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Show TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1951 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah SPORTLIGHT Wi 't . 's Ed . Lopat Sets Low Earned - Run Average By J, ' GRANTLAND RICE The Futile Assignment ? Z Sge It is all very well to have stood with the greats, To have gathered your garlands of fame. It is all very well to have the fates, To have reached for a head liners name. out-buck- ed lost only 29. He waited 13 pro seasons before getting the best start he has ever known. Last season Lopat won 18 and lost 8 for his best record to date. Unless someone starts throwing hand grenades, 1951 should be by all odds his best year. He had been yanked away "V ( LV . from his game for a year. Joinit L, I l .y. ing the army in 1917, or he i 4 might easily have set a league-leadershn y i mark for 6ix consecutive years. a " ; :a In 1912 the American League had no earned run average or Johnson might have set a new mark. That ' ' ' i t JV was one of his greatest seasons. But in 1913 he had an average of 1.14 per game. 1.71 in 1914, 1.55 in 1915, 1.89 in 1916, 1.28 in 1918, and i 1.55 in 1919. I HerJ were eleven years of great ; , & f pitching by two of the games best X ' ' 'v Jb ' Alexander and Johnson, Old v ' Pete and Big Barney. No one can ' v . x w; i y. expect Lopat to match marks of R ' 't' S 'A " " this, type in the modern era when X a At ' y 'y J V. pitchers who allows less than three y earned runs are regarded as havSAUER GRASPS Outfielder Hank Sauer of the Chicago Cubs ing a touch of magic. looks like part of the advertisement as he leaps high to snare a well-h- it ball by Dodgers Gil Hodges. Catch ended sixth inning and left three Brooks stranded on bases. Dodgers won, howvr, by a nose, relief pitching good for a 4 victory. - 35 v n left-hand- ed v'- v - y r r 7: vT.'Vt? ,2 i- 1 y 4, n 'X 'V.-.- K Wallace was hard average Chuck Women didnt bother him of .60 in his first much. Flying did. He owned his e five games, an own plane and specialized in doing record as far as we can exe jobs for private interests, cavate into the past. and performing rescues for reward Lopat is another rare character money. He had in a new form. He is one of the quite a reputafew living citizens who was born tion. When, at This happy in New York City. the annual pilots event, for the Yankees, took place ball, he was prein June, 1918, just 33 years ago. sented to red-- , Alma headed In spite of his brilliant start, Mallory he wasnt imlife this year was not all milk pressed at all. LoAlma vas. She had heard of and honey for Alma was very modern, Chuck. a as first pat. Eddie started of herself, used to getting sure baseman with Greensburg in very what she wanted. She wanted Chuck. the Pennsylvania State League, then moved to Jeanerette, deep Chuck wasnt quick to catch on. 1937. was in the bush, in That When finally he realized what she some 14 years ago. lie worked was up to he had almost fallen into with Jeanerette, Kilgore, her trap. He was glad when news came in that a young flyer had been Shreveport, Longview, Marlost in the north woods. It gave shall, Salina, Oklahoma City, him a chance to get away. The fact and Little Rock before he finalin Sox White that the young lost flyer was Don the reached ly 1944. He won 11 and dropped 10 Mallory, Almas brother, didnt bother him at all. This was business. for the White Sox that year, a Old Man Mallory, through his lawrare achievement any season while pitching for the White yers, had offered a fat reward. Sox. Chuck Wallace loaded up and took off the next morning in his 1951 campaign Lopat Starting the has won 100 and lost 78 games for seaplane. That night he set down on a little wooded lake, a winning average of .562. It is a 150 miles from the nearest much better ayerage now with his habitation, and established a 1951 start. base. The next day he began Lefty Lopat is now thinking of systematically to comb the writing a book called Life Begins country. at 33. In this three years with to In the afternoon he returned to the Yankees, up 1951, Lopat has won 50 games up through 1950 and his base, and received a shock. earned-ru- n all-tim- free-lanc- left-hand- er - SBXDRTTSCOIP HAD By Jo MAHONEY SBO A LIFETIME TOTAL OF 4191 BASE H ITS w AND 892 STOLEN J THAT AVERAGES TO A BASES PURLOINED TIME HE SACK EVERY FOURTH mS A BASE RUNNER Theresa DAY WHOSE NAME PLASTERED, SON ?F6$ CUT j OF WINE CUP; v y , 5-- KATHLEEN NORRIS 'Adultery1 Awful Word To Face t affair with Roger may have been There was another plane riding on the surface of the lake. He saw a figure standing on the shore. It was AM in a very serious dilemma," Alma Mallory. writes Ethel Wilsey, from Whats the idea? he asked. Time, which you so What do you think? Dons my Roanoke. all wounds may heals often brother. say She had brought along a lot of the solve this for me, but meanwhile things Chuck hadnt thought neces- I would be glad of your opinion. ' "Would you ever advise a woman sary. There was nothing he could do about her being there, so he set up to divorce her husband for no parone of the tents and ate the supper ticular reason, and marry another she cooked for him. man? I dont think you would. But The next day he flew west and let me explain the rather unusual covered a strip 25 miles wide. But circumstances. My social and club he didnt sight anything, and was circle is large, but I cant consult genuinely worried when he returned anyone here. to the base that night I am 29. Ten years ago I mara man 12 years my senior. I morning, just before ried THE next liked Hart, I loved my new name noon, he sighted a plane on a we really had lake 50 miles east of his base and and my house, and Then some times. my two good set down, taxing up beside it. A and were children things bom, man stood on one of the wings and a small had down. Hart quieted called to him. Chuck scowled. He and that died father didnt like this. Not a bit of it . . . salary; my I and source of ended, hospitality At 2 oclock he returned to his a to was life feel that pretty base and found it deserted. Alma began to travel Hart began drudge. steady and her plane had gone. He swore and a three deal ago, years good and packed up his equipment. The than were duller then my days next morning he reached his home even though there was more ever, He went home shaved and landing. and bathed and got into bed. He money. Then I met Roger. Just a quiet was dead tired, but he couldnt fine man at a card party, at first sleep. The next morning he took a taxi Then fireworks. Neither one of us to the Mallory home and asked for had ever really been in love before Alma. A butler told him that she and it turned the whole world uphad gone down to Briarsfield to visit side down. During Harts absences, friends. The friends name was when my mother was with the chilHanscom. Chuck caught a train for dren, I was free to come and go, Briarsfield that afternoon. He ar- and in the first radiant happiness rived at 5 oclock and located the of our finding each other we were Hanscom home. Alma, they told him, was out horseback riding with a chap named Rodney Nuys. Chuck rented a horse and went looking for her. Two miles from the Hanscom home he came to a spot where the bridle trail widened? There were two horses in the clearing, standing close together. Rodney Nuys was trying to kiss the rider of the other, a girl. Chuck rode up close and clipped the gent so hard he fell out of the saddle. Then he grabbed hold of the girl and shook her roughly. . . . affair with Roger . . " Whats the idea? he barked. 1 found your brother in a little lake both deeply, truly heart-satisfie50 miles east of the base. He was Roger and his wife had meant looking for us. He said he didnt nothing to each other for years! think it was so smart for his sister his only daughter was away at to give out that he was lost, when schooL No one was hurt, and everyhe really wasnt just so she could one at home happier for the change send Chuck Wallace up into the In me, for I seemed suddenly alive country and then follow. Whats the after so many years of slipping idea? into a rut. Alma looked at him defiantly. deeper and deeper "But six weeks ago Rogers wife What do you thhik? she said. ""You bifTindifferent lummox h And di e d I t.w a s .only, t wo dnys jfter a talk with him why do you think I gave up and her funeral that in he that I realized expects me to came home? and Hart divorce marry him. He Chuck blinked, but maintained his arm. For the first time takes the situation for granted and hold on when looking at this girl, he grin- wants to talk to Hart about it Now the absolute truth is that ned. Do you want me to tell you I never stopped loving my huswhat I think? he asked. band, and I adore my children. My Yes, said Alma. red-head- ed d. HORSE RUNNING ON TRACKS TO- v N y X HARD BOILED CHUCK season is a hero, Lopat permitted an . ip Two Records to Match In checking Eddie Lopat s amazBut when you are slipping as ing 1951 record, plus the record of everyone does other stars, we pause at the marks And the dirge has supplanted set by one Grover Cleveland Alexthe ander, plus another set of marks bow quickly a name established by Walter Johnson. gathers fuzz In 1915 Alexanders earned-ruDont try to get anything on it. ntark was 1.22. It was 1.55 in 1916 t and 1.83 in 1917. After the war Alex New York The next essay should the game 1.72 in 1919 and 1.91 be turned in the general direction gave in 1920. Here were five years where of one Edmund Lopat, a Alexander allowed less than two pitcher with the Yankees. Ed Lopat earned runs a game, working over won his first six 400 innings each year. "' 7 games, but actually his record is better than that. In an THE era where any FICTION pitcher who per-- I mits less than 3 CORNER earned runs each By Richard H. Wilkinson sonnet?-Rememb- er v br foolish, but I cannot see that it was wrong. Nobody was hurt by it, for no hint of it ever reached Hart, his mother, my mother, or the children. It would be simply impossible, no matter how much I wanted to do so, to tear my life apart now, and go with Roger to another town, for he has just changed his job. Hart and I have been doing over my fathers old home, arranging rooms for the children and changing things about, and all our friends are looking forward to a housewarming there. It would completely disrupt five lives, not counting my own, to have me agree to Rogers proposals. At the same time, he is insistent, he takes it all as settled," he feels, as he says, that It will justify our love affair. I am worried, almost distracted, by it. In fact, I cant eat or sleep for nervousness. Roger wants my immediate consent, and talks as if our love were still in the stage it was two years ago. I dont mean it isnt, exactly, but these things do grow less, and one does not see them in the beginning as one does later on. I have argued that my love for my children, my home responsibilities, and my position in the community are "all against my making, any such change, but Roger regards all this as only one more evidence of my unselfishness and perfection, and sweeps it away as nonserise. I am quite confident that there will be no real trouble about this, Ethels letter concludes, "but I would be glad of your opinion. If Ethel is really confident that there is no real trouble here I can only marvel at her obtuseness. If ever there was real trouble in store for a woman who qtiite obviously wants to hold on to home and husband and children, this Is It Between the lines I can read a certain , uneasiness; Ethel may begin dimly to suspect that home, husband, children, poiition, and very likely material comfort have all been jeopardized by her sin. Sin. Yes, thats what it was," the sin of adultery. Ethel will probably read that word with incredulous horror. In our San Francisco jails today there is a woman who is in reading the word murder, connection with herself, with the same horrified unbelief. she stammers.' My children And Joe why, I nevrhated Joe., It cant be that I did it. Its a bad dream. Ethel may find herself in a divorce court one of these clays, stammering the same words. She didnt mean to hurt anybody. -- (Released by WNU Ftatarea.4 ' ' '1 |