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Show Friday, Jnn UTAH MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. fey Daring Here. the Speaking of Sportx Yates Got Golf Start-Traili- ng Bohby Jones Ev GEORGE A. BARCLAY 'T'llE worlds foiling capital Baseball's Iron Horse Horse ef baseball, to the name ef Gehrig, baa apparently got bis ond wind. When be steamed Iron THE answers who Lon sec- ID Jl Folks dowrn in Atlantawill tell you that Charley is a logical successor to Bobby Jones. They will tell you. for instance, that their careers parallel each other in several directions. Both grew up alongside the famous East Lake course in the Georgia metropolis. As a kid in rompers, Yates is said to have played with clubs from di-r- LOU GEHRIG as a pinch hitter, back in 1925, he hasn't missed a game m which the Yankees have been involved. The closest any player in history has come to his record was the 1,307 consecutive game mark set by Everett Scott between 1916 and 1925. Gehrig had Scott's record beat back in 1933. In addition to his consecutive game record, Gehrig ha broken seven major-leagu- e records and tied one other. Among his records are these: Most consecutive years, 100 or more games 12; most consecu- tive years, 150 games or more 11; most home runs with the bases loaded 20; most years, 150 or more runs batted in 7; most years, 300 or more total bases 12; and most years, 100 or more runs driven in 12. The record he tied was Babe Ruths mark of having scored 100 or more runs 12 seasons in succes- sides himself survive the original team he Joined 13 years ago. They are Business Manager Ed Barrow, Earl Combs, now s coach, and Col. Jacob Kuppert, the club owner. This spring has been Gehrig's most disagreeable m baseball. He reported in rather stale physical shape after his movie venture and it has taken him longer than usual to hit his stride. His batting was rather pitiful in the beginning, but he has been belting the ball again lately. Hero and There V 7HFN t UARLL1 YATES a neighboring dime store Then as he begun to grow and trudged armed bihmd the f minus Bi bby, Y.itis g uned his first idea of the golf fundament. its that have brought h. in to the top Unlike Jones, Charley was unable to devote the major part ef his time to golf, for although his father is a well merchant he did not have to-d- o the same opportunities as Jones After graduating from high school. Charley attended Georgia Tech, taking a course in general science and finishing with honors When Jones retired from competitive plav. Yates had achieved sufficient skill as a golfer to be mentioned among the young fellows most likely to fall heir to Bobbys fame. A year after Jones retirement, Yates fulfilled some of the predictions by winning the stale title, repeating this feat in 1932. Since that time, he has been steadily justifying his early promise. He won the national intercol- legiate championship in 1934 lbs main triumph in 1937 Hunk Greenberg, the De- Tigers first baseman, belted one into the center lit Id bleachers at the White Sox p.uk recently, it was the first time in history a bat! hid ever been driven into th it section The distance from home ite to the bleachers is 470 Let J.uk Coombs, one time pitching star of the old Hhdudelphiu Athletics, is baseball coach at Duke troit university and Ira Thomas, Jacks battery mate, is a scout for the Ath letics Thomas contends that col lege baseball is on the upgrade Pitching Standouts THEN it comes time to pick the pitchers for this year's All Star game, Joe McCarthy, who will manage the American league's nine is Not be likely to be embarrassed. X ' By ALWYN W. KNIGHT story to the Red Cross at Governors island. The yarn had a Nick Carter ring, but the man in uniform was so in earnest you had to believe him. He said his father lived in Fayetteville, N. C. He said his father was out of work and was about to be put on the street. In fact the sheriff, so the story went, was as good as on the doorstep with the foreclosure papers in his hand. Listening, you almost expected to hear a bugle call and the thunder of hoofs as the proverbial cavalry troop galloped to the rescue. But this was melodrhma plus. The skein of plausibility was there because the thing was so imminent. Actually there was but a day or so left before the foreclosure; and watching the boys worried eyes helped visualize a dusty street in a sleepy southern town, and on it an elderly equal help to the military authorities. Human nature is human nan man surrounded by and skulduggery sometimes furniture with nothing ture. wears puttees and brass buttons left but the threadbare rem- There was a prepossessing lad who nants of a tattered dignity. wanted a transfer to Fort Jay from The name of the Red Cross a distant post on the grounds that wished to be near his ailing fafield director was J. F. he ther. It seemed the human thing to his OBrien. Sitting behind do. but the field director O'Brien desk in the Red Cross house in this case asked the Red Cross a few steps from the ferry chapter in New York to check the taking action Investislip servicing Governors is- story before showed that the boy's father land and Fort Jay he heard gation was at the address g.ven, right the boy through without a enough, but that, since the address word. Now he asked ques- was a cemetery, the unfortunate tions, then picked up a parent had ceased to ail for a good told his THE doughboy director stationed hard-luc- k hand-me-dow- phone. Subsequently it all turned out right; that figurative cavalry troop, underwritten by the Red Cross, did gallop to the rescue O'Brien contacted the Red Cross chapter in the town where the boys father lived, instructing the chapter to verify the boy's story (routine) and advance money at once. Melodramatic Finale. homestead was saved And the doughboy repaid O Brien out of his pav, and O Brien repaid It was the sort of job the chapter other Red Cross fit Id directors in other military posts were doing all over the country that same morning for enlisted men of the army, navy, marine corps and coast guard. Tins Red Cross help for the enlisted man and his family is an ambitious undertaking It began when the country entered the World war. Now more than 60 men like O Brien are stationed throughout the nation. These trained workers and their assistants cover 206 army posts and 8 army general hospitals They cover 408 coast guard stations, 127 navy and marine corps stations; 10 navy general hospitals and St El zabeth's hospital in Washington, D. C. O Brien leaned back, frowning he echoed Just what do we doWell, my question thoughtfully. we act as link between the enlisted man and his superior officer And we also act as link between the enlisted man and his family. When Uie boys get in trouble, they come to us. They know that their confidences will never be violated' f Sort of an anti A W. O. L. agency, I suggested. Not exactly Although there would undoubtedly be a lot more if it were not absent w ithout-leave- many years To my nund, one FTTl ? of the most 1 So the old ay 1- peace-of-min- d x He A 1, JTOy Bob Grove Vernon Kennedy -- s came cause of lack of pitching talent but because of an oversupply. It is difficult to see how he can leave such mound artists as Bub Feller and Johnny Allen of Cleve southern four-bal- l championship land olf the staff, and it's even hardBritish golfing authorities were er to see how he can help picking won over the field Lefty Grove of the Boston agreed that Yates Red Sox at St. Andrews because he was a and Vernon Kennedy of the Detroit better striker of the ball than any Tigers ef his opponents, and itke his heroT Both these latter pitcher have Jones, he is a quick player, wasting new lease on life. Grove, no time with spirit levels on the taken a He has the happy faculty who overcame a pitching injury that greens. career a few years of tackling a difficult shot swiftly threatened his a sensation so far and does not let a bad shot get him ago, has been this year. Kennedy, who came to down. the Tigers from the White Sox, has never looked better. Grove says be The dropping of Lynwood (Schoolis a far more skillful workman than Rowe from the boy) major league to be. In his youth he was was one of the toughest breaks in he used another Feller, relying on speed recent baseball history. The big alone. Now be la sly and foxy, a of hander, pitching mainstay right of the art. Kennedy has unthe championship Detroit Tiger master been improved by Mandoubtedly teams of 1934 and 1935, was sent w ho has back to Beaumont on option.-- - The ager Mickey Cochrane, him xoncentrate on hit over" made can him recall on Tiger hand delivery. notice. when he was medal, st in the Western amateur at Los Angeles, tying the record Following that event, he and Dick Garlmgton won the 6 Western Ntwspapcr Union. for the work we do I asked, are some of What, the contributing factors which cause a man to pick up and walk out without the formal tv of askirg per- mission' Trouble at home for one thing Trouble at home OBrien thumbed through the paHere's a job pers nn his desx, we did yesterday A boy whose sister was critically lib We arranged a furlough so he could go home and give a blood transfusion Romance Is Rescued. I asked O Brien to give me another example of a Red Cross field directors routine and he told me about the doughboy, newly married, who was to be transferred from the Canal zone, to Fort Devons. The army paid his expenses, naturally, but what about the young wife who must remain behind because there was not money enough? Yes, the Red Cross again. It seems that the. Red Cross is of Bil-bo- won a rock-and-so- proxy battle for the control of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. Within the last few years, he has infiltrated gently into HOTEL high finance, which is just now becoming acutely conscious of his presence. Rotes $l.SOto$iM His family was m and around Canadian, Texas, before the battle Th. Hotel TmnJo toM J of the Alamo. highly dmirobte, They started the pbo.Yo will lwy(toJt"5 First National Bank of Canadian, late, which is now in the hands of the thoroochly k for. WMtemteiid why fourth generation. HIGHLY RECOMMEND At Culver Military academy, RobToo oo olmoppruoMtewhn ef ert R. Young was graduated at the If, eatPtertr this hoootifu hoAbry head of his class. r .iiumv unsclTES. V Career at its youngest grad-CulvWas uate, and later he attended the UniProphetic versity of Virginia. With the Du Ponts in 1916, he got his preliminary work-ou- t in finance and joined General Motors in 1922. In 1932, he founded hi own Wall Street firm, with Frank F. Kolbe, hla later associate In the Van Sweringen pntsch. Mr. Young is the former Anita Ten Eyck O'Keefe, of Williamsburg, Va., sister of Georgia OKeefe, the painter. In 1935, they leased Beech-woofor DISCRIMINATING the Astor estate, in Newport. Mr. Young, a Democrat, like hi father, paid $15,000 for a consignment of those famous Democratic convention books, which congressmen, badgering him at a senate hearing, insisted wasn't nearly so much of a bargain as the Van You are a bigSweringen deaL ger sucker than I thought ' Temple 3y 31 Square er - Prior to that he had finished first among the amateurs participating m the Masters tourney at August, a distinction he won again in 1937. By 1935, Yates had advanced to the importance of Western amateur champion and in 1936 he was selected for the Walker Cup team that licked the British at Pine Valley, a New Red Cross Function: Solving the Soldier's Personal Problems, Paying Mortgages and Caring for Friend Wife! Gehrig has seen great teams come and go aince he joined the Yanks in 1925. Only three men be- i X AS Here's sion. &M 3 ... .... . Jones Ilis Hero J 1 of the word. Nine times, during the week of the matches, he set out from the first tee and nine times he returned ftom the finishing green without losing a match The silver championship cup given into his keeping in the name of the Royal and Ancient Ordi r of St Andrews thus goes back with him to Atlanta, where Bobby Jones first took it eight years ago. On the last three visits of an American Walker Cup tram a member of it has won the British title. Thus Charley Yates name goes on the cup below those of Jess Sweet-se- r, who won It In 1926, Bobby Jones who won it in 1930 and Lawson Little who won it in 1934 and 35. JL- AOTI-Au- W, W Cormorant Fishing tTh I Cormorant fishing u tnr among Chinese and iZi The bird are trained to and bring them to their 0 j knowing cormorant tony, owners take no cwD By LEMUEL F. PARTON, put metal rings aroundTl' necks to keep fish tim and u that gulped. Czechoslovakia destiny U jut may an added starter in th cosmos of A. W. Robertson, chairman of the Growing up isnt easy Robertson board of the West- - 25 years of life are iWij Has Remedy inghouse Electric growing up physically and Manufacturing jy. It is a process so hjrtl for Gloom company. evident, so emotionally uvu It is the alway assured and hope- - tally distorting, that ful Mr. Robertson who announces his have to spend the next 25 yen? company will spend $12,000,000 on Ufa convalescing front it, gjj additions and betterments this year, pairing with medicine J and, from where Mr. Robertson sits, lgery and corrective exercise! thats just a couple of white chips the damages done to th pD and 80cial organism fa the compared to spendings to come. Mr. Robertson is the H. G. Wells fierce upward push through of industry. His shape of things 'years. M. B. Greenbi h to come, which he has been outlin- John OBrien, Red Cross field ing for the last year or two, includes tor at Governors island, New the following specifications: York, hears from Lieut. Thomas J. Migratory humans, shifting Mamane how his organization can north and south like the birds. man. enlisted best serve the Just whether the children will born in the North or the be on, the Atlantic branch. United he said, Is not quite South, States disciplinary base, and the to clear me, but I expect we the country. only military prison in will follow the policy of the I was introduced to Major Christbirds and have the children in man. adjutant of the prison, and the North. heard from him what the army Windowless houses, pasteurthinks of the Red Cross. artificial ized and sunlight. air, couldn't The army get along One-ma- n planes, with folding without the Red Cross; he said. wings, kept in the hall rack, The work it does can not be done the umbrellas. with by anyone else. Mr. O'Brien and HEWS ITEM eOlTHf Pocket radios for two-wyour other field directors supply the 2nd Mali lit Prize $50 with talk anywhere. anybody, which it touch is warm, personal JrdMntltetch Mlibl doublewith cities Noiseless frhea $2 I not feasible for the army itself to Ii0hbld ISO Codi Mm Shoe txk Wad deck streets. do UIU! THI SIMM AM HIM Flat houses, with a push-buttRed Cross and the Navy. 1, Clip the nod w Brill or emlol In will crane which Horn the from I or moots park your popor To further pursue my investiga2. Complete thlo sontooce h H J the auto on the roof. W. O. L. artillery tion of the anti-A- . Ion 'THE ONE THIN UQ L I ASOUT li . . . He was a farm and village boy at of the Red Cross. I left Governor L Attedi I island and went to the New York Panama, New York, chore boy and ot eqe 4. Add the navy yard at Brooklyn. There Red rustler in his youth and hence not whore yoe bovqht I school he until Cross Field Director Henry W. Rogthrough grammar L S90 yoor Nome ood Addrm yUA I SE4T Moil JEL to 4. Entry CO, M u is was seventeen. Then he studied law ers told me that Control fork Avoinn, Chkiaa, Hn in a country office, entered pracas essential as discipline in the pronot lotor thee Wodimdox Ante,. Judges' decision b Enoi, duction of efficiency. tice, got corporations tor clients and then began owning and operating If our bluejackets start worrythem. ing over family and personal trouAt forty-sihe was president of he said, they cant do the bles, the Philadelphia company and now job they enlisted to do justice! I found Rogers in his stateroom heads a $200,000,000 company. He on the receiving ship, the old U. S. pays liberal wage bonuses and relaS Seattle. He had just finished talkurges friendly, tionship between capital and labor. ing with a sailor whose wife, in Tex. . as, had been shown the door byJiE. 6wTrmbtlfer.TAsa re'sult, the sailor WAS only a year ago that Robwas about crazy with worry, beert R. Young, cause what could you do in Brooklyn Texan, quite unknown to Wall about trouble in the Panhandle? Street, rode herd on the straying Van Rogers had already set the machinSweringen ery in motion which would send a Young Texan system and cor-RoHOSTET sjmpathetic Herd on railed it It was SALT LAKE'S NEWEST representative of a aU bewildermgly Rail System Onr lobby la iellgblMr complicated, but, cooled doing tta sou finally sifted down, it appeared that Ratffo for Every i Mr. Young had picked up a $3,000,-000,02 OO Weome 200 Batte rail empire with an original investment of $225,000. - He is a quiet. Inconspicuous, unassuming man, and now the feature writers are just getting around to calling him a Titan. WEEK twenty-four-year-o- ld I $$$ THIS moved back to Atlanta, Ga., when young Charlpy Yates, bank teller of Bobby Jones home town, won the British Amateur Golf championship at St. Andrews, Scotland, by beating Cecil v Vt PrtvaM news: past the 2,000 consecutive ball game mark recently he looked ai if be was good for several hundred more In s row. Gehrig amazing record ha never been approached in basebalL Ever since he got his first chance Ejving, giant Irishman, and became the sixth American golfer In the historv of the tournament to reach the title mateh. This c'istial young fellow, sole survivor of eight American lads who comprised the Walker cup team, has publicly attributed his success to a suit of red flannels sent him by Bobby Jones and an antique putter purchased for a dollar from an But those w'ho Atlanta caddy watched him battle his way to victory through same of the classiest golfing talent in the universe, say that he is a champion in every sense for goldler and k auslcf War of 1812: ciana, $8; . corpora. 7. $8; quartermaster serfH sergeant piajors, jecond lieutenant 820-- ? ants, $30; captain, igj' mai1 colonels, $75. WHOS 41 Hu per-mon- t? Harvoj Bruggle, former Purdue football star, hears the grief of an enlisted man at Red Cross house, Governors island. worthwhile things these military Texas Red Cross chapter to see the post Red Cross men do is contact young wife and help an inthe family of newly enlisted men. telligent solution of the plan problem. A card sent to a mother, and picked There is a lot to this business of at random, gives this information: de frosting a soldiers worry apWe advise that your son has paratus every so often if he is to enlisted and has been assigned be kept at peak efficiency. A flight for duty with the infantry in commander at an air base told how China. He is now at Fort Sloa pilot endangered not only his own cum waitiug to sail which will life but the fives of other pilots. Because of an unaccountable and sudprobably be January 6, 1938, and until then address your letters den inability to follow instructions, to him care Overseas Reeruit he was a particular liability m for, Depot, Seiond Reeruit Co., Fort matiun flying Before an accident bloium, N. Y. After he sails, occurred, he was grounded, and address your letters care Comquestioning revealed that concern over a distant mother who was manding Officer, C. S. Troops in China, American Barracks. Ti d was be- hind his unaccustomed entsin, Ilona. If further infor- inefficiency. mation is required, return this The Red Cross handled the case; card with your query. and when the pilot knew that all Last year the Red Cross at Gov- that could be done had been, he ernor's island sent 10.000 of these became himself again. cards to next-o- f km of men recruitThe men who hold down these ed for overseas service. There is Red Cross posts at military stano measuring stick to tell what tions are m themselves remarkable. these routine notifications mean to Each is carefully chosen. OBrien, the folks back home, but the reply of for example, Is small, nimble-minone mother is a conservative indica- ed and emotionally sympathetic Your card gave me the will Rogers, at the tion. Brooklyn navy yard' to go on l.vmg, he wrote. My has been through the mill; he knows boy just disappeared, and not knowall the answers; he sits up late ing he had enlisted, 1 thought- - he nights, wondering if there Isnt was dead. cr alone and Sickr something else the Red can 1 talked with OBrien a while long- do on some particular Cross case. er, then went over the island's pns- Wettero Newspaper Union. d HOTEL Dill. f) Palace of d, were- ConsoMrtnted News Features. WNU Service. A beaatiful In tad or, . la A cordiality and cKana, bw Skating tfco city- - Lwadoafc Skating apparently was originated location In by the primitive Norsemen, whose appointed tooms-- Sard sagas boast of the ability of their traditional koHsIiiy of fighters to move swiftly over the Ftoioat EP" ice on bone runners attached to the exctlltd culslna. DM feet with leather thongs. Other naGUY TOOMBES, MwA took tions up the art, the Swedes, Danes, Finns and Dutch all contribROOMS uting to its early development In the Third century, the art of g was introduced In Europe and this led eventually to the development of metal runners and thus to great improvement In skating technique. iron-workin- iron I51 Salt Lake M |