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Show . THE mil ETIX, BINGHAM CANYON. I TAH "INHERE seems to be a wide diver-genc- e of opinion as to whether the rabid fanatic is entitled to boo a good ball player on an off day and feed him the Old Bronx Cheer In his time of trouble. As you may know, there are two sides to every argument, the same as a plank. Usually both are just as wooden, leading nowhere, but in this case Jie argument at hand is a big part of baseball. Booing a visiting or hostile play-er is another matter. This is often a tribute to the damage said play-er has slipped to the home club. The argument we are taking up here concerns the ethi-cal side In riding the home athlete when he is in the orocess of cavort- - Honus on soapy chute' oth"wlse Wagner known as a slump. The fan's argument is that as long as he pays his entrance fee and the game is offering him no particular thrill for the money in-vested, he has a perfect right to pick up his enjoyment and enter-tainment over another route, which Is letting the erring or futile ball player know Just what the fan thinks about him. The fan has a good case here as long as he doesn't move Into per-sonal invective, Involving the play-er's ancestry and his present family, which often happens. The only half-wa- y shock I ever picked up over a booing incident occurred many years ago when Pittsburgh Tans started riding Honus Wagner. Wagner was then in his 41st year. He had been an outstanding star for over 20 seasons. He had given millions as many thrills as any ball player had ever displayed up to the reign of Babe Ruth, the e thrill king. His brilliant work at short with his bushel-baske- t hands, his great base running, his tremendous hitting through two dec-ades seemed to be quite enough to allow for a few lapses in his fad-ing days. Home and Visiting Boos But the theme song of the base-ball crowd is: "It isn't what you used to be it's what you are today." Just what the Flying Dutch-man thought of the vocal raspber-ries thrown his way no one ever will know. But I've figured ever since that if a home crowd could boo Wagner, no one else should be immune. Ball players tell me they have no feeling about being booed in hos-tile hamlets. I know John McGraw relished the dislike he deliberately built up in Chicago, St. Louis and other cities away from New York. I've heard Matty booed in New York but not McGraw, although he may have been. The swiftest and most effective reaction to booing from a rival crowd came from Cobb years ago. Ray Chapman, Cleveland short-stop, had just been killed by Carl Mays in a Yankee game. Cobb had been quoted in an interview de-nouncing Mays. Cobb denied the interview with considerable fervor. The next day, appearing with the Tigers against the Yankees, Ty took a terrific vocal lathering from some 35,000 Yankee fans. "It's no fun," Cobb told me that night, "to be booed, hissed and cursed by 35,000 American citizens." But in place of curling up or growing sour, Cobb stepped out that day and got four hits, stole two or three bases, scored several runs and broke up the ball game. The answer is that the big crowd was cheering him in his last time up. Shotting Up the Mob This seems to be the best answer. The best reply to a boo or a vocal cataclysm of hate and derision is to show up the maudlin mob of goat-getter- You rarely hear them booing a fellow who is making good. No ball player ever took the terriilc vocal riding Babe Ruth ab-sorbed In the Yankee-Cu- b world series years ago when he came to bat against Jack Root in Chicago. Packed stands howled and yelled and called Babe names they wouldn't print in the press of pur-gatory. The Babe applied even viler epithets, one against 45.000, as he pointed to the center field flag pole. That was the most famous home run Babe ever hit in his collec-tion of more than 700. "All I know about it," the Babe told me later, "is that ball was kinder d or flattened oul after they found it." Problem of 1947 We have been talKing recently with a number of managers, not club owners or ball players, about the 1947 baseball season. One of the smartest told me this with the amazing increase in attend-ance, with the aftermath of the Mexican league and the union ar-rival, ball players for 1947 are go-ing to demand big pay increases. "A good many of these deserve such increases," the manager said BtriJ b1 BiKi 1 beautiful, BUSSELL she's been learning how to jted to her husband Ntted in his career jnal football player X But - those lurid t It mildly, exagger- - ' rves success as an lerely as an under-diction- s, Inc., Is go-- ?ild Bill Elliott into star, or million dollars has r the publicity cam-ihe- d two million-dol-ie- r his present and the Lady." The and :alls for three pic-rit- h $15,000,000 I;lolson's Story" will tech-bat- 's said by tech-h- e best thing done es; to date the best sieved in animated rtists, not camera-- iue Smith traveled exas, to Hollywood sr daughter, Dale tto picture-makin- g radio and personal res, Dale had no "They wrote me igger' was showing waters in Uvalde." i, "and I made up i more of Dale if I saw the movie!" i starring Roy Rog-a- Dale Evans, gBBT'-'"- . the Suns of the 1 1 1 d Country Washburn 3HJchestra will replace the WBBara Da::ce October 5. .kns0rs are swjtcning to it Tears! "Wbach, producer-directo- r M "Academy Award," be- - iJM ers like fresh voices in rales, and each week he rBlud(li"K actors. Ex-G.- I. "fig 'Award" role, 'he Dick PowcU 0'c BEfcfs in the 25th Cen- - JjB-"1- the aii September 30 Af '"""Kh Friday serial, EI f!. k'8 heen off Mr0'" l!,r' Vnot,,,r k ' House of Mvs-;lurn- s October (j, Sunday eRf'ith. Mar of the CBS LLinvl( gets a new every five weeks. The imWJr ls VV Janiss, who re- - in Mew York from 'j,'1 h!"nde, five feet J 'a"s from Omaha, Neb. M:Jn"' in Holly. A,' through California, scout-'t- h nmre than 10,000 ' as talent scout T,. oth,'r 'rds. It must avc'r'U!e town, to be j l0Ci'l' for Robert Ris- - Magic Town." Htti.ien Stewart; "ve weeks 'lUake place there. P:: ''S l'Artvna mtikes rv.un '"'" in "CarnegU Whiur ' 1 fhuikouoky ; he'll t onhvttrnl se- - W'fr''"' ''""'''". Swvdith tuner K ' '! sun glami in Sim ' Clnylim, of Biuf, ?n" '"e, who's dune W"'niJ.''r,""n mr ha M v 20th Ct"ur H Bob n , uurru hasn't mude a tj'. but his wetlstirked lKre H,l'"','t "I o Scicnlir ' ' "nnid fjoyd mens WKi"- ' '"re" bowling ' ' jL l. i.,:. .. ;...... ISlfi8L.. Si .. ..... ... . .....v..Jtf t UittiJ MOIIAMM ROANS GO BKSKRK . . . Members nf the Moslem league are shown demonstrating in London for "Pakistan," an Independent state In India. The following day bloody riots broke out In Calcutta, India, between Moslems and Hindus. Some two thousand persons were killed and other thousands Injured. British troops In armored cars fired repeatedly on mobs of looters, but street hat-tie-s went on unchecked. Sound Photo. STANDARD OF LIVING RISES IN U. S. . . . This photo-diagra-shows how the average income of American families has risen and how the incomes have been more equally distributed since the semi-depressi-year of 1936 to the postwar year of 1945. The figures show that millions of families have Joined the middle income group, al-though 70 per cent still fall below the S3,000-a-ye- mark. In the lowest brackets the tolal has dropped nine million families. BRITISH TROOPS GUARD TROUBLED HAIFA . . . British troops guard the barbed wired streets of Haifa, Palestine, during the outbreak which followed when immigrants from Europe, seeking entrance Into Pal- - estine, were transferred to British ships and transported to the island of Cyprus and detention camps. Three Jews were killed and many Injured during the demonstration. PISTOL-PACKI- BADGETT QUADS ... The seven-year-o- ld Badgett quadruplets, Galveston, who have been accorded high honors by the governor of Texas, who has named them official Rangercttcs. The girls, in high boots and full "Rangcrette" equipment, do a little target practice on the Galveston beach in preparation for their newly appointed honor. Left to right: Jcraldine, Jcanette, Joyce, and Joan. The girls are in the second grade in school. tilllBliBr fnwWffiW H DIGS GRAVES . . . Denna Lar-thc- l, North Liberty, Ind., miss, is believed to be the only girl grave digger In the U. S. Her eagerness to obtain a musical education led her to hire out as a grave digger at Sauktown, Ind. She was proclaimed "Girl of the Year" by the Guitar Guild. PJBjjpgpjBjjjTPtffiflnrHBI Mini m I BATTLE FLAG OF BATTLING SHIP . . . Before a large gathering, the battle flag of the battered but still afloat USS Nevada was pre-sented to the state of Nevada. The presentation was made by Rear Adm. Francis W. Rockwell (right), former commanding officer of the Nevada, to Gov. Vail Pittman, accepting for the state. This Is the first time in naval history that a flag of a major battleship has been returned to a state. j jmrasm-- -- g!. , , ... Sicking the peace and quiet TWO AMERICANS W FRANCE m Sunday. hcalpd coantry.de . ay ' of the French g y French premier, and his grandchild. DERBY WINNER . . . Gilbert Klegan, 14, San Diego, who won the 1946 All American Soap Box derby at Akron, Ohio. More than 65,000 spectators watched the event. Racers from all sections o the country participated. MIDDIE TRAINING MANEUVERS ... For hundred and forty Annapolis midshipmen and 315 West Point cadets make two amphibi-ous landings as "invasion troops" near the Virginia capes. A few r veteran marines in each landing craft led the middies and cadets ashore in the war games. Photo shows, left to right, Secretary of Navy James Forrestal, Adm. Aubrey Fitch, and two West Point cadets "digging In" the beach. 8' II.- - politically tense situation in , SENESS IN TRILM- - s ad Yugoslavs, snapped Trieste, bone of contention between d;,monstra. wl,e a hand grenade ".. on of the d.snu.cd zone protesting The photograph was tion taM , .$ion. Ten persons were Winded , ,rjcd tn bd snapped at the hell Me of the den-.- straiors |