to get him but didnt. v Moral : Always leg and let the J other fellow do the kicking. Urban Shocker of the St. Louie Browns is generally consicterecHhe most valuable pitcher in the American league. Shocker is a pitcher, to use the slang of the ball field, who has everyfine speed, a great curve, excellent change of pace and the thing annoying lithull. Better yet, Shocker knows how to pitch. lie Is one of flie wisest if not the wisest twirler In either of the major leagues. Most of the time be has his batters in the hole and is constantly working on their weakness. Shocker is game. No situation is too tough for him to face. The harder ' the going, the more Important the series, the better he likes It. A manager could have no better ace than Shocker. He is always ready to pitch. When some St. Louis pitcher starts to weaken Manager Fohl never needs to ask Shocker to warm up. He can usually be found in the warm-usection getting ready. Shocker won 12 games in the first eight weeks of play, when an injury caused him to take a two weeks rest. Whcn.lt comes to the most valuable player In the American league, youll late to consider Shocker. OVERLAPPING FINGER GRIP MOST POPULAR Style Set by Harry Vardon Finally Establishes Itself. p The palm grip, first used by pioneeiing apostles of the ancient sport, is on its last legs, or finSarazen, Golfing Export, Keeps Him- gers, as It were. The overlapping finger grip which Harry Vardon innoMuch self Fit vated some 30 years ago, and which, Time to Practice. like ail revolutionary ideas, was veheAll the greats of sports owe their mently frowned upon in best golfing success to diligent practice. Most of circles for years, has finally establthefailures in sports failed because ished itself as the most practical and they did not practice enough. There proficient of ail golfing grips. Recently is nothing more tedious than practice, Maxwell Hutchison, an English authorinothing more hateful in physical en- ty, attempted to dispute the Increasdeavor. The vast majority prefer to ing popularity of the Vardon grip, evade it. They think it easier to try pointing out that quite a number of and cover their faults In play than to set about and overcome them. TAKES ROOKIE NEVER HEARD OF JUDAS PRIEST GUY They are telling a story about a certain young man on the St. Louis Cardinals which is worth telling. The lad Is just a kid training hard, so his name wont be mentioned. The story, however, is true. It seems that the lad, a na-ti- e of St. Louis, was called In to see Rickey, and, as usual, questions were asked. "Can you hit, young manl asked Rickey. Yes, sir, I can hit good, was the ready reply. said Good as McHenry! Rickey. Yes, sir, as good as ony one, was the confident reply. "Can you catch flies, and are you fast? continued the manager. You bet I can catch them, and I go get them. I'm as fast as liny one, the kid said. Fast as Jack Smith? demanded the manager. "Fast as Jack Smith, insisted the kid. Judas Priest! he's the fastest man in the league, ex- tainted Rickey. "Mr. Rickey, I'm not sure of him. You see, I never heard of tills guy Priest," solemnly declared the boy. Travia and Jerry ' Travers Among Those Who Attained Fama Without Resorting to Old Fashioned English Hold. Wajter HIS WORK SERIOUSLY Gene Sarazen reached golfdom's peak by constant practice. He has been practicing ever since he was able to caddy. Stiil he practices. During the recent professional tournament, Won by Sarazen, he devoted half an hour before each match to practice, With Sarazen It is a constant drill. The rewards are ! ri lily earned by fern Diamond Squibs Rabbit Maranvilie is placing good bail for Pittsburgh. A dude Is a person who wears a coat in the bleachers. P y'r Shibe Park, Philadelphia, bleachers will be inilosed with screens in 1923. DODGER INFIELDER High Ranks Xiong With Best of Recruits to Make Good in Fast Company. Andy Among the real finds in this seasons crop of rectuits, Andy High Clarence Roper, shortstop, has been bought from walamazoo by Grand Rapids of the Central league. Babe Ruth made Ihree successive runs in an exhibition game with the Third Corps Army Area team. home '' ranks along with the best. The fine hitting of Grimes, Hollocher Last year with Memphis, Andy was the best third baseman In the South- and Miller has been quite a factor in man he hit keeping the Cubs in the running. ern league. As lead-of- f lor a .320 average, and thats some In any John Conway Toole, president of the feat at the head of a line-uInterna tionnl league, has announced release of Umpire William McGowan. p Jim Scott, with 20 jears of buseball glove, Is leading the Coast league pitchers in games Won and lost. i Double headers are great things for the fans. Not so for the plajers. And for the baseball writers, a punishment. in his Larry Gardner may be regarded as an ancient by some folks, but the old boy still plays sweet baseball around the hot corner. , - ten; - Andy High. ' - The New York Americans have signed Sidney Graves of Marblehead, Mass., a pitcher and outfielder for Nejv Hampshire State college. - , Reb Russell, the former Minneapolis outfielder, now with the Pittsburgh Pirates, continues to be the talk of the league with his heavy hitting. Forty consecutive games without the most runs for and drew more than 100 failing to hit safely is the record established by Otto Pahlman, first base-ma- n passes. with Danville In the Tliree-- I At the training camps Andy fielded the far corner better than Jimmie league. Johnston and had that veteran strugGeoige IL Ruth has two ways of gling to hold his regular position. The opening of the season found getting intq the limelight. One is to runs and the other ia to get Andy shifted to short, where he has hit home from the field for dishijnself ejected from the sensational a game played start. His hitting of big league pitch- puting an umpire decision. ing for a higher average than his Col. Jacob Ruppert owns the Poughminor league records leaves 'nothing keepsie race track w here the Grand to be desired. Wilbert Robinson thinks High Is Circuit stars perform. He inherited one of the best taflelders In the Na- It from his father. Rupperta specialties are baseball and prize dogs. tional league right now. league. He his team scored - IS "FIND , Small Boys Distress Had a Whole Lot More Than Mere Sympathy as a Basie. A lad in Washington got a Job that didn't at all please him shoveling the enow from the sidewalk In front of his house. There was a good bit of ground to cover. After about two hours' toll he began to cry. Whats the matter, eon? asked a sympathetic neighbor, aa be came upon the scene. A tramp came along and stole the shovel from the boy next door, explained the lad between nobs. Well, son, continued the neighbor, its a fine thing to be sympathetic, but you mustnt worry so over other people's affairs. It ain't that, added the boy, I am crying because be didnt steal my Milwaukee Sentinel, shovel, too. 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Betty, a demure little miss of four, who Is in Indianapolis from Detroit as the guest of her Aunt Irene, saw her first baseball game a few days ago and while at the game picked up a number of the terms and expressions used by the funs. ' Sunduy, Betty was sent to Sunday school and on her return home was asked by her aunt to relate the story of the lesson. After telling the story, site added : Thats all I can remember, but I believe Ive left out about two innings. Indianapolis News. Canada' First Railroad. The first railroad in Canada was the one built between Lapralrle and St. Johns, Quebec, and opened for traffic in July, 1836. This railway line was established by some, promi- nent Montreal business men, and the railroad was constructed of wooden rails, horsepower being employed during the first year. In 1837 the wooden rails were replaced by iron rails, and the horses by a steam engine. Descendant of Maryf Lamb. The railway was known as the Cham Col. Tliomas Powell of Columbus, plain and St. Lawrence Railway com- Ohio, veteran of the Civil war and pany. The Champlain & St. Lawrence brother of the famous Gen. Eugene Railway company received its charter Powell, is the proud owner of Lawn-mowein 1832 ninety years ago. the only living descendant of little lamb. The original Mary Marys Up to the Doctor. was Mary Sawyer of Sterling, Mass., Mrs. Iotts husband had been Quite who was eight years old at the tune til, but finally there came a change. celebrated by tlie poem in 1814. The When the doctor called and had a immortal verses, by the way, were look at his patient he announced: written by John Roulston. From the He Is a convalescent. Argonaut. Whereupon Mrs. Potts regarded the Hi physician suspiciously; and her susNatural Inquiry. picion increased when he-- made no furLand of Goshen, Runt! ejaculated ther comment but prepared to go. Mrs. Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. Youre Well, youse a doctor, ain't jo. she a sight on. earth ! Go clean yourself Ain't jo got no medeine up right now. Take plenty of soft demanded. fo 'dis heah convalescence? Ex soap, and wash your face and hands change, and arms and net k and ears. Heck, Mnvv ! Wlints coining off?" Misused Figure of Speech. Is it cried the child in amazement. A young writer, not much given to my birthday?" Kansas City Star. revision, recently spilt out a story wherein the following occurred: A W Grow Up. He called his son a spendthrift, About all the difference between and did not fall, as he had done be- children and us glow mips is that we fore, to cast his recently purchased weigh more and ain't so Imppy. motorcar, a touring Atchison County (Mo.) Mail. machine. In his teeth. Exchange. Early Start. A doctor lately married a girl wnmn Always. "When do you expect your husband he had ushered into the world twenty oack? years ago. Real love at first sight. "When 1 least expei t him." Life. London Opinion. r, him. Joe Buh leads the American league pitchers in hitting with .347. REAL CAUSE FOR GRIEF Harry Vardon. great plajers abroad, notably Sandy Herd and Abe Mitchell, the latter the games longest driver, still cling to the old palm clasp. Ail of which is true. Many fine plajers In this country have attained golfing fame without the Vardon grip. Walter Travis and Jerry Travers, both of whom won the national title several times, held their clubs much after the fashion of a batter holding f bat in baseball. But golf, the tone of it and the numerical element, lias changed materially since Travis and Travers bossed the cham plonshlp ramparts. In those days a champion had no more than four or five good players to beat, but nowa dikvs, with a new star bobbing up at every turn,- - the number is closer t 40 or 50. ' An obviously Incorrect statement ap pears in Hutchison's article when he Writes that the list of holders of the American championship does not In elude a single player who used the Vardon grip. Bill Fownes of Pitts burgh was the first American to win a championship using the Vardon grip. Thls was in 1910. Bob Gardner, an other Vardonite, won in 1915, and S Davidson Herron, who learned Ills game from Fownes, and naturally em ployed the same grip, won in 1919. Chick .Evans doesnt use the Var don grip, but he does carry his left thumb down the Shaft inside ills right palm so that his control is the same us with the oveiiapping grip. Francis Oulmet uses an interlocking grip, which is certainly closer related to an overlap than a straight old fashioned grip. Bobby Jones has yet to win the national, but he la incontestably one of the greatest golfers in th country and he Is a Vardonite. 1 Twelve Veteran Player. Twelve veteran football player are expected to turn out for thl year's Stanford university football teams, whose annual game with the Pacific University of California la coast feature. Spoiled Diamond. the crown jewels of tha Ilupsburgs were two large diamonds of ruby tint which were ulways regarded us especially valuuble ami whenever the royal jewels were place! on exhibition these stones were under special guard. It was necessary some time ago to dispose of the Jewels, and ns they were being prepared for exhibition, prior to being offered for sale, they were put through a wash which unfortunately removed the eo'or of the precious stones and left them perfectInstead of demand ng a ly white. fabulous price as ruby diamond, they were sold simply as white stones. Chicago Journal. Among Threat Considered a Favor. Jodkina was always a member of the staff. Ills complaint tills time lie considered a big one and he told his work mates that he would threaten to leave. 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