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Show THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE.UTAH '· McGraw Signs for Three Years BAREE, Son of Kazan • By ]M1ES OLIVER CURWOOD .. (@, WARY BEAVER Doubleday, Pa~re & Co.) WNtJ Service S~ 0 nopsls.-Part wolf, part dog -when two months old Baree has his first meeting with an enemy, Papa.yuchlsew (young owl). Fighting hard, the antagonists are suddenly plunged into a swollen creek. Badly buffeted, and halt drowned, Baree is finally flung on the bani<, but the water ha• destroyed his sense ot direction and he is lost, lonely and hungry. For many days his litoO is oue of fear and distress. He meets various creatures of the wild and goes through a thunderstorm. He ls learning more and more. He strays Into the trapping grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese. Nepeese wounds Baree with a rifle, but he escapes. ~Chapter If-Continued -6- The wings made o. great tumult about Baree, but they did not hurt him. He burled Ills fangs deeper. His snarls rose more fiercely as he got the taste of Oohoomisew's blood, and through him there surged more hotlY the desire to kill this monster of the night, as though in the death ot this creature he hnd the opportunity of avenging himself for all the hurts and hardships that had befallen him since he lost his mother. Oohoornisew had never felt a great fear untn now. The lynx had snapped at him but once-and was gone, lea ving him crippled. But the lynx had not snnrled In that wolfish way, and It h-ad not hung on. A thousand and one nights Oohoomisew had listened to the wolf-howl. Instinct had told him what it meant. He had seen the pa<'ks pass swiftly through the night, and always when,. tlH'Y passed he had ~pt in the deepest shadows. To him, as for all other wild things, the wolfhowl stood for death. But until now, with Baree's fangs buried in his leg, he had never sen~d fully the wolffear. It had takf'n It years to enter into hla slow, stupid head-but now that !t was there. It possessed him as no other thing had ever possessed him in nil his life. Suddenly Oohoomisew ('eased his beating and launched himself upward. JAke huge fans his powerful wings churned the air, and Baree felt hims~lf lifted suddenly from the earth. Still he held on-and In a moment both bird and beast fell back with a thud. Oohoomisew tr'ed again. This tlrne he was more sncce!lsful, and he rose fully six fept Into the air with Baree. They fell agnin. A third time the old outlaw fought to wing himself free of Baree's grip; and then, exhausted, he lay with his giunt wings outspread, hissing and crackinll' his hill. Under those wings Baree's mind worked with the swift !nstin<'ts of the killer. Suddenly he changed his hold, burying his fangs into the under part of Oolloomisew's body. Tht>y sank 1nto three incht>s of feathers. Swift as Baree had bet>n, Oohoomisew was equally swift to take advantage of his opportunity. In an instant he had swooped upward. T)1ere was a jerk, a rending of feathers from fiesh-and Baree was alone on the field of battle. Baree had not killed, but he had conquered. His fir~t great day-or night-had come. The world was filled with a new promise for him, as vast as the night Itself. And after a moment he sat baclt on his haunches, sniffing the air for his beaten enemy; and then, as If d-efying the feathered monster to come back and fight to the end, he pointed his sharp little muzzle to the stars and sent forth his first babyish wolf-howl Into the night. Chapter III Baree's fight with Oohoomlsew was good medicine. !or him. It not only gave him great confidence In himself, but It also cleared the fever of ugl!ness from hls blood. He no longer snapped and snarled at things as he went on tnrough the night. Ills wound was much less painful the next day, and by nightfall he scarcely bud noticed It at all. Since his almost tragic end at the hands of Nepeese, he had been traveling In a geneml northeasterly direction, followlng instinctively the run of the waterways; but his progress had been slow, and when darkness came again he was not more than eight or ten miles from • the hole Into which he had fallen after the \V!llow had shot him. All sounds now held a meaning for Baree. Swiftly he was coming Into his knowledge of the wilderness. His gleamed ; his blood thrilled. For ruinutl'S at a time he senrcel~· moved. Dut of all the sounrls that came to him, the wolf-cry thrilled him cnost. Again and again he listened to tt. At times it was far away, so far that It was like a whisper, dying away almost before It reached him; and then again lt would come to him fullthroated, hot with the breath or the chase, calling him to the red thrill of the hunt, to the wild orgy of tom flesh and running blood-calling, calling, calling. That was lt, calling him to his own kin, to the bone of his bone and the flesh o! his flesh-to the wil.<J, fierce hunting packs o! his mother's tribe! It was Gray 'Volrs voice seeklng him In the night-Gray Wolf'" blood inviting lllm to the Brotherhood ot the Pack. Baree trembled as he listened. In his throat he whined softly. He edged to the aheer race of a rock. HP "'l'anred to go; nature was urging him to ~t;O. nut the call of the wild wa• wcruggling a,ealnst odds; for In bin I was the dog, with Its generntions of subdued and sleeping Instincts-and all that night the dog In him kept Baree to the top of his rock. Next morning llaree found many crawfish along the creek, and he feasted on their succulent flesh until he felt that he would never be hungry again. Nothing had tasted quite so good since he had eaten the partridge of which he hall robbed Sekoosew the ermine. In the middle of the afternoon Baree came into a part of the forest that was very quiet and very peaceful. The creek had deepened. In places Its banks swept out unt!l they formed small ponds. Twice he made considerable detours to get around these ponds. He traveled very quietly, listening and watching. Not since th'e Ill-fated day he had left the old windfall had he felt quite so much at home as now. It seemed to him that at lust he was treacl!ng country which be knew, and where he would find friends. Perhaps this was another miracle mystery of lnstinct---{)f nature. For he was In old Beaver-tooth's domain. It was here that his father and mother had hunted in the days before he was bol'n. It was not far from here that Ka:;;an and Beaver-tooth h.ad fought that mighty duei under water, from which Kazan had escaped with his life with· out another· breath to Jose. The forest krew deeper. It was wonderful. There was no undergrowth, and tra veilng under the trees was like being In a vast, mystery-filled cavern through the roof of which the light of <lay broke softly, brightened here and there by golden splashes of the sun. F'or a mlle Baree made his way quietly through this forest. He . saw nothing three of his playmates. Umlsk was just about Baree'!l nge, perhaps a week or two younger. But he wat fully us heavy, and almost as wi<le as he was long. Nature c11n produce no four-footed creature that Is more lovable than a baby beaver, unless it Is a bahy bear; and Umisk would have • taken first prize at any bca ver baby show in the world. H!s three companions were a l.J!t smaller. They came waddling from behind a low willow, malrlng queer little chuckling noises, their little ftat tails dragging like tiny sledges behind them. They were fnt and furry, and mighty friendly looking to Baree, and his heart heat a sudden, swift pit-a-pat of joy, But Baree did not move. He S<'arf'eAnd then, suddenly, ly breathed. Um!sk turned on one of his playmates anrl howled him over. Instantly the other two were on Umish, and the four little beavers rolled over and over, kicking with their short feet and spatting with their tails, and all the time ) emitting soft little squeaking cries. l Baree knew that It was not fight, but frolic. lie rose up on his feet. He forgot where he was-forgot every· thing In the world but those playlng, furry balls. For the moment Despite hls long and act!Ye service, John ~fcGraw has signed to manage all the hard training nature had the Giants for three more years at a $35,000-a-year salary. McGraw also been giving him was lost. He was draws pay as vice president and dividends as a club stockholder. This is no longer a fighter, no longer a hunter, McGraw's twenty-fifth season as manager of the Giants. Since assuming the no longer a seeker after food. He was helm in 1902, he has piloted the team to tY elve pennants and three world's a puppy, anrl in him there rose a de- championships. sire thaf \HV! grenter than hunger. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - He wanted to go (!own there with 1 Um!~k and I"I1J little chums and roll 1 Girl Tennis Pro and play. H~ wanted to tell them, If such a thing were possible, tlmt h~ had lost his mother ancl his home, and that he had been having a mighty ·hard Jack Dempspy has probably forgottime of It, and that he would like to ten what tile gong sounds like. stay ,-\·Ith them and their mothers and • fathers if they didn't care. The Ohio State stadium Is being In his throat there carne the least f'Odded for tht! football games in the bit of a whine. It was so low that fall. Um!sk and his playmntes did not hear • lt. They were tremendously busy. Well, we are going to have Lenglen Softly Baree took his first step t<1for a spell, and we suppose she will ward them, and then another-and at bring a trunkful of bandeaux with her. last he stood on the nnrrow strip o1 shore within half a dozen feet of them. A national basket-ball federation of Ills sharp little ears were pitche-d for· 50 clubs, corresponding to the A. A. U. ward, and he was wiggl!ng his tail as In the United States, has been formed fast as he could, and every muscle in ln Italy. his body was trembling in anticipation. It was then that Umlsk saw him, and The lJnlversity of Michigan has his fat little body became suddenly"as won four indoor and four outdoor motionless as a stone. track championships since Steve Far"Hello!" said llaree, wiggling his rell became coaeh. whole body and talking as plainly as' a human tongue could talk. "Do you The Pennsylvania M!l!tury college en re if I play with you?" • at Chester, wilt shortly start the conUmisk made no response. His three struction of a modern athletic stadium. playmates now had their eyes on Ba· It will seat 7,()()(). ree. They didn't make a moYe. The)' looked stunned. Ji'our pairs of staring, Harry Herbert, who broke his ncclt wondering ey':!s were fixed on the whlle playing quat·terbuck for Syrastranger. cuse, Is among the candidates for BosBaree made another effort. He ton Uni\'ersity's 1926 football team. groveled on his forelegs, while his tail and hlndlegs continued to wiggle, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., does not with a sniff he grabbed a bit of stick 11 Anove Is pictured l\liss Eleanor Tenbetween hi~ teeth. nant, star tennis player, who has de- understnnll bnseball and docs not Horseback riding and "Come on-let me In," he urged. "I serted the ranks of the amateurs and play golf. know how to play!" signed a contract as professional to squash tennis furnl~h his chief diverlie tossed the stick In the air as !f take charge of the tennis activities at sions. to prove what he was saying, and gavf two of the fashionable hotels in Pasa· The re-election of C. \V. Townsend, a l!ttle yap. dena and Beverly Hills. Umisk and his brothers were like '28, of New York, as captain of dummies. the Dartmouth fencing team for next And !hen, of a sudden, some one season was annmmced following a saw Bnree. It was a big beaver swim· meeting of the letter men. ming down the pond with a sapling timber for the new pond that was un· Four girls named Diamond Kikl, der way. Instantly he loosed his hold Walter Johnson Is apparently on his Dragon River Saye, Tokoa!do H!sa and faced the shore. And then, l!ke way to another 20-vlctory season. and Plum Blossom Shima have bPcome the report of a rifle, there came the professional wrestlers In Japan . • • cruck of his big flat tail on the waterSportsmen's park, home of the St. Their average weight Is 190 pounds. the beaver's signal of danger that on Louis Browns, now seats 30,000 funs. a quiet night can be heard half a mile Wayne (Big) ~lunn Is the biggest away. ·walter Johnson stlll holds the Amer- man in athletic competition. He is "Danger," it warned. "Danger-dan· Ican league record for wild pitches- 6 feet 6 Inches tall, weighs 2G5 pounds, ger-danger !" I 21 In the season of 1910. and has a reach of 81 Inches. NorSt'arcely had the signal gone forth . mally 'Vayne's chest measures 56 when tails were cracking in ull direcSouthpaw Jess Petty the sensation- inches, and he has an expansion of tions-In the pond, in the hidden ca· al hurler of the Brooklyn Robins has six inches. nals, In the thick willows and alders. speed, a change of pace and eontrol. To Um!sk and his companions theJ • • According to Prof. ,V, T. Waugh of said: Los Angeles will admit women free McGill university, the modern inter"Run for your l!ves !" of charge to all games at 'Vrigley est in sports Is nothing new. Tennis narce stood rigid and mot!onlest park, Its magnificent new playing field. was played with balls like cricket now. In amazcm~nt ha watched th~ • balls, fOotball, golf and hockey, were four little beavers plunge into the pond The games of many baseball leagues in vogue in the Thirteenth and Fourand disappear. He heard the sounds nnrl numerous nthletic events now ore teenth centuries. of other and heavier bodies striking broadcast by radio throughout the the water. And then there followed a United States. Prehn Is Honored strange and disquieting silence. Softl~ Baree whined, and his whine was al 'l'he University of Pennsylvania and most a sobbing cry. Wily had Umisb Gettyeburg collC'ge baseball teams and hls Uttle mates run away from him' have rpnewed relations after a lapse A great loneliness swept· over him--t of twenty years. loneliness gr~>ater even than that ol his first night away from his mother At Nixon, who jumped the Philalie had not found comradeship. An~ delphia Nationals three season!'! ago, his heart was very sad. has heen reinstated and has signed I I ! Is I • • I • • • • • • . • • • • • I • • • I I I I I I I I I I I I I I . .~ . . _ . . . , . Long Driver Reveals Reasons for Feat PRICP Edward Blackwell, one of the world's longest bitters of a golf ball, gives the following four reasons why he is a long driver: "In the first place I am a big, atrong man ; secondly, I use a big, powerful club; thirdly, I have a perfect swing, and, lastly, I hit as hard as I jolly well Only such a vast production as 40,000,000 spark plugs a year could build Champion superior quality at such low prices as 60 and 7 5 cents. can." Here are all the chief factors that go toward long driving. They are not very 1llumlnatlng, neither are the simple formulas o! Chick Evans and Ted Ray that the secret of long driving is just plain hard hitting. :: ................................... ............................ u GOLF PERFECTED BY PRACTICING "Natural Born" Player Is Unknown to Game. "I don't belleve there is anything In golf that could be called natural," writes Bill Alves, a pro. ''The game from start to finish is completely foreign to the muscles and athletic livIng conditions of the human. "I can't say that I have ever known a golfer to be 'natural born.' Golf, to my way of thinking, must be acquired. "The rhythm, swing, stance, backstroke, follow-through, et at., are out of our daily rouUne. "To throw, to cat<·h, to kick, etc., are only natural. Where does the golf strollle show up In the dally l!fe? "Golf is only perfected through practice. It Is a game to which we rnu~i: accustom ourselves through practice. "The side swing is confu'ling, also trying to hit something lying ott the ground Is Yery muddling, Inasmuch as the player doesn't move. Success~ would probably be more rapid it one could take a running start at the pill. He would start that momentum, which unconsciously puts weight behind thv ball. · "All the best amateurs and profes sionals of today couldo't play any bet ter than the average golfer wll~>n they started out at the game. ''Golf became a study wltb them and they developed their gaJne far faster than the player who thinks hP. cannot play golf and will never learn. "Hagen, Jone,:, Barnes, and the rest were just as big dubs as the modern dub of today. "Golf, they say, is like a business, often It can be learned In a short length of time if the player would start learning the game instead ot playing it.'' Champion Xexcluaivelv for Forde -packed In the Red Box 60 0 Championlor cars other than Fords -packad in the Blue Box 75C CHAMPION Probably Wise Th E' hool;: agl'Ilt was t1·~ ing to sound the stenog, ":\ow, what kind of a man is :.\1r. \Yl.IOozb; ?" "Olt, he knows It all.'' "In that ca:<e I gupss I'm wasting time in lr~· ing to sell him an encyclopedia." Ends • • pa1n~n one D1inu:te Oneminute-thatts how quick Dr.Scholl'a Zino-pads end the p::t.:l.n of corns. They do It sl!fely. You risk no Infection from amateur cutth.g, no danger from '•drops" (acid). Zlno-pads remove the causcpressin~ or rubbing of shoes. They are thin, medicated, antiseptic, protective. healin~~:. Get a b<>x today at your drua:gist's or shoe dealer's-35c. for Free Sample write The Sd>oll Mfe. Co., Cbicaco DE Scholl's Petty Is Sensation Zino-pads • • • Pue one on-ehe pain is gone I • • • I Know How to Play. but a few winged flittin;,:s or birds; there was almost no sound. Then h€ came to a still larger pond. Arounri this pond there was a thick gl'Owth of alders and willows; the larger trees had thinned out. He saw the glimmer of afternoon sunlight on the waterand then, all at once, he heard l!fe. There had been few changes in Beaver-tooth's colony since the days of his feud with Kazan and the others. Old Beaver-tooth was still older. He was fatter. He slept a great deal, and perhaps he was less cautious. He was do?.ing on the great mud-andbrushwood dam of which he had been engineer in chief, when Baree carne out softly on a high bank thirty or forty feet a way. 1 So noiseless had Baree been that none of the beavers had seen or he:u·d him. lie squatted himself flat on his belly,· bidden behind a tuft of gras;;, and with eager Interest watched every movement. Beaver-tooth was rousin1, himself. He stood on his sl.ort legs for a moment; then he tilted himself up on his broad, flat tall like a soldier at attention, and with a sudden whistle dived into the pond with a great splash. In another moment It seemed to Baree that the pond was alh·e with beavers. He11ds and bodies appeare1l and d!sappenred, rushing this way and that through the water in a manner that amazed and puzzled him. It was the colony's evening frolic Toils hit l·the water like flat boards. Odd willstl!ngs rose ab0ve the splashing-and then as suddenly as it had begun, the play came to an end. There were probably twenty beavers, not counting the yonng, and as It' gullied hy a common signal-something which Baree had not hPard·--they bef'nme so quiet that hardly a !'ound could be heard In the pond. A few of them sank under the wn ter and disappeared entirely, l>ut most of them Baree could watd. as they drew themselves out on shore. The benvPrs lost no time In getting at their lahor, and Baree watehed and listened without so much as rustling a bla{l.e of the grnss In which he was concealed. He was trying to understand. He was striving to place these curious nnd comfortable-looking creatures in his knowledge of things. And then, close under him-not more than ten feet from where he lay-he saw sometb!n~ that almost gave voice to the puppyish longing for companion· ship that was In him. j Down there, on a clean strip of thr shore that rose out of the soft mud M the pond, waddled fat little Umlslf and • • • Dress at once with "Vaseline" Jelly. Prevents soreness. Shuts out air and dirt. Heals quickly. Keep it handy for every emergency. • • • • CHESEBROUGH MFG. COMPANY , (Coooolldatedl New York • • • State StreeU Vaseline ••o· u. •· ,.AT, OPP 'tlllllll....p~.aiO~L~.V~M·J~~~L~Y........... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • a contract with the Ph!ls. • • • Poor Baree! Even the playful little beaver are afraid of him! Willie Keeler, one of the g-reatest ba~eball player:; of hlfl day, alway;; f'lalmed that n scientific batter could outwit most of tlu~ so-called great pitchers. (TO BE CON'f!NtJED.) • • • Plants and Animals From the study of plants we lean how to grow them more efficiently an( make the fullest usc of plant prod ucts; also, because llfe In plants an~ animals is similar, If not Identical, and as plants lend themselves in some : ways more readily than do animals tc such observations, any information w• can obtain on how plants "work" wl!J almost certainly throw some light oa similar functions in animals and hu· man beings. Methodist Pioneer The first Methodist preacher ill America was Ph!llp Embury, who had been In the Irish Methodist conference before coming to this country in 1766 He found a number of Irish Metb,;; cllsts In New Yot·k clty and ;::atberei) them Into a ~mall congregatloD tha1 held Its meetmgs ln his llo>lSA. Denny 1\Ie~·~l'~, the loud-Yoiced coaf'h of the Ph Ill il"l, is n,; uoi;;y ns ever. Last yen!' Benny shouted the l'hillles into a tie for sixth place with the Robins. Jose Olhares, spPPdy Cuban !nftplder, ha« heen Rent by the Louisville Ameriean ae~oclatlon team to the Columbus (Gtt.) team of the Southeastern league unclet· option. • • • Bill Mehlhorn and Gene Sarazen in Close Game The hardest fought match Larry Nabholtz, Cedarhurst pro, saw last winter during his southern visit was at Sebring over the Kennelworth Lodge course. llill Mehlhorn and Gene Sarazen both came in with 281 card!'!. They decided on l!n 18-hole playofl'. Each had a 67. Then they decided on nine more. Each had a R5. Twenty-seven exti'U holes at medal play bringing no breAk in thP tiP, they decided to settle It by match play. On the first hole each missed a putt f,lr a birdie. On the second c,nd third they ea<'h had par 4s. But on the fourth Sarazen sliced into a trap and took a 5, Mehlhorn winning, after 31 extra !Joles. • Johnson Says Rosin Ball . l A'd 0 n ly P sych ol og1ca 1 • • • Baseball is haYing lts most succesflful season in Ilonolnlu. More than 100 teams are conteNting there In about two dozf'n 1.-agues in which more than 2,000 playN·s are enrolled. ,. • • I Dallas has relea!=:ed Chet Chadbourne, vete;an outfielder. He Is st111 J a valur.hle player, but tJ;c S~cer;:, ~.rc I well fixed In the outfield with Parry Q'~rlpn back from the A thleti<'S. Jess Petty of Los Angeles, although thirty-one years old, continues to pitch sensational ball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The big left-hander Is the outstanding pitcher of majorleague baseball at the present time. Gov. Len Small ·Of Illinois has appointed .John C. R!ghPimcr, Paul Prehn and 0. \V. Huneke as the three members of the boxing comml!lsion to control affairs of the ring game recently voted legal in Illinois :.:fter beIng barred for almost twenty years. Prehn is wrestling !n1;tructor at the University of Illinois and Is noted for participation In athletics througho-ut the Middle West The Purity of Cuticura Makes It Unexcelled For AU Toilet Purposes - I War on Smallpox in China I Putting It Delicately Peking'::> great park-like Tr•mple of Ileave.n er~<:losure, whet·e 1 worsluped, 1s now the ~c:ene of a vaccination clinic. In an effort Young- :\Inn - Those your pm·cnts ..;i tin~ ove1· there7 Young Womnn-Xo; the) l·e tny 11arcnts. 'l'hey· hrought me up. Yonn~ }[an - T ~ee. So you're a of cnckoo.-London Punch . I I s R 1• I u Me e .-.. . I • \\'alter Johnson thinks the use of J rosin by baseball pitchers is only of phycholog!cal value to them. "I've never used it and never felt I that I needed it," he said in reply to reports that certain of the Ph!Jadelphla Athletics believed that he had doctored the ball during the recent \Vashlngton-Philadelphia spring series. "I believe rosin benefits those addicted to Its use only mentally,'' he said. "There may be some pitchers who imagine It increases their etrectiveness and who are mentally h!md1capped If they h:tve no powder em their hands." P' |