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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH r Play-Of- By R. A n. f swung WNU Sendee. the racket with a that threatened to the strings. And a moment later she regret- ted it On the opposite side of the net, Amy Eldredge was racing across the court In a desperate attempt to return the drive. She failed The crowd roared, appluuded, looking toward Janls. of the womU was the plny-ofen's single tennis championship. Janls was the favorite. And despite the fact that the sets were even and it had begun to look as though Amy Eldredge might have a chance of capturing the match, Janls was still the favorite. Champions such as Janls don't lose their following In a breath. Janls heard the roar of the crowd as she bad heard It on hundreds of previous occasions. She turned automatically to look at them. Her gaze swept the sea of admiring faces, and didnt see them. Her mind moved awlftly. Kirk should be sitting In his usual seat Just behind the umpire's stand. He bad occupied that seat every day And yes, during the matches. there he was. Her heart turned over. He wasnt looking at her. Of the hundreds of faces that were there his was the only one that wasnt turned In ber direction. He was looking toward Amy. Just as be had constantly looked toward Amy every moment since the match got under way. Janls bit her lip and walked back to receive Amys serve. Her mind wasn't on the game. She was thinking of Kirk. Lots of girls thought of Kirk Francis, but not quite In the same waa as Janls thought of him. Janls had been Introduced to Kirk alx months ago. It was at a weekend party up In the mountains a winter sports affair. She had been tennis champion then and was quite an Important figure In the world of sports. It was Kirk's attitude that first attracted the girl. The fact that she was a tennis heroine didnt seem to affect him a T bit For the first time since she had become famous, Janls met a man who treated her as he would any other human being. In fact, a month later, after they kiad become better acquainted and were back In the city, Kirk admitted quite frankly that champions at anything gave him a pain In the neck. They had an exalted opinion of themselves and were quite put out if a lot of silly people didn't slobber oer them. Janls had laughed, and loved him for the result of Impulse, of a sudden Impetuous desire to put the full strength of her skill Into the swing of the racket, to play her best, to win. But the feeling passed. Standing there, waiting for Amy's serve, she was once more In control of herself, thinking of Kirk, willing to sacrifice her rating In the world of sport to bring him happiness with another girl. Somehow It all spemed Incredible. It didnt seem possible she was actually doing the thing. And yet she was . . , The ball crashed over the net Janls scooped It np, sent It whirring back to Amys court Again It came, and again Janls returned It They rallied for a matter of minutes. Then Janls seemed to stumble. The edge of ber racket struck the ball, sent It spinning out of bounds A murmur ran through the crowd. Janls took her stand, awaiting a new serve. It came. She swung swiftly. The ball crashed Into her racket, rebounded, rushed back toward the other court and then slap the net had stopped the play. Janls had to grip herself to go on. She wished It was over. Only two points more. She decided to dub them both, even though they knew she was doing It on purpose. But nobody did was 88 WILKINSON Bell Syndicate JAMS Janls swift drive thnt had won for her the applause of the crowd It She learned to love him a lot more during the next five months. There were few women who didnt But Janls was different Her love was sound, based on fact and clear thinking; the sort of love that doesn't wear off. That was what hurt most When Amy appeared on the scene and Kirk fell in lore with her, Janls realized her own predicament was serious. She bad come to love Kirk, and ,now she couldn't got over It The thing had embedded itself too deeply In her soul. It was easy to see that Kirk had lost his head over Amy. You could tell that by the expression thnt came to his fnce when he talked with her. And Janls wasnt Idiot enough to believe she could ever win him for herself. Amy was small and extremely pretty. She may have had the muscular build of a tennis champion, but the lines of her didnt show It. Youd think to look at the girl, she was some delicate butterfly, who never did a stroke of physical ex- ercise In her life. And so Janls, realizing the hopelessness of her predicament, sat down by herself In order to give the matter some thought She was a sane girl and, being sane, she didn't make any bones about telling herself her craving for Kirk wouldnt wear off with time or lengthy separation or any of the generally accepted remedies for such maladies. What she asked herself therefore, was the next best thing to doT The answer came almost at once Make Kirk happy The mere fact that she knew Kirk was happy would relieve somewhat the burt of her own tortured soul. And as far as Janls could reason the only way of making Kirk happy was to hand him Amy on a platter. Janls realized with a sudden sense of shock that It was within ber power to turn Amy over to the man she loved. For Janls knew that unless Amy won the tennis championship shed never marry anyone. Tennis was a passion with Amy; It came before anything. And that Is why at the beginning of the last set of the three-daseries of matches for the womens championship, played between Amy Eldredge and Janls Moore, the tally was even and the outcome seemed to lean toward the challenger. 1 y Unemployment Problem Solved; Babe Finds Job Senators Delve Into NRA Investigation Janls had sacrificed the game In a manner that gave all the credit to Amy. And for this she was thankful. . . , Kirk was walling for her when she came from the dressing room an hour later. "I was watching you, Janls. I saw you throw the game. Why? Why, Kirk He Interrupted, shaking his head. Dont try to lie out of It, Janls. Maybe those other Idiots didnt realize what you were up to, but I did." Janls caught her breath. "Youll never tell on me, Kirk? Why did you do It?" "Im sick of tennis and all the glamor of being champion. I want to go away and rest Forget it for a while." Lying again. That Isn't so." It Is. I mean every word of It" lie studied her Intently. "Janls, let me go with you. Mar- be DONT In the News: 1 Senatorial Investigation into NRA gets under way. 2 Annlng S. Frail of New York, who has been named as chairman of the federal communications commission to succeed Eugene O. Finance Group Takes Up Quiz The senatorial Sykes. S Former American war ship, sold by the government to Greece, has seen active service Id conquering rebel Greek warships and finally putting down the shortlived revolt inquiry Into the NRA gets under way In Washington In the finance committee headed by Senator Pat Harrison (Dein., Miss ). Success of the administration In Now Deaf May Hear Through the Skin steering the Investigation Into the hands of this committee headed by a staunch supporter of the New Deal Is hailed as a victory by friends of President Roosevelts program. Shown above in session are Senator Harrison; S. Clay Williams, chairman of the NRA board; Senator Walter F. George of Georgia; Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri; and Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. JAP FINANCE MINISTER ry me. Janls felt herself swaying, and tried to smile. Khkl lou don't know wliht youre saying. Amy" "Amy, be 0 d. I never told her 1 loved her, and I dont. Ive always loved you, J inis. Always. I I were too thought you engrossed, too taken up witli being tennis champion to even think about love." But youve changed your mind? "Yes." Why ? Because I said I was sh k of it?" lie shook his head. No. Because you Just handed the championship to Amy. Theie was a reason for It I don't dare think what It Is But I do know that you were thinking about someAnd thing else besides tennis. thats enough for me. Janls let herself go then. She didnt try to keep from swaying. Kirk wns there to hold her; hold her tight and kiss the lips that were upturned to meet his. Prof. Robert 11. Gault of Northwestern university demonstrates his teletractor on Hairy Goddard, who Is deaf, as Mrs. John A. Wolfer looks on. Doctor Gaults device, representing eleven years of research, works on the vacuum tube principle of the radio. Amplified sound waves are transmitted to the finger tips through a metal disk, enabling the deaf bear through the skin. t He Learns to Fly in 55 Minutes -- Attracts Visitors Through Italy New Landscape The traveler who nowadays Is going down to Borne, Sir Daniel Hall writes In the London Times, becomes conscious soon after leaving Ilsa of the new features In the landscape. Here and there along the railways he noticed stretches of plow land dotted regularly with new little houses, white or red, where he remembers there used to be salt marsh or heath. For miles the train runs through this sort of thing nearing Grosseto and Alherese; there Is another long stretch to seaward of the line as It turns from the coast towards Rome. On Inquiry he w 111 learn that these settlements are all part of the great national work of "Bonifies, and that there Is an exhibition open In the Borghese gardens In Rome which Illustrates what the Fascist government has achieved We during the last teD years. know little as yet what the Russian plan baa accomplished, but here is something so far done that the agriculturally minded man must regard it as the biggest bit of constructive work since the war ended. Bonifies the Imrepresents provement of the countryside In all Its aspects. The campaign against malaria, which for some 2,000 years has been debilitating the Inhabitants and putting out of action some of the most fertile parts of Italy, has been renewed on a scale and with a thoroughness not known before. Without that campaign the land needed for the growing population of Italy could not be won back to cultivation. It was chiefly through malaria that the Campagna became a region of winter grazing, hut Its devastating effects have been equally felt In the great delta of the Po and the flat lands along the Adriatic, In the valleys of Calabria, and the marshes along the Tyrrhenian sea. five-ye- ar and In consequence there has always been a coldness between him and McCarthy. With Ruth publicly declared to be after McCarthys Job, the Yanks and Colonel Ruppert were on the spot They felt obliged to retain the Babe should he resign as a player, but could they countenance an open hostility between their manager and one of his men? Babe was getting old; could he still draw at the gate? To draw the fans, New York has to have a winner; could the Babe stand the gaff? McCarthy was almost sure to keep the Bahe on the bench ; would the fans put up with It? Now to change the scene for a moment, things were happening In the town where the Bambino began his The Boston big league career. Braves, struggling along as a second rate club for years, were losing money. Something had to be done. Sitting In a box at a Braves game C. UTLEY alarmed. That yon Just heard felt was not the beginning of a whirlwind. It was Just the collective sigh of relief of about 100000,000 people. For the nations most appalling unemployment problem has been solved: Babe Ruth has found a Job. What was to become of Babe has caused as much consternation as what will happen to the NRA. The mighty Sultan of Swat, who left his native land to become Uncle to ambassador Sams unofficial Japan and created more good will In a few weeks than statesmen have In years, returned home to find himself on the outside lookHe had declared he would ing In. not become again an active player for the New York Yankees, who bought him when he was a young pitcher with the Boston Red Sox and then had to build the world s largest baseball stadium to hold the enormous numbers of those most fanatic of Idol worshipers, the baseball fans, who wanted to see By WILLIAM Grlm-facc- know. f The owlish, eighty-thre- patriarch and veteran e year-ol- of d Japanese him. Bambino, who answered to the name of George Herman, when they called the roll for soup In SL Marys orphanage three decades ago, wanted a managers Job. When he left on the barnstorming tour which found him still able to paste the old pellet higher than ML Fujiyama and farther than Japans Imperialistic ambitions, he little doubted that there would be a sufficiency of such posts awaiting his return. Baseball owed It to him. But there were none. Baseball, which the Babes wagon tongue bat had lifted from Just a swell game to a giant Industry, had no place for him. Even his own Yankees didnt want him. They would have hired him, yes, because there would have been bloody revolution In Manhattan If they neglected him entirely. But they didnt want him. That was apparent. It hurt the Bambino, of course. But It was his own fault The Babe Is like a big, shaggy, playful dog that Is always doing something cute. He senses thnt he has done something that pleased yon very much, gets pretty cocky about It proceeds to jump up on yon, gets his dirty paws on your nice, clean shirt and has to be spanked. In short he lacks diplomacy. At the close of the 1934 playing season, with his batting average having shrunk to .2S8, his home run total to 32, and his salary to a mere $35,000 per annum, and his old legs about as steady as those of the card table you borrowed next door for Tuesdays bridge game, the Babe an nounced to all and sundry that he was through as an active piaer. His Diplomatic Way. With all the diplomatic aplomb of the puppy dog we have mentioned, he went straightway to Col Jake Ruppert, who manages to find time between his beer foundry and his yacht to run the affairs of the New York American league ball club. The colonels eyebrows lifted In mute surprise, no doubt, because the time was hardly ripe for the forty-one-ye- one afternoon were Judge Emil Fuchs, president of the club, and the then Mayor James A. Curley, now governor of Massachusetts. Business was bad. Curley convinced Fuchs that the Braves must secure some great star to offset the gate attraction of the Red Sox, whom Tom Yaw keys dough had built Into a winner. He went himself to talk to Ruth on the night of Ruths departure for the OrienL Babe was willing enough to go to Beantown, but there were too many obstacles In the way and the thing was presumably dropped right there. Boston Goes Wild. When Ruth returned. It was generally accepted that he would sign again with the Yanks as a player. Colonel Ruppert refused to be left on the spot lie telephoned Fuchs In Boston and asked him If he wanted the Babe. Fuchs responded by catching the very next rattler for Manhattan. On February 27, Ruth was made assistant manager of the Braves, players consigning a three-yea- r tract at a figure variously reported at $20,000 to $25,000 a year. He was also made vice president and granted a share in the receipts which should make his earnings from to $50,000 a year. Boston, where the fans like their $40,-00- 0 finance, KoreLlyo Tahahashl, poses for this picture In his Tokyo office, after approving the governmental budget for 1935. ne Is the finance minister of the Okada government now In power. TAKES CHARGE Perturbed by charges that Communists have obtained employment In the Washington navy yard. Secretary Swanson has decided to take personal charge of the Investigation. of Investigation the activities of these Communists is in full swing, Swanson said, and he will pass on each Individual case. The naval Investigation already has disclosed that Communist forces either within the navy yard or from the outside have been distributing subversive literature to the workers. j After 55 minutes of instruction, Herbert Sargent, twenty-two- , of Jer sey City, made his first solo flight In a plane at the Jersey City airport and after completing the prescribed maneuvers set his plane down for a three-poilanding. Eddie A. Schneider, twenty-thre- e, Sargents youthful 1 Instructor, holder of the Junior transcontinental flying record, said h" allowed Sargent to go up alone because he handled a plane perfectly Collision Costs Her Commander His Job A collision between H. M. S. Renown and the Hood In British naval maneuvers off Gibraltar caused the first naval court martial In many years. As a result the commander of the Renown was stripped of his command and ordered to report to the Victory, Nelson's old ship. The repair work necessary on the Renown will prevent that vessel taking part In the Jubilee review In July. The picture shows the Renown arriving at Portsmouth for repairs. The Babe Greeted by His New Boss, Bill McKechnie, Manager of the Braves. At Rigf-t- , the Babe as a Player at SL Marys SchooL curtain to rise on the annual melo- baseball even better than their nadrama that these two seasoned tive beans, went wild. Babe was Thespians are wont to enact for toasted at dinners. Rosy predicthe benefit of the press each year, tions were made for a revival of before signing to give our hero winning baseball In the Hub. Numore money for circling the bases merous inspired citizens even offered to buy stock In the club, which was than the President gets for runbadly In need of fresh capital And around the Democratic platning right In the midst of all the cheerform. ing the playful puppy again forgot Are you satisfied with your manhis diplomacy and got muddy feet no asked the Babe, making ager? on the masters shirt effort whatever to keep the quesI will take over the complete action secret from the press and the tive management of the Braves, In Colonel Ruppert replied public. 1936, said the Babe. There had that he was. Edward G. Barrow, been an undercurrent ever since the furthe of club, general manager news of his signing that the capather evidenced complete satltfac-tioble Bill McKechnie, wily Scot who with Manager Joe McCarthy. managed the Braves, would get a It was not the first experience of raw deal Predictions were that hen Miller Ruth would take over the reins from Its kind for the Babe. Huggins died a few years ago, Babe the popular McKechnie before July asked for the Job. The Yanks have 4 of the present year, or even benever considered Ruth of manfore the first of May. agerial timber and didnt then. They Already In a ticklish position, demade Bob Shaw key manager; wheD spite the fact that Ruth had been In the fold only a couple of days, he failed In a years trial they im ported Joe McCarthy from the Na- the Boston management announced tional league. Babe has always magnanimously that when Ruth was made playing manager, Me-leen petulant ahout this Injustice v n 't" ,V-'- ', .. . gi ItTET I1 Kechnle would be moved up to ths executive post of general manager, with more dignity and more salary. Babe Ruth is popular for the same reason that Jack Dempsey was. Science and skill are great stuff for the coaches and the trainers, but what the fan who waits In line hours for a bleacher seat practically In the next county wants Is the knockout punch. Nevertheless It Is this real, natural, boy ishness of Ruths that make him the idol he is. Babe likes the kids and joshes with them continually at the ball park, consequently he Is regarded almost In the light of a deity. Lads who couldnt tell you the name of the governor of their state can recite Ruths lifetime records In their sleep. An orphan himself, Ruth Is never so much at home as when he Is entertaining the children at an orphanage or other Institution. Once when the Yanks were in Minneapolis for an exhibition game, Queen Marie also happened to be In town. Newspaper men saw the story possibilities of a meeting between the Sultan of Swat and the Queen of Rumania, and a time for the queen to receive Ruth was arranged. Ear-- Babe Talking to a Patient in a Childrens Hospital. ller In the evening the Babe visited an orphanage. The youngsters fell immediately in love with the genial behemoth and begged him to Meanwhile frantic calls linger. were coming from the hotel; he wag already late for the reception. For a moment he listened to the pleas of the tiny fans, then he returned to the telephone. Tell the queen Im sorry, he said. I got a date. Fame hasnt really spoiled him. He still gets a great kick out of the attention paid him. The writer accompanied Babe and his wife on a tour of the Chicago World's fair In 1933. There were a quarter of a million people on the grounds that scorching hot afternoon and walking over the three and f miles of grounds wag anything but pleasant The exposition had furnished a luxurious car and a chauffeur for ths Babes party and Babe chortled. We were rolling along with the greatest of ease when Babe yelled for the driver to stop. Back up to that woman, will you?" said the Babe, pointing out a woman trudging wearily along, hating the walk and the heat It was the wife of Lefty ODoul, then ah outfielder with the New York Giants and now manager of the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league. Every one thought Babe was going to offer her a ride. "Yoo hoo! he called. Imagine the shock when she turned around and he made a frightful face, emitted a long, rasping noise known in ball parks as the bird, settled back In his seat and said, O. K., drive on! Will Help Braves. What a personality like this will do for the Braves and the National league Is a foregone conclusion. He will still bang a few over the fence, especially with the short barriers In the senior circuit Nine of the Braves exhibition games in the South are with the Yankees, and they are drawing record crowds. Babe leaves the American league without his career having slumped to an anti climax. Joining the National league, he will stimulate ticket sales all over the loop, especially In Boston, where no less than 46.00C fans turned out to fete him In hie last American league game last year and In the Polo grounds, where tha Giants hold forth and where ha gained his greatest fame. He la expected to pack the parks In Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, which have never had a glimpse of him. Chicago, too, will be Interested when he steps to the plate against the Cubs. For the Windy City fans will never forget that world's series of 1932 when he created what waa probably the most dramatic scene ever enacted In baseball All through the series he had ragged the Cub players unmercifully. Already considered almost a doddering old man. he strode up to bat at a crucial moment Deliberately, he took two strikes. Joshing the Cub bench all the time, then pointed to the farthest distant point of the bleachers In center. Came the pitch, and whack I went the ball right to the spot, one of the longest drives ever seen at Wrlgley field. The Cubs were licked from that moment one-hal- , Western Newspaper Unlo |