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Show The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1952 Paga 7 rf SPORT LIGHT Yanks, Indians, Giants and Dodgers GRANTLAND RICE IS GENERALLY conceded in the two big leagues that Cleveland and New York will settle the pennant and th?.' New York Brooklyn will take over the r By llaz. Briefly,' this means Yankees, Indians, Giants and Dodgers, leaving the other 12 teams to supply any upset or challenge that may take place and probably will. What teams from the two leagues may break into the spring and summer arguments, outside of the four mentioned? Right now I would Eddie suggest Nationals the in Stanley's Cardinals plus the erratic Phillies. n lookout, 1 From this can't quite see the Braves, Reds, Cubs or Pirates. One of these latter four 'teams might erupt and play a lot of baseball but I doubt it. The Cardinals might come on with a rush under Stanleys drive, Stan Musials great ability and the promise of good pitching. Sawyer should get his somnolent Phillies hustling again, if it can be done. So you ban see four good teams in the National League and four others But one of the main turns In the American League should belong to the White Sox and Athletics, Both teams were mih stronger last season than either had been in some time. Both kept throwing the poisoned harpoon into various leaders. Both kept bowling over Yankees. Indians and Red Sox. They look even better this spring, or the spring that will soon meet us around the greener comer. Bucky Harris and his -- Senators are unknown quantities, but you will soon see the dust kicked up by Hornsby and Veeck of the Browns. No one knows just what sort of an act the Browns will put on this season, but it should be something worth looking at. Any team that has a smart, hustling owner, a smart, hustling manager and quite a num ber of young legs and young arms should be heard from often enough. So at this spot the American League race should carry more general interest than the National. Maybe It wont. Extremely odd -- things can happen in six months of baseball. 20 Year Race Twenty years ago a kid left Newport, Kentucky, to try his luck in the saddle. His name was Eddie Arcaro. Twenty years later he is still riding as hard and battling as furiously as he ever did against both age and youth. Riding again at Santa Anita, Arcaro has Bill Shoemaker, the Texan, Competing on one the of side big run and Johnny Longden, (he 'veteran, on another. ld Brothers film starlet, has been selected as the 1952 Baddy Poppy Girl, It was announced by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Miss Crowley is the daughter of Commander Dennis Stafford Crowley, U-Navy, retired. fog-ridde- that dont look too hot. Stanley and his Cardinals will be one of the seasons early features. If they stay up around baseballs polite society they will continueta be a feature. Its the standing of the clubs that tells most of the story after the first few weeks. Baseball can pack most of its lore into two details the standing of the clubs and the box score. These two sections carry most of the answers. In the National League Sawyers Phillies will have a rougher journey than the Cardinals, due largely to uncertain pitching. The American League The seasons outlook for more widespread hilarity is brighter in the A.L. g This league has the Indians and Yankees as the two chief targets. Both will be good. The Tigers with Art Houtteman back should move up again. No one can say now what the Red Sox will be minus Bobby Doerr and Ted Williams, two star ballplayers. You dont fill gaps like this with straw men. The Red Sox must get more consistent pitching than they have drawn so far. Maurice McDermott should be due by now to prove his high place. ever-winnin- S. Huh! Aunt Martha sniffed, The and Jenny eating supper. The nerve! You can still smell the stuff. It boded no good for Uncle phone had rung several times but, it being a rural line with nine par- Joe. ties on it we didnt even bother to their place I WHEN we reached listen. still groggy the put . That was our t Uncle Joe to bed. Uncle Joe was just beginning to PlCtiOn j answered the be himself. Oh, my head! he groaned, my phone. head. He raised himself up poor Your Uncle Joe went to town elbows. Did he get away? on his and he aint back. who getaway?Aunt Mar"Did It was Aunt Martha and she tha asked, belligerently. sounded a bit worried. Uncle Joe Ignored her. T parked Maybe he had troutyl with his our car down near the lakeshore, car. What was he in town for? I wasnt paying a nickle to park on Took four fat hogs to market. main the street, and when I was Perhaps you should have gone cornin back across the short-cu- t, with him. you know where its all growed up The last time he took pigs to with brambles and bushes, someone the market, they didnt want to came up right smart behind and stay in the trailer so he made me knocked me out. I think he used get In with them and if you think a bottle. He shook his head. thats a nice way for a woman to "Huh! A fine sway to account for ride to town I dontl smell! Aunt Martha snorted. that Hardly had I hung up the rehe git my money? He sud"Did ceiver when Aunt Marthas numIt. remembered ber rang. I Stuck my hand over denly "Well, you haven't got it if thats the mouthpiece and listened. It what you mean. Aunt Martha inwas the police department and him tartly. "Here, you get formed Uncle Joe was in Jail. One of the into back bed, youre wobbly, and constables had found him trying to me a look at your head. have open the door of his car, the only let Still growling and protesting he trouble was that Uncle Joe insisted as he was bid. so did be the radiator was the door, 1 was locked up for safetys sake. Now you, Joe Quinn, stay quiet! a she time later short and She up hung wagged a finger under his nose. trouble. her me told and Ill get something for your bump phoned I and your supper also. Now dont get so excited, soothed, Ill be right over. Aunt Martha grinned at me as we The miscreant was stretched went out to the kitchen. A car oat in a stupor when the officer pulled up by the door. opened the cell door. she cried with "Good heavens! dismay, Its Mr. Morrison, the minister! Everything is in a mess and Joe the condition Joes in J You keep MAHONEY mum, Joe Quinn, I'll shut the door and he wont know anything about you. I wont stay quiet, Uncle Joe cried, "Yon cant treat me like a culprit. C'mon in! Uncle Joe yelled at the top of bis voice. "Well, Joe, you certainly had a spot of trouble, Mr. Morrison said when he came into the foom. "That from the scoring demon THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON bottle must have been strong stuff. IS A FAR CRY TODAY Aunt Martha gasped. FROM THE GANGLING, Morrison dug into his pocket Mr. THAT SKINNY and brought out a pocketbook. FIRST REPORTED FOR "Whered you get that? frosh ball, 7 LED STANDS "Well, Joe, the man that hit you he NOW THE NATION N FIELD GOAL ACwith that bottle and robbed you had D IS CURACY IN a very bad accident and 1 was THE SIXTH COLLEGE PLAYER called. Fm glad to be a help to both TO SCORE 1000 POINTS IN HIS of he said handing him his you, I FIRST TWO SEASONS pocketbook. By that time Uncle Joe had a grin a mile wide, all his money was in tact and I could tell from the gleam in his eyes that Aunt Martha would have to dance attendance on him to get back in his good graces. was about IT and I were six-thir- - this-morni- WASHINGTON ty ng S1PRSCPE DON 6-- IQ50-5I.AN- , MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Cynical Americans Are Blaming Washington for U.S. Troubles By DREW PEARSON TRAVELING across the U.S.A. these days you are struck with a lew cynicism on the part of the American public. Its a rebellious cynicism, inclined to lay all our troubles on the doorstep of Washington, a feeling of frustration, of disgust with corruption, and weariness with the Korean war. Its an atmosphere that lends itself to any who wants to or take advantage of this cynicism by running for office. This is exactly the atmosphere that swept a lot of Democratic screwballs Into office with the tide of Roosevelt victory in 1932, and it may sweep a lot of Republican screwballs Into office this flag-wav- er anti-Hoov- er tub-thump- er fall One dangerous part of the current feeling has been a certain T with our electoral Folks are resentful of the bosses in both parties and they figure that though President Truman probably didnt mean to blurt out what he did about "eyewash" primaries, nevertheless he was telling the truth. disal-lusionme- nt sys-tem- On the other hand there is growing Interest In the proposal of Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois and Rep. Charles Bennett of Florida to hold a nation-wid- e presidential primary, which, though not binding On the delegates, might pnt a crimp in the party bosses and prevent the traditional picking of presidents in the 3 A.M. quiet of a smoke-fille- d room. Best Primary The state generally conceded to have the best primary system is Oregon, where presidential - aspirants are unable to keep their name off the ballot if they feel they wont make a good showing, Elsenhowers name, for instance, has been kept out of the Wisconsin primary on the belief that he wouldnt make a good showing there but in Oregon, any candidates name can be entered without his permission, which makes for a genuine popular test Nebraska voters had the same free filing privilege until 1951 when a reactionary legislature abolished It. New Hampshire, in connection with which, President Truman used his eyewash term, happens to have one of the nations fairer primaries. Flynns Bailiwick In New York, which controls the largest bloc of delegates and therefore is most Influential in nominating our presidential candidates, the delegates do not have to reveal which candidate they favor. Thus, when New Yorkers vote in a primary, they are forced to vote for pledged party stooges. They do not know whether those delegates will favor Truman, Kefauver or Stevenson; all they know Is that the delegates will vote the way Boss Flynn of the Bronx and State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick tell them to. Ohios Tricks Ohio has still another gimmick which plays into the hands of the The smartest thing Mr. Truman bosses. In Ohio, delegates must recould do, in view of his eyewash re- main pledged to a certain delegate mark and this public cynicism is to only as long as their "best judgexert some altruistic leadership and ment and ability so dictate. Though It's never happened, help put across the Douglas-Benne- tt this conceivably could mean nation-wid- e primary. that delegates conld decide the day before balloting started that Bossed Delegates their man didn't have a chance, and switch to someone the bossIn five states It's a fact that the es liked better. people have no say whatever In the Illinois has a similar loophole for selection of delegates attending the Alacountermanding the people's choice. presidential conventions. In bama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia Hoover ys. Iko and Louisiana, the delegates are Herbert Hoover, long-tim- e chosen by party leaders and are secretly trying to line up simply told how they are to vote. delegates against Eisenhower in In 27 other states democracy fares New York and New Hampshire . . . little better. These states for the By an ironic twist of fate. Hoover most part follow the plan of state underwent exactly the same criticonventions, where the party bosses cism as Taft now makes against can railroad the selection of dele- Eisenhower. When Hoover ran for Not Encouraged gates. The bigger states which fol- President, he had never registered n low this most of 19 convention as a Republican . . . The growing Although the are: (four years beyond college) system Michigan, Iowa, Indi-an- unpopularity of President Truman U.S. veterinary schools do not enKentucky, Mississippi, Mis- in the southwest Is similar to that of from courage applications women, souri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Hoover in days. 100 women vets. there are over Alabama, Texas and Virginia. (Bcliuii by WND rfctars.) , Isola-.tionist- -- HAL LiTTLEFORO BET BRISTOL, MD., BARBER HARRISON CLAY 25 HAIRCUTS THAT MARYLAND WOULD BEAT TENNESSEE IN THE '52 28 TO 13 SUGAR BOWL GAME. THEY DID-HE CAN A PR08LEM.H0W ANO NOW HAL HAS COLLECT SINCE HE IS VIRTUALLY BALD? & ILLINOIS FARMER PLACED A STUFFED PHEASANT ON HIS FENCE AND SAT BACK TO WATCH THE FUN. ONLY TWO OUT OF OVER A HONORED PASSING HUNTERS ASKED HIS PERMISSION BEFORE THEY TOOK A SHOT?? full-cour- se hand-me-dow- a, pre-Roosev- elt ,is |