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Show THE HELPER T1.MES. HELFER, UTAH Pair of Aces That May Win Flag 1 Miller Huggins Has ! n Been Much Abused If t T1 I Im Vo manager has been more criticized and abused than Miller Muggins. i The diminutive leader of the ill Yankees has had to take It ever since he took the Job. There are still a great many people who have no regard for the niunageiial ability of Hugi 1 I US 3 l J. , , ! V- r.ymk (-- - 11 A 1 111'"" Y : I fej il i Has Good Chance to Break All Records Bill Carrlgan, returning to baseball this year, hus a chance to break all records of all time by taking the Red Sox into the pennant 1 Boston finished a bad last again In 1020. It Is not much of a team, but Carrlgan Is much of a manager. He la regarded as the best who ever led an Anverican league team. It has always been said that no man can win a pennant unless he has the players, and It roust be admitted that Carrlgan has less playing talent on his Boston roster than any rival manager has at his command. If Carrlgan can finish out of last place he will be doing better than 00 out of 100 managers could do with the same baseball timber. If Carrlgan should win a pennant this year then one may well say that the day of miracles Is with us again. I 111 I 111 M II I II I I III 1 m 1 Boy Tennis Champion PICK-UP- S. Babe Ruth wanted $100,000 for a season of what he quaintly calls work. A veteran baseball who has leagues, been player Is one absolved by both Ben Egan, coach of the Chicago White Sox last season, has been made coach of the diamond artists at Georgetown university. "Lefty" Groves, Connie Mack's pitching pride, won second honors in a shooting match held reat cently Lonaconlng, Md. llve-pjgeo- n The Wichita Falls (Kan.) baseball club has erected a clubhouse at the ball grounds In which unmarried players may live free of charge. Victor Sorrell of the Toronto Leufs was the only undefeated pitcher last season in the International league, winning eight games and losing none. Pitcher Lefty Darrough Is again with the Dallas team of the Texas league, having been turned back to the Steers by the Philadelphia Athletics. "I'll let them know the old batting eye Is as keen as ever," Zach Wheat Is reported by a Philadelphia paper as saying. Presumably with the informative double. " . veteran third Lyman Rlpperton, baseman, has been signed M manage the Palestine team of the new Lone Star league. He played with Palestine last summer. Manager Derrlll Pratt of the Waco team of the Texas league has signed Pitcher Harold Elliott and Catcher Vera Edgar, both former members of the University of Michigan team. Q. -- 1' 9 Matty Alivo, former Lincoln (Neb.) high school player, has signed with Mollne of the Mississippi Valley" batter league. He la a and can play almost any position. right-hande- d Pitcher John Berly, big helped pitch Spartanburg to a right-hande- who The photograph shows Wilbur F. Coen, Jr., of Kansas City, boys' tennis champion of the United States, who, according to William Tilden, possesses the best tennis form in the world, ready for a contest on the Flamingo courts. He treated a sensation in a recent tournament at Miami beach. SpnrtfjoiEs The longest measured golf drive on record Is 388 yards, made by Bill Horn at North Berwick, Scotland. Notre Dame has reorganized Its athletic program so that ea-- major sport will be conducted under a separate couch. The Victoria cricket team In Australia Is the only team which has ever made 1,000 runs In competition, recently totaling 1.107 against New South Wales. flrst-clas- g Despite the fact that golf experts rate her as one of the best female players In the game. Miss Louise Branch of Richmond, Va., has never participated In any golf tournament. Five women are prominent In th tn this breeding of thoroughbreds rountry Mrs. It, F. O.irnun, Mrs. C. W. Moore, Mrs. Lonli Viau, Mis. I'nyna Whitney and Mrs. Margaret Kmerson Baker. Ninety one owners have nominated for the Kentucky !2 thoroughbred flcTti.v. Practically every stake win-iis- r and many others of (lie gwd crop if of Ikki year were In the iiumluntlous. pennant in 1925, has been repurchased by that club. Berly was with Wichita of tlw Western league, last spring. Julian Wera, St. Paul shortstopper, who Is being watched by the Yankees , this spring, Is considered by Bob as the best Yankee Ivory Con-nery- hunr, prospect majors. of the year to reach the Sam Smith, former sports editor of has been made business manager of the Lincoln club of the Western league, accord lug to Dick Breeu, new president ot the Links. a Des Moines newspaper, J? V iT I I f fi &f&lf ' J liMX' Chorus: Krom leafy bough Jut o'er u Tra la la tra la! Ilar the Inhappy lachorus tra I Tra la Chorus: From leafy bouH, etc Pown there in the alders. Dressed In tfold and black, Tellow birda are calling That they're really back Hear the glad song sparrow On the hazel epray. Telling bU his neighbors He ts home to stay. Chorus. Robins in the elm trees. All In bright red vets. Dropping bits of music. Build their downy neets. Chorus. And the bonnie bluebird From the apple tree 81nfrs from morn to sunrise "Home's the place for me." Old School Bong. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N NEARLY every state in rr- - the Lnion the governor I has already issued a proc lamation like tins: that we possess great wealth in our trees and birds Is a matter of eouunon knowl t'-Xi- j edge; but this wealth, like many other blessings which we is not always fully appreciated, etc.," and ending, "Now, therefore, I, , governor of the In accordance with plate of the provisions of the statutes, do here, and by designate Friday, April , of the present Friday, October year as ARBOR AND BIRD DAYS, upon which days suitable exercises limy be held to accentuate and emphasize the Importance of the propagation of trees, shrubs and vines, and the preservation of our native bird life." Accordingly, all over the land some Friday (the date- varies la different etates) this month will find the school children singing Just Buch songs as that which heads this article or otherwise taking part In "suitable eser cises." So far as' the children are concerned, these exercises may or may not "accentuate and emphasize the Importance of the propagation of trees, shrubs end vines, and tha preservation of our narivo bird life," but they enter Into them with test, becauso thy offer an opportunity to express the kinship, which all of as feel, with those elements In Nature which are not hedged In and restricted KJ high-scho- en-Jo- y, - J - A ' "wtbsm 1' and to the bird lover the flirjj . l tnrfnv innff io uiuru oeautlfol "'"a. anything that Mendelssohn posea. The tame sort t strikes hi. brother, the woodpecker, and he ii nt w... he can find a tin roof upon h!4 ) I ' i3 it s red-win- the ma&J j h1&J g wno seems so full of the sprin, i. that It pours out of him la m nereni ana ;nmDiea gurgling nooj sound. It hits the kingbird, tf . high up in the air he swoopt S swerves, soundln? hla war J looking for a crow or a hawk top) lo igiiomiuioua nigni. And these are but a few h CATBIRD birds who add their voice to taj) the woods ana orchards ring, a day and the best proclamation of that tie later the bird lover will fact is the ecstasy of song which the crested flycatcher, the phoeM greets him on an April morning. For this is the month of birds as it in the month of ( .Jf i Some of our birds are with us the year round. A walk through the woods In winter, when the bare branches of the trees and the absence of green vegetation tells ne that Mother Nature la sleeping, will reveal to us an astonishingly large number of birds, if we take the trouble to make a list of the different species we see. Them are the bob white and ruffled grouse, the various species of hawks and owls, the crow, the horned lark, several species of sparrows, finches, the cedar waxwlng, the chickadee and the nuthatch, all listed by most ornithologists as "permanent resldenta," Hot to mention a varied' assortment of winter visitants. The plumage of most of them is somewhat drab and dull, in keeping with the spirit of winter, but it Is relieved by such flashes of color as the bright blue of the blue BARN SWALLOW Jay and the brilliance of the cardinal's scarlet. meadowlark, the towhee, the bis mcfe As winter wanes and the first pre- swallow and the yellow-billemonitions of the approaching spring by with scarcely a glance. But wha are felt, we become aware of the fact they first arrive they are greeted w!t that our bird population will soon be the ame thrill of delight which m Increased. Those premonitions come feels at seeing an old friend agsi So April is a month of mounting dJ maxes each day to look forward!! because it means the eight ol ai returning bird friend. Then late the month comes the big thrill wk!s Is? d makes all others seem tamo. It jot be when you catch 6ight of the rati ' flj J- -l let tanager's flashing beauty onto ' courtly Lord Baltimore (Balttam oriole) first makes his aupearmi Or it may be when you hear the toa of a robin which doesn't sound like a robin and then, when yoa gft glimpse of the singer, discover to he is the grosbeak notes resemble so closely those Robin himself. But It's more likely to be the dt? when you see the first redstart Myrtle warbler of the season. Ff then you realize that the tide of to spring bird migration has aim reached its peak and that sooa V warblers in all their rare beauty HOUSE WREN difficulty of identification will be heft To the true bird lover tliero Is as we hear the first band of wild thrill so keen as that of seelm d geese go honking over us some night identifying one of these "little (M late in February or early in" March. of the bird world" for the first tin Remember that line from Kipling's, April days are bird days and "The Feet of the Young Men" . . . cause they are that, April Is a not "Who hath lain alone to hear the wild goose cry!" and the refrain of that poem wild-flower- s. Chorus. Chorus. I . - Blackbirds In th oak trees Jangle all the day, For each saucy blrd'e Wants his own sweet wajr. One day last spring Bob Simpson, world's champion hurdler when a student at the University of Missouri, and I were talking about a third athlete, a man who was a promising prospect for the American Olympic team in the high hurdles. We agreed that his form was wrong, writes Harold M. Osborn, decathlon champion, 1924 Olympic games, in the American Boy Magazine. He had recently broken an ankle, and, although it had mended well, the leg dragged as he took the barriers. "He'll go all right In the earlier heats and races," Simpson said. "But Just wait until he meets the best competition. He'll not make the grade unless he perfects his form." I happened to be talking to this man a few days later, and told him what Simpson and I had said. It made no impression on him. "That'B Just my style," he insisted. "I don't want to change It." When the final trials came, this man was eliminated. That dragging leg kept clipping .the tops of hurdles. He had committed one of the two great crimes of . the track and field athlete he had not siudied bis event. boy-lo- ng, Another case. A rangy chap he was, with clean limbs and the appearance of a real athlete was competing agalnsr my team In the broad jump, His team needed, the points pretty badly, and although we had a good little Jumper I had figured this fellow as a sure winner. When he started his run I sensed something wrong. He pounded up to the take-of- f and launched stiffly into the air. When he hit the ground he had jumped only 17 feet, and he was rigid as a statue as h came down sprawted all over thf jumping pit. He had committed the second error he did not relax. These are the two worst things you can do, if you have aspirations on the track or In the field events. No man, or boy, can be an athlete If he doesn't practice incessantly, study every move he makes, get all the advice he can from conches, athletes and anybody who really knows, and correct every fault the moment he finds It. And no matter how perfect his form Is, he'll never get good results from It unless he learns to relax to use his muscles freely and easily, to swing through his event rather than to creak through It, to let his arms and legs move naturally and not at a tension. Relaxation is the secret of track success. I once knew a cojlege athlete who knew every possible move he ought to make, in throwing a discus, ne timed himself to a fraction of a second, and spaced bis steps and swings to a fraction of an inch. But when he actually started to throw the discus, he stiffened up and his arms worked like flails. He couldn't take It easy, and he never became a real discus thrower. You must, of course, first get yourself into good working order. Crosscountry running, in the fall, is the best possible conditioning for any kind of a track or field man, because it develops chest and logs. Remember that next fall, and try It out. I i IJ . . d!rB A BOrt Of tranwvv ww.- ,- that strikes the In th shady woodland. Every tree' a town Where the birds are building Houae neat and brown. J be ta an altogether nal, A1" TifC ,, - la J 1 ounu uis reveiue. Form and Relaxation Are Among Big Essentials. William O. Whitman or Philadelphia, who, for the last three years has been a scout for the Chicago National League baseball club, hus signed a contract to manage the PIttsfleld baseball club of the Eastern league. U IH APRIL GOOD TRAINING IJ He in m ii ii n n ;i in i -- , ATHLETE NEEDS The photograph shows Ty Cobb, at left, and his new boss, Connie Mack, t the playing field at Ft. Myers, Fla., where the Philadelphia Athletics train for the championship race in the American league. it iiVV V VH- - H . JA 1- will tell you Lis teams win In spite of him. This argument cannot go far. Other managers in the Amer-ca- n league have had too class playing talent at their command but they could not win pennants. A team might pull through Jo one championship in spite of poor management, but the team would not repeat the performance. S I A Wm t$ Ms, Y4 B ' ging. Point to his record and they j k4 d yd . If ail rose-breaste- d i He must go go go away from here! On the other slue the world he's overdue. 'Send your road la clear before you when the old Spring-frcomes o'er you And the Red Gods call for youl et til. Jm rax ft .. e If that cry, beard in the night, ntlrs the gypsy strain in our blood, It is only accent nated when we see in the sky in tlte daytime the long group of honkers or hear the 2 whistle .of wings as a flock of wild ducks sweep over our heads. These ure the vanguard of the migrating feathered hordes which we know will ' fcoon be on their way north. Then we begin to watch for the first robin and the first bluebird (of course in some of the states which really are "northern states' both the robin and the bluebird are permanent residents, but to most people these two are the true harbingers of spring) and after BOBOLINK that the deluge! by all the conventions and superficiallivery April day ie Bird dny And ities of "civilized" human life. every day the birds proclaim thut The true Nature lover . . . not the spring is really here. The flicker "uln't Nature grand?" person, but the (some call him the yellow hammer, one whom the beautlea of Nature others tlm high-hole- , other the d make silent, rather than vocal . . . woodpecker") is one of the needs no governor's proclamation to busiest heralds of the season. Durmake him aware of Arbor and Bird ing the winter he is not much given to days. To him every April day Is Bird soug, but when spring warms his heart New Indian Manager 1 Neal Ball has gone back to his old business of managing 'the New Ila-veteam of the Eastern league. lie piloted the Profs In 1025 and finished third. Lnst summer lie tried his hand at Plttslleld. but quit before the season had gone very far. u "gold-en-wlnge- 'if ' Buffahi of the International league, has sold Outfielder Vernon Spencer to the Toronto club of the snnie league. Spencer whs placed ou th suspended list by Manager Clymer of the Bison, lie last July, following a run-In- . played with Toronto some years ego. Harry T. Madden, registrar of Lack-Hwnnn- Lost Bill Found a eounty, Pena., for many years and a c!oa follower of baseball, ha made president of the Scran ton el ul) of the New Iragup, Maddea acquired uii Interest in ths club from Charley Dsvld of Newnrk. MYRTLE WARBLER . photograph shows Jack McCal Uster who Is taking the place of Trls Speaker as uiantgtr of the Cttsvelnud hall club. H t ont of lg!it sew monsters in the league. Th j An undelivered bill, sent 42 years ago by mail from HL Louis on the river packet St. Genevieve to a small settlement on the Missouri river was returned only a few days ago through an unusual set of circumstances to n. B. Freticer, son of the sender, who now dead. Since mS It hud Irtin on the ehelf of a log cabin twit offVe at Red Lauding. Mo. II. M. Kdmurids. a friend of Ppo- 1 cer, was on a hunting trip In the vicinity of whnt had once been Red Rock landing. While tramping through the woods he unexpectedly walked Into a clearing lu which there were Kit decaying nnd decrted log cabin. One was a post ofilce, its dast-lndeletter compartments containing undelivered letters, yellow with ape. In one of them be found the bin t by the father of his friend. The bill. Intend In a red envtlopv, smocks of H bygone age. la Cowing handwriting It is adi3risvd to ('. F, st-n- K to look forward to, a month to to the utmost while it is wim w a minth lnnli hnnlr tinon With $ est memory when the heat una d"3 and rtagnatlon of nildsummer round again. T.Ana. FVn Tf naked for Ptf11 of 34 for 10 sacks of wheat, by Harlow, Spencer ft Louis. SL Louis Dp port-Drfff- influence of Spirit Tlio Hmu rr.mP when It proved that the human soul is during Its life cu this earth, In i uiid indissoluble connectloO w" t I . Lf' fluenoes ours and ifiipreses " f foundly. Immunuol Kant. |