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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH f: Pennsylvania Crew Practices Scull Rated High & j jjj f as Penn Sprinter Coach LawioB Itobertson, Perm track coach, and a star sprinter In his younger days A. with the old C. of New York, rates Folwell Scull as the most promising speedster In his so,aad. Tills is Scull's second year on the varsity squad. He scored heavily In dual meets last spring, and was Just forced out of a place In the Intercollegiate championships, placing sixth In final at Cambridge. the Sml! Is a brother of Paul Scull, Pcnn's brilliant halfback and drop kicker. Folwell also plays football, having been a substl- tute end the last two seasons. It a Privilege it y t Irish-America- ' ' j . v- - s 1 j Pittsburgh Pirates Look Like Winners ? jjj J J i While the New York Giants, with the addition of Koush, are ravorea lor uie National league pennant, the Pittsburgh I'irates cannot De dismissed ugntiy, writes II. L. Salsinger in the Detroit News. Pittsburgh had tn excellent ball team last year. The trouble J wua uwt w ilii Lite u'uiii, uui wan $ the management of the teum. There was, on the Pittsburgh that jjj team, a misunderstanding disintegrated the outfit. This condition has been done S away with. During the coming season the Pirates are bound to J be well managed. Donie Bush will be in charge of affairs in Pittsburgh. F.ush is possessed of more managerial ability than he is generally credited with. Ht JportinQuibs Knglund has 1,750 tennis 175,000 members. The United States Golf association Is made up of 1,200 member clubs. The record for circling the bases on a baseball diamond Is 13 sec 4--5 on da. Kid Dujrnn, Kansas City flyweight. wns born Harry Goller and Is the sou of a rabbi, Nine pitchers In the Texas league will be permitted to use the "spit ball" this season. law which prohibited the show motion pictures of boxing matches in Illinois has been lifted. The Ins of In the Scandinavian countries all events are scheduled on preference to Saturdays. big; athletic Sundays in A Love Halts Career clubs, with century ago there was not a horse In New Zealand; today the chief sport of Uie island is horse rac ing. J J Father Time filially cuts them down, but Z;ick Wheat Is putting up quite a struggle. If his rword for 18 years of toil in the big leagues umounts to anything. Joining the Brooklyn club in 1000, Zack remained there continuously until recently, when Uncle Wilbert Robinson decided Zack would probably go better in another uniform. Then he signed with the Athletics. In his 38 years at Brooklyn the veteran fly chaser averaged over one hit a game for the entire 2,318 games he has played In the majors. All In all, Wheat was at bat 8.859 times In those 2,318 games and has rapped forth 2.S04 base hits, scoring 1,255 runs and stealing 203 bases. His batting mark for tills period as a Dodger Is a staunch .310. And. In his thirty-eight- h year, with the Dodgers In 1920, Zack participated In 111 games, finishing the season with a clouting average of .200, which isn't to be sneezed at, oil things considered. Wheat is swinging Into his thirty-nint- h birthday, having been born May 23, 1888, at Hamilton. Mo. In 13 years of his major league career, Wheat cashed in his chips at the end of the season with a mark of .300 or better at .the plate. His highest averages were tied up in 1923 and 1921, when he finished with marks of .375. In 1923 he hit .359. In his first year In. the big show Wheat finished with a mark of .R09 just to show that he wns possessed with a pretty sharp batting eye. Eleven crews will participate in the The greatest number of base hits interscholnstlc rowing regatta on the Zack pounded out In any one of hU Hudson at Poughkeepsle, N. Y next 18 years In the majors was 221 In 1923. June. His most stolen bases while la the majors came In 1313, when be swiped Gus Getr,, veteran lnQelder, has been 21 sacks. signed as manager of the Scranton team of the New , Eight Keystone Sackers Make Wholesale Shift lea sue. if i j ; l i ' - V " '- -s ! v- - "i ' ; in mm ma Ktheldn IUelbtrey, Brooklyn girl cbmp Olympic awlnimer, who 1ms given up her career following her marriage to Fred Hough Macrohert. New York attorney, She asked: "What's the use of swimming in water when I'm swimming In lover SIlss IUelbtrey was a noted Olympic star. Trotter and Pacer Race Jim Dtinlnp, aged sixteen, has Since the close of the 1928 baseball signed with the Boston Craves and season there has been a wholesale will be furmed to a minor league for shift of second basemen In the majors. the season. Many of the stars of the game bav been affected. Most Important of the changes, of The first tournament of the Inter national Skating union for the chara course, was the deal that sent Rogers plonshlp of Europe was held at Hum Ilornsby to New York and Frankia Frisch to the St, Louis Cardinals. burg in 1S91. They are rated the two leaders In the sixty-thre- e National. Iliromlchl Nishlkubo, Eddie Collins, conceded the greatest years old, mayor of Tokyo, Is one of the roost renowned swordsmen-fencer- s second sncker of nil time, now well in Japan, despite his 23S pounds of past the peak of his game, was given his unconditional release by Chicago, weight only to sign with Connie Mack, the Karl Sande, celebrated American man who gave him his start. a player with Marty McManus, years of age. Jockey, Is twenty-eigh- t He neither smokes, chews nor drinks, great possibilities, who has not been and Is reported to be worth nearly at his best for several years because of dissatisfaction with his berth, goes $1,000,000. to Detroit, where he should star for The first hockey lengne In Canada George Morlarty. Frank O'Hourke was formed a little over 33, years ago shifts to St. Louis In part exchange between Lindsay, Ottawa and Kings- for McManus. The veteran Aaron Ward of the New ton, the first named winning the York Yankees goes to Chicago, while championship. Ilay Morehart of the White Sox his residence to Gotham. The newest world's record for bas changes Pill after years of Wambsganss. ket ball play by girls was recently at Elru Creek. Neb., when service In the majors with Cleveland, Boston the high school team defeated River- minors. and Philadelphia, passes to the side by a score 103 to 0. Now Valued at $20,000 Dr. Itohert II. Decont of Grand New conditions have been framed Rapids has been named by the ntnte for the Trotter and Pacer Stake, tho athletic board to have charge of medi cal examinations for a!) hoxlnj and futurity uponsored by the New York publication of tha: wrestling events In that city. name. Under the new plan the race for foals of 1927 will carry a purse of The record for swim 120.000. nearly three times as large ax Is held by Pedro Can d oil, the Argenthe first stake which was held last tine amateur, who swam from Kosurlo to Santa Ye, Argentina, a distance of yar at Reading Pa. It is estimated that fully 1,000 mares will be nom- 78 tulles, In 33 hours and 1 Diinute. inated by May 1, which Is the florin date. Willow Springs golf coarse, where Heretofore the Trotter ant Pacer the Texas open tournnment was btld. Krake has for trotters exclusive- Is one of the most difficult pieces of ly, but a pacer division has been golfing terrnin In the country. The for In the conditions tor fouls first hole Is exactly 400 yards In of with a guaranteed purse of length. 5.000. Tho trotters will nice for 115.000 and the Rnm of $1,000 will be Pawlioldera at boxing and wres M aside for distribution among the tling bouts In Maryland pay 23 cents breeders of the winners. A purse of upon admission, which roes toward a trm also has been provided for a fund to help deserving persons conclass, the starters to b nected with the t'por; who require Jud-three-year-ol- Best German Sprinter d K ' lone-distanc- e I g This on Individuality. will be the richest MlRtirlal three-year-)- itcip. .' fSviW ? y. 1 ? Stone Turtle at the Ming Tombs, Nanking. cities to be open to western one of the five "treaty ports" trade, T "IT T HILE the eyes of the west- - established In 1842. r.rltish merchants V eru world have been turned who moved In the next few V V during recent weeks toward years obtained aduring, concession to manShanghai, headquarters for age their municipal affairs in their white soldiers and sailors and marines settlement. The French and American in Cbiun, the footsteps of thousands residents joined In the urrangement, of refugees, white and yellow, have but later the French set up a municbeen directed toward that same city, ipality of their own which is maintheir hope of safety. Kiangsu, the tained separately today. Residents of province In which Shanghai lies, is other nationalities have thrown In one of the most densely populated potheir lot with the British and Amerilitical units In the World. It is only cans, and today about 20 na'tions have Plishtly larger than Indiana, and even arrangements with China In connecunder normal conditions ten times as tion with trade and extraterritorial many people live there as inhnblt the In Shanghai. Hoosier state. Chinese from all parts rights the larger pnrt of the popufar By of the republic, speaking half a dozen entire urban group Chithe lation of different dialects, and foreigners from and international that French nese, all corners of the globe make up the name "Shanghai," Is Chibears the conglomerate mass of humanity. the concentration Is not Even the country districts are so nese, but in the dirty, greatest congested that the largest farms In the smelly native city. So well have the more small little are than province governed their concessions family truck gardens to the American foreigners have flocked to those Chinese thnt farmer. They seldom cover more than sections. The International city Is esacres. or four three a favorite residence for repecially KInngsn is the pioneer province of tired Chinese officials from other parts railroading in the Celestial empire. of the country. It has become a modThe first road was built In 1S70 from el, too. In the matter of street paveShanghai to Woostmg, a distance of ments, sanitation nnd police methods, 12 miles. But Klangsu owes much of and since the revolution has been Its development to its water routes beextensively by Chinese cities fore the railroad came, particularly to copied In other parts of the country. the Yangtze river and the Grand canal After riding two hours north of that flows nearly the entire length of Shanshai by railroad, through fertile, the province. For hundreds of years the canal was flat country to the Grand canal, one filled with shipping and was the only finds himself among five million more menns of communication between the people of Klangsu within a radius of north and the south ; but today much 40 miles of Soochow. Many of the of the canal Is In ruins, due largely to people InIn the outlying districts are poultry raising and even the construction of a railroad along engaged the route and the development of the city people take pride In their flocks, particularly ducks. Millions of Klnngsn river for navigation. Hundreds of small canals branch off into Klangsu eggs that are not locally conthe back country. They are. used to sumed or shipped fresh are dried or and shipped all over the world. Irrigate farms and as highways, for frozen, On the west of the city are a hunmost of the roads outside the large dred beautiful lakes and the Great cities are wheelbarrow tracks. lake sixty miles wide In some places Shanghai Is Big and Busy. Is Just over the beautiful low ridge Nearly 2,000,000 of Kiangsu's people of hills on the east, one of the few live In Shanghai. Thousands of the hilly spots In fertile, flat Klangsu. population are employed In the city's Other Large Cities Near By. thriving Industries. There are more centuries Soochow has been the For numerous mills cotton and than fifty silk, rice and flour mills, and hundreds principal Chinese silk market. P.nt its of large factories producing mutches, bnsiness Is not confined to silk and cigarettes, Jewelry, pottery and many poultry, for In Ihe bazaars that line the streets and even surround the other articles. Lying In a protected location 12 temple of Buddha, one con buy anymiles up the Whangpoo river, Shang-fca- l thing from a bird cage to an outdoor Is one of the finest commercial haircut, or a good pill. ports In China. As one approaches Nearly all Soochow streets that are the harbor he sees nearly ten miles not Venetian style are narrow and of docks stretching nlon? the river are monopolized by 'rickshaws and vessels from wheel bnrrows. front. Huge If one does not ride, all parts of the world come and en one is apt to get poked by the bars almost In a steady stream, fast motor of a 'rickshaw, boats dart here and there through the Nanking, Wnsih. Chlnklang and harbor, and the shipping Industry and Yangchow are also thickly populated factories along the river front roar districts. Except Nanking these with activity. One could easily Imagcities are nil on the Grand canal. ine himself entprin? a busy New Eng- Fnch of them boast more than 100.000 land port If It were not for the inhabitants. Is the capital chatter of orientals emanating of Klnngsn andNanking was capital of the emfrom Chinese Junks and samnans that pire In the Ming It Is the dot the water and cluster about the largest wnlled citydynasty. In the world, but docks. only n small portion of the city is This hybrid city of the East and now within the 2VmIle harrier. West Is normally what many a travIs not comparable to Shangeler finds Paris Is supposed to Pe but haiNanking as a commercial center, but It Isn't perpetually pay and carefree. boasts Its educational facilities and Europeans and Americans, forced by the development of Chinese scholars. business or government assignments Public and private graded schools, to live there on the other side of the and the Nanking university, supportworld In a none too kindly climate, ed by three American religious denomdeterto have one accord with Beem inations, have offered courses In all mined to make the experience as pleas- brnnches of A naval cob education. ant as possible. White men's working lege Is also located there. Scholars a honrs might have been framed by of Nanking were holding Hvll service 2000. tho Socialist for year visionary tests several hundred years before In the piping times of pence many of- Columbus sailed for the West. fice open at ten o'clock, grant a rest to Nanking are at once atVisitors to close and twelve two, period from at four so that !he harassed merchant tracted to tbn tomb of the first emand banker and clerk amy hurry away peror of the Ming dynasty. An aveto Hub or casino or tennis court, golf nue, a mile long, approaching the tomb, links or honebont for what Robert rommnnds a splendid view of the city. At one end of the avenue Is a tower Louis Stevenson called "the real (Prepured by tht NtionI Society, Washington, Gaopraplile p. C. th-o- nnrrow-streete- ocean-goin- sinz-son- g southeast of Price. Tho drill i8 uJ1 In the Mancos shale and the gas is consiuereu an encouraging Biga, Provo More than $15,000 for rH. and trail in the Wasatch forest ha been auuionzea, according to an u. nouncement made Thursday by E r Eur' touepara, loresc Bupervisor. thousand dollars of his will be us for construction of the Provo rivei road to extend as far as Mirror me wum wm uegiu ua aoon as weatfc er conditions permit. The balance the money will be expended for trait and mountains roads. Some of tht preliminary worK has been begun. Logan In the neighborhood of m 1 f ... of Cache county ...111 1. 7 .. , . within the next week according to County Agent R. i Wrigley, who said that dairymen froi Sevier and Sanpete are here purchat ing cattle to ship to their respective counties. are tha epet Cedar ing and closing dates of the national parks throughout tho country: Zioj park. Cedar Breaks, Bryce canyon as the north rim of the Grand canyon, June 1 to October 15. Yellowstom park, June 19 to September ID; Mesa City-Follow-ing Verde park, May 15 to November Rocky Mountain park, June, 15 to Oc tober 1; Rainier park, June 15 to Se tember 15; Ycsemite, open all year. 1 Brighton Harry Hammond, waterworks observer stationed at Brighton, returned after a week's stay in Salt Lake to find the same snow depth, although a foot of fresh snow had fallen, and to learn that his telephone, out of service for more than a montn, is again connected. Ogden Forty-tw- o officials and e partment attaches of th8 Pacific Fruit Express company from points between Omaha, Neb., and San Francisco are in Ogden to attend the annual conference of the operating organization which opens In tho Hotel Bigelow. Th8 conference will last three days. Salt Lake Livestock exhibits at me tenth annual Interniountain Stock and Horse show to be held in Salt Lake, March 29 to April 2, will include some the outstanding show animals oi the country, reports Reed W. Warnici, of secretary of the exhibition. Myton Ute Indians will again participate in their old tribal ceremony Wednesday of next week when scores of braves and squaws from all pau cf the Uintah reservation will gather In a pasture. Hear the Myton opera house, to begin the orgy of the Bear dance. Mytoifc Growing of corn ia tha Uintah basin is an agricultural necessity In order to supply the local demand and it Is being urged by business men and others in terested in the future of this part of state. The growing of corn has been tried out to such an extent that it is believed it can be produced in a profitable manner. Those who raised corn last year are satisfied with the results attained. brush-enclose- d five-da- Milford With only 1100 acres of sugar beets reported contracted so far this year in Millard county, a decrease of practically GO per cent under last year, heavy acreage In the county win be planted to wheat. This was the statement of M. S. Winder, secretary of the Utah State Farm bureau, who tour returned Saturday from a five-daof the county. Myton C. P. Watterson of Mytoa, who has leased the Upalco flour mill lo cated here, is urging the farmers to Mr. Watterson plant more wheat. says he will be able to handle 50,000 bushels this fall. He advises farmers plant hard wheat varieties, in to soft wheat, as the hard wheat, he says, brings a better price and produces a better grade of flour. pref-ernec- e to Ogden Ogden City'B operating de- ficit for 1926 Is J12.843.39, as compared with the estimated defiicit of $39,895.20 set up for the city by the 1926 budget, which was prepared in December, 19'-i- t is shown by the annual report of Mrs. Mary E. Farley, city auditor, which was submitted to the olty commissioners. Spanish Fork Utah county's annual livestock show will opn at Spanish Fork, Wednesday, for four days. Jacob Hansen, president, and Dr. George reTaylor, manager of the show, ni port that this year's exhibition containing a large Muck marble tur- have more entries than any previous of life." Moret thorough- tle, the Chinese symbol of long life. livestock dlr.play in the county. The P.und, the On wlH Its a la over, back euloi itock the represent nior marble tablet fare of occidental Shanghai, Is glr.lng the emperor who Is burled at branches of tho livestock Induiitry. crowded with prosperous, and Rubbling the other end of the avenue. H. rphrnlm John Armstrong. w00'' Westerners; an afternoon Is twern the tower and the tomb the of road 1000 lamb Sprins ovenu-.Is lined on both side with fower, recently marketed thronged with Stylishly dressed men 1 14.90 Kansas U per City at and women of leisure and fashlotiaMe sculptures of elephants, camels, Mmis tooplng the market for thnt and one facing would tigers, do to credit another, and day. Thene lambs averaged SS pounds, eoulpngcs thnt Fifth avenue, the Champs Klytre or now and then one sees an enormous ith no culls. The lambs Dotted hit" the Ring strassf In; the days of V- statue of a great warrior mantling as betters than J2 a head more than tha ienna' glory. The city 1" thoroughly a sentinel guarding the funernl way. lie- offer he received for them Perhaps no other city The tomb and nvenue are decaying cosmopolitan. Lake City Pilot Jimmy Jm" of the world mirpasses It In thla re- and the marble slnfnes present a established a n';w flying record frotn Bight standing In a row In the Los spect except Cnlro, Angeles to Salt Laka when ho middle of n field. Stone are piled Th Foreign Settlement. the CO miles In four hours ana Mgh on the etrphnnts' bucks, thrown bo"'" There are two Shanghais: tiie na there by Chinese who believe if the nine minutes, sixteen minutes limn his own mark by and ti;d tlve city, and tho foreign ponce! ?ns. stones thrown on the elephant, Graham. lie carried nearly 400 pound Shanghai was one of the first Chinese they will brlDf food luck. of mall. C. C. -t h The nmrquls of Qneenberry. who?e event ever stajred ow a half tulle trnrlt. and with the exception f the cnunlfntber formulate! the prize Krtifu.'ky Futurity and the I7Hmble. rlnjr code which Mill forms Ihe basis tonlnn Stnko it will not b" fTCfo-h-In for box'n? ethpiette throughout the value by (py race for younp.-tr-r if fMIr world, ban little or no Interest In prize fights. this Bsc lu ihe (Jrend Circuit. d bit, r.W R.vr-mnll- y 7. d f: ' water-fron- pro-vMo- Rhow-rln- 9 K . busl-ne- s n 10-- uu Ulner of the forest and in man .. . . . .. J V BUiiercuijr uaeu uy uie PUDUC. o- -o Veteran Made One Hit a Day for Eighteen Years. g ri Price An unusually heavy f,0ff J nigmy innamaDie gas was struck a leei in me lest well of r aepui oi fcC The photograph shows University of Pennsylvania varsity crew launch-inthe double barge for practice. Notice the musicians in the back of the burge, whose music not only kept the boys going, but the rhythni kept them at an even stroke. The inset shows Cupt Charles HilL forpRt. i miles of T 1 -- FEW OF WHEAT'S DAYS ARE WASTED air to Livt Bait Lake National are traversed by 891 J 100-yar- 3i News Notes Utah t rrr hundred-vcigh- t. locally-Sal- t coV-en- d The photo knows Koroig, Germany's best sprinter, after l is victory ovj Drelkampf at trenluu. |