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Show ll:fLmur.to2M HIE LEHI SUN. LBUI, UTAH PAGE THREE? STS US per FREAK SHOT CLUB . Traders Who Seldom See Civilization Yanks Can't Win Without Luck IS NOW REIGNING 1 maa 1 small o tat. We old be tat i th ap. i. Bot: tore, tpaj. estate Ire i whlci" oftlu' Pay of l' i Part hatt 'SUB- W nagg. i baj pack-it pack-it the' Jjte baji fpaj "I know the Yanks hare got the best ball club In the country, but that doesn't mean It Is any cinch we are going to win." And that, fellow fans, is what the thinks about the impending American The Babe bares his Innermost thoughts about baseball generally, baseball fans, baseball luck and, specifically, the Yanks' chances during the coming season in an-.lntervlew, jilth Bozeman Bulger, the veteran goorts writer, published la The Farm Journal. "The trouble with baseball fans," observes Mr. Ruth, "Is that they get so steamed np over an easy win that they forget that 50 per cent of baseball Is luck. If something goes wrong the next year they start right oft talking about internal in-ternal dissension, and this and that player being bard to get along with, and so on. They never Cgure that the luck simply broke the other way." There have been a lot of great ball clubs that have pulled np in the ruck of a major league race, far behind Inferior feams, simply because they didn't get that 50 per cent break of luck, If you want Mr. Ruth's opinion. "To cop the old flag," says the $70,000 beauty quaintly, "a ball club has not only got to be the best, but it's got to get the breaks at the right time, too. "Did you ever tmnu wnat mignt nave Happened Hap-pened to us last season- if we hadn't got off to that runaway start and then had another long winning streak soon afterward? Just throw out those two streaks, or balance them tp with average luck, and see where we would have been. Now it doesn't figure out that we are going to have such a streak again, even with the same ball players. "I know the Yanks have got the best ball club In the country, but suppose somebody breaks a leg or one of our best pitchers goes wrong. What then?" ' Incidentally, Bulger's Farm Journal article throws an Interesting light on Ruth's determination to make himself better and positively' not bigger during the season, a characteristic that has grown year by year since his comeback of three years ago. lHalf-Mile Record Held by Six Different Men In view of Lloyd Hahn's record it lis Interesting to note that only five ' men before him have held the acknowl- li edged world's half-mile record since The great Lon Meyers set a worm s j mark of 1 minute 55 seconds In the half In 1885 and that stood for just ten years. On September 21, 1895, In j a dual meet between the New York A. I a and Oxford and Cambridge In New I York, Charles H. Kilpatrick, a Union I College star, covered the distance in I I minute 53 seconds. I It was almost fourteen years later, September 15, 1909, that Emilie Lung-i Lung-i hi, an Italian runner touring America, cut the record to 1 mipute 52 sec-I sec-I onds at Montreal. Then, at the 1912 Olympics, came Ted Meredith's great 1 minute 52 seconds dash and four years later his 1 minute 52 seconds performance In a Pennsylvania-Cornell dual meet Ten years and two months afterward, In London, Dr. Otto Peltzer, on -July 3, 1926, set the present outdoor figure 1 minute 51 seconds. Now comes Hahn to join the elect Sisler Joins Braves The photograph shows a closeup of George Sisler, formerly of the Washington, Wash-ington, as he appeared in his new uniform of the Boston Braves after he had joined his team.' At one time Sisler was called the greatest first baseman in the big leagues. At golf one plays for the short as well bs the long green. A new sports arena to seat 20,000 People is planned in (leveland. Ohio. We see where a writer in Harper's Magazine says amateur tennis is a racket ' Charley .'ylo's cross-country stroll may be endel but we'll bet the bun ions linger on. The Kentucky derby purse originally original-ly amounted to but $2,850. Now it mounts to more than $50,000. Victorio Compolo, rising young box now exhibitine in the East. Is a heavyweight from South America. The first game of hockey of which "'ere Is any record in North America was played ia the Cit; of Kingston f'ntnrio. In 18S8. Ifc-niild Curriek. husky amateur golf fburnpjm of Canada, tisis decided to humlcti tils Micks until after he lias qu:ili;icil fur the Olympic boxing team a ll A. V.'txxL of Tomiita. one- "w r.rjiiiiiti star, is aiill nrnve n I'w f.H-i ::i age f ??ny-six and ii'ii si y,f r.rist la tl;e racers Tiriii nnUi J iinmirmiiiiii i'i i tm mI:ij game's biggest figure, Babe Ruth, league pennant race. Babe Ruth. DIAMOND PICK-UPS, Brooklyn has two of the greatest pitchers In the major leagues In Jess Petty and Dazzy Vance. Pitcher Jim Robinson, from Macon in the Sally league, has Joined the Brooklyn Robins at Cincinnati. Visiting American league teams may enjoy the nights in New York, but the afternoons are said to be terrible. Jimmy Reese, Oakland star who is owned by the Yankees, was once hailed as the worst infielder in the old Appalachian league. . William Dickey, tall young catcher of the New York Yankees, has been released on option to the Buffalo club of- the International leagne. Pitcher Charles, Barnabe and Outfielder Out-fielder Randy Moore of the White Sox have been released on option to the Waco club of the Texas league. Whitey Oberc, formerly of Pittfield of the Eastern league, has been released re-leased and is playing Independent ball In the outfield for Pottstown. Pa. Complaint is heard .in American As sociation circles that the games played take up too much time, and there is a demand for speeding them up. One critic sums It up in a few words for the Pirates when he asked what fun they would have if they only had to face their own pitching staff. ' X ' Charley Hall, who helped" to pitch he St Paul club to four American Association pennants, has played professional pro-fessional baseball for twenty-four years. A resolution adopted in 1910 by the National Association of Baseball Clubs prohibits the playing of more than two games in one day by minor league teams. Outfielder Art Weiss, and Pitcher Bill Ludolph are recent additions to the Little Rock Travelers, havln; been obtained from the Missions of the Coast league. Leo Casey, tired of sitting on the bench with Newark, asked for a trans fer. He was' then ' 4sleased to New Haven in the Eastern league, subject to recall at any time, Toledo cut down on the rookie crop when it sent Guy Jones, LeRoy Parmallee and Jack Mundy to Stuffy Mclnnis' Suiein club of the New Kwt land league on option. Baltimore's pitching staff was In creased when Dallas of the Texas league returned Pitcher Cliff Jackson, taken from the Birds just before the start of spring training. Ernie Nevers, the great . football star, has been sent to the minors by the St Louis Brown?. It seems that the big leagues weren't in the need of touchdowns just now. In his earliest baseball davs. Wll- bert Robinson, manager of the Brook lyn National League Baseball club, had nuite a reputation as a wrestler tf well as a bait player. Five major league clubs are Inter ested in the eighteen-year-old short stop, Stevens, with New Haven in the Eastern leacue. His work has fea- tuil for New Haven this season. Max Carey, Brooklyn outfielder, who has been tearing aronnd the base- patlis for 20 years, lias led the Na tional league in base thefts ten times in ti oast fourteen years and has been wnd the other four times. List of Eligibles Presented in American Golfer. Now that holes-In-ona have been made on every year-old course in the land, the journalistic gentlemen who follow the game are digging up eligibles eli-gibles for a more exclusive mythical fraternity, the Freak Shot club. All you need to become a member are the proper circumstances and a ton of, luck. If you happen to play, your ball from its He in a bird's nest plop into the hole, or if your hopeless hook ricochets from a tree and becomes be-comes a hole-In-one, you're In. And you are in good company, as witness, this list of eligible! presented In the' American golfer. Willie MacFarlane got in through a barn door two barn doors, In fact. He was playing against Harry Hampton Hamp-ton at the Aberdeen (Scotland) club. They were fighting hole for hole when Willie sliced a drive terrifically. It pulled np near a barn, far off the fair way. But Willie, opening the barn door, found a second door exactly opposite and the hole on a line 200 yards away. He had to hit a hard drive, measured in inches to get through both doors. But he did it stopping his ball within six feet of the hole. Joe Demoss. former Wisconsin State, champion, was matched with Warren' K. Wood at Green Lake, Wis., when his drive from , the eighteenth tee came down on top of a flat awning near the clubhouse. Demoss mounted the awning and, teetering precariously. slapped a beautiful brassle shot for the hole, ending a short chip-shot away. Aubrey Boomer was as surprised as his gallery at the play that took him into the Freak Shot club. The EngUsh star was playing a Lancashire tourna ment, when his drive landed in front of a two-foot bank over which he had to play. Using his spoon, he gave the ball a vicious cut But instead of arching through the air the ball dis appeared completely. After a mysti fied ' search. Boomer incredulously drew the ball from his pocket It bad struck the soft earth at the top of the bank, rebounded and hidden it self while he still had bis arms ex tended In completing the swing. And what do the rules say about tbat one? In the 1926 Canadian Open at Mon treal, Leo Diegel, then the titleholder, found himself looking hopelessly on the long eleventh hole in the practice rounds, says the American Golfer ar ticle. His one hope to escape the jinx, he concluded, was to drive toward the twelfth fairway, which ran parallel on the right, and let 'er hook. Twice he did it in the regular play, and both times the hooks described a perfect semicircle -but landed 350 yards away and in the center of the eleventh, fair way- Olympic Coach Schulte : Never on Cinder Path Track Coach Heury F. (Iudianj' Schulte of the University of Nebraska, selected as one of the menton? of the 1928 United States Olympic team, nev er performed on the cinder path. To his coaching credit, however, are many past Olympic periirmers ana 1928 potential representatives. There was the great I!obrt Simp- son, wno revolutionized nuruung anu set world marks which only recently have been bettered. Jackson Seholz, speed marvel for more than a. decade and still among the select, learned the art of sprinting under Schulte's direc tion. And now there are Itoiarid Locke, holder of the world's furlong record of 20.5 seconds, and Fait El kins, American decathlon champion and record holder. Badger Coach Organizes Amateur Baseball Teams Promoting amateur baseball in Wis consin is the latest Job assigned to Coach Leonard B. Allison, assistant athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, who has been appointed state athletic officer for the American Lesion. : - Allison was recommended for the post by Maj. John uriintn, commissioner commis-sioner of the western conference, who knew of his work in a similar position while at South Dakota State, university. univer-sity. "Stub". as the Badger conch is better known, is making preliminary plans for a Wisconsin state baseball league. Critz Hits Timely tlughey Critz (shown in the photograph) photo-graph) has been hitting timely and. fielding brilliantly for the Cincinnati, Reds this season. The Cincinnati sec ond baseman is one of the best in the league. Had he been going; as weH last summer the race might hart laded lad-ed differently. if " f - Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Austin and they were spending a holiday. The civilization in several years. Memorial to 11 -V', View of the ceremonies at Prlncetown, England, during the unveiling of the memorial gateway und tablet to the memory of the 218 American prisoners of war who died at Plymouth prison during the years WW and 1815. The ceremonies were led by Mrs. Samuel W. Earle, - honorary vice president of the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1S12. WINS STORY PRIZE 9 " j A Colorado high-school girl. Miss Agnes Childress of Karval, who attends at-tends school at' Ordway, has been selected from among 16.000 contestants contes-tants as the winner of the national championship in the Fifth National Meat Story contest, It was announced by the National Live Stock and Meat board. This honor carries with it a university scholarship and a cash prize of $150. The contest is conducted conduct-ed annually among high-school students stu-dents of home economics throughout the country by the national board. CHAIRMAN Dr. Hubert C Work, secretary of the interior, who was elected chairman chair-man of the Republican national committee. com-mittee. Takes Long Time to Care Imported Swiss cheese 13 made from perfectly fresh sweet milk; thnt is. without ripening. The curing covers two stages, and is carried on In two cellars to secure the proper condition. Fine Swiss cheese takes about 8 or 10 months U cure. Ax i? , I Mi mm the crew of their ship St Andre photographed at Sydney, Australia, where Austins are traders in the south Pacific and this was their first sight of American Prisoners Uncle Sam Becomes a Firebrg r v. - A vS i r miA1mu iMUST in XL The walls crashed, flames roared and smoke streamed to the heavens when two condemned buildings in Little B street N. W, Washington, were set ablaze by experts of the bureau of standards. These experts were testing the fire resistive qualities of numerous safes, previously deposited in the doomed structures. Hoover's Church in the Capital p: tev r" , r" 4 if 1 . I r j ( 3 I : ji It-. - -.J.Uii.i; i 1. H,vJ i The quaint, ivy-mantled Friends meeting house, nestling among here Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and his family wors.il; wiiii in Washington. It has a seating capacity of about 250 and la located itl.;a a few squares of the White House. 0 p. 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