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Show TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1931 'Ihe Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah SPORTUGHT Fireballers Champs in Their Heydeys GRANTLAND RICE a new WHEN or newbaseball 'season a racing season is there usually one imporbegins tant argument you can wade into without much trouble. This is the matter of an important of the factor known as speed-sp- eed By faster race horses or speed of ,the faster pitchers. You might be surprised to know how many wordy debates this subject can develop. Who is the greatest pitcher or the fastest pitchers? From long talks with ballplayers, managers and umpires at various times, I would establish this order: No. 1, Walter Johnson; No. 2 Bob Feller; No. 3, Robert Moses Grove; No. 4, Rube Waddell; No. 5, Dizzy Dean; No. 6, Dazzy Vance; No. 7, Joe Wood. 1 would say that Rube Waddell and Dazzy Vance had the fastest-breakin- Speed Horses You can slip into just as many arguments over speed horses as you can over speed pitchers. Who are they? Certainly Man oWar, Citation and Coaltown belong- in this - Both Man oWar and John F.' Grier turned on killing speed in their famous meeting in New York around 30 years ago. Count Fleet was another who could burn up a track when he had to move. Count Fleet is close to the top although I still believe Johnsd town in his earlier days as a was as fast as any thoroughbred I ever saw run. 1 havent seen any horse around today that had Johns- towns or Count Fleets capacity to handle a fast mile. Or to run with Citation and Coaltown. Noor had fine speed, plus the ability to go a route. But it is difficult to judge horses who made their time on California tracks where it is not uncommon for horses to run six furlongs in 1.08 25 group. How are you going to beat Johnstown on the day he is right? Harry Grayson asked one day at a Derby party. I dont see how you can. He won the 1939 Derby, beating Challedon, by eight lengths. - But Johnstown had head trouble and he disliked a muddy track. Yet according to accurate dockers he had more than one mile workout below 1.34. Johnstowns speed was terrific. Citation is credited with the world mark of 1.33 35, made at Golden Gate, and Coal-tow- n or 1.09. is marked np with two or The track has more to do with three records. These Unarks, however, were all set on lightnispeed than the horse on many three-year-ol- OFFICIAL OPENING . . . President Harry S. Truman seems little worried over the recent political explosions in the national capitol as he officially opens the Washington baseball season by tossing out the first ball in Griffith stadium. Bucky Harris, manager of the Washington Senators, beams approval. tracks. ng-fast curve ball of g the lot. But for sheer speed there was no one quite up to rethe Big Train. Ills strike-ou- t And cord speaks for itself. Johnson did this with a fast ball, unaided by a curve. Waddell and Feller set their remarks with markable strike-ou- t g curve a speed plus ball. When Feller first broke in, he depended almost entirely on blinding speed that almost equalled Johnsons flame ball. . But the Big Train was the only pitcher I recall who forced a sick roll call on the day he was nominated to work. Good hitters usually like speed. In the case of Johnson they knew that only speed was coming up and that it was also well controlled. But they wanted no part of it. They were not too keen to hit against Feller and Grove, for that matter. Amos Rusie with his small hands had blazing speed, and so did Dizzy Dean when he cared to use it. His fog ball was close to the Johnson KATHLEEN NORRIS You Can't Beat Code of Morals nr lANT YOU DO something about Not so Mrs. Harlow, Mrs. Harlow scandalous tongues, and the was annoyed. She hadnt underdisgusting way women have of susstood and presently her annoyance pecting the worst of each other? changed to resentment against her writes one Hartney George of Billhusband. ings. My wife and I were happily . . . Mr. Ilarlow returned late married for nine years, his letter that night. It was not his habit shift from her goes on, and we had two sons, now to return home late, but tonight mother to her 5 and 7. Jean died three months ago there was a definite 'purpose. father. They Vill in a motor accident. At that time Mrs. Harlow had retired, and become her sister Constance had been living 10 minutes after he entered the friends. Often with us for more than a year, their house his daughter Virginia this fixation on parents both being dead. We three came in. Virginia had been to father will remain until the daughter were extremely congenial, and Jean a party. transfers her affections to a mate. was grateful to have Sunny, as we Seeing a light In the living room. call Con, for a companion and helpHowever, if father does not respond to daughters fixation, the child will, Virginia came to the door. At sight er. Con is now 25, seven years unconsciously, shift back to mother, of her father sitting there alone younger than Jean, and has always who, in many cases has resented she uttered a little cry of delight been a sort of pet. and bounced upon his knee, with the original transfer Since Jeans death Connie has Mr. Harlow rose. He made his the full intention of providing him on caring for the boys and way down the long aisle, paying no with details concerning her eve- gone heed to the annoyed glances of nings activities. Something about keeping the household going. The other listeners, gained the outside the expression on her parents face, death of my wife was a terrible shock to me; I am not likely to put rating. lobby and paused there, dabbing at however, restrained her. anyone in her place for a long, long There have been a lot of fasta moist brow with his handkerchief. Harlow smiled at her in a time. Connie, too, was devoted to ball pitchers who had plenty, So that was iti he told himself. MR. that bespoke faint em- her sister, and finds her greatest too many to mention them all. So that was the cause of his wifes barrassment. He to brush attempted in caring forJeans boys. Addle Joss, who pitched a large indignation and wrath and resent- something from his coat but failed. happiness " So just why gossiping tongues have number of one-h- it ment. In his minds eye the pieces Thus having had her attention atgames, had busied themselves with our affairs fine speed, but he also had a of the puzzle that had troubled him tracted to the something, Virginia is a mystery. But they have, to an unusual curve ball and for the past month fell into place. investigated and found it to be a great extent that makes us both extremely control. He understood now what had hap- daub of powder. She looked at it resentful. Rex Barney has enough speed if pened; he could see it taking place, and frowned. Looking further she Rex only had a vague idea of where consciously, her fixation had trans- discovered a long strand of blond "Two elderly women, friends of ferred froiri mother to father. The hair. his fast ball would wind up. Connies mother, have called to say There is no one pitching today two had become great friends. Mr. Horror filled her eyes, a hurt that the matter is causing scandal, who can match Johnson, Feller and Harlow had been tremendously look, an expression of awe and and yesterday our minister, who has Grove at their best. proud and happy. wonder and incredulity, gradually always been a close friend of the giving way to something bordering JOE on accusation and scorn. By Whatever Why, Daddy! MAHONEY U Mr. Harlow interrupted, gesturing airily, saying something about an apology, presently lapsing into a lengthy but rather 6tupid discourse and ending by stating that it would not be wise or necessary to menV tion the matter to her mother. Virginia stared. Abruptly sfc flung her arms about her fathers neck and promised him that no mat.V ter what happened she would keep CONTESTANTS OBTAIN his secret. It would be their secret. SPEEDS UP TO 70 M.P.H, Poor mother. She must never know N THEIR DIZZY WHIRL But he must promise AROUND THE OVAL civ Yes, yes. Of course hed promise gossiping tongue j . . . It was all very silly anyway Just one of those regretful things that family, came in to talk frankly to would never be repeated. us both, and to sa that we must After awhile Virginia rose and to get a kind, elderly woman AKX.06ICS TO left him. Her attitude brought a try OZAk IH" " in to make things right lump into Mr. Harlows throat. But O Even if we could find the kind when she had gone he sighed in vast relief. Beginning tomorrow, he elderly woman we couldnt afford knew, .his daughters-fixatio- n would her. Connie help except a be transferred back to her mother. man for cleaning once a week, and Mrs. Harlow would cease to be ir- help I give her now that Jean is ritable and resentful. Harmony gone. On Sundays we clean house, I HELEN WILLS MO would reign once more in the house- and for the rest we try, the boys J HOWARD KINSCi hold. And sometime, Mr. Harlow and I, to spare her. My of salary (VOLLEYED A TEW told himself, when Virginia was $5,000 a year does rot run to pay of cv FIRST GOLF BALLS (FOR OVER AN h safely married and away, he would a kind elderly woman wno would I WITHOUT" (WERE MADE OF FEATHERS STUFFED A MIS explain it all and hope that she expect at least $1,200 of it. Every1 TIGHTLY IN A LEATHER CCNER. one in this neighborhood reads would understand. your fast-breakin- sat bolt upright in MR. Harlow chair. The psychology lecturer was saying: And in the normal family, when the daughter reaches the age of 12 or 13 it is quite likely that her fixation will -- great Si SI who? .X .jjp'feif -- V vhi 'r & ha-s-n- weekly articles, and a good strong d folk reproof to these do Is some no there good. might such thing as a safe and honorable relationship between man and woman, especially in circumstances like these? Connie is cut to the heart and I am plain mad over this sort of thing. I would like to punch somebody in the nose. You are punching somebody in the nose, my dear Hartney. I am taking especial care to disguise your location and your name because you are flouting that very important old lady Mrs. Grundy, and conventionally speaking you havent a leg to stand on. From the standpoint of that code of morals and character and and social responare all desperatewe sibility that ly trying to uphold in these difficult days, you and Connie are proposing to do something that simply cant be done. An attractive man of 34 and a charming unmarried girl some years younger do not keep house together, unless an older person is somewhere in the picture. Outsiders not only suspect something irregular but more often than not their suspicions are quite justified. Unless a man and a girl under such circumstances actually dislike each other and are burning with resentment and intolerance, they are growing steadily nearer and nearer the moment when propinquity gets in its deadly work. Connie, is this case, must either move out or find someone to come and lend dignity to the establishment. Surely there is some mother or aunt or Cousin Lulu who will fill that place until Hartney either finds another wifet or, as seems likely, asks Connie to step into her evil-minde- self-contr- ol sisters place. The laws that control these romanon tic situations are based long experience of the weakness of human hearts. If Connie insists on defying convention she may easily find herself in the position of another girl who wrote me some years ' ago. on This girl call her Sally-liv- ed sisin her sisters house after that ter had died, mothered two babies, and shortly fell so deeply in love with her brother-in-lathat she was easily won to give him her full trust in a complete surrender, The flrst yearwent by, and Std- ney made no mention of marriage. Another year was well advanced when Sally saw the beginning not only of reproof in the eyes of her neighbors, but pity. Sidney was in love with a fresh young thing who was quite confident that she could manage the house and the babies. (Released by WNU FeaUrea.) w |