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Show y Friday, January NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: Bob HUN school coaches say old i 1 ?.!! I Vv 3 H pI e New York . I'' Pot. WNU Service Baseballs Pages Turn Back at. East of Aching Dogs been moored for lone THEY have in the Port of Aching Does this haven high above Forty second street where baseball men eather when worn down by the official futility of their annual mee- eighteen year brother of Ken, will be even better than the current Princeton football star. . , Sylvanus Appa of Canada-on- e of the Toronto Maple. Leafs star hockey rookies, took sixth place in the pole vaulting at Berlin last summer. , . Smart baseball men say the best prospect for the coming season is Bobby Doer, the second baseman the Red Sox are bringing np from San Diego. . They also hint that Joe Marty, the outfielder purchased from San Francisco by the Cubs, may turn out to be a bit of a 'emon. The Yankees, who control the ter ritory th'rough their Newark farm, won't permit Joe Cambria to shift his Albany franchise to Jersey City. They insist that Mayor Hague's town, a very -- good baseball spot, should be represented by a club more substantially backed and conducted with more of an eye to the future. . . Harvard should be plenty tough in football next fall in spite of a woeful Frosh ?leven. In addition to the returning regulars, Emile Dubiel and sevejral other stars who were declared ineligible this year now have caught up with their studies. . . Sydney A.- - Syme, who succeeds Judge Bleakley on the New York Supreme court bench, was a noted local athlete in his younger days. . . 7 It will cost $85,000 Jo build twenty-eight alleys and"olher-wis- e 212th Coast Artillery the equip Armory for the American Bowling Congress in New York next spring. All the heavyweight champions of England alnce Jem Mace'a time are still alive. Bombardier Wells is sn Innkeeper at Brighton. The Jack Petersen has retired to live on the $100,000 he made in the ring. Gunner Molr, who fought Tommy Burns, is in the movies. . . Other items of London chit chat include the news that Ben Foord, the present champion, is a rough, mauling type of fighter . . . HI Scotts tea room In Devonshire has folded but, even though broke, the horizontal heavyweight has a second wife. . . Charley Rose, his undersized manager, has the same umbrella, bowler and coat be wore when Phil was reclining In American rings. . . Joe Beckett lives in the provinces. ting. There Is gossip about Kelley of Yale. Paul Krichell, the scout who watched over him all last spring, reveals that the youngster is a tidy first baseman with fair hitting ability. There is a leaning forward at this but then the gathering settles back. Krichell relates sadly that professional sports have no lure for the best ballyhooed athlete of the year and that he likes baseball least of alL If the Yankees cannot make him see reason the others know they have no chance. A The conversation switches. minor manager, somewhat perturbed over the decision which gave Cleveland full rights to Bob Feller, wonders bow England might have made out U It had a Judge Landis Instead of a Baldwin as arbiter of the niceties. Be gets the Boor for a moment, but then Gene McCann, the veteran scoot, comes In, fully arrayed in white lawn tie, red stickpin and gray checked snlt. After the applause has subsided they resume playing over games of 25 years ago, debating each called Grimes Was Tough Guy strike of that bygone era, arguing as a Member of Cards frantically over the events leading to and hit error. base each np When he was with the Cards, A heavy set man, tanned face Grimes once - chased a scarcely more lined now than It Burleigh man was those many seasons ago when newspaper he was the games first and greatest around a hotel lobfor two days trypinch hitter, enters the room. This by to put the slug is a Yankee party but National ing on . . . Benny him. are welcome, especially leaguers welcome when they have done so Bengough is doing much for the sport as the present more than all right insurance broker whose name is as manager of the Yankees' Joplin Moose McCormack. farm. So also is Joe Moose, as is befitting a man who Becker, who was hit so well end so often, starts made president of He tells talking about pitchers. the club after being about attending the Chicago World's from a fair along with Ty Cobb and meet- rescued Prooklyn scouting Years ago ing Mordecal Brown. . . Although sports writers lasome of baseball's most thrilling du- job. bor over Ray Impellitiere's name, els were waged between these two his Cold Spring hometown folks d great hitters and the no such difficulty. There the have hurler who still Is remembered as American Giant and his are family one of the. best of all time. Mc- hailed as Impel. . . Fred simply he mentions as Cormack chuckles Ritter, who has been absent from that Brown remembered their faces the court for two seasons because but was far wide of the plate when he wished to devote his best attenIt came to names, thought Cobb wa tion to football and studies, will imFred Snodgrass, that Moose was prove Princeton's basketball team. Red Murray. National league umpires Mager-kurt- b and Kiem, two of (he very Recalling Bitter Feuds best, by (be way, can seldom be the same Between Giants and Cubs persuaded to perform in game. Just don't like one ano.her. . Joe Shannon of the brothers He tells about Chicago of another Shannon who used to play suih high day. That was when the Cubs and class baseball, now is in charge of the Giants were mortal enemie; and Jersey City's Stadium. . . Business two great cities rallied to the managers. Giants Brannick and causes. It was in those days that Dodgers Gorman, no longer arc kidto the Chicago Board of Trade used ding when they wave lists at one hold meetings in the heart of the another. . . The very able Bran-n'cLoop. There would be fiery speeches incidentally, eliminated a pir-t- y about the necessity of repelling this crashing pest w ith one pumh durinvasion of hated Easterners. Then ing the recent Montreal baseball a huge bonfire would be lighted and meeting. . . That was even neater McGraw woul be burned in effigy. than the job done by Al Sehaeht, This brings other .ales of the days who pulled another nuisances raccoon coat over his head while landwhen the Giants would be returning frtm spring training ing a solid base bit In his renter field. . . Nick Palmer, former Naand little Mac would tional Guard middleweight and be inciting small town citizens to bay heavyweight champion (N. Y. varitickets in hage ety), will turn wrestler. umbers for the Clients who paid heed to sage mere privilege of advice given here must have been booing him in per- Rkt' gratified when Jackey Palumbo won son. Of that after-noo- n those races al Charlestown. . . Two when the fight- millionaire sportsmen are coner in him rebelled vinced that the National Hockey against what the League was more anxious to get rid showman had done, of Bill pvxcr during that recent when he took off his McGraw me. s than it was in new money or coat and challenged owners. They say they made a the 5,000 jrtring customers who bnnafi le offer m writing, delivered packed the old park in Birmingit at the league office in Montreal ham. Of Arthur FlcUber and Fred and never even received an answer. Snodgrass, whose sheer desire to . . . Are Colgate and Tulane going win forthwith increased by 25 per to have to schedule their Northern cent the chances of any ball club fo '.ball meetings In Buffalo or which signed them. some such upstate city henceforth? About days in Austin, H uston . . . And could the reason be that and other Texas towns when bush local universities, angry because league teams fought tooth and nail outsiders were cutting in on their to beat their big time colleagues. subway sinecure, refused to let the Alut free for all fights between Giants and Yankees Vent their ball opposing plasers and fans in At- parks to such aliens? limit how Arthur Devlin lanta. Did any one Cvcr investigate the pleaded with a badly battered op- report that a game between a team, ponent to slop and about how this billing itself-a- s Fordham somesorely bruised opponent (1 think be thing or other, and a pro eleven was aminor leaguer named ODell) was hastily canceled in Buffalo rerefused to holler nuf. About bow cently. , , Blood Horsey the the next day the home towners good racing paper, reveal howvery unsought something softer and chal- certain the siort is. It takes three lenged liUle Brldwell. How Brid-wel- l, mares to produce two foals in one probably the best boxer in year. It takes four foals to furnish baseball of that day. von with such one winner. The stalease that even Allantana were lion is exceptional whose get are charmed. r' 50 per' cent winners. -- three-fingere- Adventurers A-- Club i.vs.r.M . A X aL& 1 f: Juggernaut on Tracks By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter t Thats the first thing we all think of want to know something about the town. We if its the towns adventure that youre interested in, cant go wrong. . The cops know about all the exciteirl that goes on and ten chances to one the cop you ask have been in.it himself. Theyre the boys-th- at get thrills and so were asking a cop today, Joe Lovett ASK ''A x- -: 7"S - ihri Ji.i'- if "' a - P v. " nV - (V. h) i' V ' vCT . - h cop! t Brooklyn, N. Y. Joe, what's the biggest adventure you ever bad In your life? I was attached to the old 74th Precinct, at 154 Lawrence are I was a patrolman, doing a tour of ( Brooklyn," Joe begins. from 4 p. m. to 12 midnight on May 21, 1924. And off we go on as stirring a tale of adventure and danger-an- d heroism as any cop ever had in his life, in Brooklyn anywhere. It waa about seven oclock in the evening and still daylight had been lent by hs lieutenant to deliver a message, and he wu his way back. to his post to report that it had been delivered. The o sage had taken him quite a distance. He had gone out on a trolley and on a trolley car he was going back. He boarded a Church avenue car, bound east toward Fort Hi: ton Parkway and took his place on the front platform beside the me man. I don't know whether or not it was a department rule that pol men riding on trolley cart while on duty had to ride beside the me man. If it was well it turned out to be a darned smart rule in instance. For it saved a life even if K did come close to costing his own. The car rolled along down Thirty-nint- h street. It had goat about 100 feet past the intersection of Fort Hamilton Parkway, when suddenly a small child a little girl about three years off the sidewalk, into the street, and STRAIGHT TOWAU THE TRACKS. 7 ' " ' (h AA v, '-- ' y f - x ' '' v i vV 'V- V -'A rpAp:s refer v" ' - V --v - 1 v ,S; '' X, i . r b $ 'I i,A ft I led Motorman Lost Uis Head. The car was about fifty feet away, but it was moving fast looked at the motorman expecting to see him throw on his brL But the mptorman-didn'- t move throw eflL the po Suddenly it occurred to Joe that the fellow had lost his head, I 1 wasnt capable of doing anything at alL The little girl toddled to the tracks-an-d stopped rigtt in the mi d of them. By that time the car was no more than eight feet away, i FATHER TIME fylcio Qfcars la Q)t ALL knotc fellott called IT7I Old Father Time. If lie has ho us in ' ' has Ki QilLda&fQ, INTER," said gayly, becoming to your yyj "is very man looks." t$Y JOHNSON WuhhtH Star By PHILANDER Dora T beThe good side her looked down with pleased amusement They were skiing, these two, over snow-- surfaces, and the man with his bright wide woolen sash and. knitted cap to -- match, made a striking figure on the snow. "This was a graficl idea skiing to the New Year's party," cried Paul. "Otherwise we would not have made it. "Andy thinks were crazy. Says were sure to get stuck, and maybe freeze to death on the way. Hes so optimistic." Dora laughed. "He would! Never saw such a darned cautious guy as Andy. He'll never get anywhere or do anything or have any fun. "He is pretty solemn at times," admitted Dora a little soberly. They went on, easily, lightly; curved slopes slid under them; dark leafless trees slipped by. "A New Years dance does not grow on every bush," remarked Paul. "Better take them in our stride." The girl's cheeks glowed. Her fair hair tucked under her cap flew out behind in small ringlets. If the y -- k, taught prose; frivoled in rhyme. One day he will give us a song or a laugh And the next he is writing a short epitaph. The way he jogs on is so quietly queer IT e seldom remember his presence so near. But he measures our steps as lea falter or climb. He keeps tab on us all, does this Old Father Time. New Year party at Country club was In full awing, with Fred Gordon, directing the dance orchestra of college boys, putting out sweet music. He was especially anxious to show off jiis particuliit. variety of syncopated rhythms this evening, ai But his hand is so gentle, although It . there would be m strong. some men there That he helps us a lot as he leads us who could. If they along. wanted to, "do And the ruins that rise on the hills oj the past him some good." He coiers with ivy and roses at last He watched He teaches the smiles of the pres. Beatrice, hi girl, ent to glow, dance by In the LChile the sorrows are left to the long, arms of a handlong ago. some stranger. And the knell turns to joy in its l With a mustache, chime tool Dam it, he'd lie's a pretty good fellow, it Old After Her; He Tried Valiantly to Help Her. distance still seemed a long way, the did not apeak of It. She waa a little tired, too, but that would past. Soon they would pause for rest, and lor bites of bard chocolate. It takes a little Imagination, said Paul, "to think sometimes, out ways of doing things. Andy Is good, solid dependable stuff, but slightly, he smiled, "dull. "1 like him, though, said Dora toutly, "and it usually happens hes right . . . worse luck I" "Not sorry you came with me?" "Heavens, not They went on and on and on. Roads were blocked. No cars could get through. A horse team would take one day and part of another. Skiing across country was the only solution of reaching Dorset and the dance. "Youll have trouble," Andy "mark my words." And it looked as if his prophecy were about to come true'as they attempted the next hill. The wind grew colder. Dora was not as rested at the hoped the might be; not as quick or sure of .balance. She struck a snag, $ inned and fell . , . pot meralv in pre-dlcte- d, . He Poshed Her Off the Tracks to Safety. still going at Us original speed. Too late to try to stop it nowl Its t momentum would carry it right over the baby's body. It looked sure death tor the poor kid. At that instant, Joe Lovett started moving. The car waa one kind with an open front platform. Joe leaped for the side of the car, grabbed hold of an iron upright at the right of the mot man, and then, getting a good purchase with his foot on the right bt '"x. step, flung himself forward. His hnrtling body got there In time te save the child. With a shove of one outflung arm he poshed It off the tracks te safety. But he didnt have time to get ont of the way himself. 1 Fo-th- Time. the snow, but down a surprise gully. A up from one ankle cold and dreadful and down into sharp pain shot to knee, and a faintness crept over her. "Andy" she whispered Involuntarily, as one speaks of a safe harbor In time of storm. Paul came after her. Somehow his picturesque good looks did not count f ir much now, though he tried valiantly to help her. Tve twisted my ankle, Im afraid, gasped Dora. "What shall we do? Can you put your Imagination to work? she added. Just then, cold, truly fearful for what lay ahead, they heard a dim halloo in the distance. They waited and soon Andy's bulky and solid figure stood above the gully. He plunged down quickly and gave not a word of rebuke save thought you might have trouble, so I trailed to Paul Came THE mer-ries- you. ,, -- l j It was Andy who took Dora back her home. He carried her all grow one! He brought the rhythm to a crashing climax, and signaled for an intermission. Then hia eyea hunted out Bea trice, and he started toward her. He waa delayed by an older man, who wanted to talk to him. It was a better offer than Fred had dreamed of. What a Nevf Year' opportunity! Pater would be sore, of course He nodded his acceptance, shook hands heartily, and dashed off toward the conservatory. Beatrice and her companion were just coming back to the dance floor. "Say, Bee I've Just got to see you a minute. Excuse her, wont you? Bee," he asked suddenly, will you marry me? Fred! she exclaimed, "Why, amazed at hia outburst. "I suppose so some day, maybe." "I mean now, right away." "How could wet You know we have to wait until you finish school and get your start" . "I've got my atart Tm going to lead a dance orchestra and be broadcast WeQ have plenty to live on and a good chance for more." Td like to, Fred. Td rather marry you than anybody. But If I married you now, your father would alwaya feel that I had been the one to get you to quit achooL" Td tell him" She shook her head. "That wouldn't help. Beside, he' right; you should finish." One of the orchestra boy looked out "Say, Fred, excuse me, but the crowd's getting restless." "In a minute. Please, Bee." "If they really want you, they'll wait I really want you and I'll the way, first over one shoulder, then another. Paul feeling uncomfortable said he guessed he'd go on to the dance. "Happy New Year" waa all Andy said. An arduous, silent and painful exDora could hear the perience. breathing of the man who so bravely bore her over the weary miles. "Why dont you scold me?" aha demanded. She could not see his face, but she felt him smiling. At last Andrew deposited her on her own couch In her own borne and telephoned for the doctor. The last bandage was patted Into place on her plaster cast as midnight struck. You know, Andy," remarked Dora slowly, "Id honestly rather be here with you and a broken ankle, than at the New Years dance at Dorset Quaint of me. Isn't It? Big. solid, unjricturesque Andy wait Fred stuck his hands In his pockstooped over and kissed her. "Happy New Year, dearl Pm ets, and traced a pattern on the afraid It will be a long timt till floor with hi toe.. "And I thought you dance again Ihlawai going-t- r be'iucha awell 'And Paul's colorful ideas aren't New Year,- - he muttered. so much . 7 . after alL He looks You wont win all tonight, dear, well on' a winter landscape. And Beatrice said gently. She kissed you look well lij a rescue act I him suddenly, softly, and sltpped think 1 prefer the latter. quickly to the doorway. "But "Which," grinned Andy, "la Just Fred," she added, "see the year aa It should be." through." at Waatara Nraaaapar Uaioa. Weetara New (paper Cifaq - Car Was Bearing Down on nim. ' matter of fact, Joe didnt even have time to THINK about No sooner had he pushed the child out of the way than he felt toe thing hit him a smashing blow on the back. That dazed him for just smallest fraction of a second. When next he got his bearings he down the side of the car. One leg t lying in the roadway, half-wa- y sprawled across the track, and the car was still in motion. Ten ll away, the rear wheel waa bearing down on it, certain to cut it off Hi f didnt move it in a hurry. Joe started to move that leg and then the awful truth dawned I him. He was still half dazed by that first bump the car had given hi HE COULDNT MOVE! He Ha could see he could feel-B- UT doomed to Ue there in the street and watch hia leg being severed fr As a -- his body! He tried again to move. Almost, but not quite! Fear sent the blood racing .through his body, and that cleared the cobwebs from his brain. Joe thinks Providence had something to do with It too and maybe hes right. Anyway, with that grinding wheel a scant six inches from him, he suddenly regained the power ol motion. With a frenxied heave he lifted his leg off the track, Jnst as the rear track rolled op to and over the spot where It had I Iain. Girl Was Safe But Joe Suffered. J . Joe was still dazed, and badly shaken up, when he rose painfu. to his feet The little girl Fanny Cecere of Brooklyn was safe W sound. But Joe didnt get off that easily. A bystander took him to the N wegiaa .hospital, and there they treated him for a sprained backf sprained thumb, and laceration of 'he lace, knees and hands, Joe on sick leave for 1 week after that before he was again able to resus hia duties. The records of the New York Pollpe department will show you fin on February 19, 1935, Joe was called before the honor board and a wan? honorable mention the second highest distinction the department d confer for valorous conduct in having saved a life at great risk off own. But Joe says that waa only the third biggest thrill he got of the incident The first of course, was seeing his leg safe and unk-as the car wheels went rumbling by. And the second was being sbk save that baby from those same wheels and finding her unhurt ai ward. , -- J Service, e-W- NC Coastlines Michigan has a total of 1,715 miles of coastline on the Great Lakes, 905 miles in the Upper Peninsula anl 810 miles in the Lower Peniff aula. The U. S. Coast ant Geodetic Survey lists only sea coast Florida, with a coast of 399 miles on the Atlantic and 798 miles on the Gulf of Mexico, a total of 1,197 miles, leads California with 913 miles and Louisiana with 397 mile. -- In tidal shore line (including islands), Florida has 2,2i6 miles to California's 1,190 miles. According to the methods used by the. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Maine has only 223 miles of coast (not including ii lands); if all tha indentation are measured, it would have about 1I.M10 miles. ' - - -- - A Famons Oak Tree One of the most famous oaks the Charter Oak of Hartford,Co7 Indians asked the colonists to P: It when clearing the land bees it had guided their ancestors j centuries as to the time of plat 1 s corn. "When the leaves are th of a mouse ears, they declin iff "then is the time to pyt the The tree r h lrto the ground. iu spared and later became chH rt when Connecticut's colonial was hidden in it to prevent lnv!j ti I ing Britiah from taking it awa windstorm blew the tree do j 1858 It was so venerated that I bells of the city were tolled & s s band played funeral dirges, over rt rums. f7 |