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Show Page 7 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah Tuesday, October 3, 1950 aim.; SPORT LIGHT '.ymi Benchwarmer Changes Scene and Clicks Grantland Rice 000 or a $150,000 pitcher go for cis Oulmet, Chick Evans, Jess pHE STORY of big Jim Hearn Is 110,000 just as he was heading for Sweetser, Jess Guiliford, Bobby one of the more Interesting he minors again. More than one Jones, Johnny Goodman and baseball yams of 1950. In addition fine Max Mars ton. has been dropped to. Its human interest side, it also !rom ballplayer varbig league company for In that long line not a one argives an important sideline on the ious reasons that are beyond his rived unheralded or as unheraldpart that luck or fate or the breaks control. Hearns case isnt the only ed as Urzetta was. Most of those of the By game bring many a ballplayer attempting to keep his grip on the game. Young Hearn was a at Tech Georgia some years ago. He is a big kid, 6 feet, 3 weighing Grantland Rice around 200. He - also had his share of stuff from the start. He was a good friend of Bobby Jones and played' golf in the low 70s at Druid Hills Course. Hearn is one of the nicest young fellows youll meet. He is on the quiet or reserved side, although friendly enough at all times. to star 1 know a couple of years back that Eddie Dyer had considerable confidence In his budding young star. Big Jim had one or two pretty fair seasons. Not big seasons But not too bad. one Ive known about -- were given a chance. But in checking back through dope I couldnt find pretournament Case of Sammy Urzetta Sam Urzetta a chance anyone giving You may not believe it but Sam- of any sort my Urzetta, present amateur' golf That isnt all of the story. In champion, holds one of the oddest every amateur championship pracrecords' in the venerable game. tically every winner has to have For example, In checking one or two lucky rounds. I mean back over past champions rethat he has to win while not play cently I discovered I had played ing too well. golf with most of them Charles But there was no such rickety Blair MacDonald, H. G. Whig-maplaying on the part of Urzetta, who Findlay Douglas, Walter had won the.N.Y. state amateur Travis, n. C. Egan, S. M. some time before. In round after Byers, Jerry Travers, R. A. he stuck with par or better. round Gardner, W. C. Fownes, Fran who won 2 n, f er f 4 BABYS FIRST BOTTLE . . . Officials at the zoo In Rome, Italy, d are coaxing Remus, baby born to Joliet, the zoo's famed elephant, to have his first taste of milk. Joliet Is 16 years old and this Is the second baby she has had in captivity. The first was born two years ago a little girl named Roma. 275-ponn- DAFFY ENOUGH THE FICTION CORNER By i'll head. Nope," he drawled, I last spring a transcontialways wanted to be a legerde-mainis- t, nental air liner got off its beam and now with this reover the Rocky mountains and ward money reckon I got my smashed up against a rocky peak. chance. It was a few hours before the disGood gosh, man, it will take 20 aster wa& suspected, and then the airports could only guess at the lo- weeks to make this picture. Thats 1110,000. Do you realize thatl cation of the wreckage. Its a lot of money, Glen agreed, Glen Owens, sitting alone in his but suppose folks liked me? Then cabin on the slopes of White Crest d have to stay out there and keep valley, heard the announcement ov- making pictures. 'Youll be a dumbbell if you dont er his dry cell set cabgrab this chance. Young Glens Maybe, said Glen in was located on Tm a dumbbell already. the course of the liners flight and Glen! What Is the matter! Last earlier in the evening he had heard summer you wanted to start k dude remembered he sounds that now in Arizona, but you down ranch as being rather queer. have didnt any money. So you deGlen strapped on hi.s skis, loaded to cided go trapping tor one winter a pack with provisions and supplies save enough money to could so you and set off up the valley. Three in a ranch and my a hours later he saw a light and came we could get married. And now to the wreckage. Two people were offered $10,000 and you mum-)ldead, and another was so badly in- youre something about being a leger jured that unless he had medical leger whatever it is. attention pretty quick he too would "Legerdemainist, Glen tol her die. j On an improvised sled, Glen patiently. LL of which made swell newspapulled the injured man to the neardoctor. and town est per copy. The reporters' ate it a received not Glen Owens only up. So did readers. If Glen had been reward but he became, overnight, famous before, he was twice as a figure'bfuational reputation. famous how. ' Three from The next week three movie prodays afterihiJLman arrived ducers arrived on the scene. One Hollywood, Calif., to offered and Glen looked up pay oMhem offered a flat price of $25,-00- 0 a to make moving him $500 a week for "a single picture. Leah Conroy was almost in tears. picture. for goodness sake, try and o o k his and Glen, smiled Glen ah Col man Program 'Halls of Ivy With College Students Popular INEZ GERHARD By had RONALD and Benita Colman on Yon Can Beat Hie film made In colthe two-relaboration with the Connell on Atomlo Implications, and released by RKO. The picture explains the three primary effects detonation. of In el when they embarked of The Halls Ivy series last January, that they were launching a show that would become so popular so soon, Really adult entertainment is the description given by its many devoted listeners. Not Jeff Chandler will soon be doing only the show, but its theme song, enough travelling to last him the immediately became popular; in rest of his life. During shooting of The Bird of 20th Century-Fox- s Paradise in Honolulu, he will comi mute by plane to Hollywood for the Our Miss Brooks series. A-Bo- good-natured-- y, Jane Wyman believes in realism. To play .the deaf mute in Johnny Belinda she stuffed her ears with cotton, went through the film hearing nothing. To play the crippled daughter In The Glass Menagerie she wore a special shoe which turned her foot inward and made her limp; she saldnothingaboutjthe way it cut into her ankle till the director , discovered It. He said she must either wear rubber padding, which would make her ankle look thick, or RONALD COLMAN discard the shoe. She wore the padfact, so many people wanted a re ding. ' ' cording of the song that a record has been made by the group that John Agar, William Campbell and NBC on the it Wednesday sings Danny Arnold have established College presi- bachelor headquarters in a rented night broadcasts. dents and faculty members have house at Sherman Oaks, near the praised the series; students lament film capitol. They met while apI Breakother month youll be forgotten. Its the impossibility of finding a college pearing in Warner Bros. to Colman. want like Do a be starred. chance. you president your through, in which Agar trapper all your life? said the Thirty thousand! James Robertson Justice, who Joe Wilman, whose records in movie magnate desperately. American Bowling Congress compe plays the part of Qulst, in WarnGlen heaved a deep sigh. O. tition stamp him as one of the ers Technicolor adventure drama, - K. If thats the way you want It, greatest bowlers of the decade, has Captain Horatio Homblower,. is, Leah! signed to star in King of the Ten- a member of Britains Parliament, So Glen Owens went to Hollywood World of representing the North Angus and of Columbias pins, a and made moving picture. Meams constituency. short subjects series. Glen returned to Crest, bearing his Sports $30,000, and the next day he and Berry Kroeger, known to Young s Universal City covered Leah Journeyed down into Arizona. Dr. Malone" fans as Sam WiWithin a week they had purchased total of 256 acres before the recent lliams, left for Hollywood recently e tract adjoin- to purchase of a a ranch. begin work in a new film. Barry They were married in the ranch ing the studio in the San Fernando Thomson who took his place now patio, and left immediately for a Valley; makes it the largest plays a nice guy on Malone and film plant in the world. honeymoon to Honolulu. It was a heavy on Road of Life. while they were on the boat that Lowell Thomas recently celebratLeah asked the inevitable question. ed his arrival on the air 20 years An old dayODDS AND ENDS Well, honey, it was tike this, ago, when a friend tricked him into time serial favorite, Myrt and Glen replied.' That offer of $10,000 making a unprepared to the air wdth return was good, but we needed $15,000 to speech on any subject he liked. Only Marge, may . "The . . star the as buy a ranch of our own, so I fig- after the speech was finished dfc Edith Fellows to its returned ured if I turned down the first offer Thomas learn that he had been au Railroad Hour has folks would think I was daffy enough ditioning for a news program tha winter format, with Gordon McCrae as the male singing star . . . That to make me more famous, and the was to be by the Literary Paramount Western co - starring sponsored movie folks would offer me more Digest, and had been chosen the Bing Crosby and Bill (Hopalong money. Which they did. winner. Glen Owens, what is a leger? Cassidy) Boyd, will be called Thataway . . . Gordon McLenAnd "I dunno, Glen grinned. If an atomic bomb exploded, don, gridiron specialist for the LibI figured nobody else would, either. hovr would you react? The corAll I know is I saw it written out erty network, says a true football rect answer, showing the prefan is one who knows the nationality once and copied if off sos Id be to take before measures of every AltAmerican. ventive sure to get the spelling right in case Released by WNU Features and after an explosion, is given I wanted to use it. half-intere- st e Th-Cre- sL J STARTED OUT AS A BRILLIANT PROSPECT. HE DEVELOPED NTOHARD LUCK HOUTTEMAN'N 1048 WHEN EC WON 2 AND LOST Id.' THE NICKNAME HUNS ON WHEN HE FRACTURED HIS SKULL IN AN AUTO CRASH IN 1949. TODAY HE'S THE OOMEBACK KID... AT 23 HE'S ONE OF DETROrrS BEST PITCHERS AND AN AMERICAN LEAGUE HERO! U-I- 140-acr- self-contain- & r ... A On A header CF WAS HIT Eall N THI&WN CUT N fact he THE PITCHED 5 times.. .THREE or 6AM.f LANDED N JAIL! THE MANAGER OF NEFF'S TEAM CF STRENUOUSLY amE,CKLA, OBJECTED LYNN BAKER TO A DECISION BY UMPIRE WITH STROUD, OKLA. BAKER SOCKED THE MANAGER, LEE GUCYNS,CN N A GAME , . " JRC NO rAAt2 JPW.GUCYHES CALLED THE KXCE ' OUT OF THE PARK WENT THE CMP game and -- STARDUST Richard H. Wilkinson DAY Then a year ago he wasnt winning. He won one and lost three last year, then was sent to Roches ter to finish out the season. This season Hearn spent most of the time' on the bench. He might as well have been left in the minors. He wasnt getting enough work. He lacked control and lack of steady work was largely responsible. Now it could easily have happened that the Cardinals again would ship the Georgia Tech star back to the minor patrol. But the Giants took a chance and called him in. The keen, eyes of Leo Dur-ochhad seen things in Hearns head and heart that others arm, had overlooked. There was no midnight parade for Hearn when he arrived with the Giants. He was Just another Cardinal castoff. But he wasnt to Leo Durocher. He took Hearn from the bench to the rifle range. He put him to w5TkJn short order the big college' bcywas one of the star oTllre-Jerti- e. Oddly pitchers he has beenT'cntpitclfc enough, on the lng the leading Cardinal squad. Just why the Cardinals let such a stout right arm go is beyond us Eddie Dyer is one of the smartes of the managers. Fred Saigh Is i close watchman in the matter o: his products. But they let a $100, ft , |