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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH Speaking of Sports j WW xonr. V)R four years uie new T Yankees dominated baseball to left a cock-eye- d eldj an extent they Grove's Record Stands as Top Southpaw Mark By ROBERT McSHAXE (Released by Nesiper Union ) VM.... the five greatest left-i- s handed pitchers of all time a fnt on the double corral. They indoor snnrt ff too definite an impression that fascinating Our own list would be headed by American league was the whole one and only Robert Moses t!w including the pink lemonade. the, the hard Grove. We wouldn't fight about big tent, the elephants, after the numerical order of the next four the and seats yue Herb Pennock, Rube Waddell, Carl act. be main HubbeU and Eddie Plank. It that way. never quite was They It the American league which were all great ball players. Grove rates as the dominated the dia outstanding mond. It was merely winner of all time. In his 15 years up to the 1940 season he won 286 the New York Yankees. They won games and lost 128 for a grand aversomething like 23 age of .695. No one else has apout of 31 World Se- proached that figure. Christy Mathewson finished his ries games, dating long career with an average of .663. from 1927. So, naturally, the National Grover Cleveland Alexander com league must have piled .612. Both of these gentlemen been a flock of sand are sure of undying fame, having been chosen for baseball's Hall of lotters. But don't forget Fame. Eddie Plank's mark was that during that four .662, Cy Young's .619 and Big Ed Grantland year spell the Yan- Walsh's .606. As brilliant a pitcher as Waddell kees were also an Rice nihilating, assass- was, his lifetime average was .588. Connie Mack, who never did throw inating, murdering, manhandling and mauling the Boston Red Sox, his money around, paid the Baltimore Orioles $105,000 for Lefty the the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Indians and the remainder of their most expensive player he had ever bought. Grove proved to be a barleague, After using him I recall a certain Yankee slump gain, though. his best nine years, Connie passed in the Midwest a year or two ago. him on to Tom Yawkey's Red Sox They lost six out of eight games. g I asked one of the Yankees about with Max Bishop and George for $125,000 and two players. this cave in. Grove was thought to be all "No," he said, "we were not exactly loafing. But why run for a car through then. He was in poor physyou've caught. We knew we were ical condition, though not from lack from 12 to 15 games better than of training. Every pitch pained him the rest of the league. We knew we that first year in Boston, and he won could loaf and still gallop in." and lost eight games. The critics told Yawkey that he had wound up But Sot Today on the short end of the deal. But it's all different today. The But in the last five years with Yankees of 1940 are far and away Boston prior to 1940, Grove pitched from the Yankees of 1936, 1937, 1938 83 winning games working at a .670 and 1939. And with the dizzy descent clip. In the last two years he won of the Yankees from their old 29 games and dropped only 8. heights, so the dominance of the American League Champ American league has ended. That's enough current history. I saw the National league win its In Let's go back to Lefty's game in Tampa last March. 1929 Grove won 20 and prime. lost 6 for I saw National league pitchers tie an average of .769. In 1930 he won American league sluggers into an 28 and dropped 5 for an average of assortment of true lovers' knots. .848. In 1931 he balanced 31 wins The same thing happened in St. against 4 losses for the terrific averLouis recently. Once again National age of .886. For those three consecleague pitchers put silencers on utive years he was champion of the American league bats. American league pitchers. Then, in In the last 18 innings of 1933, after giving way to Johnny to play, from March July, American league sluggers have hammered, exploded, thundered and mauled one flabby run across the side-sho- Til piLJU-N- U New Tongue for Old! jp you're ever tried to order a dish of ham and eggs ir a foreign immigrants. country you will understand the problem facing American2J00.000. The In New York the foreign-bor- n population ii estimated at Sew York Board of Education, through Us adult classes for the n-born, has done wonders in acquainting these people with the new language. Strangely enough the tendency is to learn the current wisecracks" first. These pictures show adult classes in progress. plate. There was a time when the A. L. had most of the have the jump dynamite. in shooting not but today, against the pick of National league long-rang- It may e No pitching. home-ru- n are going Paul set of against Derringer, Bucky Walters, Carl Hubbell (that's right) or many others could name. I Yankees The from Paul Derringer throueh 1935 were an exception. They had practically everything the hitting, the fielding, the pitching, the confidence and the poise. They had amazing balance, which is something that time works on in its leisurely way. The Two Leagues 1939 American leaguers will tell you Cleveland, Boston and New York all could win the National league pennant, with something to that Detroit, spare. National leaguers, now lifted from the gloomy abyss of the years that knew defeat, are telling you the Reds and Dodgers would run away ith an American league pennant. "What do you suppose," one vet-wa- n National leaguer asked me, wouid nappen to mat American league if their hitters had to move out against Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Junior Thompson, Jim and others after day? There wouldn't be a team in that league hitting .240 against Red pitching." This is moving a trifle fast the Turner, Whitey Moore day other way. The two leagues now are better balanced than they have been in sane years. Again this is largely due to the Yankee drop. "Where are my Ruffings and Dickeys and Gehrigs and Gomezes and Gordons and Rolfes Joe McCarthy also today. and Crosettis?" might be asking Baseball, in losing the four-yea- r Yankees losing them so far, at least has built up additional interest through both leagues, especially "X American league. Wind,' Etc. The present campaign may be an jj1 wind for the Yankees, but it has een a soothing summer breeze for other clubs which have been Jnivering in the Barren Lands since 1335. Now 'as, we have two great pennant two leagues, well-match- tin!0 great stretch runs on anead-Wh- can ask for more? Barring, 01 course, the Yankees, who still J30 1 understand who swung the Pipe and lust what has hap- oened can see, from the smaU diagram sketch, how easy thi dress is to put together merely five pieces, including the sleeves, and the only detailing consist of a few simple darts at the waists line. But you can't really tell unti you get it on, how easy it is t wear and work in, how unhamper- ROBERT MOSES GROVE year, he recap tured the league hurling champion-shi- n with an averace of .75024 wins and 8 losses. Grove started his career strictly as a "fireball" pitcher. He had speed to burn probably the fastest He was ball of all a pourthan more thrower, nothing bating on the speed every time a ter faced him. He kept that up as long as he was able, but the crack ing point finally came. Hi arm went bad. It became sore for the first time. No longer could he rely solely upon speed. It was then that he became a finished curve ball pitcher. He developed a Instead of of Dace. smoking in every pitch, Grove stud ied his batter, outsmarting him. In those 15 years Grove worked ir, mnrp than 650 eames. He was 25 Bob years old, four years older than he showed, when up Feller is today, for work with Connie Mack's 1925 Athletics. He played his first professional ball with the Martins-bur- g team of the Blue Ridge league back in 1920. And through all those years is son woven that thread of 286 victories-reaenough for Robert Moses e Grove to top any list of southpaws. great Allen the previous s. all-tim- THIS By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Feature WNU Service.) The first World war 20 resigning princes and dukes, four emperors and seven kings, in addition to a scattering of NEW YORK. over small-fr- y an Royalty alty whose are iWeoJingOarnames now all but Way in Drove, forgotten. grant from Poland, strikes a pensive pose as he ponders oter the idiosyncrasies of the new language.The teach- er is giving personal atten- lion to llyman. Iv " - - " T V-.;- .' ttw" ,' jSJSll S.'k.'.i"1"'": ' J1S '''' 1 '"' r"""" ""V" """""" w: .i " Carol of Rumania and George of Greece were the only kings who came back, and they aren't a good risk for Lloyd's and perhaps Lloyd's isn't either. If the Mayflower were still afloat, it could book a full passenger list of kings fleeing from commoners, seeking a haven in a new world at any rate, kings and their consorts, their courtiers and others of princely rank. It is understood that the Em press Zita of Austria will be in ell America before long. The word "former" is omitted here, in deference to a clever, purposeful woman, who has never admitted that she isn't still the empress. Of her son, Archduke Otto, now apartment living in a In New York, she once said, "If the time ever comes when he has but one servant, that servant will call him 'your majes- !l0"V two-roo- m .Ar -- for. $t 0 - ty.' " ' San Francisco a In early-dastately old gentleman with a splendid, kingly uniform announced that he was "Emperor Norton, and was not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but these future Americans demonstrate that it s never too old to learn a new language. The gentleman with the book is 75. Y'ou noy y pleased to make San Francisco his royal domain. Nobody knew who he was or where he came from, but he looked and behaved like an emperor, so they took him up on his He held court, for proposition. years, received homage and issued decrees, and when he needed rev enue levied on the stock exchange, finding a handful of $20 gold pieces He died sitting always ready. straight upright in his little cubbyhole room, wearing his full dress uniform. The city gave him a grand funeral. San Francisco was proud of her emperor. They never did learn anything about him. This department was never particularly partial to kings, but in addition to child refugees it might be a nice idea for each city over here Vaner left: Mrs. Jeanne Leyman, of to adopt a La Belle. France, does not find English cines may cia king , or a CirFor the Unhappy prince or easy to learn, but stays right with it. duke. Holly-cle: Mrs. Octerina Dilando is eager to Royal Refugees o od , of learn Enclish. but having no one to care would of Albania course, Zog get Dilando Mrs. for her daughter, Angelina, now in London and fixing to sail for brings her along. Lower left: Smiling with America, according to news reports satisfaction, Mrs. Lena Ginsberg is shown a "swingtime king" who installed at the blackboard after she has been sin in his Graustarkian palace a American jazz band and became one gled out to read the lessons thereon. of the best hoofers in his kingdom. Philadelphia probably would put in a bid for the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg, a thrifty homebody, now in Quebec. The news is that, if England falls, she and her six children will come to the U. S. A. She knits; plays the piano; is a fluent linguist and rears her children beautifully. There might not be any bidders for old Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the but- - . terfly collector. He has a knack for pageantry, however, which might interest New Orleans. In case the above should appear to be a callous reference to tragic unhappiness, the main idea is that this democracy might well accord a certain respect to fugitive royalty because it appears to have someperforms thing it really believes in. Standing at the salute, an adult class of the foreign-borthe ritual of pledging allegiance to the flag. n AT FLA., IN October, John Dwight Sullivan, then commander of the New York department of the American Legion, urged the Legionnaires' to concentrate less on more and bigger bonuses and to center their efforts on understanding and supporting the government in constructive undertakings. He emphasized the need for as citizens rather than activity as a pressure group. His was a scholarly essay on citizenship. Now Mr. Sullivan has placed before the convention of the New York County Legion a proposal, for a single, unified United States air force, in which all air arms of all services would be under a single command. Mr. Sullivan is chairman of the Legion's national aviation committee. He is a New York lawyer and an alumnus of Princeton university. He has been active in the furtherance of civil and military aviation for many years and was appointed a member of the New York state aviation commission by Governor Roosevelt in 1930. He is 47 years of age, scholarly an1 ascetic in appearance, preaching social responsibility in the Legion for more than a decade. He insists that the organization cannot attain its high purpose without widening activities in political education, and an informed attitude cn basic questions of domestic and toreign policy. ing and becoming. 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