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Show THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE,UTAH Johnson's Bit for the "Army" The photograph shows Ington American team, and whom Johnson autogr·aphed boys at th11 Salvation Army Little Italian-American Has Had Many Accidents. John McGraw's recent swap, ln which he gave more than $100,000 worth of be.Jl players for one pitcher, brings up the question-how much is a pennant worth to a club owner? In trading Jack Bentley, who cost the club $60,000, and Weyland Dean, who was purelru~ed for $50,000, to the Philadelphia club for Jimmy Ring, a thirty-year-old veter·an, the Giant leader Ob\ iously thought that the deal would help him win the chz·mplonship. 'l'he only financial return the Giants will get ft·om Ring will be derived from the profits of a world's series, as Ring is only a pitcher us far as the fans are concerned, and be will not be any drawing card at the gate. Jf McGraw Is willing to dispose o1! $100,000 worth of mate~ to gamble on the chance of getting into the world's series there must be more profit In the post-season games than the magnates have wanted the public to believe. In recent years,· since the pi ayers forced themselves Into a more generous share of the receipts, the mag· nates have complained that their share consisted mostly of glory, hr.·rd work and abuse from those disappointed fans who couldn't get ringside seats. After that last series In which the Walter Johnson, premier pitcher for the WashGiants participated, Charley StoneCapt. Edith Irvings of the Salvation army, for ten baseballs to bE: given' to the ten best-behaved summer camps. Ralph DePalma, without question the most popular idol that ever drew a pair of racing goggles, has entered two cars in the fourteenth Annual International Sweepstakes May 31 at the Indianapolis motor spE>edway. StartIng his racing career In 1007, DePalma has llved through a l!eries of accidents In his 11) years of racing that would have stopped a less courageous driver. But broken bones have meant nothing to the little Itnllnn-American. Of the thirteen lntE>rnational sweepstakes run at the g1·eatest race course in the world, Ralph has taken part in ten. He started out in the 1911 race by finiHhing fourth. In 1012 came the greatest point In his career when, after putting his car to the front and leading the second man by 20 miles, he saw victory slip through his fingers on the !aRt lap of the race. DePalma's motor died at the heRd or the front stretch on his last lap and he pushed hls car to the tape, only to be totally disqualified because it had not crossed under Its own power. In 1915 Ralph showed the field the way home. He finished sixth In 1919; and fifth In 1920. He came up to fourth place In 1022. The year 1923 he drove his car flll laps. In 11)25 he finished In seventh place. While DePalma has entered two cars, he has not named them. He Is working on them In hi!'! Los Angeles workshop. DePalma will no doubt be one of the early hird~ at the track for The Leon (Red) Ames that was a Nr.lional league favorite for nearly a score of years is out ->f the majors and just pitches occasionally nowadays, but Leon Arnes, the second, son of the baseball patriarch, Is trying to emplazon the family name In baseball records again as e, member of Ohio State's freshman ball team. If heredity has anything to do with pt·oducing pitchers this yearling team of Ohio State's ought to have the be~t twirler ~t ever had. And morl? than JUSt heredity, _young Ames ~as bad many yee•rs of d1rect contact wtth baseball and eYer since he threw away his rattle his'father has beE>n teaching him the fine points of pitching. Ames, senior, wa1; a member of the Giants' mound staff from 1!>03 to 1913 durin~ which time the Giants won pennant,.; on the a\·erage of eYery other yeN·, triumphing In 11)0!, 'Ofi, '10, '11 and '1~- He was with the Cincinnati Re<ls for a couple of seasons, then with the Caniinals for four years, and a stay with the Phillies wound up his ~tiona! league career. \Yan·en is the home of the Ames family. Leon Kes~ling Ames, Jr., Is ulso president of the frPshman clr.-ss. <· !; j ! In the Southern league you get a number when playing, so proper adjectives can be used on the right party concerned. Here is Leo Durocher, shortstop,_ anrl Luebbe, catcher, pt·operty of the New York Yankees, who are w!th the Atlanta Crackers In the Southern league. Photograph shows Durocher (left) having his number pinned on by tuebbe (right). The. American welterweight fighting limit is 1-!5 pounds; the British is 147. • • • Jess Willard was the heaviest fighter who ever won the world charnpionship. • • • 'l'he American p~>ople spend no less than $5,000,000 annually for equipment in all spot·ts. • • • The American golf player uses an average of about 200 balls per season, or around 1 ooo,ooo 000 balls for all ' ' players • • • · Boxing In the District of Columbia would he leg-alized under a hill Introduced by Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas. .: I I • • • Manager John McGraw. Henry R. Wood, '27, of New Bedford, has been elected c-aptain of the Harvard varsity wrestling team for next year. ham, owner of the New York club, said the profit was trl,.lal. Yet the Washington club declared a • • 20 per cent dividend aftel:' the Nt:tA total of $222,741).80 was collected tionals had won the 1924 sert~s. in New York state last year in taxes \Vashlngton, of course, hasn't the on boxing and wrestli'llg shows and payroll or the overhead that the Giants fees for licenses. must carry, but the difference Is • hardly enough to amount to that perThe American "Trotting association centage. • reports 1,400 race tracks In use In this Several years ago when McGraw country devoted to light harnPss horse needed a shortstop he str.·mped out racing and at only 50 speculation pre- and bought DaYe Bancroft. He said valls. recently that he figured Bancroft cost • • • him $107,000 and that he was a good Gordon Locke, ~11-Amerlcan back at Investment. Iowa a few years ago, will succeed !<'ritz Holtkamp, an Ohio State alumnus, as coach of Western Heserve's football team this fall. • Raymond C. Clark of Rochester, N. Y., acting captain of the Col gate uniVE>rsity basket ball team the past senson, was unanimously elected to the c·aptaincy for next year. • • • Kenneth C. Ballantyne, '27, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was re-elected captain of the Dartmouth swimming team at a meeting of the letter men. Ballantyne swims the dnshes. * * • l\Iaj_ John L. Griffith, commissioner of athletics of the western conference, will give a two weeks' course In athletic organization at the Oregon Aggies summer school beginning July 6. • * • Most Noted Trotter • • • The league Fuller Fuller league • • • Memphis club of the Southern has obtained Inflelrler Frankie from the ,Birmingham el ub. was with Houston of the Texas last season. • • * Catcher Ilarry Backed, a Kan'<as City seml·pro, hRs been released to the Waterloo club of the l\I!ssi;;;sippl Valley league by the Des Moines club of the Western league. • • • University of California baseball nine will not tour Japan this summer as proposed. The team may play a ~erles of games In the Hawaiian Islands during the vacation period. • • • Herewith Is pictured Uhlan, the world's most famous trotter, now in "Rube" Dressler and "Babe" Ruth his twenty-second year and who is hn\'e both worked as major league Jiving on the Santa Barbara estate of twirlers. The other ex-pitcher!! all C. K. G. Billings, famous sportsman, tolled on the hurling hill during amawho Is his owner. Uhlan won world teur or seml·pro days, and some saw renown by stepping the mile In 1.58. minor league service as box men. Engine • Samson Toad Stools tlw Snmson~ are not humani". l'here Is trememlou» power wrupper1 up in the ~<porfc>s of a toa<l>4tO<>l In the tropic;; a growth of fungus will in a few rlay>4 smother a viliage or till ll gully. 'l'he other dar In an l•~nglls~L town newly laid paving stones measuring- ~:.! hy 21 inches and weighing more than 80 Jlounds, were llrtP<I null pu~hetl out of plaee by a patch of toadsto<?lfl.--capper's \Ypekly. Aii • • • A stadium with a seating capAcity of 30,000, and costing $100,000 has been proposed in Honolulu. • • • Billy Papke, the old middleweight champion, is now a regulat· farmer on his ranch, near Altadena, Cal. • • • Americ-a's tennis stnr Is about the most famous liE>len !'!nee a certain flapp~r caw:;ed some commotion among the sheiks around Troy. • • • Manager Casey Steng(;'! of the Toledo :\Iud Hens announced the release of Infielder Clar·ence Forsythe and Southpaw Tommy Long. Ralph DePalma. practice, for It is well known that he has withdrawn from board-track racing in favor of the dirt speed paths and the Indinnapolls motor speedway, which DePalma says takes more skill than driving any other track In the world. There will be much Interest to see just what DePalma Is able to accompllsh in tl1is first year of the vestpocket motors. The pii~ton displacement limit is 91¥.! cubic inf'bes, which is just the sixe of some motorcycle engines. T. E. Myers, secretary-manager of the motor speedway, says that it Is his opinion that the entry list this year will easily top 30. Improvements .Tat'k- -Gla dy ..; married a splf-rn~tde man , ditlu't r-;he? ~arll·y- Ye>4, hut :;he wa>l compelletl to make extPn!'lve alteratiOJJS. Don't he di~ngrpeahlP hPf'an~e a man Js tr·ying to show off. Humor· him nnd make !Jim happy. OltN Iu one minute tbepainis Gone! • • • Mrs. Adele Cook of Detroit, prominent horsewoman, who has achieved fame as a polo player, is the only woman to win honors as a coach in the ancient game. • • • Hawaii's former golf champion has gone In for politics, and will run for a ~eat In the territorial senate. But will the constituency believe the planks in a golfer's platform? • • * Among the greatest fighters in ring history to come from California are James J. Corbett, .Tames .T. Jeffries, Abe Attel, Willie Richie, Frankie Neil, Joe Rivers, Joe Choynsk!, Jimmie Britt • and Fidel La Barba. Hagenlacher Wins Gets at the cause of corns Dr. Scholl's ZinC'-.pads work like magic. because they remove the cause-presaineor rubbin~ of shoes. The pain e-oes in· stantly. Amateur parlnll' orburningwlth udrops" (acid) is dan2"erous-and doesn't stop the cause. Zino-pads are safe, sure, antiseptic, healing. They protect while they heal. Get a box at your drug"1st.'s or shoe dealer's-35c. For Free Sample writ& The Scholl Mfs. Co., Chkap Ty Cobb's highest stolen base record Is the 96 he stole In 1915. • • •• "Red" Ormsby, American league umpire, is an ironwot·ker between seasons. • * • DE Scholl's' The Brooklyn Robins announce they had purchased Chick Fewst er from the Kansas City club for :,;u,uoo. Zino-pads • • • Put one on-the pain is gone There is some doubt among sport clairvoyants whether Bucky Harris' going to receiye Washington bunch a third term. WA:ST TO IU:AR FRO~I Olna:R OF good fann. or ran ch !'or sale. GEO. GRAUL, Is • • • 2.f09 Fourth Ave., Evansvllleo, Ind. Joseph Pettrie, an lnfieid~>r from the semi-pro ranks of Pittsburgh, has been signed by the Meridian club of the Cotton States league. FOR OVER zoo YEAR The Louisville club is strong for Mobile as a training site. The Alabama city has alt·eady been selected for next sprlng·s work. haarlem oil has been a worldwide remedy for kidney, liver and bladder disorders, rheumatism, lumbago and uric acid conditione. • • • Texas Pitcher Locates Hornsby's "Weak Spot" A young newspaper man at Waco, Te;x:as, watching the St. Louis Cardinals In an exhibition game with the home team, remarked when Rogers Hornsby came to but: "Gee, he certainly should be a 'meat' for a low ball on the out•!lde. Just look, a hook over the outslrle corner about knee high would make him look like he's batting '"ith a broken fishing pole." 'l'he same thing must have flashed through the mind of the Waco pitcher at the same time. His first pitch was outside, low and right in Hornsby's "weak spot." Rogers stepped IJ;j a foot and a half and let the piteh go. The Waco flinger got some encouragement from the catcher, for the next one was In the very same spot. This time Ilornsby swung and the ball soared over the right field fence !or a home run. A few Innings later the catcher decided a high one on the_ Inside might be the "works," This ttme Hornsby parked the ball over the left field fence. The Waco newspaper man has decided that Hornsby's weakness Is a two-lnch steak once a day. 75C 'toledo. Ohio • • • • • • Although he had been invited to attend, Jack Dempsey was not among the ring champions honored with a silk belt at the first annual dlnnet· of the Boxing Writers' Association of New York because of his Inactivity In defense of his heavyweight title. All other ehamplons were awarded red, white and blue embroidered bands, together with a sterling silver plaque. E~ery Dependable for The new forward pass rule has caused many coaches to open up a brisk air attack. A metallic element, illinium, has been discovered by scientists at the University of Illinois, an institution heretofore made famous by Red Grange. • • • GO C CHAMPION • • • ' ChamplonXexcluoivel v for Forda -packed in the Red Box ChamPionfor cars other than Fords -packed in the Blue Box 418 The ,Meji shrine, nearing completion In Tokio, is the largest athletic field In the Orient. • • • The Tulsa club of the Western league has sold Outfielder J. S. Austin to the Decatur club of the Three-1 league. The Uniontown club of the Middle Atlantic league has signed Joe Drugmood, a semi-pro southpaw pitcher of Pittsburgh. lie had a brief trial with Detroit in 1022. Of all the cars you see on the streets, two .. thirds are equipped with Champions. This outstanding prefer.. enceisverydefiniteevi.. dence that Champion is the better spark plug. • • • At last Miss Wllls Is having som~ competition. It is reported that her latest opponent, Miss Joan Ridley, Is "almost as pretty as our Helen." • • • • • • I P R E FER EN C E Charles C. Peterson of St. Louis has refereed 247 bllli.ard tourney matches. day bicycle race. Each racer eats on an average of more than $100 worth of food during the grind. Fred Parent, )llember of the Red Sox of old, has been appointed second coach of the Harvard baseball squad. Frank Koblbecker, rated as one of the best catchers in the Southern league last season, Is back with Memphis, having been returned by the Brooklyn club. I About the only exercise Jack Dempsey get.s is side-stepping. It costs $100,000 to put on a sb:- • • • The University of California baseball nine wlll sail for Hawaii May 2~ for a tour of the Islands that wm conclude July 21. 1 • • • Minneapolis returned Babe Herman, slugging first ·baseman and outtielder, to the Brooklyn National League club. • • How King George, when golfing some years ago holed out in one-Into a cow'11 ear-ls disclosPd by Sir Theoclore Andrea Cook, editor of Field, in a new book published here. He relates that some time ag-o he published In Field the following story: "A distinguished golfer in Scotland who had just played his approach shot was distressed to see his ball hit a He walked up, but the ball was c~w. nowhere to be seen. Shaking her head more In sorrow than in anger, the offended quadruped moved forward and then dropped the sphere upon the reen out of her left ear." The story at the time was received with derision, and now Sir Theodore, In his book, reveals the identity of the distinguished golfer. No Belt for Dempsey BASEBALL ..t111 NOTES MJ For the first time In the history of • the sport a motorcycle king will be A report from the vicinity of Peking crowned in America this year. The says a Chinese commander "sent sevaward will be made on a point basis en new batteries Into action." Is Tris as a result of an extensive revival of Speaker by any ch:mce connected with the sport this summer. this aft' air? ·King George Holed Out in One-Into Cow's Ear of ~orth Dakota believes he Is the only profe~sional baseball player ever to be "fired" because he made an error. Davis said he wRs discharged for that reRson while playing first base for Louisville of the American association In 1912. In a game with Indianapolis late In the season when the Colonels wer~ well up In the pennant race, Davis related, the score was 2 to 0 in favor of the Indians In the first of the ninth. The Indians managed to score one run and get two more runners on the hags. The next bat~man dropped a liner between first and second which the second baseman speared and threw to first. Davis said the bali hit his glove and rolled to the stands. Two runs scored and the game was lost. "W'hen I came to the clubhouse," said Davis, "there was a note from the owner saying: 'You're hereby released.' " Dayis left, accepted a coaching position in Olrlahoma and later came to North Dakota. • • • • • Above is pictured L1Jllan Copeland, famous girl athlete of the Pasadena Athletic club, who broke the national record for the discus throw and the ~;hot put In the dual meet with the Santa Ana Junior college girls' team. i\tiss Copeland tosserl the shot a distance of 35 feet 7%. inches, the former reeord heing just 3J feet. She hurled the discus l):i f.,et 8 inches, bettering the old murk by 0 feet 8 inches. fj rf • S "b l P:~~ ~~~: ~~!~ign~v~s~;; ~ pO Jt!Y jQUJ l "Fired" From Baseball Conch Girl Breaks Record ... DE PALMA HAS TWO CARS IN BIG RACE Gives $100,000 Worth of Players for Ring. Baseball Gets Another Member of Ames Family ,._ Put Football Idea in Baseball [ McGRAW'S SWAP EXCITES QUERY • • • Quantico Marines ha'l'e earned a niche In bnset)all's hall of fame by scoring no-hit, no-run g-ames against Bucknell on two successive days .. I . . .. A We!'tern judge has ruled that a 1 correct internal troubles, stimulate vital fan can call the umpire a robber, but organs. Three sizes. All druggists. Insist on the original ~~;enuine GoLD MEDAL. the question ~ometlmes Is whether the robber deserves to be called an umpire. • • • As soon as our basehall customs/ p('netrate the Eastern hemisphere, if ever, the French expedition In Morocco will get up every seventh year and stretch. • • • The Indianapolis team has a rookie reported to be "able to pitch as well with one hand as with the other." Eric Hagenlacher of Germany . de- \'\'ell, there have been ~everal In the throned Jake Schaefer of Chlcaio as American league like that. world's 18.2 balk-line billiard cham• • • pion, llnil!hlng the third and final 500baseball fans Pittsburgh It will cost polnt block with a lead of 1,~ to 211 cents a seat more tQ watch the Pl· 1,344. Hagenlacher Is the first repre- rates play In Forbes field this year. sentative of Germany to annex the Only the left-field bleachers will re title. maln at 50 cent!' • DON' INFLAMED LIDS It. lncre::J.ses thB irritation. llJe MITCIH.LL EYE SALV'E, • llmple. deDtllldahle. ure rf'medy. 25c at all druc:gtsts. II~IAJI':ld:el, NewYorla:fltT 1 I Have Good Hair And Clean Scalp I Cutlcura ~ T 0 N Soap and Ointment Work Wonders Shavln Stick. W. N. U, Salt Lake City, No. 20-1926. |