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Show SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 19.il THE JOURNAL lge SPORTLIGHT Z FARM TOPICS Ed . Lopat Sets Low Earned Run Average Iowa Trucker Wins Safety Prize -- By GRANTLAND RICE 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 He had been yanked away from his game for a year, joinIt is all very well to have stood ing the army in 1917, or he with the greats, To have gathered your garlands might easily have set a league-leadershof fame. mark for six conIt Is all very well to have secutive years. the fates, year. In 1912 the American League had To have reached for a headno earned run average or Johnson liner's name. Two Records to Match might have set a new mark. That In checking Eddie Lopats amaz- was one of his greatest seasons. But when you are slipping as ing 1951 record, plus the record of But in 1913 he had an average of everyone does other stars, we pause at the marks 1.14 per game, 1.71 in 1914, 1.55 in And the dirge has supplanted 1915, 1.89 in 1916, 1.28 in 1918 and set by one Grover Cleveland Alexthe sonnet; ander, plus another set of marks 1.55 in 1919. Remember how quickly a name Here were eleven years of great established by Walter Johnson. gathers fuzz earned-ru- n 1915 Alexander's In pitching by two of the games best Dont try to get anything on It. Old and Johnson, ntark was 1.22. It was 1.55 in 1916 Alexander and 1.83 in 1917. After the war Alex Pete and Big Barney. No one can New York The next essay should gave the game 1.72 in 1919 and 1.91 expect Lopat to match marks of be turned in the general direction in 1920. Here were five years where this, type in the modern era when d of one Edmund Lopat, a Alexander allowed less than two pitchers who allows less than three pitcher with the Yankees. Ed Lopat earned runs a game, working over earned runs are regarded as havwon his first six 400 innings each year. ing a touch of magic. games, but actually his record is better than that. In an THE The Futile Assignment out-buck- ed ip Offered by Chicago Stock Yards Walter Sellnau, 27, of Charlotte, Iowa, was winner of the seven-mont- h Chicago livestock trucker safety program sponsored by the Chicago Stock Yards in its campaign to reduce the annual national loss of $33,000,000 in meat through safer livestock hauls to market. Sellnau was awarded $1,000 worth of bonds and merchandise for his outstanding hauling record. Judged the best of 3,985 truckers from 19 states and Canada who participated where any pitcher who permits less than 3 earned runs each season is a hero, Lopat permitted an earned-ru- n average of .60 in his first e five games, an excan we as as far record cavate into the past. Lopat is another rare character in a new form. He is one of the few living citizens who was born This happy in New York City. event, for the Yankees, took place In June, 1918, just 33 years ago. In spite of his brilliant start, life this year was not all milk Loand honey for a first as Eddie started pat. completely mechanized poultry feeder is now on the market that makes it possible to feed many more chicks than car be done by hand. The feeder is electrically operated with a small electric motor. It delivers only as much feed as the birds will eat by means of a feed screw at the bottom of the large hopper. Farmers interested In the feeder can get further information from their county agents. A all-tim- left-hand- er baseman with Greensburg in the Pennsylvania State League, then moved to Jeanerette, deep in the bush, in 1937. That was some 14 years ago. He worked with Jeanerette, Kilgore, Mar- Shreveport,. Longview, shall, Salina, Oklahoma City, and Little Rock before he finally reached the White Sox in 1944. He won 11 and dropped 10 for the White Sox that year, a rare achievement any season while pitching for the White Sox. Starting the 1951 campaign Lopat has won 100 and lost 78 games for a winning average of .562. It is a much better average now with his 1951 start. HARD BOILED CHUCK FICTION CORNER By machinery and equipment, fuels for livestock purchases, machinery, building and fencing materials and wage rates. Prices which farmers will pay for such commodities as feed, seed and fertilizer probably will be higher than in 1950. Mechanized Chick Feeder Available to Poultrymen left-hande- era Some of these items will probably be the highest on record. In this group will be such items as farm Richard H. Wilkinson Wallace was hard Chuck Women didnt bother him much. Flying did. He owned his own plane and specialized in doing free-lanc- e jobs for private interests, and performing rescues for reward money. He had quite a reputation. When, at the annual pilots ball, he was presented to redheaded Alma Mallory he wasnt impressed at all. Alma was. She had heard of Chuck. Alma was very modern, very sure of herself, used to getting what she wanted. She wanted Chuck. Chuck wasnt quick to catch on. When finally he realized what she was up to he had almost fallen into her trap. He was glad when news came in that a young flyer had been lost in the north woods. It gave him a chance to get away. The fact that the young lost flyer was Don Mallory, Almas brother, didnt bother him at all. This was business. Old Man Mallory, through his lawyers, had offered a fat reward. Chuck Wallace loaded up and took off the next morning in his seaplane. That night he set down on a little wooded lake, 150 miles from the nearest habitation, and established a base. The next day he began systematically to comb the Lefty Lopat is now thinking of writing a book called Life Begins country. at 33. In this three years with In the afternoon he returned to the Yankees, up to 1951, Lopat has won 50 games up through 1950 and his base, and received a shock. William J. OConner, (left) Garden Yardstick general manager of Union Stock There was another plane riding on Yards, presents an award to the surface of the lake. He saw a was on It shore. champion trucker, Walter Selthe figure standing lnau of Charlotte, Iowa. Alma Mallory. Whats the idea? he asked. What do you think? Dons my in the program, Sellnaus seven trucks traveled 80,000 miles to and brother. She had brought along a lot of the from Chicago, carrying 7,000 hogs things Chuck hadnt thought neces- and 3,000 cattle. A newcomer in the trucker busisary. There was nothing he could do so set he about her being there, up ness, he has been hauling livestock one of the tents and ate the supper to market for only a year and a For the gardener who Is alshe cooked for him. half. ways in the need of a yardstick The next day he flew west and Sellnau uses care In his livestock or tape and never seems to have covered a strip 25 miles wide. But hauls. He carries a portable loadone handy, here is an idea that he didnt sight anything, and was ing chute under his truck for use in will save much time and trougenuinely worried when he returned farm yards where there is no reguble. Make your hoe handle a to the base that night. lar loading chute. He also uses an measuring stick by painting next before electric prodder on livestock inmorning, bright rings on it at foot and just THE half foot distances from the end. noon, he sighted a plane on a stead of a whip or club, and places lake 50 miles east of his base and sand and limestone on the floor of set down, taxing up beside it. A his truck to lessen the chances of Electric Cowboy man stood on one of the wings and falling and bruising. He called to him. Chuck scowled. didnt like this. Not a bit of it. . . . Farm Production May Set At 2 oclock he returned to his All-TiRecord in 1951 base and found it deserted. Alma and her plane had gone. He swore American farmers can expect the and packed up his equipment. The demand for their farm products in next morning he reached his home 1951 to be stronger than in 1950. landing. He went home and shaved With normal weather conditions and and bathed and got into bed. He favorable control of insects and disGlass or porcelain insulators was dead tired, but he couldnt of should be used on electric the farm proeases, production sleep. should be greater than in 1950. fences. Substitutes are poor ducts The next morning he took a taxi economy and they dont look Consequently, with greater proto the Mallory home and asked for well or last long. duction and a stronger demand for Alma. A butler told him that she inthe farm farm gross products, had gone down to Briarsfield to visit come should be higher in 1951, the Plenty Freight Cars friends. The friends name was The reports. backlog of undelivered freight Hanscom. Chuck caught a train for agriculture department will highcars, either under construction or Farmers, however, pay Briarsfield that afternoon. He arall for er impor- to be built, totaled 154,861 on March practically rived at 5 oclock and located the tantprices e 1951. 1, 1951, an in of items production high. Hanscom home. Aljna, they told him, was out horseback riding with BY a chap named Rodney Nuys. HAROLD Chuck rented a horse and went ARNETT Two for miles her. from looking to a the Hanscom home he came 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 d 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. Whats the idea? he barked. I found your brother in a little lake 50 miles east of the base. He was looking for us. He said he didnt think it was so smart for his sister to give out that he was lost, when he really wasnt just so she could send Chuck Wallace up into the country and then follow. Whats the idea? Alma looked at him defiantly. What do you think? she said. "You big indifferent lummox! And why do you think I gave up and came home? Chuck blinked, but maintained his A hold on hr arm. For the first time (GLASS TUBS when looking at this girl, he grinMAKES WITH STOPPERED A GOOD SPONGE RUBBER) ned. Do you want me to tell you APPLICATOR FOR LIQUID POLISH TO TWO- - TONED what I think? he asked. SHOES. THE FLOW OF CLEANER MAY BE DIRECTED. said Alma. me all-tim- SIPOIRTTSC IPIE V By Joo MAHONEY B ( HAD A LIFETIME TOTAL OF 4191 BASE HITS,., AND 892 STOLEN BASES THAT AVERAGES TO A PURLOINED SACK EVERY FOURTH TIME HE WAS A BASE RUNNER? Liomas Up ton WVACHTWy o0 PRIZED TROPHY ' . Jl HERES A HORSE RUNNING ON TRACKS TODAY WHOSE NAME PLASTERED, SON OF PASS OUT OF WINE CUP 1$ OUT, HE MADE HIS LAST ... TRY IN 1930 AT THE AGE " OF 80 BUT, AS IN 1899, 1901, 1903 AND 1920, HE LOST, red-heade- STAMP MOISTENBR Yes, |